Period Film
  • The New World picture
    Movies

    The New World (2005)

    Explorer John Smith (Colin Farrell) and his companions encounter Pocahontas and Powhatan's tribe in...

  • The Good German picture
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    The Good German (2006)

    An Army correspondent (George Clooney) helps a former lover (Cate Blanchett) comb post-World War II...

  • Across the Universe picture
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    Across the Universe (2007)

    Songs by the Beatles illustrate a tale of two star-crossed lovers (Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess)...

  • Titanic picture
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    Titanic (1997)

    A society girl (Kate Winslet) abandons her haughty fiance (Billy Zane) for a penniless artist...

  • The Black Dahlia picture
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    The Black Dahlia (2006)

    In 1940s Los Angeles two cops (Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart) enter a world of greed, obsession and...

  • Marie Antoinette picture
    Movies

    Marie Antoinette (2006)

    An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) becomes queen of France, then later loses her head during the...

  • A Very Long Engagement picture
    Movies

    A Very Long Engagement (2004)

    A Frenchwoman (Audrey Tautou) hires a private investigator to find her fiance (Gaspard Ulliel), a...

  • Australia picture
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    Australia (2008)

    An English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) and a cattleman (Hugh Jackman) drive a herd across the...

  • The Prestige picture
    Movies

    The Prestige (2006)

    After an illusion goes tragically wrong, two 19th-century magicians (Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale)...

  • The Good Shepherd picture
    Movies

    The Good Shepherd (2006)

    During the early years of the Central Intelligence Agency, a founding member (Matt Damon) finds...

  • Youth Without Youth picture
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    Youth Without Youth (2007)

    A professor (Tim Roth) becomes a fugitive after a cataclysmic incident prior to World War II.

  • Public Enemies picture
    Movies

    Public Enemies (2009)

    The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty...

  • Dreamgirls picture
    Movies

    Dreamgirls (2006)

    After an ambitious manager (Jamie Foxx) gives them a shot at stardom, three singers learn that fame...

  • Casanova picture
    Movies

    Casanova (2005)

    With a reputation for seducing women, regardless of their marital status, the infamous rake (Heath...

  • Hairspray picture
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    Hairspray (2007)

    In 1960s Baltimore a plump teen (Nikki Blonsky) becomes an overnight celebrity after she wins a spot...

  • The Wolfman picture
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    The Wolfman (February 12, 2010)

    A man (Earl Owensby) uses his new powers as a werewolf to avenge his father, murdered by an evil...

  • Semi-Pro picture
    Movies

    Semi-Pro (2008)

    In 1976 a singer (Will Ferrell) uses the profits from his only hit to buy a basketball team that is...

  • Oliver Twist picture
    Movies

    Oliver Twist (2005)

    An orphan (Barney Clark) in 19th-century London falls in with a gang of young pickpockets who steal...

  • Good Night, And Good Luck picture
    Movies

    Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)

    CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) criticizes Sen. Joseph McCarthy's tactics in the...

  • The Promise picture
    Movies

    The Promise (2006)

    A tale of passion that unfolds against a backdrop of war as a beautiful and mysterious princess...

  • Changeling picture
    Movies

    Changeling (2008)

    After her son is kidnapped and later found, a woman (Angelina Jolie) insists that the boy who was...

  • The Hours picture
    Movies

    The Hours (2002)

    The writings of Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) affect a housewife (Julianne Moore) and emulate the...

  • The Phantom of the Opera picture
    Movies

    The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

    A mysterious masked figure (Gerard Butler) nurtures a talented singer (Emmy Rossum), but becomes...

  • Little Ashes picture
    Movies

    Little Ashes (2009)

    The young life and the loves of artist Salvador Dali.

  • The Merchant of Venice picture
    Movies

    The Merchant of Venice (2004)

    Antonio (Jeremy Irons) borrows money from Shylock (Al Pacino) to help his friend Bassanio (Joseph...

  • The Painted Veil picture
    Movies

    The Painted Veil (2006)

    Caught in an affair with another man (Liev Schreiber), a scientist's callow wife (Naomi Watts)...

  • A Home at the End of the World picture
    Movies

    A Home at the End of the World (2004)

    A man (Colin Farrell) moves to New York and falls in love with the roommate (Robin Wright Penn) of...

  • Doctor Zhivago picture
    Movies

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Boris Pasternak's story of a poet/doctor (Omar Sharif), his wife (Geraldine Chaplin) and his lover...

  • Hollywoodland picture
    Movies

    Hollywoodland (2006)

    A detective (Adrien Brody) uncovers unexpected links to his own personal life as he probes the...

  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day picture
    Movies

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

    A middle-aged British governess (Frances McDormand) gets a taste of the glamorous life when she...

  • Paris 36 picture
    Movies

    Paris 36 (2009)

    Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary"...

  • The Greatest Game Ever Played picture
    Movies

    The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

    An amateur golfer (Shia LaBeouf) from a working-class family takes on the reigning champion (Stephen...

  • Memoirs of a Geisha picture
    Movies

    Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

    A girl works as a servant in a geisha house and grows up to become one of Japan's most celebrated...

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow picture
    Movies

    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

    A daredevil aviator (Jude Law) and an ace reporter (Gwyneth Paltrow) fight an evil mastermind and...

  • King Kong picture
    Movies

    King Kong (2005)

    Members (Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody) of a film crew encounter prehistoric beasts and a...

  • Atonement picture
    Movies

    Atonement (2007)

    A false accusation changes forever the lives of a young teen (Romola Garai), her older sister (Keira...

  • The Lives of Others picture
    Movies

    The Lives of Others (2007)

    In 1980s East Germany a dedicated Stasi officer (Ulrich Muehe) faces conflicting loyalties when he...

  • Pride & Prejudice picture
    Movies

    Pride & Prejudice (2005)

    A convoluted courtship begins between a young woman (Keira Knightley) and the handsome friend...

  • Breakfast on Pluto picture
    Movies

    Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

    A young man (Cillian Murphy) who dresses in women's clothes turns to prostitution and joins the act...

  • We Own the Night picture
    Movies

    We Own the Night (2007)

    As the NYPD wages war on drugs, a nightclub manager whose brother is a cop tries to remain neutral.

  • Lonely Hearts picture
    Movies

    Lonely Hearts (2007)

    Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) and Raymond Fernandez, known as the Lonely Heart Killers, swindle and...

  • Curse of the Golden Flower picture
    Movies

    Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

    A Chinese empress (Gong Li) has an affair with her stepson, while her cruel husband (Chow Yun-Fat)...

  • Vanity Fair picture
    Movies

    Vanity Fair (2004)

    Despite her poverty-stricken background, a young woman (Reese Witherspoon) climbs the social ladder...

  • CQ picture
    Movies

    CQ (2002)

    A filmmaker (Jeremy Davies) tries to finish a science-fiction movie after two other directors get...

  • Capote picture
    Movies

    Capote (2005)

    Writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) researches the brutal murder of a Kansas family to pen...

  • Modigliani picture
    Movies

    Modigliani (2005)

    Penniless artist Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) maintains a bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso and...

  • House of Flying Daggers picture
    Movies

    House of Flying Daggers (2004)

    During the Tang dynasty, two lawmen (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) go under cover at a house of...

  • Cinderella Man picture
    Movies

    Cinderella Man (2005)

    Despite a string of losses and injuries, boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) makes a dramatic...

  • Richard Addinsell picture
    People

    Richard Addinsell

    Scored numerous British historical and period films and won international recognition for his...

  • Gertrude Flynn picture
    People

    Gertrude Flynn

    American character actress Gertrude Flynn started out playing innocent young girls on Broadway...