Topic: 8th Century

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Sô Yamamura · Eitarô Shindô

Plot In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate...

Direction Jon Iver Helgaker · Jonas Torgersen

Cast Kåre Conradi · Nils Jørgen Kaalstad · Trond Fausa · Silje Torp

Plot TV Series (2016-). 12 Episodes. Set in 790AD, Vikingane features the daily challenges of people living in a small Viking village, from power struggle, brother rivalry, gender equality, to betrayal...

Direction Paul Urkijo Alijo

Cast Edurne Azkarate · Eneko Sagardoy · Itziar Ituño · Nagore Aranburu

Plot Follows Irati, a young girl who will guide a group of christian and muslim warriors through a journey in an ancient mythological world where everything that has a name exists,...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Shu Qi · Chang Chen · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Ethan Juan

Plot The film is set in 8th century China during last years of the Tang Dynasty. The film centers on Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi), an assassin who is directed to slay...

Direction Hefang Wei

Plot China, in the year 746, the Tang dynasty, the most rich/blooming period of the country history. The emperor, Li, beholds a court of numerous concubines, the most precious is Yang....

Direction Shi Qing · Zhang Yimou

Cast Fan Bingbing · Joan Chen · Zhang Wen · Leon Lai

Plot The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.

Direction Mario Bava

Cast Cameron Mitchell · Fausto Tozzi · Giacomo Rossi-Stuart · Luciano Pollentin

Plot After the apparent death of her husband King Arald, a viking peasant woman, named Karin, takes her son Moki into hiding from Aghen, King Arald's enemy. But a mysterous stranger,...

Direction Howard McCain

Cast Jim Caviezel · Sophia Myles · Jack Huston · Ron Perlman

Plot Year 709 A.C. During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan (Caviezel), a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the...

Direction Luis Marquina

Cast Susana Canales · Julio Peña · José Bódalo · Pedro Porcel

Direction David Wu

Cast David Carradine · John Reardon · Rupert Graves · Desiree Ann Siahaan

Plot After masquerading as a prince to win the fabulous riches of a princess, a resourceful young thief finds himself unexpectedly falling in love with the Princess and battling two Princes...

Direction Constantin Werner

Cast Winter Ave Zoli · Csaba Lucas · Lea Mornar · Vera Filatova

Plot The film is based on the legend of Libuše, the Czech tribal queen of 8th century Bohemia who envisioned the city of Prague and founded the first Czech dynasty with...

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Li Li-Hua · Yan Jun · Zhu Mu · Li Hsiang-Chun

Plot The Magnificent Concubine (Chinese: Yang Kwei Fei) is a 1962 Hong Kong drama film in color directed by Li Han Hsiang and is a remake of the Kenji Mizoguchi film...

Direction Christian Twente

Direction Atif Yilmaz

Cast Ajda Pekkan · Turgut Özatay · Lale Belkis · Erol Tezeren

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Christian Brendel · Paolo Bonacelli · Vanni Corbellini · Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus

Direction Pietro Francisci

Cast Rik Battaglia · Rosanna Schiaffino · Lorella De Luca · Fabrizio Mioni

Plot Charlemagne and saracen Agramante are at war. Although the Franks are outnumbered by their enemies they succeed in containing them in the Pyrenean foothills. A truce is signed between the...

Direction Turgut Demirag

Cast Türkan Soray · Murat Soydan · Turgut Özatay · Mahir Özerdem

Direction G.V. Iyer

Cast Sarvadaman D. Banerjee · M.V. Narayana Rao · Manjunath Bhatt · Leela Narayana Rao

Plot The first and only Indian movie to be made in Sanskrit. The movie follows the life and times of Sankara - the founder of the non-duality (Advaita) school of Indian...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Viviane Romance · Maurice Escande · Jacques Dacqmine · Jean Hébey

Direction Yilmaz Atadeniz

Cast Tamer Yigit · Aliye Rona · Müjgan Agrali · Kamuran Balli