Period Drama Movies

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in...

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...

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

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

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...

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

1959 Japanese film.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

One of the most famous Bible stories of all time retold against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World, the birth of...

A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.

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

In the 1930s, Taula Lovovoa, one of the first indigenous Seventh-day Adventist missionaries from Mussau Island, experiences transformation and...

An upcoming film. Plot TBA.

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

A town doctor’s jealousy over his younger brother’s mysterious inheritance is compounded when they both fall for the same woman.

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.