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Genre "Period Film" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 193 total)

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A Different Loyalty (2004) Genre: Thriller, Period Film, Political Thriller. Director: Marek Kanievska. Actors: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Michael Cochrane, Anne Lambton, Jim Piddock, Richard McMillan, Mimi Kuzyk, Emily VanCamp, Tamara Hope, Mark Rendall, John Bourgeois, Joss Ackland, Richard Zeman. Storyline: The Marek Kanievska thriller A Different Loyalty stars Rupert Everett and Sharon Stone as war reporters who come across each other's path while they are both on assignment in Beirut. When Everett's character goes missing, Stone's character begins an investigation on her own. She soon realizes that he may have known much more about international politics than he was letting on. Can she rescue him b ...

A Home at the End of the World (2004) Genre: Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films, Melodrama, Period Film. Director: Michael Mayer. Actors: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, Erik Scott Smith, Harris Allan, Andrew Chalmers, Ryan Donowho, Joshua Close, Matt Frewer. Storyline: Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals — and teenage lovers — in the suburbs of Cleveland, Bobby has become a charismatic but go-nowhere heterosexua ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Family Drama, Period Film. Director: Elia Kazan. Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, B.S. Pully, Ferike Boros, John Farrell MacDonald, Adeline Reynolds, George Melford, Mae Marsh, Vincent Graeff, Susan Lester, John Berkes, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Charles Halton, Al Bridge, Joseph J. Greene, Virginia Brissac, Harry Harvey, Jr., Bob Anderson, Art Smith, Norman Field, George Meader, Erskine Sanford, Martha Wentworth, Francis Pierlot, Peter Cusanelli, George Carleton, Al Eben, Teddy Infur, Mickey Kuhn, Robert Malcolm, Constance Purdy, Nicholas Ray, Harry Seymour, Robert Strange, Joyce Tucker. Storyline: One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doo ...

A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Genre: Romance, Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film. Director: Alfonso Arau. Actors: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini, Angélica Aragón, Evangelina Elizondo, Don Amendolia, Febronio Covarrubias, Alejandra Flores, Mary Pat Gleason, Juan Antonio Jimenez, John Dennis Johnston, Joseph Lindsey, Gregory Paul Martin, Macon McCalman, Ivory Ocean, Brad Rea, Freddy Rodriguez. Storyline: In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. Whi ...

Across the Universe (2007) Genre: Musical, Musical Romance, Period Film. Director: Julie Taymor. Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Tim Acito, Andrew Asnes, Kevin Aubin, Collin Baja, Michael Balderama, Charissa Barton, Marcus Bellamy, Nicole Berger, Ronald Blackman, Adolpho Blaire, Brian Brooks, Enrique Brown, Shawn Burgess, Ian Carney, Sandy Chase, Ron De Jesus, Jean Emile, Billy Fagen, Angelo Fraboni, Kathryn Fraggos, Kurt Froman, Erik Justin Gaines, Bob Gaynor, Chris Ghelfi, Tyler Gilstrap, Greg Graham, Cody Green, Matthew Hamel, Sean Martin Hingston, Ryan Holly, Dell Howlett, Terace Jones, Dominique Kelley, Ryan Kelly, Mari Koda, Jason Lacayo, Abdul Latif, Marty Lawson, Yasmine C. Lee, Brian Letendr, Tiger Martina, Marlene Mason, Tanisha Mason, Cheryl McClurkin, Donald A. McClurkin, Sr., Lorna McClurkin, Olivia McClurkin, Tim McGarrigal, Allie Meixner, Dario Mejia, Terrell Middleton, Angel Morales, Matthew Neff, Leah O'Donnell, Patrick O'Neill, Rika Okamoto, Adesola Osakalumi, Danny Paschall, Nathan Peck, Giovanni Perez, Bobby Pestka, Kyle Pleasant, Avery Ragsdale, Desmond S. Richardson, Samuel Roberts, Alberto Dister Rondon, Natsumi Sakurai, Luis Rojas Salgado, Martin Samuel, Marcos Santana, Jada Scott, John Selya, Murl Smith, Todd Michael Smith, Jonah Spear, Jordan Spencer, Matthew Steffens, Dennis Stowe, Stacey Sund, Lara E. Tinari, Michael Tracy, Andrew Turteltaub, Wenshuan Yang, Jor-El Wharton, Devin Wharwood, Nicole Wolcott, Alyssa Woodside, Christine Woodside, Ying-Ying Shiau, Kenneth Ziegler, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Erin Elliott, Robert Clohessy, Christopher Tierney, Curtis Holbrook, John Jeffrey Martin, Matt Caplan, T.R. Boyce, Aisha de Haas, Leah Hocking, Bill Buell, Ellen Hornberger, Amanda Cole, Danya Taymor, Dylan Baker, Linda Emond, Lynn Cohen, Bill Irwin, Jennifer Van Dyck, Timothy T. Mitchum, Carol Woods, Elain Graham, Orfeh, Antonique Smith, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Yassmin Alers, Deidre Goodwin, Joe Cocker, Jacob Pitts, Staceyanne Chin, Jeanine Serralles, Leonard Tucker, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Harry J. Lennix, Logan Marshall-Green, James Urbaniak, Kathleen Early, Ching Valdes-Aran, Bono, Daniel Ezralow, Kiva Dawson, Halley Wegryn-Gross, Luther Creek, Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Arabella Holzbog, Ambrose Martos, Peter Mui, Karine Plantadit-Bageot, Dan Weltner, Christopher Youngsman, Eddie Izzard, Ekaterina Sknarina, Tracy Westmoreland, Ron C. Jones, W.W. Wilson, Salma Hayek, Luke Cresswell, Jarleth Conroy, Mandy Gonzales, Destan Owens, Cicily Daniels, Saycon Sengbloh, Sam Kitchin, Chris McGarry, Frank Hopf, Cousin Brucie Morrow, Navarra Novy-Williams, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Michelle Lookadoo, Geoff Countryman, Julien Joy, Conrad Korsch, Brian McKenna, Jack Petricelli, Timothy Keiper, Arthur Lewis, Mark Lewis, Bryan Noll, Michael Arenella, Cyro Baptista, Frank Fighera, Ritt Henn, Mark Stewart, Bruce Williamson, Charley Drayton, Tom Grasso, Joey Sykes, Paul Wallfisch, Caryn Allen. Storyline: Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair kn ...

Amadeus (1984) Genre: Comedy Drama, Musical Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film. Director: Milos Forman. Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenny Baker, Lisbeth Bartlett, Barbara Byrne, Gil Amelio, Martin Cavani, Roderick Cook, Patrick Hines, Nicholas Kepros, Philip Lenkowsky, Herman Meckler, Jonathan Moore, Cynthia Nixon, Brian Pettifer, Vincent Schiavelli, Douglas Seale, Miroslav Sekera, John Strauss, Karl-Heinz Teuber. Storyline: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Viennese "urban legend" concerning the death of 18th-century musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Moz ...

American Graffiti (1973) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Americana, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: George Lucas. Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Scott Beach, Jana Bellan, Jim Bohan, John Bracci, John Brent, Debbie Celiz, Del Close, James Cranna, Tim Crowley, Charles Dorsett, Jan Dunn, Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, Harrison Ford, Beau Gentry, Ed Greenberg, Herby and the Heartbeats, Bo Hopkins, Terry McGovern, George Meyer, Joseph Miksak, Charles A. Murphy, Al Nalbandian, William M. Niven, Manuel Padilla, Mackenzie Phillips, Christopher Pray, Kathleen Quinlan, Susan Richardson, Debra Scott, Suzanne Somers, Joe Spano, Lynne Stewart, Ron Vincent, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., Jan Wilson, Wolfman Jack. Storyline: It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie (Candy Clark); and John (Paul Le Mat ), a 2 ...

Amistad (1997) Genre: Drama, Historical Film, Message Movie, Period Film, Courtroom Drama. Director: Steven Spielberg. Actors: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Tomas Milian, Austin Pendleton, Razaaq Adoti, John Ortiz, Arliss Howard, Jeremy Northam. Storyline: This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Rico, the 152-minute drama opens with a pre-credit sequence showing Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) and the other ...

An American Haunting (2006) Genre: Horror, Supernatural Horror, Period Film. Director: Courtney Solomon. Actors: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, Matthew Marsh, Thom Fell, Sam Alexander, Isabelle Almgren-Doré, Susan Almgren, Lila Bata-Walsh, Gaye Brown, Miquel Brown, Vlad Cruceru, Vernon Dobtcheff, Philip Hurdwood, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alin Rosca, Howard Rosenstein, Andrei Serban, Shauna Shim, Courtney Solomon, Madalina Stan, Zoë Thorne. Storyline: The wind whispers ominous warnings of death before a malevolent entity arrives to claim the life of a young girl as director Courtney Solomon brings author Brent Monahan's chilling, fact-based tale of supernatural murder to the screen in this tale of terror starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek. The year was 1818 and the Bell family was a quiet clan residing on a remote farm in Red River, Te ...

Andrei Rublev (1966) Genre: Historical Film, Biography [feature], Historical Epic, Period Film. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Actors: Anatoli Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Burlyayev, Irma Raush, Yuri Nazarov, Yuri Nikulin, Rolan Bykov, Nikolai Grabbe, Mikhail Kononov, Stepan Krylov, Andrei Tarkovsky. Storyline: Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen as the director intended it until its re-release over twenty years after its completion. The film was not screened publicly in its own country (and then only in an abridged form) until 1972, three years after winning the International Critics Prize a ...

Angel (2007) Genre: Drama, Period Film. Director: François Ozon. Actors: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling, Jacqueline Tong, Janine Duvitski, Christopher Benjamin, Una Stubbs, Jemma Powell, Simon Woods, Seymour Matthews. Storyline: A destitute-but-determined young woman living in turn-of-the-century England ascends the social ranks after authoring a series of successful romantic novels in French writer/director François Ozon's first English-language feature. Romolo Garai takes on the title role in a French and Belgian co-production co-starring Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, and Michael Fassbender and financed by Fidélité Fil ...

Ask the Dust (2006) Genre: Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film. Director: Robert Towne. Actors: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel, Justin Kirk, Jeremy Crutchley, Richard Schickel, Charlie Hunnam, Val Kilmer. Storyline: Adapted from a novel by John Fante, Robert Towne's Ask the Dust stars Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini, a young writer who comes to Los Angeles during the Great Depression in order to write a novel. As the film opens, he is down to his last nickel and decides to spend it on coffee in a diner. He is served by Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Mexican beauty he is instantly attracted to even though he treats ...

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008) Genre: Children's/Family, Period Film, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Thomas Langmann, Frédéric Forestier. Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Stéphane Rousseau, Vanessa Hessler, Michael "Bully" Herbig, Santiago Segura, José Garcia, Jamel Debbouze, Jérôme Le Banner, Franck Dubosc, Zinedine Zidane, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alexandre Astier, Tony Parker, Luca Bizzarri, Amelie Mauresmo, Elie Semoun, Paolo Kessisoglu, Bouli Lanners, Nathan Jones, Sim, Adriana Karembeu, Francis Lalanne, Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt. Storyline: Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of athletics in this live-action comedy-adventure. It's 50 B.C., and short but wily Asterix (Clovis Cornillac) and his rotund sidekick Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) hit the road for Rome, where they hope to compete in the Olympic Games. Obelix figures he's a sure bet for a weight-lifting m ...

Atonement (2007) Genre: Romance, Romantic Epic, Period Film. Director: Joe Wright. Actors: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Allie MacKay, Brenda Blethyn, Julia Ann West, Harriet Walter, Juno Temple, Charlie Von Simson, Alfie Allen, Patrick Kennedy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Wight, Leander Deeny, Peter McNeil O'Connor, Daniel Mays, Nonso Anozie, Michel Vuillermoz, Lionel Abelanski, Tobias Menzies, Paul Stocker, Alex Noodle, Roger Evans, Bronson Webb, Ian Bonar, Oliver Gilbert, Jamie Beamish, Johnny Harris, Nick Bagnall, Billy Seymour, Neil Maskell, Paul Harper, Gina McKee, Charlie Banks, Madeleine Crowe, Scarlett Dalton, Olivia Grant, Katy Lawrence, Jade Moulla, Georgia Oakley, Alice Orr-Ewing, Catherine Philps, Bryony Reiss, Sarah Shaul, Anna Singleton, Emily Thomson, Michelle Duncan, Kelly Scott, Mark Holgate, Ryan Kiggell, Vivienne Gibbs, Matthew Forest, Richard Stacey, Jay Quinn, Jérémie Renier, John Normington, Jack Harcourt, Ben Harcourt, Tilly Vosburgh, Angel Witney, Bonnie Witney, Webb. Bem, Wendy Nottingham, Anthony Minghella. Storyline: A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt the best-selling 2002 novel by author Ian McEwan. The year is 1935, and as the summer heat takes hold, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis ...

Becoming Jane (2007) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Romantic Drama, Biography [feature]. Director: Julian Jarrold. Actors: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Cohu, Laurence Fox, Ian Richardson, Joe Anderson, Leo Bill, Jessica Ashworth, Eleanor Methven, Michael James Ford, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Elaine Murphy, Guy Carleton, Russell Smith, Philip Culhane, Helen McCrory, Louise Marie Kerr, Sophie Vavasseur, Gina Costigan, Chris McHallem, Don Doherty, Tara Nixon O'Neill, Tom Maguire, Lynda Lee, Donal O'Farrell. Storyline: Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after a flock in a small rural community in Southern England with his wife (Julie Walters). While her older ...

Berkeley (2005) Genre: Drama, Psychological Drama, Period Film. Director: Bobby Roth. Actors: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Sarah Carter, Tom Morello, Bonnie Bedelia, Sebastian Tillinger, Wade Allain-Marcus, Kate Lang Johnson, Jake Newton. Storyline: A young man is thrown into the center of the political and social tumult of the late '60s in this drama. It's 1968, and Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) is 18 years old and has just received his 1A draft classification. Ben does not want to go to Vietnam, and his father Sy (Henry Winkler) is understanding, though he believes Ben does have a responsibility to his country. As a compromise, Ben enrolls at the U ...

Beyond the Sea (2004) Genre: Drama, Musical Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film. Director: Kevin Spacey. Actors: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, William Ullrich. Storyline: Kevin Spacey serves as both director and star for this biopic based on the life and career of legendary entertainer Bobby Darin, which moves back and forth between his childhood and adult selves to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Born Bobby Cassotto and raised in the Bronx, young Bobby (played as a child by William Ullrich) was raised by his mother, Polly (Brenda Blethyn), his brother-in-law ...

Black Narcissus (1947) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Melodrama, Religious Drama. Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Actors: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Esmond Knight, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird, Jean Simmons, Judith Furse, Shaun Noble, Eddie Whaley, Jr., Nancy Roberts, May Hallatt, Ley On. Storyline: British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome British government agent (David Farrar), whose attr ...

Blood Brothers (2007) Genre: Drama, Crime Drama, Period Film. Director: Alexi Tan. Actors: Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Shu Qi, Tony Yang, Lulu Li, Sun Hong-Lei. Storyline: Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen in the small village of Zhujiajiao depart to seek their fate in Shanghai in director Alexi Tan's reworking of the John Woo action classic Bullet in the Head. Feeling trapped by circumstance in the only place they have ever known, Kang, his brother Hu, and their best friend Fung decide to take their fate into their own hands by moving to Sha ...

Boogie Nights (1997) Genre: Comedy Drama, Showbiz Drama, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson. Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Luis Guzman, Alfred Molina, Robert Ridgely, Ricky Jay, Philip Baker Hall, Melora Walters, Nicole Ari Parker, Thomas Jane, Laurel Holloman. Storyline: While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes "adult films, exotic motion pictures." In 1977, while hanging out at a disco, Jack spots Eddie (Mark Wahlberg), the new busboy at th ...

Camille Claudel (1988) Genre: Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film, Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama. Director: Bruno Nuytten. Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson, Katrine Boorman, Danièle Lebrun, Aurelle Doazan, Madeleine Marie, Maxime Leroux, Philippe Clevenot, Roger Planchon, François Berléand, Martin Berleand, Michel Beroff, Lison Bonfils, Denise Chalem, Flaminio Corcos, Gerard Darier, Claudine Delvaux, Ariane Kah, Roch Leibovici, Eric Lorvoire, Philippe Paimblanc, Patrick Palmero, Anne Marie Pisani, Francois Revillard, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Dany Simon, Benoit Vergne, Hester Wilcox. Storyline: The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are portrayed in this passionate biographical drama, featuring an acclaimed performance by Isabelle Adjani. Beginning in the 1880s with a young Claudel's first meeting with Rodin, the film traces the development of their intense romantic bond. The growth of this relationship coinci ...

Capote (2005) Genre: Drama, Biography [feature], Crime Drama, Period Film. Director: Bennett Miller. Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban, Amy Ryan, Mark Pellegrino, Kwesi Ameyaw, Marshall Bell, Jeremy Dangerfield, John B. Destry, C. Ernst Harth, Kerr Hewitt, Bob Huculak, Adam Kimmel, Araby Lockhart, John MacLaren, Robert McLaughlin, Allie Mickelson, Harry Nelken, R.D. Reid, Jim Shepard. Storyline: The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s — and the impact the writing and research would have on its author — is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small degree of celebrity for his work when he read a short newspaper item about a multipl ...

Cartouches Gauloises (2007) Genre: Drama, Film a Clef, Period Film, Childhood Drama, War Drama. Director: Mehdi Charef. Actors: Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Christine (1958) Genre: Drama, Romance, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, Period Film. Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit. Actors: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Sophie Grimaldi, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux, Jacques Duby, Claudine Auger, Jean-Claude Brialy, Francois Chaumette, Jean Davy, Bernard Dheran, Josef Egger, Jean Galland, Jacques Toja. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Citizen Kane (1941) Genre: Drama, Film a Clef, Period Film. Director: Orson Welles. Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris, Paul Stewart, Buddy Swan, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Erskine Sanford, William Alland, Georgia Backus, Philip Van Zandt, Gus Schilling, Fortunio Bonanova, Charles Bennett, Joan Blair, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Coke, Gino Corrado, Herbert Corthell, Louise Currie, Pedro de Cordoba, Robert Dudley, Al Eben, Edith Evanson, Arthur Kay, Milt Kibbee, Alan Ladd, Ellen Lowe, Irving Mitchell, Arthur O'Connell, Benny Rubin, Walter Sande, Tudor Williams. Storyline: Orson Welles first feature film — which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role — proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American film ever made. Aging newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies in his ...

City of God (2002) Genre: Crime, Drama, Urban Drama, Period Film, Crime Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Fernando Meirelles. Actors: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge, Jonathan Haagensen, Daniel Zettel, Alice Braga, Douglas Silva, Roberta Rodriguez Silvia, Michel de Souza Gomes, Darlan Cunha. Storyline: Fernando Meirelles' City of God is a sweeping tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in time, the main focus is on Cabeleira who formed a gang called the Tender Trio. He and his best friend, Bené (Phelipe Haagensen), become crime lords over the course of a decade. When Bené is killed before he can retire, Lil' Zé attempts to take out his ...

Cold Mountain (2003) Genre: War, Romance, War Drama, Anti-War Film, War Romance, Period Film. Director: Anthony Minghella. Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Charlie Hunnam, Jack White, Ethan Suplee, Jena Malone, Melora Walters, Lucas Black, Taryn Manning, Tom Aldredge, James Rebhorn, Jen Apgar, Emily Deschanel, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Robin Mullins, Jay Tavare. Storyline: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman) awaits. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby (Renée Zellweger), who helps her keep u ...

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Romantic Drama, Martial Arts. Director: Zhang Yimou. Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Chen Jin, Ni Dahong, Li Man, Qin Junjie, Guo Changhui, Feng Bai, Li Ming, Guo Jiukong, Wang Cong, Chen Xinhua, Hong Zonghan, Feng Dinghong, Chen Xiaoyi, Sun Menging, Zhang Shihan, Hou Jingkun, Song Huiru, Li Yufei, Zhang Jiao, Ge Dan, Li Shuang, Liu Shanshan, Zhang Jihang, Liu Wanting, Wang Lanqi, Hu Pan, Yu Tingting, Li Sisi, Zhang Yu, Liu Yang, Li Lu, Li Jingfei, Ai Lisen, Xi Sailan, Yang Ziu-Neng, Liu Weijie, Zhang Wen, Liu Shabai, Liu Xiaohui, Shu Aiqin, Zeng Yali, Li Junxi, Li Xianjie, Wang Jinbo, Sun Quan, Li Yang, Zhu Guarangyu, Yang Zeyu, Wang Xingye, Gao Yudong, Jiang Houli, Li Geng, Liu Zhengeng, Liu Lianyuan, Shi Renshan, Jiao Lianshi, Cong Shusheng, Ling Daiying, Wang Hongsheng, Zhang Hua, Huo Guangxi, Liu Chunyu, Sheng Honglin, Zhang Yide, Zhang Ziaoqing, Shi Chuan, Mao Yangming. Storyline: A dying love between two powerful people leads to deceit, infidelity, and conspiracy in this epic-scale historical drama from director Zhang Yimou. During the latter days of the Tang dynasty, the Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) returns home from the war with his son Prince Jai (Jay Chou) in tow. However, the monarch gets a chilly reception from the Empress (Gong Li); though she's eager to see her son, her ...

Daisy Miller (1974) Genre: Drama, Romance, Period Film, Romantic Drama. Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan, Duilio del Prete, John Bartha, Jean Pascal Bongard, David Bush, Tom Felleghy, Hubert Goldin, Jacques Guhl, Henry Hubinet, Nicholas Jones, Rodolfo Lodi, James McMurtry, Albert Messmer, George Morfogen. Storyline: Continuing his 1970s recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter Bogdanovich turned to the literary costume drama with an adaptation of the Henry James novella Daisy Miller. At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMur ...

Dangerous Beauty (1998) Genre: Drama, Feminist Film, Period Film, Biography [feature], Romantic Drama. Director: Marshall Herskovitz. Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly, Fred Ward, Naomi Watts, Jeroen Krabbé, Joanna Cassidy, Daniel Lapaine, Jake Weber, Simon Dutton, Peter Eyre, Michael Culkin. Storyline: Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outside of the Venetian court, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) hopes to rise above her station, but her interest in nobleman's son Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell) is blocked since his parents forbid their marriage. Following the path taken by her mother, ...

Days of Heaven (1978) Genre: Drama, Rural Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film. Director: Terrence Malick. Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Stuart Margolin, Jackie Shultis, Gene Bell, Doug Kershaw, Muriel Jolliffe, Frenchie Lemond, Richard Libertini, Sahbra Markus, Timothy Scott, John K. Wilkinson, Bob Wilson. Storyline: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) flees to Texas with his little sister Linda (Linda Manz) an ...

Dazed and Confused (1993) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: Richard Linklater. Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Sasha Jenson, Parker Posey, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Michelle Burke, Cole Hauser, Jason Smith, Nicky Katt, Deena Martin, Shawn Andrews, David Blackwell, Richard Dillard, Mona Lee Fultz, Erika Geminder, Christine Harnos, Christin Hinojosa, Kim Krizan, Fred Lerner, John L. Martin, Zeke Mills, Diane Perella, Don Phillips, Esteban Powell, Zack Taylor, Doug Taylor, Julius Tennon. Storyline: Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the ran ...

Death in Venice (1971) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Psychological Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films. Director: Luchino Visconti. Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Carole Andre, Luigi Battaglia, Ciro Cristofoletti, Dominique Darel, Franco Fabrizi, Leslie French, Sergio Garafanolo, Masha Predit, Nora Ricci, Romolo Valli. Storyline: Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde's obsession with the boy's youth and physical perfection; the composer realizes that the child represents an ideal that he ...

Dersu Uzala (1975) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Adventure Drama. Director: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Vladimir Kremena, Alexandr Pyatkov, Dima Korshikov, Svetlana Danielchanka, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Mikhail Bychkov, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Sovetbek Dzhumadylov. Storyline: A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of soldiers through ...

Diabel (1972) Genre: Drama, Period Film. Director: Andrzej Zulawski. Actors: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr, Wiktor Sadecki, Maciej Englert, Monika Niemczyk. Storyline: Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ambitious and highly allegorical drama probably seemed too contemporary to Polish censorship back in 1972 , thus didn't get released until 1988. Young Polish nobleman Jakub (Leszek Teleszynski) is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. A ...

Diggers (2006) Genre: Comedy Drama, Period Film, Ensemble Film. Director: Katherine Dieckmann. Actors: Paul Rudd, Lauren Ambrose, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Sarah Paulson, Ken Marino, Maura Tierney. Storyline: In the years before the Hamptons became the ultimate Long Island destination, two generations of clam diggers work the land and struggle to make sense of the changes that threaten to forever change their simple way of life. The year is 1976, and the future Long Island vacationing hotspot is little more than a tight-knit community of hard-living folks who make their living from the sea. While the i ...

Doctor Zhivago (1965) Genre: Epic, Romance, Romantic Epic, Historical Epic, Period Film. Director: David Lean. Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Jeffrey Rockland, Bernard Kay, Klaus Kinski, Gerard Tichy, Noel Willman, Geoffrey Keen, Adrienne Corri, Jack MacGowran, Mark Eden, Erik Chitty, Roger Maxwell, Lucy Westmore, Lili Murati, Peter Madden, Luana Alcaniz, Jose Maria Caffarel, Emilio Carrer, Katherine Ellison, Wolf Frees, Inigo Jackson, Maria Martin, Gwen Nelson, Jose Nieto, Tarek Sharif, Maria Vico. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Dororo (2007) Genre: Fantasy, Samurai Film, Period Film. Director: Akihiko Shiota. Actors: Kou Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eita, Mieko Harada, Kiichi Nakai, Anna Tsuchiya. Storyline: A fierce woman warrior joins a wandering demon hunter on his quest to recover the missing body parts and regain his natural form in director Akihiko Shiota's adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's popular manga of the same name. Years ago, malevolent ruler Daigo Kagemitsu promised to deliver his unborn son to the forty-eight devils of the underworld in exchange for the power to conquer his country. When his ...

Down With Love (2003) Genre: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Period Film, Parody/Spoof. Director: Peyton Reed. Actors: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Sarah Paulson, David Hyde Pierce, Rachel Dratch, Jack Plotnick, Tony Randall, John Aylward, Dorie Barton, Melissa George, Will Jordan, Ivana Milicevic, Jeri Ryan, John Storey. Storyline: Director Peyton Reed and screenwriters Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake pay homage to the frothy romantic comedies of the early '60s — in particular the Doris Day/Rock Hudson vehicles — in this light-hearted and affectionate spoof. Barbara Novak (Renée Zellweger) is a sweet but savvy small-town librarian who has arrived in New York City with big plans to take on the town. Embracing ...

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Message Movie. Director: Bruce Beresford. Actors: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Fred Faser, Crystal R. Fox, Clarice F. Geigerman, Carolyn Gold, William Hall, Jr., Bob Hannah, Joann Havrilla, Ashley Josey, Sylvia Kaler, Ray McKinnon, Muriel Moore, Jack Rousso, Alvin M. Sugarman, Indra A. Thomas. Storyline: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Both employer and employee are outsiders, Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated so ...

El Greco (2007) Genre: Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film. Director: Iannis Smaragdis. Actors: Nick Ashdon, Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos, Dimitra Matsouka, Sotiris Moustakas, Dina Konsta, Dimitris Kallivokas, Roger Coma, Yorgos Hristodoulou, Leda Protopsalti, Tasos Palatzidis, Yorgos Haralambidis, Yorgos Karamihos, Theo Zouboulidis. Storyline: As directed by Greek filmmaker Iannis Smaragdis and co-adapted by Smaragdis and Jackie Pavlenko from Dmitris Siatopoulos's heavily-fictionalized biographical novel Greco: The Painter of God, the (largely) English-language biopic El Greco tells a colorful version of the titular 16th Century Spanish Renaissance painter's life story. Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos on Crete in 1541 and portrayed here b ...

El Perro Del Hortelano (1996) Genre: Romance, Historical Film, Period Film, Romantic Drama. Director: Pilar Miro. Actors: Rafael Alonso, Maite Blasco, Fernando Conde, Angel de Andres, Ana Duato, Juan Gea, Carmelo Gómez, Miguel Angel Rellan, Emma Suarez. Storyline: A prominent 17th-century Spanish noblewoman throws social convention to the wind and pursues a romance with her low-born personal secretary in this romantic and lavish costume thriller. The trouble begins when the young Countess Diana discovers that the secretary Teodoro is engaged to one of her maids. Outraged, she manipulates her servant into falling in love with another so she can have Teodoro ...

Evening (2007) Genre: Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film, Melodrama. Director: Lajos Koltai. Actors: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Barry Bostwick. Storyline: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago, one she kept secret all their lives. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (played by Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris, who she'd remember so many ...

Evita (1996) Genre: Musical, Musical Drama, Biography [feature], Period Film. Director: Alan Parker. Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail. Storyline: Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes powerful feelings in her native Argentina. Throughout this film, as in the musical ...

Fade to Black (2006) Genre: Thriller, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Period Film. Director: Oliver Parker. Actors: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Christopher Walken, Paz Vega. Storyline: A screen legend is drawn into a murder mystery that reaches to the highest ranks of the entertainment industry in director Oliver Parker's 1940s-era thriller featuring a sleuthing Orson Welles (played by Danny Huston). The year is 1948 and, having just suffered a breakup with Rita Hayworth and a falling-out with Hollywood, Welles arrives in Rome to appear before the cameras in Black Magic. Though ...

Fat Man & Little Boy (1989) Genre: Historical Film, Drama, Docudrama, Period Film. Director: Roland Joffé. Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Natasha Richardson, John C. McGinley, Ron Vawter, Marek Alboszta, Steven Baigelman, Frank Benettieri, Jr., David Brainard, Michael Brockman, Del Close, John Considine, Alan Corduner, Roger Cubicciotti, Franco Cutietta, Jon de Vries, James Eckhouse, Walter Edmiston, Matthew Faison, Todd Field, Nancy Foy, Ronald C. Frazier, Robert Peter Gale, Mary Pat Gleason, Clark Gregg, Peter Halasz, Brent Harrison, Wesley Harrison, Gerald Hiken, Arthur Holden, Stan Jones, Ed Lauter, Donald Mackechnie, Madison Mason, Tom McFarlane, Alan Oppenheimer, David C. Parnes, Christopher Pieczynski, Allen Poirson, David Politzer, Don Pugsley, Logan Ramsey, Bill Rubenstein, Ken Strausbaugh, Walter Sullivan, Fred Dalton Thompson, Jim True, Brian Wandell, John Williams, Barry Yourgrau. Storyline: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a hard-nosed career soldier who in 1942 finds himself the reluctant "nursemaid&quo ...

Fateless (2005) Genre: Drama, Childhood Drama, War Drama, Period Film. Director: Lajos Koltai. Actors: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Andras M. Kecskes, Joszef Gyabronka, Endre Harkanyi, Daniel Craig, Janos Ban, Bela Dora, Balint Pentek, Dani Szabo, Zsolt Der, Judit Schell, Adam Rajhona, Gyorgy Barko. Storyline: One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Hungary when the Nazi pogroms begin sweeping through the country. Gyura's father (Janos Ban) has his business taken away from him not long before he's taken away to a concentration camp, and as he's led away, Gyura agr ...

Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Genre: Musical, Comedy Drama, Musical Drama, Period Film. Director: Norman Jewison. Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Sammy Bayes, Theodore Bikel, Candy Bonstein, Ina Claire, Brian Coburn, Sarah Cohen, Patience Collier, Stella Courtney, Barry Dennen, Otto Diamant, Arnold Diamond, Vernon Dobtcheff, Elaine Edwards, Stanley Fleet, Paul Michael Glaser, Howard Goorney, Aharon Ipalé, Miki Iveria, Carl Jaffe, Peter Johnston, Jacob Kalich, Tutte Lemkow, George Little, Roger Lloyd Pack, Raymond Lovelock, Ruth Madoc, Mark Malicz, Alfred Maron, Michele Marsh, Vladimir Medar, Albin Pahernik, Marika Rivera, Shimen Ruskin, Zvee Scooler, Alfie Scopp, Neva Small, Bob Stevenson, Louis Zorich. Storyline: Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty, the prejudicial attitudes of non-Jews, and the romantic entanglements of his five daughters. Whenever ...

Finding Neverland (2004) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Biography [feature]. Director: Marc Forster. Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Kelly MacDonald, Freddie Highmore, Ian Hart, Eileen Essell, Paul Whitehouse, Joe Prospero, Nick Roud, Luke Spill, Toby Jones. Storyline: Following up his critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and have his play produced while he cares for his down-on-their-luck neighbors who inspired the story in ...

Flawless (2007) Genre: Thriller, Crime Drama, Caper, Period Film. Director: Michael Radford. Actors: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Jonathan Aris, Nathaniel Parker, Simon Day, Constantine Gregory, David Henry, Shaughan Seymour, Nicholas Jones, David Barrass, Joss Ackland, Silas Carson, Derren Nesbitt, Rosalind March, Kevan Willis, Stanley Townsend, Ben Righton, Yemi Ajibade, William Scott-Masson, Natalie Dormer. Storyline: Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era London, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine as the scheming maintenance man who longs to relieve his employers at the London Diamond Corporation ...

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