Period Drama Movies

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

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...

A devious apothecary sells poison to women who are desperate to dispatch their cruel husbands in Victorian England.

A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life...

A biographical portrait of pen-and-ink artist, Aubrey Beardsley.

In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers...

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the...

The incredible true story of how a bunch of writers, artists, set designers, and back room technicians pooled their talents in order to outwit the...

Set in 18th-century Venice, the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a castrated singer from Calabria, both tries to succeed in...

Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the...

Tracks the creation and survival of a sacred religious artifact across 500 years, weaving back and forth between a series of interconnected chapters...

When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one...

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a...

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false...

Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji...

Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers...

As the Roman Empire slowly declines, Caesar Nero indulges himself in every known debauchery, including incest with his mother.

Chitti Babu begins to suspect his elder brother's life is in danger after they team up to lock horns with their village president and overthrow his...

Rosario a young mixed race woman who works as a maid of a bourgeois family in Quito in 1945. One day the family, because of her daughter's 15 years,...

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the...