Period Drama Movies

Determined to discover her roots, a young woman travels to Indonesia and pieces together her parents' unconventional love story.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate...

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Set in 1965, a young couple fights to stay together as escalating violence and their opposing political backgrounds threaten to tear them apart.

During the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese couple, Yang Zihan and Liu Yuru, build a new life in Southeast Asia but are drawn into the fight for their...

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome...

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

Based on real life events, Summer of '67 brings to life the turbulent times of the sixties and the struggles faced by the men and women impacted by...

Japanese film.

A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

The film is based on the life of Razia Sultan (1205–1240), the only female Sultan of Delhi (1236–1240) and her speculated love affair...

Twenty years after the Croatian Spring autonomist movement had been crushed by Yugoslavia's communist goverment, autonomist Jakov Petras returns to...

An ambitious young king plots Myrlan’s bloody expansion but, with his eye turned from home, opportunity for a new regime is seized by a band of...

In the midst of a plague, a lonely priest must confront his fears when faced with an ominous knock at the door of his abandoned church.