Topic: Costume Drama

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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

The Man in the Iron Mask

1998 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Randall Wallace

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Gabriel Byrne · Jeremy Irons · John Malkovich

Plot As King Louis XIV prepares to rule France, he proves to be a cruel ruler. When he becomes responsible for sending a soldier, Rauol, to his death so he can...

6.1

49K votes

6.1

49K 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

Cyrano de Bergerac

1990 · Movie · 137 min. · France

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...

7.3

43K votes

7.3

43K 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

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

Barry Lyndon

1975 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

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...

7.9

34K votes

7.9

34K votes

A Dangerous Method

2011 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Keira Knightley · Viggo Mortensen · Michael Fassbender · Vincent Cassel

Plot Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline...

6.0

24K votes

6.0

24K votes

Dangerous Liaisons

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

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...

7.6

23K votes

7.6

23K votes

Marie-Antoinette

2006 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Sofia Coppola

Cast Kirsten Dunst · Jason Schwartzman · Rose Byrne · Judy Davis

Plot Based on Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie Antoinette, a naive, 14 year old Austrian and Queen of France. At a young age, she was arranged to marry Louis XVI and...

6.0

21K votes

6.0

21K votes

Downton Abbey (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

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...

7.8

17K votes

7.8

17K votes

Howards End

1992 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Ivory

Cast Emma Thompson · Anthony Hopkins · Samuel West · Helena Bonham Carter

Plot The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), a modest woman of little means who will soon be forced...

7.0

16K votes

7.0

16K votes

The Age of Innocence

1993 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Daniel Day-Lewis · Winona Ryder · Richard E. Grant

Plot Set in 1870s New York, Martin Scorsese's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE examines the tyranny of tradition and family heritage--and the tragic consequences of breaking societys unspoken rules. Newland Archer (Daniel...

7.0

15K votes

7.0

15K votes

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Justin Chadwick

Cast Natalie Portman · Scarlett Johansson · Eric Bana · Kristin Scott Thomas

Plot Two sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson) Boleyn, are driven by their ambitious father and uncle to advance the family’s power and status by courting the affections of...

6.1

15K votes

6.1

15K votes

Anna Karenina

2012 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Aaron Taylor-Johnson · Jude Law · Domhnall Gleeson

Plot Late 19th century, Russian high society. At the age of 18, demure and elegant socialite Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) has been promised to marry senior statesman Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin...

6.0

12K votes

6.0

12K votes

The Merchant of Venice

2004 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Radford

Cast Al Pacino · Jeremy Irons · Joseph Fiennes · Lynn Collins

Plot Venice, 16th century. Bassanio asks Antonio to lend him 3,000 ducats so that he may woo Portia, heiress to her father Belmont’s fortune. Antonio is rich, but his money is...

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006 · Movie · 114 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Gong Li · Jay Chou · Qin Junjie

Plot The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, pitting...

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

Jane Eyre

2011 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Mia Wasikowska · Michael Fassbender · Judi Dench · Jamie Bell

Plot After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark,...

6.8

11K votes

6.8

11K votes

The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries)

1998 · Series · 400 min. · France

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Ornella Muti · Jean Rochefort · Pierre Arditi

Plot A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · France

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...

7.4

9K votes

7.4

9K votes