Period Drama Movies

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...

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 comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

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...

Set in the 8th century A.D., Sangamithra is the story of an Indian Princess and the trials and tribulations she undergoes so as to save her kingdom.

In 1930’s British India, sixteen-year-old Indira finds herself torn between true love, her duty to follow through with an arranged marriage,...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Set in the 1960s, junior high schooler Dean strikes up a friendship with the vibrant yet reckless Roy, in an effort to escape his mother’s...

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...

In 1849, two brothers travel to California in hopes of finding gold. After an arduous search they're now lost, low on food and the tension between...

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

At a convent school for young girls, no one must know that the organist Celestin is the same person as the operetta composer Floridor. But in the...

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

Madrid, 1929. Emilia arrives in the avant-garde capital determined to study at the Royal Academy of Arts and become a painter. She wants to learn the...

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream,...

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

PANGHRUN is a love story that takes place in this dark age when women could do no more than honor their family name, fall in love with a person...

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

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