Genre "Period Film" Movies
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| 152. The Ice Storm (year: 1997) |
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Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but who ...
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| 153. The Illusionist (year: 2006) |
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A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love ...
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| 154. The Killing of John Lennon (year: 2006) |
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What sort of man kills one of the most beloved musicians in the world, and what prompts him to pull the trigger? Filmmaker Andrew Piddington explores ...
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| 155. The King of Masks (year: 1996) |
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This tender Chinese tale of an aged street performer who begins teaching a young child is filled with warm humanity but not imbued with undue sentimen ...
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| 156. The Last Mistress (year: 2007) |
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Catherine Breillat's adaptation of An Old Mistress stars Fu'ad Ait Aatou as Ryno de Marigny, and Asia Argento as Vellini, two lovers in 19th century P ...
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| 157. The Last Sin Eater (year: 2007) |
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Michael Landon Jr. directs this period drama set in 1850s Appalachia and concerning a young girl who carries a crushing burden. Ten-year-old Cadi Forb ...
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| 158. The Legend of Bagger Vance (year: 2000) |
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Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journey ...
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| 159. The Lion in Winter (year: 1968) |
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The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of moth ...
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| 160. The Madness of King George (year: 1994) |
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Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King ...
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| 161. The Majestic (year: 2001) |
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Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey ...
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| 162. The Man in the Iron Mask (year: 1998) |
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Actor-director William Richert (Winter Kills), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned ...
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| 163. The Man Who Cried (year: 2000) |
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In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving be ...
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| 164. The Merchant of Venice (year: 2004) |
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One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of The Merchant of Venice. Bassani ...
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| 165. The Name of the Rose (year: 1986) |
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Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring ...
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| 166. The Natural (year: 1984) |
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The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while chang ...
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| 167. The Notebook (year: 2004) |
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Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun's (James Garner) regular visits ...
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| 168. The Other Boleyn Girl (year: 2008) |
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Adapted from author Philippa Gregory's historical novel of the same name, director Justin Chadwick's atmospheric period drama follows the fierce compe ...
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| 169. The Painted Veil (year: 2006) |
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A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based on a novel by W. Somerse ...
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| 170. The Prestige (year: 2006) |
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Obsession, jealousy, and deceit define the tense relationship shared between two turn-of-the-century magicians in Memento and Batman Begins director C ...
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| 172. The Red Violin (year: 1998) |
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Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spiri ...
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| 173. The Sandlot (year: 1993) |
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The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the st ...
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| 174. The Sandlot 2 (year: 2005) |
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In this sequel to the 1993 box-office hit The Sandlot, it's 1972, and a new bunch of neighborhood kids have taken over the field where they play baseb ...
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| 175. The Sleeping Dictionary (year: 2002) |
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Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video romantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John ...
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| 176. The Sting (year: 1973) |
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Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed ...
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| 177. The Untouchables (year: 1987) |
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Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, ...
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| 178. The Virgin Spring (year: 1959) |
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Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukallan) begins with a scene of unspeakable brutality and ends with a ...
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| 179. The Virgin Suicides (year: 1999) |
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A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams ...
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| 180. The Way We Were (year: 1973) |
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"Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney Pollack's glossy romance. In 1937, frizzy-haired Red co-ed Katie Morosky (Barbra S ...
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| 181. The Weight of Water (year: 2000) |
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A woman studying a crime of the past finds her own life becoming a morass of suspicion and deceit in this drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve. Je ...
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| 182. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (year: 2006) |
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Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker ...
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| 183. There Will Be Blood (year: 2007) |
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Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man &am ...
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| 184. Things That Hang From Trees (year: 2006) |
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Things that Hang from Trees constitutes American director Ido Mizrahy's debut feature. As adapted by singer-songwriter Aaron Louis Tordini from his ow ...
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| 185. This is England (year: 2006) |
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British filmmaker Shane Meadows looks back at his own youth in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama which examines skinhead culture in the U.K. It' ...
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| 186. Tin Men (year: 1987) |
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The second of director Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy (the first was Diner, the third Avalon), Tin Men seems at first glance to be much ado about ...
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| 187. Tristan & Isolde (year: 2005) |
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One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Do ...
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| 188. Valmont (year: 1989) |
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The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' ...
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| 189. Volaverunt (year: 1999) |
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Based on a historical novel by Antonio Larreta, Volaverunt imagines a number of romantic misadventures that enlivened the court of King Carlos IV, a S ...
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| 190. We Own the Night (year: 2007) |
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Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director James Gray's period drama ...
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| 191. Woyzeck (year: 1978) |
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| 192. Young Torless (year: 1966) |
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Robert Musil's novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless was the source for this allegorical German film. Mathieu Carriere plays Torless, a student ...
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| 193. Youth Without Youth (year: 2007) |
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Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade' ...
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