History Movies

Linnaisten vihreä kamari

62/100

A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities and a haunted wing of his mansion.

Die Waage des Kaisers

71/100

Return to Babylon

62/100

The scandals and decadent lives of the 1920's greatest movie stars.

Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari

64/100

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ... See full summary »

Man of Conquest

64/100

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

Gesprengte Fesseln

66/100

That Lady

55/100

Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her King, the despotic Philip. Thereafter, she and ... See full summary »

Sharaku

71/100

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal... See full summary »

Among Grey Stones

68/100

Krasnaya strela

66/100

Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ... See full summary »

Souliotes

62/100

The Souliotes are informed that Ali Pasha is preparing to attack and push Souli. But Fotos Tzavellas and his lads are ready to defend their freedom. Ali Pasha decides to besiege Souli, but ... See full summary »

One Dead Indian

71/100

Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.

In the Sands of Babylon

71/100

An unforgettable story, forgotten... 1991 Gulf War: Ibrahim, an Iraqi soldier, has escaped from Kuwait as the Iraqi Army retreats. Facing the perilous journey home, he must cross the ... See full summary »

Guilty of Treason

59/100

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime ... See full summary »

Cordoba

60/100

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

Yngsjömordet

68/100

Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago. Per and his mother have for a long time had an incestuous relationship. But ... See full summary »

Farewell to Manzanar

80/100

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.

Lena: My 100 Children

67/100

At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.

Mother

71/100

Based on Maxim Gorky's novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution.

Der Fuchs - Der Jäger

72/100

Inspired by the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, this novelistic feature examines the questions of a society after a revolution has happened, such as guilt and atonement and ... See full summary »

Blood of the Losers

60/100

An Italian family is fractured after World War II ends.

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela

67/100

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden... See full summary »

Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home

80/100

The introduction of world trade in Tudor England inadvertently introduces foreign poisonous substances. One such case is sugar and the subsequent rotting of teeth.

Die Glasbläserin

66/100

The young Marie, daughter of a Thuringian glassblower, violates all traditions after the death of mother and father. To feed herself and her sisters, she became the first female glassblower... See full summary »

My Daughter Hildegart

66/100

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter ... See full summary »