Best Period Films by Title
676
89
1985
Sydney Pollack
Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
Drama / Romance / Epic / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2093
277
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2807
434
1988
Allan A. Goldstein
Jan Rubes, Aaron Schwartz, Sharon Corder, Susan Douglas Rubes, Ken Zelig
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Period Film
Canada
English
2551
366
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2237
300
1959
Aleksei Batalov
Rolan Bykov, Yuri Tolubeyev, A. Yozhkina, Yelena Ponsova
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Fantasy
Soviet Union
Russian
2709
409
1991
Sven Nykvist
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Period Film
Sweden / Norway / Denmark
Swedish
2287
314
2019
Václav Marhoul
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands, Udo Kier
Drama / War / Period Film
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Ukraine
Czech
2130
282
2006
John Curran
Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Hélène Cardona
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2788
425
2000
Manoel de Oliveira
Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trepa
Biography / Drama / History / Religion / Period Film
Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
175
22
2006
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
NR
-
2012
Susanna White
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
2688
401
1989
Bob Balaban
Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, Juno Mills Cockell
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Period Film / Cult
Canada / USA
English
696
92
1984
David Lean
Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2507
360
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
700
94
1987
Bille August
Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume
Drama / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
2268
308
1981
Herbert Ross
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2789
426
1978
Eric Rohmer
Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2783
423
2006
Tom Tykwer
Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, John Hurt
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany / France / Spain
English
2029
266
1995
Roger Michell
Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood, Corin Redgrave
Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / USA
English
2671
396
2004
Joel Schumacher
Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
USA / UK
English
2689
402
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
1539
197
2017
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Sue Clark, Joan Brown
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
253
35
2002
Roman Polanski
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Katarzyna Figura
Drama / War / Period Film
Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
113
16
1993
Jane Campion
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia / New Zealand / France
English
580
73
1975
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
2227
298
1961
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone
Horror / Period Film
USA
English
2570
371
1996
Jane Campion
Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2801
433
2002
Neil LaBute
Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey
Romance / Drama / Mystery / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1514
191
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2816
437
2006
Christopher Nolan
Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall
Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1936
248
1978
Louis Malle
Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
863
116
1940
Robert Z. Leonard
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2154
285
2005
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
France / UK
English
2847
440
1995
Simon Langton
Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor
Romance / Drama / Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
2676
397
2010
Bertrand Tavernier
Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Action / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
France / Germany
French
2605
380
1947
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2801
433
1996
Liv Ullmann
Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Samuel Fröler, Anita Björk
Drama / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2605
380
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2676
397
2005
Jane Anderson
Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Trevor Morgan, Ellary Porterfield
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2789
426
2005
Kaige Chen
Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Ye Liu, Hong Chen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea
Mandarin
2709
409
1975
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama / Period Film
Poland
Polish
2255
305
2009
Michael Mann
Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
581
74
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2093
277
1949
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold
Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
UK
English
1433
180
2002
Phillip Noyce
Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Drama / Thriller / Romance / War / Period Film
USA / Germany / Australia
English
2266
307
2000
Philip Kaufman
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
USA / Germany / UK
English
1111
139
2002
Phillip Noyce
Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Australia
English
2801
433
1984
Richard Benjamin
Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2279
313
1981
Milos Forman
James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
43
6
1991
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Caifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma, Qi Zhao, Lin Kong, Jin Shuyuan
Drama / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / Taiwan
Mandarin
50
8
1985
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
11
3
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1273
160
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2060
271
1965
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2744
414
2009
James Marsh
Warren Clarke, Paddy Considine, James Fox, David Calder, Nicholas Woodeson
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period Film / Detective
UK
English
757
100
1987
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Liu Jia, Cunhua Ji
Drama / War / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2653
391
1998
François Girard
Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Irene Grazioli, Anita Laurenzi
Drama / Romance / Mystery / Music / Period Film
Canada / Italy / UK
French
824
109
1993
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1349
173
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2801
433
1995
Michael Hoffman
Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan, Ian McKellen
Drama / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1211
154
1982
Daniel Vigne
Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1746
222
1963
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2199
293
2008
Sam Mendes
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1855
238
1995
Richard Loncraine
Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne
Drama / War / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2553
367
1999
Ang Lee
Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel Kilcher, Jeremy W. Auman, Scott C. Sener
Drama / Romance / Western / War / Period Film
USA
English
1539
197
1996
Patrice Leconte
Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2605
380
2005
Yimou Zhang
Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Kiichi Nakai, Jiamin Li, Lin Qiu, Jiang Wen
Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / China / Japan
Mandarin
1475
187
2002
Sam Mendes
Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Crime / Drama / Period Film / Gangster
USA
English
689
90
1968
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
1057
134
1936
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2160
287
1954
Renato Castellani
Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Norman Wooland
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
337
40
1985
James Ivory
Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2788
425
2003
Margarethe von Trotta
Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel, Jürgen Vogel
Drama / War / Period Film
Germany / Netherlands
German
2740
412
1954
Claude Autant-Lara
Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France
French
2368
333
1965
Miklós Jancsó
János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits
Drama / War / Period Film
Hungary
Hungarian
2807
434
2016
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1927
247
1970
David Lean
Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2801
433
2010
Kaige Chen
You Ge, Xueqi Wang, Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Qing Hai, Fengyi Zhang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2801
433
2003
Guy Maddin
Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Fantasy / Comedy / Experimental / Period Film
Canada
English
2605
380
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
103
15
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2807
434
2012
Wayne Blair
Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Australia
English
2788
425
2019
Ye Lou
Li Gong, Tom Wlaschiha, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, Xiangli Huang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2783
423
1989
Michael Caton-Jones
John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2807
434
1946
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
813
108
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1377
174
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1345
172
2003
Gary Ross
Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens
Drama / Period Film / Sports
USA
English
2740
412
2007
Claude Miller
Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Drama / War / Period Film
France
French
2612
382
2008
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
488
59
1995
Ang Lee
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
500
60
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
NR
-
2006
David Von Ancken
Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Angelica Houston, Michael Wincott, Jimmi Simpson
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Western / Period Film
USA
English
1114
140
2009
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
USA / UK / France
English
2393
336
1976
Herbert Ross
Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Period Film
UK / USA
English
8
2
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2842
439
1965
John Ford
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2007
263
1972
Peter H. Hunt
William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Drama / Musical / Family / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
64
10
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2695
405
2014
Yann Demange
Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Period Film / History
UK
English
1245
157
1993
Richard Attenborough
Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
593
77
1965
Sergei Parajanov
Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Ukrainian
372
46
1998
John Madden
Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1864
239
1985
Alan Bridges
James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
884
118
1936
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2496
356
1951
George Sidney
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2480
348
2008
Anthony Fabian
Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge, Hannes Brummer
Biography / Drama / Mystery / Period Film
UK / South Africa
English
2055
270
2004
Kerry Conran
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Period Film / Tech-Noir
USA / UK / Italy
English
2740
412
1976
Nikita Mikhalkov
Yelena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2852
441
1993
Åke Sandgren
Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård, Basia Frydman, Niklas Olund
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Swedish
2789
426
1976
Bryan Forbes
Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie, Edith Evans
Adventure / Romance / Family / Musical / Fantasy / Period Film
UK
English
2763
418
1999
Scott Hicks
Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Reeve Carney, Anne Suzuki, Rick Yune, Max von Sydow
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2709
409
1999
Paul Morrison
Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, William Thomas
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2807
434
1984
Gordon Parks
Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Mason Adams, Lee Bryant, Art Evans
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2807
434
2007
Garth Jennings
Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Anna Wing
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France / UK
English
1130
144
1943
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2773
419
1960
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2546
365
2000
Maggie Greenwald
Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Greg Russell Cook
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
1432
179
1982
Alan J. Pakula
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2807
434
2012
Salim Akil
Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
2792
427
2002
Zhuangzhuang Tian
Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin, Xiao Keng Ye, Si Si Lu
Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / France / Netherlands
Mandarin
1511
190
1974
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
386
49
1973
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
1451
182
1975
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
2689
402
1939
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1190
151
1936
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1161
147
1939
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2801
433
1998
Sturla Gunnarsson
Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Ranjit Chowdhry
Drama / Period Film
UK / Canada
English
2274
310
1971
Robert Mulligan
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2801
433
1999
Spike Lee
John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Adrien Brody, Michael Rispoli
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2689
402
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
630
81
1984
Bertrand Tavernier
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2816
437
2015
Terence Davies
Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn, Mark Bonnar, Ron Donachie, Jack Greenlees
Drama / Period Film
UK / Luxembourg
English
2741
413
1984
Volker Schlöndorff
Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France / West Germany
French
2605
380
2005
Ali Selim
Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2489
352
1984
Jonathan Demme
Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film / War
USA
English
2359
331
1999
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2652
390
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1534
194
1999
Anthony Minghella
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
2792
427
1951
Anthony Mann
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
2792
427
1926
F.W. Murnau
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2511
362
1969
Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2691
404
1996
Kaige Chen
Leslie Cheung, Li Gong, Kevin Lin, Caifei He, Shih Chang, Liankun Lin
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2816
437
2020
Michael Almereyda
Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jim Gaffigan, Kyle MacLachlan
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1024
131
1979
Roman Polanski
Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / UK
English
2807
434
2014
James Kent
Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson
Biography / Drama / History / War / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
311
38
2007
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
637
82
1969
Sydney Pollack
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2709
409
1986
Wolfgang Glück
Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles, Heinz Trixner, Romuald Pekny
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Austria / West Germany
German
2227
298
2006
Shane Meadows
Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2546
365
1970
Laurence Olivier, John Sichel
Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Sheila Reid
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2783
423
2005
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Chen Chang, Mei Di, Su-jen Liao, Fang Mei, Qi Shu
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Taiwan
Mandarin
191
25
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2740
412
1934
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
1011
129
1999
Raoul Ruiz
Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France / Italy / Portugal
French
456
54
1979
Volker Schlöndorff
Mario Adorf, David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
Drama / Period Film / War
West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia
German
178
24
1997
James Cameron
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2659
393
1997
James Cameron
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2763
418
1999
Julie Taymor
Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Raz Degan
Drama / Horror / War / Period Film
Italy / USA
English
1641
208
2000
Lukas Moodysson
Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson, Sam Kessel, Gustav Hammarsten
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Sweden / Denmark / Italy
Swedish
2605
380
1951
Gordon Parry
John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
242
34
1963
Tony Richardson
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
772
104
1999
Mike Leigh
Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Comedy / Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2100
279
1991
Alain Corneau
Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2451
343
2002
Rolf de Heer
David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Australia
English
764
101
1945
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
675
88
2011
Terrence Malick
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler
Drama / Sci-Fi / Period Film
USA
English
2800
432
1962
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2650
389
2005
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
1958
253
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / France / Netherlands
English
508
63
1971
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Romance / Drama / Period Film
France
French
1317
167
1967
Claude Berri
Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France
French
80
14
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2689
402
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
895
120
1987
Brian De Palma
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster / Period Film
USA
English
2335
328
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2801
433
1989
Milos Forman
Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / USA
English
2860
444
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2788
425
1961
Roberto Rossellini
Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2626
384
2004
Mira Nair
Gabriel Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2781
422
2019
Andrew Patterson
Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Gail Cronauer, Bruce Davis, Cheyenne Barton
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2691
404
1998
Todd Haynes
Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard
Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2788
425
1999
Robert Dornhelm
Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Linus Roache, Ben Cross
Drama / Period Film
Austria / USA
English
946
124
2004
Mike Leigh
Imelda Staunton, Heather Craney, Philip Davis, Peter Wight
Drama / Period Film
UK / France / New Zealand
English
1722
218
2004
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth
Drama / Mystery / Romance / War / Period Film
France / USA
French
2070
272
1978
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
France / Canada
French
1971
255
1960
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Drama / Period Film / Crime
Sweden
Swedish
2723
410
1999
Sofia Coppola
James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
2788
425
2019
Ciro Guerra
Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi
Drama / Period Film
Italy / USA
English
2681
398
1995
Alfonso Arau
Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
USA / Mexico
English
2814
436
1999
Tony Goldwyn
Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh
Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2236
299
2005
Deepa Mehta
Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Canada / India
Hindi
1584
201
1973
Sydney Pollack
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2807
434
2007
James Gray
Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Danny Hoch, Alex Veadov, Oleg Taktarov
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster
USA
English
514
65
2009
Michael Haneke
Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaußner, Josef Bierbichler
Drama / Period Film
Austria / France / Germany
German
2852
441
1996
Dan Ireland
Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell
Biography / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2454
344
2000
Patrice Leconte
Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France / Canada
French
1115
141
1970
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2801
433
1997
Brian Gilbert
Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK / Germany / Japan
English
2414
339
2006
Ken Loach
Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Ireland / UK
English
1854
237
1997
Iain Softley
Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Charlotte Rampling
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
2689
402
1937
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2801
433
1999
David Mamet
Matthew Pidgeon, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Lana Bilzerian
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2816
437
2015
Robert Eggers
Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
Horror / Mystery / Period Film / Thriller
USA / UK / Canada / Brazil
English
1650
209
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
2788
425
2016
Stéphane Brizé
Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Swann Arlaud, Yolande Moreau
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Belgium
French
766
102
1969
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2634
386
2017
Patty Jenkins
Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / War / Comic / Period Film
USA / China / Hong Kong
English
355
44
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2501
358
2003
David Mackenzie
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Period Film
UK / France
English
2709
409
1979
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Poland / France
Polish
2773
419
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2740
412
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2299
319
1995
Hans Petter Moland
Stellan Skarsgård, Gard B. Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
1505
189
2007
David Fincher
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
702
95
2023
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
2575
373
1981
Luis Valdez
Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
