Period Film
  • 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...

  • Shakespeare in Love picture
    Movies

    Shakespeare in Love (1998)

    Young William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) falls for Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), reawakening his...

  • American Graffiti picture
    Movies

    American Graffiti (1973)

    Four teens in 1962 California get a final, nostalgic glimpse of innocence before facing their...

  • The Other Boleyn Girl picture
    Movies

    The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

    Family ambition pits British sisters Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson) Boleyn...

  • Revolutionary Road picture
    Movies

    Revolutionary Road (2008)

    In 1950s Connecticut, two suburbanites (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet) become increasingly...

  • The Damned United picture
    Movies

    The Damned United (2009)

    A look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United.

  • Ashes of Time Redux picture
    Movies

    Ashes of Time Redux (2008)

    In ancient China, Ouyang Feng is a fallen swordsman who is afraid of love after having his heart...

  • A Serious Man picture
    Movies

    A Serious Man (2009)

    The Gopkins, a Midwestern Jewish family in 1967, struggle with their afflictions.

  • Beyond the Sea picture
    Movies

    Beyond the Sea (2004)

    An older Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) tells his own life story, beginning with his youth in the Bronx...

  • A Good Woman picture
    Movies

    A Good Woman (2006)

    A 1930s society vamp (Helen Hunt) leaves New York behind for Italy, where she worms her way into the...

  • Straight-Jacket picture
    Movies

    Straight-Jacket (2004)

    In the 1950s a self-centered actor (Matt Letscher) marries a female secretary (Carrie Preston) to...