Topic: Costume Drama
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Bleak House (TV Miniseries)
2005 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Justin Chadwick · Susanna White
Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · Denis Lawson · Gillian Anderson · Charles Dance
Plot TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn,...
7.3
305 votes
7.3
305 votes
All the Mornings of the World
1991 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Alain Corneau
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Anne Brochet · Caroline Silhol
Plot It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
Farewell My Concubine
1993 · Movie · 171 min. · China
Direction Chen Kaige
Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi
Plot "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
The Dead
1987 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany
Plot John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors,...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
The Go-Between
1971 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Julie Christie · Alan Bates · Margaret Leighton · Michael Redgrave
Plot Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Duellists
1977 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ridley Scott
Cast Keith Carradine · Harvey Keitel · Edward Fox · Albert Finney
Plot During the era of the Napoleonic wars, a conflict arises between two of the emperor's cavalry officers when one of them, the aristocratic Lt. D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), is sent by...
7.2
9K votes
7.2
9K votes
Under the Queen's Umbrella (TV Series)
2022 · Series · 60 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Hyung Shik
Cast Kim Hye-soo · Moon Sang-min · Chani · Choi Won-young
Plot A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.
7.2
42 votes
7.2
42 votes
Les Misérables
2012 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tom Hooper
Cast Hugh Jackman · Russell Crowe · Eddie Redmayne · Anne Hathaway
Plot In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The...
7.2
42K votes
7.2
42K votes
Jane Eyre (TV Miniseries)
2006 · Series · 202 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Susanna White
Cast Ruth Wilson · Toby Stephens · Francesca Annis · Christina Cole
Plot TV Miniseries (2006). 4 Episodes. After a wretched childhood, orphaned Jane Eyre yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at Thornfield Hall, where she tutors a lively French...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Crimson Petal and The White (TV Miniseries)
2011 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marc Munden
Cast Chris O'Dowd · Romola Garai · Amanda Hale · Shirley Henderson
Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 4 Episodes. Set in 1870s London, this is a tale of love, lust, desire and revenge. This is a bold four-part adaptation of The Crimson Petal And...
7.1
757 votes
7.1
757 votes
Great Expectations (TV Miniseries)
2011 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Kirk
Cast Douglas Booth · Gillian Anderson · Ray Winstone · Vanessa Kirby
Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 3 Episodes. In the 1810s orphan boy Pip Pirrup lives on the Kent marshes with his shrewish sister and her kindly husband,farrier Joe Gargery. On Christmas eve,whilst...
7.1
573 votes
7.1
573 votes
Captains and the Kings (TV Miniseries)
1976 · Series · 540 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Heyes · Allen Reisner
Cast Richard Jordan · Perry King · Patty Duke · Henry Fonda
Plot Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant. Joseph Armagh was a poor Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the mid-19th century, and proceeded, through struggle, heartache and hard...
7.1
103 votes
7.1
103 votes
Tess
1979 · Movie · 172 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Nastassja Kinski · Peter Firth · Leigh Lawson · John Collins
Plot A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his...
7.1
4K votes
7.1
4K votes
The Illusionist
2006 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Neil Burger
Cast Edward Norton · Paul Giamatti · Jessica Biel · Rufus Sewell
Plot The film stars Academy Award nominees Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as mysterious stage magician Eisenheim, and...
7.1
98K votes
7.1
98K votes
Medici: The Magnificent (TV Series)
2018 · Series · 60 min. · Italy
Direction Jon Cassar · Jan Michelini · Christian Duguay
Cast Daniel Sharman · Synnove Karlsen · Jacopo Olmo Antinori · Edward Dring
Plot 1470. Medici's family power has been consolidated over time. Lorenzo is called to take his father's place after an attempt on his life which reveals years of poor bank management...
7.1
365 votes
7.1
365 votes
Any Human Heart (TV Miniseries)
2010 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Samuels
Cast Jim Broadbent · Matthew Macfadyen · Sam Claflin · Gillian Anderson
Plot TV Miniseries. 4 episodes. A TV miniseries adaptation of William Boyd's novel. A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he...
7.1
106 votes
7.1
106 votes
A Royal Affair
2012 · Movie · 137 min. · Denmark
Direction Nikolaj Arcel
Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Alicia Vikander · Mikkel Boe Følsgaard · Trine Dyrholm
Plot A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with his physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
7.1
7K votes
7.1
7K votes
The Forsyte Saga (TV Miniseries)
2002 · Series · 423 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Menaul · David Moore · Andy Wilson
Cast Damian Lewis · Gina McKee · Alistair Petrie · Amanda Root
Plot In Victorian England, Soames Forsyte, a man from a wealthy and arrogant family, meets a falls in love with Irene Herron, a poor woman. After taking her step-mother's advice, Irene...
7.1
121 votes
7.1
121 votes
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ang Lee
Cast Emma Thompson · Kate Winslet · Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman
Plot When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and...
7.1
37K votes
7.1
37K votes
Pride and Prejudice
2005 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joe Wright
Cast Keira Knightley · Matthew Macfadyen · Brenda Blethyn · Donald Sutherland
Plot The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when...
7.1
49K votes
7.1
49K votes