Period Drama Movies

A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he is more than a fool.

A 1960s period thriller centring around a gang of ex-airforce servicemen who now run a nefarious smuggling operation.

Tracing the history of blue jeans around the globe.

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her...

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr....

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...

Japanese film.

Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala language epic, biographical drama film written and directed by professor Sunil Ariyaratne....

This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his...

Jim McNeely thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939 and works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable...

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

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive...

1959 Japanese film.

A biographical portrait of pen-and-ink artist, Aubrey Beardsley.

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

In 1948, the Trouths are facing no income and the hottest summer on record. When their estranged son inexplicably returns, the apartment is full...

The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.