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Plot Summary:
1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Taste of Things (2023)
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Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: period drama
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February 15, 1839 (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three other comrades. While they await their hour of death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots find the courage to walk with dignity towards the scaffold, knowing that will they die in the name of a just causewww.tribute.ca.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political
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Max Havelaar (1976)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, epic, period drama
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Florence Nightingale (2008)
Plot Summary:
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, christian film, period drama
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa (2010)
Plot Summary:
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Kamouraska (1973)
Plot Summary:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lady Audley's Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy's past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her dangerous allure. Betsan Morris Evans's period drama is based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon's.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, disturbing, gothic, costume drama, period drama
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Can Go Through Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
A brutal assault changes Marieke's life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a isolated house in the countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As spring's orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pull her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Alexander the Great (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - primitive communism, anarchism, chiefdom or kingdom, personality cult - and shows the institutions of property and power in a bad light.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Marquise of O (1976)
Plot Summary:
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spiritual, romantic, serious, realistic, period piece, period drama
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Once Upon a Time in the North (2012)
Plot Summary:
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Aspern Papers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, historical romance, period drama
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Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
This BBC historical drama stars James Purefoy as Beau Brummell, the original sharp-dressed dandy of 18th-century London. A socialite responsible for inventing the modern suit, Brummell befriends and restyles Prince Regent of Wales.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, tense, sincere, touching, serious, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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In from the Night (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Skin (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, non-linear, gloomy
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Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, epic, serious, contemplative, stylized, family saga, saga, sentimental, bleak
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The Emigrants (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough. One of their children even starve to death. Thus, they decide to emigrate to the U.S. They meet a group of farmers with their families planing the emigration under the leadership of a banned priest. They sell everything and embark for the U.S. The journey on the sailing ship is long and tedious. Some of the emigrants will never reach the New World.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: epic, inspirational, romantic, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, rough, uplifting, touching, serious
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The Dwelling Place (1994)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. Set in the 1830s, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Cissie Brodie after the death of parents, and the repossession of the family home. She finds a barren place to live and care for her younger brothers and sisters with the help of Matthew, a local carpenter, but her life becomes complicated when the aristocratic Fischel family take an unwelcome interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: period piece, period drama
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The Mountain of the Lord (1993)
Plot Summary:
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
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The Molly Maguires (1970)
Plot Summary:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, captivating, detective, period drama
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Plot Summary:
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual, family saga, saga, slow cinema, period drama
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The Leopard (1963)
Plot Summary:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: epic, political, visual, visually appealing, period piece, cerebral, stylized, romantic, retro, philosophical
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The Giant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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10 Days in a Madhouse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, independent film
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Carl & Bertha (2011)
Plot Summary:
Carl & Bertha tells the story of Carl and Bertha Benz. Carl Benz invented the first patented motor car but he did not get much recognition until his wife undertook the historic first road trip by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen No. 3 in August 1888.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, inspirational, factual
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Ludwig II (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period drama
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The Viceroys (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, atmospheric, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, saga
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Augustine (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, stylized, sexual, crying, sexy, period drama
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Longitude (2000)
Plot Summary:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, saga, independent film, period drama
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Measuring the World (2012)
Plot Summary:
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, offbeat, semi serious, period drama