Victorien Sardou

Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? Larry has a plan that is pure Lubitsch... (imdb)

Princess Fedora Romanoff, a wealthy and beautiful widow of St. Petersburg, is betrothed to Vladimir Boroff, a young man of high social position in the Russian capitol. On the eve of their wedding, Vladimir is murdered and Princess Fedora, transformed by the tragedy from a gentle, loving woman into a tigress, vows to devote her life to finding and punishing the slayer of her beloved. Her quest takes her to New York city. (imdb)

When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover. (imdb)

Film adaptation of Puccini's opera: the action takes place in Rome, during the battle of Marengo. The famous singer Floria Tosca, lover of the painter Mario Caravadossi, a noble man with liberal convictions, is also loved by the baron Scarpia, the minister of pontifical police. Scarpia suspects the painter to hide a political prisoner who has recently escaped from the castel Sant'Angelo. He provokes Tosca's jealousy against the Marchesa Attavanti, of whom Caravadossi is painting the portrait.

The cruel and lustful police chief uses the jealousy of the singer Tosca to make her betray her lover who has hidden an escaped political prisoner. To save her lover, Tosca agrees to give herself to the police chief but learns too late that he has tricked her when her lover is executed. (worldcat)

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ulimately disastrous for both of them. (imdb)

"Madame Tallien" (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of her time in deciding to make both love and war before, during and after the French Revolution . She even caused Robespierre to lose his head (literally) because of her.

The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar, and Antony. (imdb)