Topic: Costume Drama

Direction Kim Sung-Yong

Cast Namkoong Min · Ahn Eun-jin · Lee Hak-ju · Lee Da In

Plot TV Series (2023). 2 Parts. 20 Episodes. A love-story between a noble woman and a mysterious man set in Joseon during the Qing invasion

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Marisa Berenson · Leon Vitali · Patrick Magee

Plot 18th century rural Ireland. After his father is killed in a duel, Barry Lyndon lives with his mother. He is in love with his cousin, Nora Brady, but she gets...

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Colin Firth · Jennifer Ehle · David Bamber · Crispin Bonham-carter

Plot An adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, set in the 19th century, about the prejudice and the class differences which would keep lovers apart.

Direction Kim Kyoo-Tae

Cast Iu · Ji-soo · Lee Joon-gi · Nam Joo-Hyuk

Plot TV Series (2016). 20 Episodes. During a total solar eclipse, a 25-year-old 21st-century woman, Go Ha-jin (Lee Ji-eun), is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She wakes up...

Direction Julian Fellowes · Brian Percival · David Evans · Philip John

Cast Hugh Bonneville · Michelle Dockery · Maggie Smith · Elizabeth McGovern

Plot TV Series (2010-2015). 6 Seasons. 52 Episodes. Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Glenn Close · John Malkovich · Michelle Pfeiffer · Keanu Reeves

Plot Based on the infamous novel LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES by Choderlos de Laclos and the subsequent Christopher Hampton play, set in pre-revolutionary France, a cunning Marquise (Glenn Close) and a seductive...

Direction Adam Smith · Dearbhla Walsh · Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Claire Foy · Matthew Macfadyen · Tom Courtenay · Alun Armstrong

Plot An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to...

Direction Bill Gallagher · Susan Tully · Patrick Lau · Alan Grint

Cast Olivia Hallinan · Sarah Lancashire · Julia Sawalha · Fergus Drysdale

Plot An adaptation of Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel "Lark Rise To Candleford", set in 19 century Oxfordshire, in which a young girl moves to the local market town to begin an...

Direction Simon Curtis · Steve Hudson

Cast Judi Dench · Imelda Staunton · Michael Gambon · Simon Woods

Plot Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, it is a five-part period drama set in the 1840s which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of...

Direction Peter Kosminsky

Cast Claire Foy · Christian Cooke · Itay Tiran · Katharina Schüttler

Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 4 Episodes. A young British woman visits Israel/Palestine, retracing her grandfather's steps through his diary written in 1940's Palestine.

Direction Matthieu Delaporte · Alexandre de La Patellière

Cast Pierre Niney · Anaïs Demoustier · Laurent Lafitte · Anamaria Vartolomei

Plot In the year 1815, within the confines of Marseille, Edmond Dantès finds himself incarcerated within the formidable walls of the Château d’If for a crime he did not commit. Enduring...

Direction Brian Percival

Cast Daniela Denby-Ashe · Richard Armitage · Sinead Cusack · Lesley Manville

Plot TV Miniseries (2004). 4 Episodes. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a privileged, middle class southerner who is...

Direction Aisling Walsh

Cast Elaine Cassidy · Sally Hawkins · Imelda Staunton · Rupert Evans

Plot 20 year old petty thief, Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins), is part of an elaborate scam to defraud a wealthy heiress, Maud Lilley (Elaine Cassidy), of her inheritance. Encouraged by Mrs....

Direction Andy Wilson · Christopher Menaul · David Moore

Cast Damian Lewis · Rupert Graves · Gina McKee · Amanda Root

Plot In the 1920s, decades after the troubled and unhappy marriage between Soames Forsyte and the beautiful pianist Irene Heron came to an end, Soames and Irene have both remarried and...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Jennifer O'Neill · Laura Antonelli · Marc Porel

Plot L'Innocente takes place among the social class to which Visconti belonged, but in the 1890s, ten years before he was born. This was to be Visconti's swansong, and he died...

Direction Céline Sciamma

Cast Noémie Merlant · Adèle Haenel · Luàna Bajrami · Valeria Golino

Plot France, 1770. Painter Marianne is commissioned by a countess to paint the wedding portrait of her daughter Héloïse. While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed to complete the...

Direction David Lean

Cast John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Martita Hunt · Alec Guinness

Plot Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Ulla Jacobsson · Harriet Andersson · Margit Carlqvist

Plot Distinguished lawyer Frederik Egerman lives with Anne, his picturesque, young wife, his son Henrik, a forlorn student of the cloth, and Petra, the flirtatious yet sensible maid. One summer evening...

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Vincent Pérez · Anne Brochet · Jacques Weber

Plot Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a renowned swordsman and poet throughout Paris with one not-so-small defect, his nose. This physical attribute has caused Cyrano to believe that no woman...