Search results for | Period Drama

Samurai Assassin
(1964) [M]

The year is 1860 and the great Tokugawa Shougunate is on shaky ground. Masterless samurai Niiro, desperate to regain his fallen staus, joins the Mito clan in a plot to assassinate an official to the shogun. Based on true events, SAMURAI ASSASSIN features a powerful performance from Toshiro Mifune...  More

Modigliani
(2004) [M]

A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian...  More

Pride and Prejudice (2005)
(2005) [G]

The five Bennet sisters have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry. When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take...  More

Zatoichi Twenty Six
(1989) [MA]

Shintaro Katsu took his final bow as Ichi, the nomadic blind swordsman, in this martial arts action saga from Japan. After being released from jail on charges of petty theft, Ichi finds himself caught between two rival bands of yakuza, one of whom has obtained a cache of guns from crooked...  More

Hidden Blade
(2004) [MA]

Set in 19th Century Japan, feudal traditions are beginning to fade as Western alliances are changing the government of the country. Munezo, a low-ranking samurai who serves a clan that is trying to adapt to new gun culture. Whilst trying to save his unhappy marriage, he’s also battling his...  More

Mangal Pandey (The Rising)
(2005) [M]

India, 1857. British Colonial rulers are plundering the country for all its worth, treating the locals unjustly and causing widespread resentment. Worst of all they are using the Indians as sepoys, the infantry of the army, to control and regulate the population. After a hundred years of...  More

Tristan and Isolde
(2006) [M]

One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Donnchadh (David O'Hara) of Ireland has become the de facto ruler of England, but one of his underlings, Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell), dreams of uniting...  More

Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005) [M]

This epic motion picture from the director of the Academy Award-winning Chicago (Best Picture, 2002) is based on the international best-selling novel by Arthur Golden. Torn from her impoverished family before World War II and sent to work in a geisha house, a child will blossom into the legendary...  More

Unconscious
(2004) [M]

Barcelona, 1913. Alma is perhaps one of the most modern women of her day.Her husband, Dr. Leon Pardo, is a psychiatrist. This summer, he visited Vienna and became a follower of the revolutionary Dr. Sigmund Freud and his advanced theories about hysteria and sexuality. It all starts the afternoon...  More

The Samurai: Volume 1
(1962) [PG]

Secret Treasure New adventure series set in medieval Japan based on Shintaro the master swordsman and his relentless search for his enemies, the black robed society known as the Koga ninja. On a Tokyo street at midnight, a lonely traveller is passing when a dark figure springs out of the...  More