Topic: Costume Drama
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Titles found: 522
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