Period Drama Movies

Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the...

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic...

At 30 years old King Gustav III has a number of great projects behind him already, but his most demanding in front of him - to consummate his...

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...

Japanese film.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

In the early 1900s, a wealthy alchemist, Jacques St. Germaine travels to New Orleans to seek help from the legendary voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau....

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously...

The Prussian Army is stationed in a small town where they enjoy the girls at the local boarding school.

Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally...

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.

A few hours in the life of empress Sisi; a summer night at Gödöllö. A game with operetta and melodrama; a grotesque with much colour,...

A woman's secret relationship is discovered putting her and those around her in danger.

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

A housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arms of another woman.

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

In the grip of a famine, a farmer must provide for his starving family, however his desperation is exploited by a mischievous being, that tempts him...

In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even...