Period Drama Movies

Respected businessman Otto Silbermann tries to escape with his wealth and drifts from train to train as his homeland becomes a cage and his identity...

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Set in the 1960s, junior high schooler Dean strikes up a friendship with the vibrant yet reckless Roy, in an effort to escape his mother’s...

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply shocked by the news that an anarchist has...

Set in 1931 British India, The Last Meal follows Bhagat Singh as he makes an unexpected final request: that his last meal be prepared by Bhoga, a...

In 1960s Bengal, a young man, Gouranga, is tormented by grief and guilt after his wife’s tragic death. Venturing into a mysterious forest, he...

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Japanese film.

Set in the deserts of 1935, a pilot finds himself in a place that is ready to destroy all ambitious men.

Mary Wollstonecraft, an impoverished young Englishwoman on the eve of the French Revolution, makes the bold decision to lead her life according to...

Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and promises to marry him. But Lee leaves for Seoul...

An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict...

In 1948, the Trouths are facing no income and the hottest summer on record. When their estranged son inexplicably returns, the apartment is full...

The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930s went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her...

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

A housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arms of another woman.

Japanese film.