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.

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 deserts of 1935, a pilot finds himself in a place that is ready to destroy all ambitious men.

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...

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

A year after the prequel's events, Jun is now producing a sequel to her original show and has the daughter of Magical TV's president as her female...

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...

A WWII paratrooper gets lost in a forest as the line between reality and memory begins to blur.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

On an empty beach, 5 kids talk and talk, over the beach lenght. They are young but not dumb. Mean but not beamed. And cute but not stupid.

Thirty years after a terrible earthquake devastated the town of Thunder Mesa, the Ravenswood Manor still hasn't given a sign of life. But it is said...

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir.

Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.

An Irish Romeo and Juliet set in 18th Century during the Penal Laws. Ends with the marriage of a Catholic aristocrat and the daughter of Protestant...

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

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the...

A mother remembers her brother as her son comes to terms with his partner.

Jun Terada is a producer in the year 2076 and is trying to convince the president of Magical TV to allow her to create her life's work, Chō...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.