Best Period Films by Year
2860
444
1976
Federico Fellini
Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta
Drama / Comedy / Biography / Period Film
Italy / USA
Italian
121
18
1975
Stanley Kubrick
Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
580
73
1975
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
1248
158
1975
Akira Kurosawa
Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union / Japan
Russian
1451
182
1975
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
1665
212
1975
John Schlesinger
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Drama / Horror / Period Film
USA
English
2688
401
1975
Walerian Borowczyk
Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti, Guy Tréjan
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Period Film / Cult / Adult
France
French
2689
402
1975
George Roy Hill
Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
2709
409
1975
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama / Period Film
Poland
Polish
22
4
1974
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
513
64
1974
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
1511
190
1974
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1734
220
1974
Robert Bresson
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1772
228
1974
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit
Drama / Period Film
West Germany
German
2012
264
1974
Claude Lelouch
Marthe Keller, André Dussollier
Drama / Period Film / Romance / War
France / Italy
French
2689
402
1974
Jack Clayton
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2740
412
1974
Peter Bogdanovich
Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
177
23
1973
George Lucas
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
386
49
1973
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
1584
201
1973
Sydney Pollack
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1638
207
1972
Robert Benton
Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser
Western / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
USA
English
2007
263
1972
Peter H. Hunt
William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Drama / Musical / Family / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2689
402
1972
Franco Zeffirelli
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2773
419
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2859
443
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
508
63
1971
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Romance / Drama / Period Film
France
French
516
66
1971
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Drama / Period Film
Italy / France
English
559
71
1971
Joseph Losey
Julie Christie, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1467
186
1971
Roman Polanski
Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1528
193
1971
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
Drama / Epic / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
1575
200
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
2080
274
1971
Norman Jewison
Topol, Norma Crane
Musical / Drama / Family / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2274
310
1971
Robert Mulligan
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2553
367
1971
Walerian Borowczyk
Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Jacques Perrin, Ligia Branice, Denise Péronne
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France
French
2688
401
1971
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Yuri Yarvet, Elsa Radzin, Galina Volchek, Oleg Dal, Valentin Shendrikova, Oleg Dal
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2789
426
1971
Charles Jarrott
Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Drama / History / Epic / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1115
141
1970
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1927
247
1970
David Lean
Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills
Drama / Romance / 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
2689
402
1970
Martin Ritt
James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Chester Morris
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
USA
English
615
78
1969
Sergei Parajanov
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
637
82
1969
Sydney Pollack
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
730
98
1969
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
766
102
1969
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1787
231
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2335
328
1969
Masahiro Shinoda
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2511
362
1969
Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2709
409
1969
Ivan Pyryev, Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrei Myagkov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
689
90
1968
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
768
103
1968
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
1650
209
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
2789
426
1968
Michel Deville
Michèle Morgan, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Comedy
France
French
2789
426
1968
John Frankenheimer
Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2789
426
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
29
5
1967
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
1317
167
1967
Claude Berri
Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France
French
1668
213
1967
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1745
221
1967
John Schlesinger
Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1807
234
1967
Bo Widerberg
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
1874
240
1967
Richard Fleischer
Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Period Film / Comedy
USA
English
2605
380
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2689
402
1967
Louis Malle
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper / Period Film
France / Italy
French
118
17
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
374
47
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2652
390
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
235
32
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
593
77
1965
Sergei Parajanov
Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Ukrainian
1563
199
1965
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
2060
271
1965
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2328
325
1965
Stuart Burge, John Dexter
Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2368
333
1965
Miklós Jancsó
János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits
Drama / War / Period Film
Hungary
Hungarian
2842
439
1965
John Ford
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
871
117
1964
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1636
206
1964
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1756
225
1964
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
226
30
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
242
34
1963
Tony Richardson
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1746
222
1963
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
45
7
1962
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2246
301
1962
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2800
432
1962
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2227
298
1961
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone
Horror / Period Film
USA
English
2788
425
1961
Roberto Rossellini
Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2795
429
1961
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Drama / Religion / Period Film
Poland
Polish
1971
255
1960
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Drama / Period Film / Crime
Sweden
Swedish
2600
379
1960
Iosif Khejfits
Iya Savvina, Aleksei Batalov, Nina Alisova
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2773
419
1960
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2237
300
1959
Aleksei Batalov
Rolan Bykov, Yuri Tolubeyev, A. Yozhkina, Yelena Ponsova
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Fantasy
Soviet Union
Russian
2605
380
1958
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2797
430
1958
Mark Robson
Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
64
10
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
191
25
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2268
308
1957
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Elsa Daniel, Lautaro Murúa, Guillermo Battaglia, Berta Ortegosa
Drama / Period Film
Argentina
Spanish
2682
399
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
782
106
1956
Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Drama / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1194
153
1956
Anatole Litvak
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2792
427
1956
Jean Renoir
Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France
French
341
42
1955
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
2605
380
1955
Henry Cornelius
Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2689
402
1955
Mark Donskoy
Vera Maretskaya, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Andrei Petrov, Sergei Kurilov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
402
1955
Christian-Jaque
Charles Boyer, Martine Carol, Walter Chiari, Paul Frankeur, Elisa Cegani
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2689
402
1955
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
8
2
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
103
15
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
500
60
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
2160
287
1954
Renato Castellani
Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Norman Wooland
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2328
325
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2689
402
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2740
412
1954
Claude Autant-Lara
Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / 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
223
28
1953
Max Ophüls
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
938
123
1953
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1439
181
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
842
112
1952
John Huston
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Drama / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
849
113
1952
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1052
133
1952
Jacques Becker
Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
Crime / Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1171
149
1952
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir
Drama / Period Film
USA / Italy / France / Morocco
English
2689
402
1952
Henry Koster
Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz
Mystery / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1787
231
1951
Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2156
286
1951
Alf Sjöberg
Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Drama / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2496
356
1951
George Sidney
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2605
380
1951
Gordon Parry
John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2792
427
1951
Anthony Mann
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
11
3
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1322
168
1950
Michael Gordon
José Ferrer, Mala Powers
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2807
434
1950
Fritz Lang
Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
2093
277
1949
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold
Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
UK
English
2605
380
1949
Vincente Minnelli
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2860
444
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
383
48
1948
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
623
79
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
639
83
1948
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2480
348
1948
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog
Drama / Period Film
Austria
German
2689
402
1948
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2807
434
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
473
57
1947
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
2141
283
1947
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2605
380
1947
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2682
399
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
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
2807
434
1947
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
224
29
1946
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
1398
177
1946
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2335
328
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2788
425
1946
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
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
70
13
1945
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
764
101
1945
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2333
327
1945
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
698
93
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
1949
250
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
328
39
1943
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
629
80
1943
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
1130
144
1943
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
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
239
33
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
1403
178
1941
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2398
337
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2807
434
1941
René Clair
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / 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
2689
402
1940
Veit Harlan
Ferdinand Marian, Werner Krauss, Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / Period Film
Germany
German
2807
434
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
355
44
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1161
147
1939
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1165
148
1939
William Dieterle
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Drama / Horror / Romance / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2293
316
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2605
380
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2689
402
1939
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1763
226
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
Drama / Action / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
1783
230
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
2689
402
1937
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2691
404
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
458
55
1936
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
884
118
1936
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1057
134
1936
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1190
151
1936
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1349
173
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1516
192
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1770
227
1936
Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2605
380
1936
Abel Gance
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Andre Nox, Jane Marken, Lucas Gridoux
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film / Romance
France
French
483
58
1935
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
738
99
1935
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1875
241
1935
Jacques Feyder
Françoise Rosay, Micheline Cheirel, Lyne Clevers
Romance / War / Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France / Germany
French
2189
292
1935
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2740
412
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
813
108
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1060
135
1934
Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / 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
2393
336
1934
Jean Renoir
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2507
360
1934
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2578
374
1934
Raymond Bernard
Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2740
412
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2740
412
1934
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
2788
425
1934
Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Jane Marken, Lugné-Poe
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
581
74
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1100
138
1933
Frank Lloyd
Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2087
275
1933
Max Ophüls
Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Germany
German
2551
366
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2691
404
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2779
421
1929
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofya Magarill
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1299
166
1928
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2507
360
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1973
256
1927
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
402
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2689
402
1926
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Jean Angelo, Werner Krauss, Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2792
427
1926
F.W. Murnau
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2490
353
1924
Sidney Olcott
Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
1989
259
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1287
163
1921
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2689
402
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
402
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
402
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2093
277
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
402
1912
Albert Capellani
Henry Krauss, Henri Étiévant, Maria Ventura, Mistinguett
Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
