Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Cihan Ünal, Zuhal Olcay, Gülsen Bubikoglu, Raik Alniaçik,
Directors : Halit Refig,

The end of the Ottoman era.. Recai Bey has raised his daughter Seref like a man. She secretly attends the meetings of the patriots. Seref and her cousin Mujgan take music lessons from the ...

Actors : Liubomiras Laucevicius, Inna Churikova, Aleksandr Shishonok, Viktor Rakov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

Actors : Davor Janjic, Petar Bozovic, Radmila Zivkovic, Vita Mavric,
Directors : Nikola Stojanovic,

The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in ...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Grazyna Szapolowska, György Cserhalmi, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : László Lugossy,

In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted...

Actors : Eleni Demertzi, Jany Gastaldi, Maya Lymberopoulou, Annita Santorinaiou,
Directors : Antouanetta Angelidi,

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.

Actors : Christopher Neame, Norbert Weisser, Leigh Lombardi, Mark Lenard,
Directors : Raul V. Carrera,

The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.

Actors : María Vaner, Rudy Chernicoff, Luisina Brando, Arturo Bonín,

Bautista Bairoletto fue un quijotesco bandido de comienzos de siglo reconocido como el "Robin Hood de las Pampas". Se mezclaba con anarquistas, forajidos y prostitutas y la gente llegó a ...

Actors : Wadeck Stanczak, Max von Sydow, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Giacomo Battiato,

The story of Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Jean-Roger Milo, Didier Sauvegrain, Aï Keïta,
Directors : Med Hondo,

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ...

Actors : Mircea Albulescu, Hervé Bellon, Violeta Andrei, John Terry,

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom.[141] How abrupt and far-reaching the ...

Actors : Eric Wapler, Cris Campion, Frédéric Mayer, Pascale Rocard,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Denis,

The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he ...

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Naum Shopov, Marin Yanev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Gueorgui Stoyanov,

The action takes place back in the 9th century - a time of trouble and constant changes. The central dramatic character is that of Constantine the Philosopher -a thinker, a diplomat and a ...

Actors : Huanshan Xu, Bo Gao, Yi Qin, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zumo Huang,

Biography of famous Chinese astronomer and geographer Zhang Heng who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Actors : Hermann Beyer, Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch, Susanne Bormann,
Directors : Michael Gwisdek,

In the fall of 1793, the essayist and naturalist Georg Forster meets his estranged wife, Therese, and her lover Ferdinand Huber. Over the course of three days and nights, and in the shadow ...

Actors : Cunxin Pu, Kechun Li, Hong Pan, Xiong Xiao,
Directors : Jin Xie,

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, come to America for college. The Communist takeover strands them in the States and one of them, unable to cope with her parents' ...

Actors : Sulev Luik, Maria Klenskaja, Tõnu Kark, Kaljo Kiisk,
Directors : Jüri Sillart,

A first film made of the 1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police NKVD. During couple of days and nights nearly 21 thousand people, mostly women and ...

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, Cristopher Davidson, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Young W.A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of...

Actors : Oleg Borisov, Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vadim Yakovlev,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Spy-games around a project to lay a gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.

Actors : Majid Mozaffari, Ezzatolah Entezami, Farzaneh Kaboli, Ahmad Hashemi,
Directors : Massood Jafari Jozani,

During the second World War Iran is occupied by the allies. Meanwhile Doctor Rastan is going to the Qashqaei nomads to treat his sister's husband. There he meets Amir Houshang the head of ...

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Walter Vidarte, Klara Badiola,
Directors : Alfonso Ungría,

King Carlos II of Navarre once (XIV century) sent his brother Don Luis de Beaumont to lead a military expedition into Albania and reclaim the Albanian throne he inherited from his wife. But...