Best Period Films by Title
2396
356
1992
Claude Miller
Richard Bohringer, Yelena Safonova, Romane Bohringer
Drama / War / Period Film
France
French
2349
343
2007
Julie Taymor
Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Cynthia Loebe
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2693
433
2009
Greg Mottola
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
955
131
1993
Martin Scorsese
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2710
439
1999
Max Färberböck
Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek
Romance / Drama / War / Period Film
Germany
German
2731
445
2011
Rodrigo García
Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer, Brendan Gleeson, Aaron Johnson
Drama / Period Film
UK / Ireland
English
2724
443
2010
Andrew Jarecki
Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe, Philip Baker Hall
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
1442
196
1941
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
2002
Michel Deville
Simon Abkarian, Zabou, Vincent Elbaz, Lubna Azabal
Drama / War / Period Film
France
French
203
28
1984
Milos Forman
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Drama / Music / Biography / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
187
25
1973
George Lucas
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
1163
152
2013
David O. Russell
Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence
Crime / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1694
224
1997
Steven Spielberg
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2672
428
2020
Francis Lee
Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle
Biography / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Australia / USA
English
1208
161
1956
Anatole Litvak
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1967
267
1974
Claude Lelouch
Marthe Keller, André Dussollier
Drama / Period Film / Romance / War
France / Italy
French
2789
459
1983
Federico Fellini
Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Comedy / War / Period Film
France / Italy
Italian
116
20
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2781
456
1999
Alan Parker
Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Drama / Period Film
USA / Ireland
English
2724
443
1995
Philip Haas
Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit, Jeremy Kemp, Douglas Henshall
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
1408
188
1946
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2636
419
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2742
449
2012
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Matthew MacFadyen, Domhnall Gleeson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1734
234
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2636
419
1982
John Huston
Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry
Family / Musical / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2011
Roland Emmerich
Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, David Thewlis
Drama / Period Film
UK / Germany
English
1743
235
1936
Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
1999
Tonino De Bernardi
Anna Bonaiuto, Inês de Medeiros, Iaia Forte, Galatea Ranzi
Musical / Drama / Period Film
Italy
Italian
1448
197
2022
Santiago Mitre
Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Santiago Armas, Laura Paredes
Drama / Crime / Period Film
Argentina / USA
Spanish
2731
445
2022
James Gray
Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins
Drama / Period Film
USA / Brazil
English
2710
439
1997
Agnès Merlet
Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Miki Manojlovic
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Germany / Italy
French
2760
452
1994
Kar Wai Wong
Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
Hong Kong / China / Taiwan
Cantonese
1551
205
2015
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Dahong Ni, Yun Zhou
Drama / Action / Period Film
Taiwan / China / Hong Kong / France
Mandarin
653
88
2007
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
2731
445
2008
Baz Luhrmann
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson
Adventure / Drama / War / Western / Period Film / Epic
Australia / USA
English
2557
397
2002
Paul Schrader
Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2236
322
1990
Barry Levinson
Elizabeth Perkins, Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
542
73
2004
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA / Japan / Germany
English
2184
310
2003
Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Paul Rodriguez, Nia Long
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2081
290
2008
Uli Edel
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / War
Germany / France / Czech Republic
German
695
95
1987
Gabriel Axel
Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
2458
370
1983
John Sayles
Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Nick Ferrari
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2570
401
2022
Damien Chazelle
Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
1664
218
1972
Robert Benton
Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser
Western / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
USA
English
1437
195
1983
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2500
380
1958
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2453
367
2002
Sijie Dai
Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang, Zhijun Cong
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
France / China
Mandarin
2394
355
1934
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
115
19
1975
Stanley Kubrick
Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
2549
395
2019
Kantemir Balagov
Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Drama / War / Period Film / History
Russia
Russian
2653
423
1996
Edouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain
Adventure / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2130
298
1935
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2742
449
2017
Sofia Coppola
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence
Drama / Western / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
2679
429
1998
Jonathan Demme
Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2653
423
2021
Paul Verhoeven
Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Religion / Period Film
France / Belgium / Netherlands
French
2710
439
1968
Michel Deville
Michèle Morgan, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Comedy
France
French
2742
449
2007
Robert Zemeckis
Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
865
118
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal
Drama / Epic / Period Film / History
Italy / West Germany
German
1972
270
1992
Bille August
Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Sweden / Germany / UK / Italy / France / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Iceland
Swedish
1111
147
2003
Marco Tullio Giordana
Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco
Drama / Period Film
Italy
Italian
2724
443
1987
Ben Bolt, Harold Becker
Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2731
445
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
2006
Brian De Palma
Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
Germany / USA
English
474
61
1947
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
2544
393
1971
Walerian Borowczyk
Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Jacques Perrin, Ligia Branice, Denise Péronne
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France
French
2546
394
2013
Carl Franklin
Luke Ganalon, Miriam Colon, Benito Martinez, Dolores Heredia, Castulo Guerra
Drama / War / Period Film
USA
English
2715
440
2019
Gurinder Chadha
Billy Barratt, Ronak Singh Chadha Berges, Viveik Kalra, Lee Barnett
Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2724
443
2003
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal
Comedy / Drama / War / Period Film
France
French
31
5
1967
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
407
52
1997
Paul Thomas Anderson
Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2008
Randall Miller
Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodríguez
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1197
158
1976
Hal Ashby
David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland
Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2724
443
2010
Taika Waititi
James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
New Zealand
English
2731
445
2009
Rachel Perkins
Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Ernie Dingo, 'Missy' Higgins, Geoffrey Rush
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Period Film / Romance
Australia
English
2360
346
2005
Neil Jordan
Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Ireland / UK
English
2724
443
2009
Jane Campion
Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Kerry Fox
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Australia / France
English
2724
443
2003
Stephen Fry
Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1292
172
2015
John Crowley
Saoirse Ronan, Matt Glynn, Brid Brennan, Jim Broadbent, Maeve McGrath
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Ireland / UK / Canada
English
2636
419
1972
Franco Zeffirelli
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2613
414
1969
Ivan Pyryev, Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrei Myagkov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2653
423
1999
José Luis Cuerda
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano
Drama / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
486
65
1936
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1889
252
1988
Bruno Nuytten
Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Romance
France
French
763
105
2005
Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper
Biography / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
2018
Mario Martone
Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2021
275
1986
Derek Jarman
Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1724
230
1935
Jacques Feyder
Françoise Rosay, Micheline Cheirel, Lyne Clevers
Romance / War / Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France / Germany
French
971
133
2015
Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA / France
English
1572
209
1995
Christopher Hampton
Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
UK / France
English
2597
411
2005
Lasse Hallström
Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin, Omid Djalili
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2636
419
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2789
459
1976
Federico Fellini
Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta
Drama / Comedy / Biography / Period Film
Italy / USA
Italian
1091
143
1952
Jacques Becker
Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
Crime / Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2653
423
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2625
417
2001
Peter Bogdanovich
Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Canada / Germany / UK
English
1089
142
1933
Frank Lloyd
Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1384
184
2008
Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin, Jan Devereaux, Michael Kelly
Biography / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2636
419
1992
Richard Attenborough
Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Moira Kelly
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA / France / Italy
English
2028
276
1997
Mike van Diem
Jan Decleir, Jonathan Maxwell Reeves, Fedja van Huêt
Drama / Period Film
Netherlands / Belgium
Dutch
225
30
1981
Hugh Hudson
Ian Charleson, Ben Cross
Drama / Sports / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1733
233
1964
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
2724
443
2009
Stephen Frears
Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty
Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / Germany
English
2724
443
2010
Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
Limara Meneses, Eman Xor Oña, Mario Guerra, Jon Adams, Renny Arozarena
Animation / Music / Romance / Period Film
Spain / UK
Spanish
2375
349
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
72
13
1945
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
27
4
1974
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
1611
215
1951
Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2731
445
2004
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Kelsey Grammer, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Jason Alexander
Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Period Film / Family
Hungary / USA
English
2319
337
2000
Im Kwon-taek
Hyo-jeong Lee, Seung-woo Cho, Sung-nyu Kim, Hak-young Kim
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
South Korea
Korean
1277
170
1999
Lasse Hallström
Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1656
217
1965
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
2203
314
2005
Ron Howard
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
USA
English
1
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
109
18
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
2377
350
2009
Chuan Lu
Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, Wei Fan, Yiyan Jiang, Ryu Kohata
Drama / History / War / Epic / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
1422
191
1989
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jack Kao, Li Tian-lu, Sung Young Chen
Drama / War / Period Film
Taiwan
Taiwanese
2724
443
2000
Michael Winterbottom
Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
Drama / Romance / Western / Period Film
UK / France / Canada
English
2731
445
2009
Jan Kounen
Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Yelena Morozova, Natacha Lindinger, Grigori Manukov
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
France
French
1360
180
2003
Anthony Minghella
Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
849
116
2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
1791
241
1985
István Szabó
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech
Drama / Period Film / War / Spy
Hungary / Austria / West Germany
Hungarian
622
85
1969
Sergei Parajanov
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
719
98
1985
Steven Spielberg
Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2605
412
2023
Blitz Bazawule
Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1968
268
1987
Bill Douglas
Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2009
273
1984
Francis Ford Coppola
Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee
Crime / Musical / Drama / Gangster / Period Film
USA
English
1071
140
1934
Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2679
429
1994
Michael Blakemore
Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia
English
1970
269
1999
Tim Robbins
John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2195
312
2005
Jean-Marc Vallée
Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Canada
French
2708
438
1999
Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
99
15
2000
Ang Lee
Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng
Adventure / Drama / Action / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China
Mandarin
2270
327
1996
Nicholas Hytner
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2653
423
2006
Yimou Zhang
Jay Chou, Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Qin Junjie, Man Li, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
260
37
1990
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1279
171
1950
Michael Gordon
José Ferrer, Mala Powers
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2613
414
1992
Stijn Coninx
Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck, Johan Leysen
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Religion
Belgium / France / Netherlands
Dutch
2653
423
1974
Peter Bogdanovich
Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2586
404
2009
Tom Hooper
Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Henry Goodman
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
UK
English
2451
366
1998
Pat O'Connor
Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Gerard McSorley, Catherine McCormack
Drama / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2724
443
1998
Marshall Herskovitz
Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly, Naomi Watts
Biography / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
355
44
1988
Stephen Frears
Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
2738
447
2002
Peter Care
Jodie Foster, Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jena Malone
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1175
154
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
476
62
1935
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
1681
221
1975
John Schlesinger
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Drama / Horror / Period Film
USA
English
652
87
1943
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
191
26
1978
Terrence Malick
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2406
360
1993
Richard Linklater
Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
2708
438
1995
Jos Stelling
René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere, Nino Manfredi
Drama / Period Film / Adventure
Netherlands / Belgium / Germany
Dutch
406
51
1987
John Huston
Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
534
72
1971
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Drama / Period Film
Italy / France
English
2144
302
2017
Armando Iannucci
Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards, Adrian McLoughlin
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History / Period Film
UK / Canada / France / Belgium
English
2724
443
2011
Terence Davies
Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Ann Mitchell, Jolyon Coy
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
2434
363
1948
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog
Drama / Period Film
Austria
German
1273
169
1975
Akira Kurosawa
Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union / Japan
Russian
2597
411
1986
Eugene Corr
Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Ellen Barkin, Jay Underwood
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2764
453
1997
Youssef Chahine
Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hémeida, Magdi Idris
Drama / History / Biography / Musical / Romance / Period Film
France / Egypt
French
2606
413
2017
Kathryn Bigelow
John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1587
210
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
2597
411
2001
Guillermo del Toro
Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Period Film
Spain / Mexico
Spanish
2708
438
2010
Bing Wang
Cenzi Xu, Deguang Li, Haoyu Yang, Jielu Wang, Niansong Jing, Renjun Lian
Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Belgium
Mandarin
1779
239
1967
Richard Fleischer
Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Period Film / Comedy
USA
English
242
34
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
471
60
2003
Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Gangster
Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK
English
2290
332
1969
Masahiro Shinoda
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1917
257
2008
John Patrick Shanley
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond
Drama / Mystery / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2764
453
2003
Peyton Reed
Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Sarah Paulson
Comedy / Romance / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2531
390
2003
Bernardo Bertolucci
Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci
Drama / Period Film / Adult
Italy / France / UK
English
1572
209
2006
Bill Condon
Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
2643
420
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
920
126
1989
Bruce Beresford
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2008
Saul Dibb
Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell
Drama / Biography / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2562
398
2007
Jacques Rivette
Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Barbet Schroeder
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1774
238
1977
Ridley Scott
Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines
Action / War / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
207
29
1953
Max Ophüls
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2080
289
1999
Régis Wargnier
Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Bulgaria / France / Russia / Spain / Ukraine
French
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1107
145
2009
Lone Scherfig
Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, William Melling
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1794
242
1974
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit
Drama / Period Film
West Germany
German
2636
419
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
1529
203
1988
John Sayles
John Cusack, Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp, Don Harvey
Drama / Sports / Period Film
USA
English
2593
407
1981
Shohei Imamura
Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2764
453
1956
Jean Renoir
Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France
French
337
43
1980
David Lynch
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Cult
UK / USA
English
1698
226
1967
Bo Widerberg
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
1426
192
1971
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
Drama / Epic / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2715
440
2020
Autumn de Wilde
Anya Taylor-Joy, Angus Imrie, Letty Thomas, Gemma Whelan, Bill Nighy
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
NR
-
1996
Diarmuid Lawrence
Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond, James Hazeldine
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2731
445
2002
Michael Hoffman
Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Edward Herrmann
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2294
333
1992
Mike Newell
Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Josie Lawrence, Neville Phillips
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
2280
328
1957
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Elsa Daniel, Lautaro Murúa, Guillermo Battaglia, Berta Ortegosa
Drama / Period Film
Argentina
Spanish
2454
368
1999
Neil Jordan
Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Rea, Julianne Moore, Heather-Jay Jones
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Religion
UK / USA
English
301
40
1996
Anthony Minghella
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
Romance / Drama / War / Epic / Period Film / Adventure
USA
English
519
69
1974
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
1302
174
1983
Diane Kurys
Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2114
295
1979
James Ivory
Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1949
263
2008
Jan Troell
Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen
Drama / Period Film
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Sweden / Germany
Swedish
2147
303
1997
Kasi Lemmons
Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1675
220
1996
Alan Parker
Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail
Drama / Musical / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2781
456
1997
Charles Sturridge
Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan, Adam Franks, Guy Witcher
Family / Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2383
352
2006
Tarsem Singh
Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
India / UK / USA
English
59
10
1982
Ingmar Bergman
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
Sweden / France / West Germany
Swedish
417
55
2002
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / USA
English
1713
227
1967
John Schlesinger
Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
2009
Christian Carion
Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Thriller / Spy / Period Film
France
French
135
21
1993
Kaige Chen
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge, Chun Li
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2358
345
1994
Gérard Corbiau
Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso
Drama / Music / Comedy / Period Film / Romance / Biography
Italy / Belgium / France
French
951
130
2001
Zacharias Kunuk
Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Drama / Fantasy / Adventure / Romance / Period Film
Canada
Inuktitut
2742
449
2005
Lajos Koltai
Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek
Drama / War / Period Film
Hungary / Germany / UK
Hungarian
1232
165
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
732
101
1969
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
2281
329
1992
Pedro Olea
Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida
History / Thriller / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
2789
459
1998
I. Nyamgavaa
Drama / Period Film / Religion
Mongolia
Mongolian
1979
271
1971
Norman Jewison
Topol, Norma Crane
Musical / Drama / Family / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
2023
Saverio Costanzo
Lily James, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Sennott, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy
Italian
707
96
2004
Marc Forster
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK / USA
English
1723
229
2019
Kelly Reichardt
John Magaro, Orion Lee, Rene Auberjonois, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1995
Jerry Zucker
Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2710
439
1968
John Frankenheimer
Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2731
445
1941
René Clair
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2644
421
1998
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Liu
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Taiwan
Shanghainese
2631
418
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2456
369
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2789
459
1981
Manoel de Oliveira
Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mario Barroso, Silvia Rato
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Portugal
Portuguese
1597
213
1981
Karel Reisz
Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1787
240
2002
Julie Taymor
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro, Amelia Zapata
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA / Canada / Mexico
English
2493
379
1991
Jon Avnet
Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2007
Jeremy Podeswa
Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay
Drama / Period Film
Canada / Greece
English
2708
438
2005
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Huppert, Thierry Hancisse, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli
Drama / Period Film
France / Italy
French
501
66
2002
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
2708
438
2005
Aleksei German Jr.
Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeny Pronin, Danila Kozlovsky, Dmitri Vladimirov
Drama / Period Film / Sports
Russia
Russian
721
99
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
893
122
1953
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2705
437
2016
Michael Grandage
Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Dominic West, Guy Pearce
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2179
309
1993
Claude Berri
Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry, Jean-Roger Milo
Drama / Period Film
Belgium / France / Italy
French
2596
410
2009
Aaron Schneider
Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Period Film
USA / Germany / Poland
English
2597
411
2004
Frédéric Fonteyne
Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Alice Verlinden
Drama / Period Film
Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland
French
374
48
2000
Ridley Scott
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
Drama / Action / Epic / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1435
194
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
1946
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
549
75
1971
Joseph Losey
Julie Christie, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2708
438
2006
Emanuele Crialese
Francesco Casisa, Vincenzo Amato, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Filippo Pucillo
Drama / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2731
445
1947
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2596
410
2006
Steven Soderbergh
Jack Thompson, John Roeder, George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Period Film / Post-Noir
USA
English
2708
438
2003
Marco Bellocchio
Luigi Lo Cascio, Maya Sansa, Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Giovanni
Drama / Crime / Period Film
Italy
Italian
551
76
2005
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2524
388
2006
Robert De Niro
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Period Film
USA
English
2343
341
2008
Jee-woon Kim
Woo-sung Jung, Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Je-mun Yun, Seung-su Ryu
Action / Adventure / Western / Period Film
South Korea
Korean
828
112
2001
Robert Altman
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA / Germany / Italy
English
660
90
2014
Wes Anderson
Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2613
414
1998
José Luis Garci
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso
Drama / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
2089
292
2007
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
226
31
1946
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
2636
419
1974
Jack Clayton
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1979
Michael Crichton
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris
Drama / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Caper / Period Film
UK
English
2636
419
1975
George Roy Hill
Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
2016
Yimou Zhang
Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Hanyu Zhang
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Period Film / Epic
China / USA
English
2636
419
1970
Martin Ritt
James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Chester Morris
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
USA
English
2705
437
2005
Bill Paxton
James Paxton, Tom Rack, Armand Laroche, Peter Hurley, Gregory Terlecki
Drama / History / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2710
439
2017
Michael Gracey
Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
2764
453
1978
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2031
277
1982
Phillip Borsos
Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson
Western / Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
Canada
English
2636
419
1984
Hugh Hudson
Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2724
443
1991
Irwin Winkler
Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker
Drama / Period Film
France / USA
English
1593
211
2016
Mel Gibson
Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson, Darcy Bryce
Drama / History / War / Period Film / Religion / Biography
Australia / USA
English
2175
308
2007
Adam Shankman
John Travolta, Nicole Blonsky, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
613
84
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1533
204
1964
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2511
383
1982
Wim Wenders
Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Mystery / Crime / Post-Noir / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2597
411
1988
Charles Sturridge
James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2062
284
1962
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2500
380
1976
Werner Herzog
Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
West Germany
German
2724
443
2001
Scott Hicks
Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2198
313
1983
James Ivory
Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1594
212
2011
Tate Taylor
Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Drama / Period Film
USA / India / United Arab Emirates
English
2597
411
2004
Joe Johnston
Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Adam Alexi-Malle
Action / Drama / Adventure / Western / Period Film
USA
English
2475
374
2006
Nicholas Hytner
Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2380
351
2006
Allen Coulter
Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney
Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
2286
331
1985
Satyajit Ray, Dulal Dutt
Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
2724
443
2004
Michael Mayer
Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, Erik Smith
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2731
445
2014
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter
Drama / Western / Period Film
France / USA
English
2724
443
2007
John Sayles
Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
2521
386
2017
Scott Cooper
Rosamund Pike, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Paul Anderson, Jesse Plemons
Adventure | Drama | Western / Action / Period Film
USA
English
520
70
2002
Stephen Daldry
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2731
445
1950
Fritz Lang
Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
589
79
2004
Yimou Zhang
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
Action / Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2253
324
2000
Terence Davies
Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney
Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / Germany / USA
English
2724
443
2011
Bertrand Bonello
Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adele Haenel, Alice Barnole
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2731
445
2005
Andrucha Waddington
Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Stênio Garcia
Drama / Period Film
Brazil
Portuguese
2731
445
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
599
81
1992
James Ivory
Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave
Drama / Period Film
UK / Japan
English
788
109
2011
Martin Scorsese
Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
1180
155
1939
William Dieterle
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Drama / Horror / Romance / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2004
272
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2731
445
2011
Tanya Wexler
Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / Germany / Luxembourg
English
2597
411
1955
Henry Cornelius
Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2731
445
2003
Paul Feig
Ben Tibber, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov, Silvia De Santis
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2003
Tim Fywell
Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas, Bill Nighy, Tara Fitzgerald
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
2708
438
1998
Daniele Luchetti
Stefano Accorsi, Stefania Montorsi, Giorgio Pasotti
War / Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy
Italian
2724
443
1996
Mary Harron
Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Levine
Biography / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1732
232
1997
Ang Lee
Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Tobey Maguire
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2781
456
1999
Oliver Parker
Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam
Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1087
141
1994
Michael Radford
Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy / Belgium
Italian
2703
435
2010
Sylvain Chomet
Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil, Raymond Mearns, James T. Muir
Animation / Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
UK / France
English
NR
-
2006
Neil Burger
Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Fantasy / Period Film
Czech Republic / USA
English
2731
445
2013
James Gray
Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jicky Schnee
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
1994
Bernard Rose
Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1734
234
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
Drama / Action / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
38
6
2000
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
2719
441
1958
Mark Robson
Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2781
456
2004
Luis Mandoki
Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Drama / War / Period Film
Mexico / USA / Puerto Rico
Spanish
931
128
2013
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA / France
English
2731
445
2004
Peter Lydon, Thaddeus O'Sullivan
James Wilby, Clare Holman, Owen Teale, Julia Ford, Philip Glenister
Drama / War / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2465
372
2011
Clint Eastwood
Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, Ed Westwick
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1934
262
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2576
402
2011
Cary Fukunaga
Mia Wasikowska, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot, Holliday Grainger, Tamzin Merchant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2724
443
1996
Franco Zeffirelli
Anna Paquin, Nic Knight, Nicola Howard, Sasha Graff, Fiona Shaw, John Wood
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy / UK
English
320
41
1986
Claude Berri
Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
Drama / Period Film
France / Switzerland / Italy
French
2777
455
1995
John Duigan
Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston, Sarah-Jane Wylde
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1127
150
1990
Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi, Ji-an Zheng
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan / China
Mandarin
2636
419
1940
Veit Harlan
Ferdinand Marian, Werner Krauss, Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / Period Film
Germany
German
2781
456
1996
Michael Winterbottom
Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, June Whitfield, Rachel Griffiths
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2126
297
1976
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert
Drama / Crime / Period Film
France
French
41
8
1962
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2743
450
2010
Michael Winterbottom
Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA / Sweden / UK / Canada
English
1413
190
2005
Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer
Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Period Film / Horror
New Zealand / USA
English
2665
427
1971
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Yuri Yarvet, Elsa Radzin, Galina Volchek, Oleg Dal, Valentin Shendrikova, Oleg Dal
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2597
411
1996
Tian-Ming Wu
Zhigang Zhang, Zhigang Zhao, Renying Zhou, Xu Zhu
Drama / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
444
57
2010
Tom Hooper
Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / Australia
English
1692
223
2004
Bill Condon
Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2576
402
2008
Patricia Rozema
Abigail Breslin, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Family / Period Film
USA
English
2643
420
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
1836
246
2004
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Zhi Hua Dong, Kwok Kuen Chan
Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy / Period Film / Gangster
China / Hong Kong
Cantonese
889
121
1964
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2665
427
1975
Walerian Borowczyk
Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti, Guy Tréjan
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Period Film / Cult / Adult
France
French
2653
423
2023
Alice Rohrwacher
Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
68
12
1997
Curtis Hanson
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
2708
438
1934
Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Jane Marken, Lugné-Poe
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1848
247
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
1891
253
1982
Ettore Scola
Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Drama / History / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2742
449
2006
Pascale Ferran
Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coullo'ch, Hippolyte Girardot
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Belgium / France / UK
French
2433
362
1960
Iosif Khejfits
Iya Savvina, Aleksei Batalov, Nina Alisova
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
526
71
2001
Ashutosh Gowariker
Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
Musical / Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports / Period Film
India
Hindi
1751
236
1974
Robert Bresson
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2731
445
2005
Charles Sturridge
Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton
Adventure / Family / Period Film
France / UK / USA / Ireland
English
1306
175
1928
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2489
378
2021
Ridley Scott
Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Ben Affleck, Alex Lawther
Action / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA / UK
English
2724
443
2007
Catherine Breillat
Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1478
201
2003
Edward Zwick
Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Period Film / Epic
USA / New Zealand / Japan
English
2743
450
2009
Michael Hoffman
James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Germany / Russia / UK
English
1960
265
1976
Elia Kazan
Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2636
419
1967
Louis Malle
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2724
443
2000
Robert Redford
Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch
Drama / Romance / Sports / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
2016
David Yates
Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2663
426
1994
Edward Zwick
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film
USA
English
227
32
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
2393
354
1945
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2724
443
2000
Olivier Assayas
Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Switzerland
French
2296
334
1999
Jean Becker
Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier, Michel Serrault
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France
French
738
102
1935
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1199
159
2012
Tom Hooper
Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1250
167
1995
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film / War
France
French
2475
374
1934
Raymond Bernard
Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2636
419
1912
Albert Capellani
Henry Krauss, Henri Étiévant, Maria Ventura, Mistinguett
Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
386
49
1948
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
2482
376
2000
Stephen Frears
Ian Hart, Anthony Borrows, David Hart, Claire Hackett, Megan Burns
Drama / Period Film
UK / Germany / France
English
2596
410
2004
Laurence Dunmore
Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter, Stanley Townsend
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2724
443
1999
Barry Levinson
Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
875
119
2021
Paul Thomas Anderson
Will Angarola, Griff Giacchino, James Kelley, Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2158
304
1933
Max Ophüls
Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Germany
German
320
41
1943
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
2597
411
1936
Abel Gance
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Andre Nox, Jane Marken, Lucas Gridoux
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film / Romance
France
French
1957
264
1989
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France
French
2597
411
1983
Alain Resnais
Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant
Drama / Comedy / Musical / Period Film
France
French
834
113
1952
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2708
438
2016
Derek Cianfrance
Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Emily Barclay
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / New Zealand / USA
English
2244
323
2019
Robert Eggers
Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Canada / USA
English
764
106
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
1697
225
1976
Luchino Visconti
Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
758
104
1968
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2194
311
1988
Christine Edzard
Alec Guinness, Dereck Jacobi, Joan Greenwood
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1203
160
2019
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1883
250
1994
Gillian Armstrong
Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado
Drama / Romance / Family / Period Film
USA
English
278
38
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
329
42
1955
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
2631
418
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2788
458
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
1517
202
2007
Ang Lee
Joan Chen, Chih-ying Chu, Anupam Kher, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy / Period Film
USA / China
Mandarin
827
111
1956
Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Drama / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1465
200
1971
Roman Polanski
Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2636
419
1948
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2343
341
1934
Jean Renoir
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2597
411
1949
Vincente Minnelli
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2781
456
1995
Frédéric Mitterrand
Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan, Jing Ma Fan
Musical / Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / UK / Germany
Italian
2636
419
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2724
443
2010
Nigel Cole
Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
1185
156
1994
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1449
198
2002
Peter Mullan
Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan, Dorothy Duffy
Drama / Religion / Period Film
UK / Ireland
English
252
36
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
2001
Frank Darabont
Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2135
300
2000
Giuseppe Tornatore
Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / USA
Italian
360
45
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2048
281
1982
George Miller
Tom Burlinson, Kirk Douglas, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Drama / Romance / Western / Family / Period Film
Australia
English
2594
408
1998
Randall Wallace
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne
Action / Adventure / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2708
438
2000
Sally Potter
Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro
Drama / Period Film / Romance
UK / France
English
1892
254
1927
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2703
435
1999
Patricia Rozema
Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Lindsay Duncan, Bruce Byron, James Purefoy
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2703
435
1993
Vincent Ward
Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, Annie Galipeau, Patrick Bergin
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
Australia / UK / Canada / France
English
1719
228
1967
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
2055
282
2006
Sofia Coppola
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period Film
Japan / France / USA
English
2343
341
1976
Eric Rohmer
Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Peter Lühr
Drama / Period Film / Romance
West Germany / France
German
2133
299
2019
Pietro Marcello
Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Denise Sardisco
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Italy / France / Germany
Italian
2710
439
1971
Charles Jarrott
Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Drama / History / Epic / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2478
375
1996
Stephen Frears
Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Kathy Staff
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1019
137
2012
Paul Thomas Anderson
Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, Laura Dern
Drama / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2636
419
1955
Mark Donskoy
Vera Maretskaya, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Andrei Petrov, Sergei Kurilov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2569
400
2002
Menno Meyjes
John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
Drama / Biography / Period Film / War
Hungary / Canada / UK
English
1451
199
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2710
439
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2337
339
2008
Richard Linklater
Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2485
377
2001
Sandra Goldbacher
Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Cameron Powrie, Trudie Styler, Allan Corduner
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK / Germany
English
2284
330
2005
Rob Marshall
Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2597
411
2004
Michael Radford
Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA / Italy / Luxembourg / UK
English
2393
354
2008
Jean-François Richet
Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche
Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster
France / Canada / Italy
French
2386
353
2008
Jean-François Richet
Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan
Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster
France / Canada
English
2715
440
2011
Todd Haynes
Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Brian F. O'Byrne, James LeGros
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
940
129
1990
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
1931
261
1990
Louis Malle
Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Bruno Carette, Paulette Dubost
Comedy / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2064
286
1951
Alf Sjöberg
Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Drama / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2708
438
2020
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Romola Garai, Patrick Kennedy, John Gordon Sinclair, Felicity Montagu
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
Italy / Belgium
English
2781
456
2008
Bharat Nalluri
Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1341
176
1986
Roland Joffé
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
2224
319
1988
Alan Rudolph
Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn
Drama / History / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2597
411
2007
Laurent Tirard
Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France
French
2722
442
1999
Aleksandr Sokurov
Yelena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Leonid Sokol, Yelena Spiridonova
Drama / Period Film
Russia / Germany / Japan / Italy / France
German
2443
364
1924
Sidney Olcott
Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2019
274
1947
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2724
443
1995
John Irvin
Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Carlo Cartier
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2686
430
1961
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Drama / Religion / Period Film
Poland
Polish
837
114
1952
John Huston
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Drama / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2731
445
2015
Bill Condon
Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1684
222
1997
John Madden
Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2724
443
1997
Marleen Gorris
Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
2493
379
2005
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2679
429
1994
Alan Rudolph
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1902
255
1993
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Richard Briers, Keanu Reeves
Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2338
340
2017
Dee Rees
Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2724
443
1996
Lee Tamahori
Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film / Gangster
USA
English
927
127
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2636
419
1979
Bob Clark
Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Anthony Quayle
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
UK / Canada
English
2613
414
1988
Gérard Corbiau
José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec
Drama / Period Film
Belgium / France
French
2704
436
1985
Sandy Wilson
Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, T.J. Scott
Biography / Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Canada
English
848
115
1979
Gillian Armstrong
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Australia
English
2636
419
1952
Henry Koster
Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz
Mystery / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2591
406
2000
Jay Russell
Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Bradley Coryell
Drama / Family / Period Film
USA
English
2210
316
1995
Gregory Nava
Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Jacob Vargas
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2784
457
1985
Aleksey German
Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Nina Ruslanova, Aleksey Zharkov, Aleksandr Filippen
Drama / Period Film / Crime / Detective
Soviet Union
Russian
2789
459
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2724
443
2009
Richard Loncraine
Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Kevin Bacon, Troy Garity, David Koechner
Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2067
287
1989
Ildikó Enyedi
Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovsky, Paulus Manker
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Hungary / West Germany / Cuba
Hungarian
2169
307
2011
Simon Curtis
Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Pip Torrens
Drama / Period Film / Romance
UK / USA
English
2464
371
2010
Raoul Ruiz
Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Drama / Mystery / Epic / Period Film
Portugal / France
Portuguese
2636
419
1926
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Jean Angelo, Werner Krauss, Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2636
419
1955
Christian-Jaque
Charles Boyer, Martine Carol, Walter Chiari, Paul Frankeur, Elisa Cegani
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1868
248
1984
Barry Levinson
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley
Drama / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2753
451
1929
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofya Magarill
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1571
208
2005
Terrence Malick
Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
1903
256
1977
Martin Scorsese
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus
Musical / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2169
307
2002
Douglas McGrath
Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Stella Gonet, Andrew Havill
Drama / Period Film
USA / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
2725
444
1976
Peter Bogdanovich
Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2522
387
2018
Jennifer Kent
Sam Claflin, Aisling Franciosi, Damon Herriman, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell
Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Australia / Canada / USA
English
2708
438
2007
Peter Greenaway
Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Biography / Drama / History / Mystery / Period Film
Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
English
555
77
1976
Bernardo Bertolucci
Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
1000
135
2019
Sam Mendes
Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, Dean-Charles Chapman
Drama / War / Period Film / Epic
UK / USA
English
2651
422
2021
Steven Soderbergh
Don Cheadle, Craig muMs Grant, Brendan Fraser, Benicio Del Toro, Julia Fox
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2588
405
2008
Philipp Stölzl
Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Lukas, Georg Friedrich
Adventure / Drama / History / Sports / Period Film
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2703
435
2003
Michael Polish
James Woods, Nick Nolte, Douglas Sebern, Claire Forlani, Duel Farnes, Mark Polish
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2400
358
2004
Nick Cassavetes
Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Joan Allen
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1352
179
2001
Caroline Link
Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze
Drama / Period Film
Germany
English
2613
414
1995
Fábio Barreto
Fábio Barreto, Mariana Pellegrino Barreto
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Brazil
Portuguese
2231
320
1979
Nikita Mikhalkov
Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Andrei Popov, Yelena Solovey
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2119
296
1999
Joe Johnston
Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott
Biography / Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2665
427
1998
Aleksey Balabanov
Sergei Makovetsky, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Drama / History / Period Film
Russia
Russian
2517
384
2019
Roman Polanski
Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime / Period Film
France / Italy
French
687
93
1948
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2724
443
2005
Roman Polanski
Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Leanne Rowe, Mark Strong, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden
Drama / Family / Period Film / Crime
UK / Czech Republic / France / Italy
English
2254
325
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
957
132
2019
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
506
67
1984
Sergio Leone
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Period Film
Italy / USA
English
1728
231
1991
Hark Tsui
Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Steve Tartalia, Kent Cheng
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Period Film
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2086
291
1992
Sally Potter
Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Bott
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Period Film
UK / Russia / France / Italy / Netherlands
English
1350
178
1921
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2636
419
1955
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1215
164
1951
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir
Drama / Period Film
USA / Italy / France / Morocco
English
2325
338
1965
Stuart Burge, John Dexter
Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2731
445
2008
Justin Chadwick
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English