Bram Stoker's Dracula

In 1462, Vlad Dracula, prince of Wallachia, returns victorious from defending Christendom against the Turks to find his beloved Elisabeta has thrown herself from the castle ramparts after receiving a false report of his death. When the priests refuse her soul salvation because she died by suicide, Vlad renounces God in fury, plunges his sword into a stone crucifix, drinks the blood that pours from the wound, and becomes immortal.

In 1897, young London solicitor Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania to finalize property purchases for an aged Count Dracula. At the count's ruined castle, Dracula appears as an ancient white-haired figure but glimpses a photograph of Jonathan's fiancée Mina and sees Elisabeta's face. He imprisons Jonathan, leaves him to his three vampire brides, and sails for England aboard the Demeter, whose crew he kills en route.

In London, Mina's lively friend Lucy Westenra is being courted by three suitors — Texan Quincey Morris, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and Dr. Jack Seward. Dracula, rejuvenated by the journey, seduces Lucy first as a wolf-creature in the garden, then as a striking young foreigner. Lucy weakens, sleepwalks, dies; she rises from her tomb as a vampire. Professor Van Helsing arrives, identifies the curse, and leads the three suitors to her crypt where they stake her, decapitate her, and stuff her mouth with garlic.

Believing Jonathan dead, Mina has been spending time with Dracula's young human form. He reveals what he is and offers her eternity; she drinks from a wound he opens on his chest, beginning the transformation. Jonathan escapes the castle, returns, and marries her. Mina is now psychically tethered to the count, divided in loyalty. Van Helsing's group destroys most of Dracula's London earth-coffins; the count flees back to Transylvania by ship.

The group pursues him across Europe. At the Borgo Pass, gypsies escorting Dracula's wagon attack them. Quincey Morris is mortally wounded. They reach the castle chapel as Dracula, restored to his ancient self, lies dying from wounds — Jonathan slashes his throat, Quincey stabs him through the heart with a bowie knife before dying himself. In the chapel beneath the cross from the prologue, Dracula sees the painted ceiling depicting himself and Elisabeta. Mina, weeping, beheads him with the sword — releasing his soul. The final shot is the ceiling above them: Vlad and Elisabeta restored to one another in death.