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1. Sweet Country (2017)
R | 113 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill
Votes: 9,259 | Gross: $0.10M
2. The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
R | 120 min | Action, Biography, Thriller
As Germany expands its borders, scorching Europe from end to end, two brave Czechs of the Resistance prepare to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind behind the hideous "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question".
Director: Cédric Jimenez | Stars: Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor
Votes: 18,394
3. The Delivered (2019)
112 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
Director: Thomas Clay | Stars: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds
Votes: 1,808
4. The Road Dance (2021)
116 min | Drama
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Director: Richie Adams | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss, David Brooks
Votes: 1,223
5. The Miracle Club (2023)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Agnes O'Casey
Votes: 4,406
6. Living (2022)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins
Votes: 32,647
7. Leonardo (2011–2012)
25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A fictitious version of the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo is an apprentice painter where he meets Lisa Gherardini as she disguises herself as boy (Tom) so she also become a painting ... See full summary »
Stars: Jonathan Bailey, Colin Ryan, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Akemnji Ndifornyen
Votes: 334
8. Boundless (2022)
TV-MA | 40 min | Adventure, Drama
Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago.
Stars: Álvaro Morte, Rodrigo Santoro, Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto
Votes: 2,211
9. War Blade (2024)
94 min | War
It follows agent Banks as he is tasked with rescuing a French resistance fighter from a hidden Nazi bunker.
Director: Nicholas Winter | Stars: Joseph Millson, Ronan Summers, Michael McKell, Aoife Boyle
Votes: 68
10. Colosseum (2022– )
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Drama, History
It showcases the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Colosseum, one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity.
Stars: Campbell Scott, Robert R. Cargill, Alexander Mariotti, Josh Taylor
Votes: 497
11. Domina (2021–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History
The life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.
Stars: Alex Lanipekun, Ewan Horrocks, Matthew McNulty, Kasia Smutniak
Votes: 6,391
12. Strike Back (2010–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Daniel MacPherson
Votes: 33,485
13. Closer to the Moon (2014)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser
Votes: 4,338
14. Cambridge Spies (2003)
59 min | Drama, History
The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West
Votes: 2,205
15. The Buccaneers (2023– )
TV-14 | Drama
Sent to secure husbands and titles, young American women explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash.
Stars: Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe, Matthew Broome, Josh Dylan
Votes: 4,923
16. Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Jeremy Irons, Liv Lisa Fries
Votes: 35,879
17. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,288
18. A Small Light (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
Stars: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet
Votes: 12,129
19. Lezione 21 (2008)
92 min | Drama
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Director: Alessandro Baricco | Stars: John Hurt, Noah Taylor, Leonor Watling, Clive Russell
Votes: 387
20. Benediction (2021)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Jack Lowden, Thom Ashley, Orlando Jopling, Christopher Naylor
Votes: 3,726
21. Sympathy for the Devil (2019)
100 min | War
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
Director: Guillaume de Fontenay | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vincent Rottiers, Ella Rumpf, Arieh Worthalter
Votes: 691
22. The Wall (II) (2017)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli
Votes: 30,909 | Gross: $1.80M
23. A Hazard of Hearts (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley (Christopher Plummer) has lost his estate and all of his money playing dice, he realizes that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter ... See full summary »
Director: John Hough | Stars: Diana Rigg, Edward Fox, Helena Bonham Carter, Fiona Fullerton
Votes: 1,350
24. Lili Marleen (1981)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Votes: 4,293
25. Stop Train 349 (1963)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
Director: Rolf Hädrich | Stars: José Ferrer, Sean Flynn, Nicole Courcel, Jess Hahn
Votes: 117
26. The Skin (1981)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, War
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
Votes: 1,292
27. Amsterdam (2022)
R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 93,180
28. Daens (1992)
138 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ... See full summary »
Director: Stijn Coninx | Stars: Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck, Michael Pas
Votes: 4,396
29. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 81,344
30. Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Geraldine James, Michael Judd, Julia Dearden, Gerry O'Brien
Votes: 16,193
31. The Shoes of the Fisherman (I) (1968)
G | 162 min | Drama
After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen
Votes: 4,155
32. Above and Beyond (1952)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Votes: 1,342
33. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Votes: 50,801 | Gross: $30.50M
34. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, War
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
Votes: 29,885 | Gross: $21.75M
35. Bitter Creek (1954)
Passed | 74 min | Western
In a film incorrectly reported as Bill Elliott's last starring western, "Bitter Creek" (released in March of 1954 carrying 16843 as the PCA number) falls a tab bit short of that as it was ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Bill Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland, Claude Akins
Votes: 95
36. Dangerous Beauty (1998)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
Director: Marshall Herskovitz | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward
Votes: 19,632 | Gross: $4.53M
37. The Browning Version (1985 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Forced to retire from an English public school, a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine
Votes: 122
38. Milada (2017)
124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post-war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country.
Director: David Mrnka | Stars: Ayelet Zurer, Robert Gant, Daniel Rchichev, Karina Rchichev
Votes: 1,458
39. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 5,120
40. Whispering Pages (1994)
77 min | Drama
A hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksandr Cherednik, Elizaveta Koroleva, Sergey Barkovskiy, Galina Nikulina
Votes: 647
41. The Whole Wide World (1996)
PG | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell
Votes: 4,027 | Gross: $0.14M
42. Habermann (2010)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Hannah Herzsprung
Votes: 1,305
43. The Witch's Daughter (2023)
Short, Drama
In 1612 Lancashire, Nursemaid Sarra is used to entrap Jennet, a child from a family of accused 'witches'. But when Sarra's fear of the girl turns to love, she's compelled to betray her Master in England's most infamous witch trial.
Director: Emma Swinton | Stars: Jo Hartley, Burn Gorman, Esme Violet Whalley, Chelsea Edge
44. Free State of Jones (2016)
R | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell
Votes: 62,428 | Gross: $20.76M
45. Lee (2023)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Director: Ellen Kuras | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Josh O'Connor
Votes: 298
46. Frontier (2016–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.
Stars: Jason Momoa, Landon Liboiron, Zoe Boyle, Greg Bryk
Votes: 24,167
47. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn
Votes: 25,556 | Gross: $0.35M
48. Barbarians Rising (2016)
TV-14 | 120 min | Documentary, Action, Drama
Rome. The greatest empire the world has ever known. This docudrama tells the story of Rome through the eyes of the empire's many adversaries who battled to see its destruction.
Stars: Michael Ealy, Barry Strauss, Richard Riddell, Julian Kostov
Votes: 2,251
49. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,128 | Gross: $22.66M
50. Jenny's War (1985)
PG | 198 min | Drama, War
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Stars: Dyan Cannon, Elke Sommer, Robert Hardy, Patrick Ryecart
Votes: 166
51. The Birdmen (1971 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Doug McClure, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Basehart, Max Baer Jr.
Votes: 337
52. Bramwell (1995–1998)
TV-MA | 54 min | Drama
This lavish period drama tells the story of Eleanor Bramwell (Jemma Redgrave), a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society.
Stars: Jemma Redgrave, Ruth Sheen, David Calder, Kevin McMonagle
Votes: 1,092
53. Sammansvärjningen (1986)
185 min | Drama, History
About the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. A group of noble men disillusioned with the country's government meet to discuss how they will recover their previous power and importance.
Stars: Thomas Hellberg, Allan Svensson, Stefan Sauk, Gunnel Fred
Votes: 26
54. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser
Votes: 7,236
55. The Big Parade (1925)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
Directors: King Vidor, George W. Hill | Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Votes: 7,275 | Gross: $11.00M
56. The Beguiled (1971)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 19,208
57. Dead Man's Gun (1997–1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Western
A cursed revolver brings violence to a variety of owners in the American West.
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jim Shield, Chilton Crane, Robert Thurston
Votes: 342
58. Rio Conchos (1964)
Not Rated | 107 min | Western
A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa, Wende Wagner
Votes: 2,324
59. Old Ironsides (1926)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, History
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft
Votes: 311 | Gross: $1.43M
60. The Secret Code (1942)
Approved | 275 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A police detective goes undercover and joins a gang of Nazi agents using explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort, whom he battles in disguise as The Black Commando.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 74
61. Centennial (1978–1979)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid 1700s to the late 1970s.
Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad
Votes: 3,667
62. Silent Night in Algona (2022)
140 min | Drama, Family, History
A character study that explores the dynamics of a small Iowa town from September through December 1944, during WWII.
Director: Anthony Hornus | Stars: Terence Knox, Taylor Nichols, Melissa Anschutz, Carter Glade
Votes: 93 | Gross: $0.06M
63. And Quiet Flows the Don (2015)
43 min | Drama, History, War
This complicated drama/war epic follows the life of Kozaks, special cavalry troops of Russian monarchy from the end of 19th century, through the 1918 Revolution and civil war that followed.
Stars: Vitaliya Kornienko, Polina Pushkaruk, Anastasiya Begunova, Yuliya Polynskaya
Votes: 247
64. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,342 | Gross: $2.62M
65. La lumière des justes (1979)
52 min | Drama
The life and loves of a young Frenchwoman and a Russian officer in the nineteenth century. Sophie distributes the money she has to the poor in the neighboring village. She wants to make the... See full summary »
Stars: Chantal Nobel, Michel Robbe, Franz Elkins, Alfons Haider
Votes: 20
66. Belle & Sebastian (2013)
104 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.
Director: Nicolas Vanier | Stars: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Chatelier, Dimitri Storoge
Votes: 5,564
67. Mother (1991)
157 min | Drama
The saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Nathalie Roussel, Isabelle Sadoyan
Votes: 3,633
68. The English (2022)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Western
Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
Stars: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, Stephen Rea, Tom Hughes
Votes: 29,063
69. The Grand (1997–1998)
957 min | Drama
At the end of the First World War, the Bannerman family reopened the Grand Hôtel after a long closure and costly renovation.
Stars: Rebecca Callard, Tim Healy, Susan Hampshire, Paul Warriner
Votes: 686
70. Our Flag Means Death (2022–2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The year is 1717. Wealthy land-owner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well. Based on a true story.
Stars: Rhys Darby, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Matthew Maher
Votes: 42,946
71. Sveta obitelj (2023)
115 min | Drama, Romance
In a Slavonian village, in 1960s, a rich man Marko offers Janja to marry his son Iva, which Janja sees as the perfect opportunity for her dreams to come true.
Director: Vlatka Vorkapic | Stars: Luna Pilic, Anita Matic Delic, Nikola Djuricko, Ivan Cuic
Votes: 94
72. A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022)
TV-MA | 1,107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.
Stars: Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Alex Kingston, Gregg Chilingirian
Votes: 60,829
73. Byron (2003 TV Movie)
147 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
Director: Julian Farino | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Oliver Milburn, Michael Elwyn, Jonny Lee Miller
Votes: 1,156
74. Dancing on the Edge (2013)
TV-MA | 75 min | Drama
Set in the 1930s, a black Jazz band rises in fame and popularity while becoming entangled in an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the elite of London society.
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Joanna Vanderham, Wunmi Mosaku
Votes: 2,843
75. Outlaw Posse (2024)
R | 108 min | Western
In 1908, an outlaw returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen gold hidden in the hills of Montana.
Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Neal McDonough, William Mapother, Cam Gigandet, Whoopi Goldberg
Votes: 124
76. Yellowstone (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Western
A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley
Votes: 220,299
77. 1922 (2017)
TV-MA | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to assist. But their actions have unintended consequences.
Director: Zak Hilditch | Stars: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid, Kaitlyn Bernard
Votes: 71,647
78. We Stand Alone Together (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary
Compiled over two years, an 'on-camera oral history' of Easy Company, told by the veterans themselves. Accompanies the mini-series Band of Brothers.
Director: Mark Cowen | Stars: James Alley Jr., Roderick Bain, Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Antonio García de Pedro
Votes: 2,491
79. Dick Winters: Hang Tough (2012)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
Richard D. Winters was a WWII soldier who always led from the front with the well-being of his men as his top priority. This film, narrated by actor Damian Lewis, honors one of World War II's finest and most respected combat leaders.
Director: Tim Gray | Stars: Damian Lewis, Stephen Spears, Richard D. Winters, Bill Wingett
Votes: 103
80. 10 Days to War (2008)
10 min | Drama, War
A series of eight dramas to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Each drama focuses on a real event that happened exactly five years ago to the day.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Harriet Walter, Toby Jones, Shelley Conn
Votes: 126
81. House of Saddam (2008)
TV-MA | 232 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.
Stars: Igal Naor, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Makram Khoury, Philip Arditti
Votes: 5,156
82. Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future.
Stars: Tom Riley, Gregg Chilingirian, Eros Vlahos, Laura Haddock
Votes: 79,189
83. Dragonard (1988)
R | 93 min | Drama
On an 18th century Caribbean island run by debauched colonial plantation owners, an enslaved Scotsman joins a slave revolt.
Director: Gérard Kikoïne | Stars: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Annabel Schofield, Claudia Udy
Votes: 352
84. American Experience (1987– )
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Michael Murphy, Oliver Platt
Votes: 2,202
85. Mercy Street (2016–2017)
TV-14 | 53 min | Drama, History
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Stars: McKinley Belcher III, Suzanne Bertish, Norbert Leo Butz, Gary Cole
Votes: 2,949
86. Versailles (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
Stars: George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos, Tygh Runyan, Stuart Bowman
Votes: 18,710
87. South Solitary (2010)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1928, Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper.
Director: Shirley Barrett | Stars: Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Essie Davis, Rohan Nichol
Votes: 487
88. Hostiles (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, Western
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper
Votes: 95,676 | Gross: $29.82M
89. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Western
The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.
Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy, Phil Burke
Votes: 55,756
90. Anno Domini 1573 (1975)
145 min | Drama, History, War
Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to ... See full summary »
Director: Vatroslav Mimica | Stars: Fabijan Sovagovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Pavle Vuisic, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Votes: 281
91. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.
Director: Will Sharpe | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones
Votes: 20,437
92. Mapp & Lucia (1985–1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy
The social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia moves to the small English town of Tilling.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lill
Votes: 513
93. Victoria & Abdul (2017)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard
Votes: 38,232 | Gross: $22.25M
94. Kundun (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang
Votes: 30,495 | Gross: $5.53M
95. Babylon (I) (2022)
R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 167,406
96. Madrasapattinam (2010)
165 min | Drama, History, Romance
A film set in 1940s India, during the country's struggle for independence. The young daughter of an English governor falls in love with a local Indian boy.
Director: A.L. Vijay | Stars: Arya, Carole Trangmar-Palmer, Amy Jackson, Cochin Hanifa
Votes: 2,889
97. Sam Bahadur (2023)
150 min | Biography, Drama, War
Revolves around the high and low points of Sam Manekshaw who became the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.
Director: Meghna Gulzar | Stars: Vicky Kaushal, Sanya Malhotra, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Neeraj Kabi
Votes: 15,582
98. Omerta (2017)
98 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A recounting of the story of infamous British-born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who kidnapped and murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Rajesh Tailang, Satwant Kaur, Abhimanue Kamboj
Votes: 3,731
99. Chittagong (2012)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Drama, War
School kids organize an armed revolt in the 1930s in British occupied Chittagong. There are casualties on both sides. Later, one of those kids successfully leads the peasants to regain their food-grains earlier commandeered by the British.
Director: Bedabrata Pain | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Barry John, Delzad Hiwale, Vega Tamotia
Votes: 1,796
100. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.
Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 17,458
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