Period Drama Movies

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

In the midst of a plague, a lonely priest must confront his fears when faced with an ominous knock at the door of his abandoned church.

Hester, a humble woman governed by the effects of a distant war, and her spirited young daughter, Asmi, await the return of her son from battle. When...

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic surrounded...

Autumn 1998: An act of eco-extremism results in tragedy and a once headstrong activist is pitted against a future for her son or a life with him.

A housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arms of another woman.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Japanese film.

In 19th century England, sisters Cara and Caitlin run their late mother's isolated farm alone. But when their father unexpectedly returns from sea dur...

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

During the student crisis of 1968, Ines, an 18-year-old homosexual, is prevented from attending law school by her family, who believe that this is not...

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant),that her father is pre...

The Bang Bang Club were four fearless young photographers who set out to expose the reality of Apartheid in South Africa - a battle that changed a nat...

A hopelessly romantic teen finds herself inside her favourite romance film. But can love like that still exist in this generation?

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows o...

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

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...

A music video for Andrew Combs' "Anna Please." From the confines of a small cottage, Anna cares for a woman dying of cancer. Inspired by Bergman’s Cr...