History Movies

Kutsukake Tokijiro - yukyo ippiki

72/100

Denovi na iskusenie

84/100

In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the ... See full summary »

Land of Peace

62/100

Ahmed Egyptian commando disappears inside a Palestinian village, cooperate with Salma, one of the village girls. The film depicts the guerrillas fighting for the liberation of Palestine and... See full summary »

The Last Soviet Movie

72/100

"My dear Aleksandrs, we filmmakers are all sitting in the same train. Unfortunately there are very few seats. I will leave the train, so that you can take my place." These words by the late... See full summary »

Penelope

80/100

This Australian-Croatian co-production appropriates Homer's tale of Penelope, which follows a woman's psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War.

Steht auf, Genossinnen!

60/100

Lucie Baud was a feminist who participated in and led strikes at the turn of the 20th century.

The Woman God Forgot

65/100

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover Guatemoco finds Alvarado hiding in her ... See full summary »

Bismarck's Dismissal

73/100

A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.

The Royalists

63/100

Die Jagd nach der Handschrift

73/100

During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.

The Day the Bubble Burst

76/100

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

La conquista de Albania

57/100

King Carlos II of Navarre once (XIV century) sent his brother Don Luis de Beaumont to lead a military expedition into Albania and reclaim the Albanian throne he inherited from his wife. But... See full summary »

Pervaya vstrecha - poslednyaya vstrecha

74/100

Pukovnikovica

71/100

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience ... See full summary »

Tierra de cañones

80/100

Divine Émilie

68/100

The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary

64/100

She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and... See full summary »

20-N: Los últimos días de Franco

59/100

El baile de San Juan

59/100

During the final decade of 18th century in Mexico City, capital of the vice-royalty of New Spain, the official choreographer publicly complains of the abusive and unjust methods of the ... See full summary »

Little Knights Tale

59/100

Dneprovskiy rubezh

67/100

Vermijo

60/100

A storm is brewing in the town of Vermijo. Frank Tyler's plan was simple. He was going to dispense good, old-fashioned justice - one bullet at a time.

The Impossible Picture

76/100

"Our memory is so unreliable - sometimes what we see might as well be the future." -Johanna F.   What we see is the everyday life of a Viennese family in the 1950's, documented by 13-... See full summary »

Francis of Assisi

76/100

The life of Saint Francis of Assisi retold from the sixties political radical point of view.

Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand

52/100

Sir Gotz von Berlichingen, a knight who fights for God and his Emperor, is the bitter enemy of the Bishop of Bamberg, who has managed to persuade Gotz's old friend Adalbert of Weislingen to... See full summary »