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- Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
- A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
- After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.
- At the beginning of the 18th century, king of France exiles two duelists from the state: one to Russia and another to Sweden, which are at war.
- The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.
- 'What if an ordinary man, an honest and principled teacher, becomes the President? Would he be able to survive in the world of high politics, overcome all obstacles and corruption, and confront the oligarchs and all political opponents?'
- Father Flanagan's mission work and legacy are well known. This film reveals the incredible struggles, challenges, and passion of the man who in his lifetime changed the way America and the world reformed juvenile justice systems and youth care for troubled and disadvantaged youth.
- The spiritual realm is on a collision course with the physical world.
- After the play by Alexander Kielland about a bishop, Sigurd Helmer, which is accused of foul play after writing anonymous letters smearing his opponent. The accuser is his main rival and daughter's chosen fiancée.
- Major Maxim of the SAS is assigned as a bodyguard for a nuclear strategist going to a conference.
- Teenage boy Luukas starts working with his dad and uncle at family's funeral home. They pick up corpses at night from deceased's homes. Suddenly Luukas discovers a mysterious power within.
- A new servant at house causes series of funny incidents changing everything
- Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband, neighbour and friends - for her own good and for fun.
- 191114mNot Rated5.1 (653)ShortA Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust. Events continue to turn for the worse when invading Yankee soldiers arrive to loot and torch the widow's home. George saves the officer's daughter and battle sword by braving the flames.
- Mayong finds its mention in the mythological epic 'Mahabharata', along with Pragjyotishpura (ancient Assam). Legend has it that Chief Ghatotkacha took part in the battle of Mahabharata after attaining different magical powers from Mayong. In the present times, Arnab Bora, a middle aged civil servant, is posted in Mayong, the land of Black Magic, as a Revenue officer. Arnab stays temporarily in the house of Harmohan, a teacher of a government school. Harmohan's wife had gone to stay in their in-laws house for a while, which prompted him to let Arnab stay in his house. Harmohan shows Arnab the place around, where there is none to let him believe the old legend. But the beauty and serenity of the place captivates him over. The villagers, who are die-hard believer, explain to him that nowadays the witch doctors may no longer know the actual mantras which have been lost in the course of time forever. In his quest, Arnab meets Bina, the attractive wife of a villager, who mesmerizes him and a secret affair is blossomed. Is this the actual magic of Mayong, which people mistake it for wild beasts being tamed magically? Meanwhile, Harmohan's sister-in-law's marriage was canceled due to a superstitious belief of the villagers. She committed suicide later. The incident of the girl's death leaves Arnab disheartened. He had tried to bring modernism among the villagers, but they couldn't accept it due to their age old tradition. When Bina finally dies due to a disease kept hidden by her, Arnab no longer could stay at Mayong.
- 18-year-old small town Aline arrives in Paris and is employed as house servant in Robert and Ulla Marbois' home. Robert takes a fancy towards Aline and they begin an affair.
- A man goes to work at a curate's house who is in denial about his poor social background.
- A priest finds himself confined to a cabin in the woods.
- A note is sent to a young man by the parents of the girl with whom he is in love, making an appointment for the signing of the "marriage contract." The note throws the young gentleman, who is seated in his bedroom when he receives it, into an ecstasy of delight and he dances out of the room in highest spirits. His servant picks up and reads the note and is the reverse of delighted at the prospect of having a mistress introduced to the house and his misgivings are shared by a housemaid to whom he shows the note. On the return of his master he hypnotizes him, and, while he is in the trance, changes places with him, he giving his master the duster and making him do the work while he sits in the armchair. When the young man has cleaned everything thoroughly, he brings him round. Later, the young man is seated at dinner with the servant in attendance, when the latter again throws him into a trance and again changes places, eating the meal while the master waits. The climax comes when the marriage contract is to be signed, for under the command of the servant, who is hidden behind the piano, and is, of course, desirous of breaking off the match, the young man behaves like a maniac, jumping on the furniture and upsetting chairs and tables in such a way that he has to be carried home.
- A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend, Cy.
- A man poses as a maid to fool an amorous man and win his daughter.
- Franklyn Foster, a noted young surgeon, because of the stress of overwork, resorts to stimulants much to the sorrow of his wife, Alice, who next to their little daughter idolizes her talented husband. Thelma Gordon, a woman of doubtful reputation, calls for "the best surgeon in the city" when her little dog sustains a broken leg. Foster answers the summons. When he finds that it is a dog he has been called to attend, he tells Thelma Gordon that her presumption is unpardonable. As time passes, Thelma Gordon calls at Dr. Foster's office to thank him for setting the dog's leg, and to request her bill. Dr. Foster refuses any remuneration and tells the woman, "I would do as much for any stray cur. The incident is closed." The woman, enraged at what she terms humiliation at the hands of Dr. Foster, vows to be revenged. Dr. Foster, near a collapse from overwork and the continual use of stimulants, is ordered to the mountains for at least a month. Thelma Gordon reads of Dr. Foster's plans in a newspaper. She follows him into the wilderness. She succumbs in a fierce snowstorm, and rescued by Dr. Foster, is taken to his hut. In the morning it is found that they are snowbound. In the days that follow Thelma Gordon exerts all her feminine wiles to gain the love of Dr. Foster, and he becomes infatuated with her. At the end of a month Dr. Foster returns to his home in worse condition than when he left; he neglects his business for the woman. In the early morning after a night of dissipation, Dr. Foster returns to his home. His wife, who has sat up waiting for his return, has fallen asleep in a chair. The intoxicated man falls asleep and dreams that the Evil One visits him and shows him the end of the broad way that leadeth only to destruction. The Evil One shows Dr. Foster in his dreams, his loving wife in the arms of another man, because she has been driven to desperation by one who should be her lover and protector. Dr. Foster awakens with a start. He sees his faithful wife sleeping peacefully in the chair exhausted by her long vigil. He goes to her, sinks upon his knees at the side of her chair, and as she awakens he takes her in his arms. Womanlike she forgives him the past, and with their little daughter they are happy again.
- When her slave master's wife kills her daughter, Ashanti calls upon a Haitian loa to help her get revenge. The loa, Bacalou-Baka, has other ideas.
- Santiago de Cali of Colombia, a Chinese waitress sinks into the love abyss with a Colombia gangster, but the lust may leads a storm of violence.
- Chanbara (sword fighting film) about a servant who accompanies his master on a mission of revenge. Forerunner of trend-films glorifying nihilism and rebellious spirit as opposed to vassal loyalty of the Edo period.
- Goksel is a butler at the mansion of the wealthy Mr. Kadri. As Mr. Kadri and his family go on a three-month trip to Europe, Goksel sends all the staff on vacation -except the cook and driver. Goksel introduces himself to the society as the landlord. In the meantime Fatma, daughter of a rich family doesn't accept her parents' intentions of having her married to someone she doesn't want and runs away from her home. She starts working at Goksel's residence as a maid. Goksel is dating with Aysel who is already engaged. Fatma has an affection for Goksel but he wants to have someone rich. Mr. Kadri returns from his trip earlier than expected and all the lies are revealed. Aysel leaves Goksel and Fatma confesses him her love. Goksel soon comes to know who Fatma really is. The lovers start a brilliant life together.
- Servant girls mysteriously disappear.
- Two deacons vie with what becomes a winner's take all contest to see who might become the "Servant of the Year," of their local assembly. As tempers flare and the pace rises to a frenetic level, the two discover what being a servant really means.
- This is a posed picture, showing the workshop of a sculptor. A customer purchases a rather good piece of handiwork, a statue which dances when wound up. Removing it to his home, a servant starts it moving and it runs away. After powdering his face from a flour barrel the servant takes the position upon the pedestal in an attempt to deceive the master of the house. The discovery of the deception is the finale, bringing the picture to a close.
- Our hero becomes the servant of a wonderful magician, and helps him in his entertainments. The magician produces all kinds of astonishing effects with his magic wand. He transforms a rose into a beautiful damsel; he places on the floor two dummy figures which, at his command, become animated and indulge in a boxing and wrestling match. He next produces a table and causes various refreshments to appear on it, and also produces a little party to partake of same, which they lose no time in doing. On the return to the magician's apartment, our hero decides that he would like to see once more the damsel who so recently danced and disappointed. With a few motions of the wand he manages to produce her, but she doesn't like it, and slaps his face. Our friend then thinks he would like to see some boxing, but the boxers pummel him unmercifully. The table cracks him on the head, and then the magician appears. He dismisses him in wrath for interfering with his mysteries after first magically adorning him with a set of donkey ears.
- Manservant Hugo arrives at the Chelsea townhouse of wealthy bachelor Tony to interview for the valet job.
- "When the cat's away the mice will play" is the keynote of this film farce. Whilst their mistress is away at the theater, the servants arrange to regale their friends and to have a generally good time to themselves. The rehearsal for which their mistress has visited the theater is postponed for some particular reason, and the lady returns home with some of the principals in the play. Unknown to her servants, she commences to rehearse some tragic scenes in her own apartment. The servants are disturbed in the midst of their hilarity by the sounds of the exclamations of the lady and her companions, and creep to the door of her room. Peeping through the keyhole, they are astounded to witness some unusual actions between her mistress and the "hero of the piece."
- A disgraced servant performs her duties while the lady of the house gives birth to an ill-fated child in the year 1900.
- Marian Abbott is interested in the welfare of servants. As she has no trouble with them in the suburbs, she wonders why the papers are full of the trouble society people have in the city. She shows her servants the articles and questions them, and is told it is because the society people in the cities do not treat their help like human beings. At the meeting of the Servants' Welfare Society she tells them she is going to get a position with one of the society women as a maid and learn the real cause of the trouble. Meanwhile, on the way to the meeting her auto gets beyond her control and if it were not for the quick work of a stranger she would have run over a child. She cannot thank the man, Adrian Vandevere, a New York society man, enough. She does not learn his identity nor does he see her face very clearly, because of her goggles. She hires out as a maid with Mrs. Wadleigh, a society leader. She learns of the long hours, for which there is no extra pay, the left-over food and the bad ventilation in the servant's room. A social war is on and Mrs. Wadleigh hits upon a scheme to humiliate her rival, Mrs. Vandevere. She tells Marian she will dress her up like a lady and introduce her into society and when Mrs. Vandevere has taken her up she will humiliate her by telling who Marian is. Marian objects to the trick, but when she learns that Mrs. Vandevere's son is the man that helped her out home, she decides to do it. Mrs. Wadleigh dresses her up magnificently and coaches her to meet society folks, an operation that almost sends Marian into convulsions of laughter. She makes her debut at an affair given by Mrs. Vandevere and meets Adrian again. She recognizes him at once and he feels sure he met her, but both Marian and Mrs. Wadleigh assure him that is impossible. He takes possession of her right away and shows so plainly his infatuation that Mrs. Wadleigh cannot help gloat over the success of her plan and sees an even greater humiliation awaiting Mrs. Vandevere and her son, if the latter will only propose. He proposes and she accepts. She refrains from telling him who she is, however, so that the little comedy can go its length. At a party Mrs. Vendevere announces the engagement. There is an uproar of congratulations, broken only by Mrs. Wadleigh's hilarious laughter. Called upon for an explanation, she exposes the trick and Mrs. Vandevere almost faints. Adrian comes to the rescue of the situation by telling Marian he intends standing by her. Marian steps into the breach by telling the truth about herself and recalling to Adrian's mind where he met her before. It is now Mrs. Wadleigh's turn to be discomfited and in a rage she departs for home. Mrs. Vandevere receives Marian gladly, and gloats over the fact that the trick proved a boomerang. Mrs. Wadleigh's defeat is further brought home to her when she reads in the paper Marian's exposé of servants' conditions in such a way that everybody will know just who is meant by the leader of society who employed her.
- The author of a book titled "How to Deal with Servants Successfully" has trouble convincing his wife his advice is good when the cook he hires proves to be anything but competent.
- Music video for the band The SerVant.
- In spite of numerous disappointments, Darby Jenks had not yet given up all hopes of marrying off his friend, Wood B. Wedd. After several terse periods of severe cogitation, he decided that Angela Havens would make Wood B. Wedd the finest sort of a wife. When he broke the news to Wood B., that gentleman was distinctly pleased, Angela suited his own ideas a great deal more than several of Darby's selections. With all the ardor of his romantic disposition, Wood B. courted her, and at last, she accepted him. But he reckoned without Araminta, a poor working girl. Once or twice Wood B. smiled at her and each time, Araminta's heart fluttered with delight. When Araminta learned that her heart's adored had fallen into the clutches of the designing Angelia, she immediately attempted suicide in eight different ways. Since none of them were particularly effectual, she cast about for some other means of giving expression to her true feelings. The means she finally chose was a sleeping mixture. On the morning of Wood B. Wedd's wedding day, Araminta put the aforesaid sleeping mixture into Wood B. Wedd's coffee. Shortly afterwards, Wood B. arrived at a sudden conviction that sleep was the most blessed of Nature's gifts. So he slept. The time for the ceremony drew near. Still he slept. Darby Jenks shook him by the shoulder, jumped on his stomach, and treated him generally without consideration, and still he slept. Finally, by means of alarm clocks, gongs, ice water, and severe physical chastisement. Wood B. was partly aroused. As soon as his friends ceased their ministrations. Wood B. returned to his slumbers. When they finally got him thoroughly aroused, it was the minute of twelve. The wedding was to take place at noon. It means little to say that Wood B. dressed hurriedly, and so rushed to the church. No mere words can express his flight through the obstacles in his path, and when he got there, it was too late, Angela had gone home.
- A young girl leaves home to take a situation in a big city as domestic servant. She receives advances from the son of the family, who turns out to be an inveterate gambler. In a gambling club which he frequents, he one night loses all he has. Reaching home in the small hours of the morning, he sees on the sideboard a valuable piece of jewelry, which his mother has left there. The temptation to steal it besets him and he succumbs. The new domestic performs the usual household duties in the room the next morning, and when the family arrive and the jewelry is missed, she is naturally accused of the theft. The son, though present, allows her to be arrested for the crime of which she is innocent. About this time the gambling den is raided. Here there was a maid who has pawned the jewel on behalf of the young man; the police have naturally been in communication with the pawnbroker and have her description. He is summoned, and recognizes her as the girl who pawned the jewel, and she, to save herself, denounces the real criminal, upon whom judgment is speedy.
- A retrospective account of the Canadian election of June 1962 in which the cameras follow the election campaigns of John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, Real Caouette and Tommy Douglas.