Period Drama Movies

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

The incredible true story of how a bunch of writers, artists, set designers, and back room technicians pooled their talents in order to outwit the...

Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after...

The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him...

Jealousy, envy, gossip, and greed are testing Zona's and Mane's perfect marriage.

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves....

Emma Darwin, widow of scientist Charles Darwin, finds herself on a late life journey of self-discovery as she faces a challenge to her faith in the...

As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress where his youngest son is preparing to storm Edo...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he...

After Gandugali, a mercenary, rescues a band of soldiers, their chieftain asks him to train them in order to fight the chieftain's rival brother.

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose...

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...

Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule...

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...

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

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...

An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the...

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

Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...