In the year 64 A.D., the corrupt and maniacal Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar torches the city so he can blame the ensuing destruction on the unsuspecting Christians. Meanwhile, Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus falls for an innocent and beautiful Christian maiden, Mercia. When the seductive and wicked Empress Poppaea learns that she has a romantic rival for Marcus’s attentions, she conspires with Nero to send all Christians to a chilling death.

Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) tells the story of an electrician (Cyril McLaglen) and an underground porter (Brian Aherne) who both fall in love with the same shop girl (Elissa Landi). Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor, Shooting Stars) is one of the supreme stylists of the British silent cinema, and Underground is a grand display of his expressionistic talents.

Josef  is the ultra-dutiful butler to a Casanova-like prince. Falling in love with Marie, whom he assumes to be a countess, Josef masquerades as his rakish master. The catch: Marie is herself a poseur, a mere maidservant of nobility.