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