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The list Historical films includes
Jan Dara, Caligula, Pretty Baby, Kingdom of Heaven and Dekada '70.
The list consists of 166 members
and 16 sublists.
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Jan Dara
2001 Thai film by Nonzee Nimibutr
Overview: Jan Dara (Thai: จัน ดารา) is a 2001 Thai erotic-period-drama film directed and co-written by Nonzee Nimibutr and co-starring Hong Kong cinema actress Christy Chung. It is based on a novel by Utsana Ph ...
Release date: 12 September 2001Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Nonzee NimibutrCast: Eakarat Sarsukh, Suwinit Panjamawat, Kanchit Thamthong, Santisuk Promsiri, Wipawee Charoenpura, Christy ChungProducer: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Allan FungWriter: Nonzee Nimibutr, Sirapak PaoboonkerdJan Dara grows up in a house lacking in love but abundant in lust. He quickly picks up the sinful way...
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Pretty Baby
1978 film by Louis Malle
Overview: Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The plot focuses ...
Release date: 5 April 1978Genre: Drama, HistoryDirector: Louis MalleProducer: Louis Malle, Polly PlattWriter: Polly Platt, Louis MalleA teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917. 0
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Kingdom of Heaven
2005 film directed by Ridley Scott
Overview: Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Ghassan Massoud, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis ...
Release date: 2 May 2005Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Drama, WarDirector: Ridley ScottProducer: Karim Abouobayd, Mark AlbelaWriter: William MonahanBalian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. 0
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The Seventies
2002 film
Overview: Dekada '70 (lit. '"The ’70s"') is a 2002 Filipino drama film directed by Chito S. Roño and it is based on the acclaimed novel by Filipino author, Lualhati Bautista. Set in the 1970s, the film stars Vilma ...
Release date: 25 December 2002Genre: DramaDirector: Chito S. RoñoCast: Vilma Santos, Christopher De Leon, Piolo Pascual, Marvin Agustin, Carlos Agassi, Danilo BarriosProducer: Trina N. Dayrit, Tess V. FuentesWriter: Lualhati BautistaA middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship. 0
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12 Years a Slave
2013 film by Steve McQueen
Overview: 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical period-drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was ki ...
Release date: 18 October 2013Genre: Drama, History, BiographyDirector: Steve McQueenProducer: Dede Gardner, Anthony KatagasWriter: John Ridley, Solomon NorthupIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. 0
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The Butler
2013 American historical drama film by Lee Daniels
Overview: The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and with a screenplay by Danny Strong. It is inspired by Wil Haygood's ...
Release date: 16 August 2013Genre: Drama, Biography, HistoryDirector: Lee DanielsCast: Forest Whitaker, David Banner, Michael Rainey Jr., LaJessie Smith, Mariah Carey, Alex PettyferProducer: Horatio Bacon, Julia BarryWriter: Danny Strong, Wil HaygoodAs Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect ... 0
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Titanic
1996 Canadian film
Overview: Titanic is a 1996 American two-part television miniseries which premiered on CBS on November 17 and 19, 1996. It focuses on several characters aboard the RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912. The ...
Release date: 17 November 1996Genre: Drama, Romance, History, ActionDirector: Robert LiebermanCast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger ReesProducer: Fred Fuchs, Scot J. KellyWriter: Joyce Eliason, Ross LaMannaThe tale of the famous Titanic passenger liner that claimed to be unsinkable. This claim was proved... 0
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The Last Mistress
2007 French film
Overview: The Last Mistress (French: Une vieille maîtresse, literally "An old mistress") is a 2007 French-Italian film based on the novel Une vieille maîtresse by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It stars ...
Release date: 25 May 2007Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Catherine BreillatCast: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael LonsdaleProducer: Jean-François LepetitSecrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy. 0
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962 film directed by David Lean
Overview: Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel, through his British company Horizon Pictures ...
Release date: 10 December 1962Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War, HistoryDirector: David LeanProducer: David Lean, Sam SpiegelWriter: Robert Bolt, Michael WilsonThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to ... 0
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Saving Mr. Banks
film
Overview: Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars ...
Release date: 13 December 2013Genre: Drama, Biography, Family, Comedy, History, MusicDirector: John Lee HancockProducer: Ian Collie, Mark CooperWriter: Kelly Marcel, Sue SmithAuthor P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen ... 0
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A Royal Affair
2012 film
Overview: A Royal Affair (Danish: En kongelig affære) is a 2012 Danish historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander and Mikkel Følsgaard. The story is set in the 18th ...
Release date: 1 March 2012Genre: History, Drama, Romance, BiographyDirector: Nikolaj ArcelCast: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Thomas W. GabrielssonProducer: Jessica Ask, Karen BentzonWriter: Bodil Steensen-Leth, Rasmus HeisterbergA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation ... 0
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2011 film
Overview: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a 2011 historical drama film based on the novel of the same name written by Lisa See. Directed by Wayne Wang, the film stars Gianna Jun, Li Bingbing, Archie Kao, Vivian ...Release date: 15 July 2011Genre: Drama, HistoryDirector: Wayne WangProducer: Jessinta Liu, Andrew LooWriter: Angela Workman, Ron BassA story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with ... 0
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The Trojan Horse
1961 film directedby Giorgio Ferroni
Overview: The Trojan Horse (Italian: La guerra di troia) is a 1961 film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time ...Release date: 26 October 1961Genre: Drama, Adventure, ActionDirector: Giorgio FerroniCast: Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel, Lidia Alfonsi, Warner BentivegnaProducer: Giorgio Ferroni, Ugo Liberatore 0
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Klimt
2006 Austrian film
Overview: Klimt is a 2006 Austrian art-house biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). It was written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, with an English ...Release date: 28 January 2006Genre: Biography, DramaDirector: Raoul RuizCast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows, Sandra Ceccarelli, Nikolai KinskiProducer: Paulo Branco, Matthew JusticeWriter: Raoul Ruiz, Gilbert AdairA portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (Malkovich) whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early ... 0
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A Royal Scandal
1945 film by Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
Overview: A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 film about the love life of Russian Empress (Czarina) Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, and William Eythe ...Release date: 26 March 1945Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Ernst Lubitsch, Otto PremingerProducer: Lajos Biró, Bruno Frank 0
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Downton Abbey
Historical drama film directed by Michael Engler
Overview: Downton Abbey is a 2019 historical drama film written by Julian Fellowes, creator and writer of the television series of the same name, produced by Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge and Fellowes, and directed ...
Release date: 13 September 2019Director: Michael EnglerCast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Michael Fox, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Robert James-Collier, Hugh BonnevilleProducer: Kim Durham, Julian FellowesWriter: Julian FellowesThe continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century. 0
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Kochadaiiyaan
2014 Indian Tamil-language film by Soundarya Rajinikanth
Overview: Kochadaiiyaan (transl.) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language computer animated action film written by K. S. Ravikumar and directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin. It is India's first photorealistic motion capture film ...
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, AnimationDirector: Soundarya RajinikanthProducer: Prashita Chaudhary, Alex Anthony FernandesWriter: Kamlesh Pandey, K.S. RavikumarA noble warrior seeks revenge against the ruler of his kingdom, who killed his father. At the same time, he also ends up upsetting the neighboring enemy ... 0
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1911
2011 Chinese film by Jackie Chan
Overview: 1911, also known as Xinhai Revolution and The 1911 Revolution, is a 2011 Chinese historical drama film. The film is a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. It is also Jackie Chan's ...
Release date: 12 October 2011Genre: Drama, History, Action, Adventure, WarProducer: Guoqing Gu, Bin GuoWriter: Xingdong Wang, Baoguang ChenA historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty. 0
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Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad
2010 Russian film
Overview: Iron Lord (Russian: Ярослав. Тысячу лет назад; Yaroslav, Tysyachu let Nazad (Yaroslav, A Thousand Years Ago)) is a 2010 Russian historical film by director Dmitry Korobkin. It is a full-length feature ...Release date: 14 October 2010Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, HistoryDirector: Dmitri KorobkinCast: Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Svetlana Chuykina, Aleksey Kravchenko, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Vladimir AntonikProducer: Koshkina Marina, Vadim ByrkinYoung Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state ... 0
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Jeanne captive
2011 French film
Overview: The Silence of Joan (French: Jeanne captive) is a 2011 French historical film directed by Philippe Ramos and starring Clémence Poésy, Thierry Frémont and Liam Cunningham. The film was screened in the ...Release date: 1 May 2011Genre: BiographyDirector: Philippe RamosCast: Clémence Poésy, Thierry Frémont, Liam Cunningham, Mathieu Amalric, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Jean-François StéveninProducer: Philippe Ramos, Sophie Dulac 0
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