Best History movies

Actors : Carol Lynley, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Tom Tryon,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Actors : Anaïs Demoustier, Frédéric Pierrot, Jérémie Elkaïm, Aurélia Petit,
Directors : Valérie Donzelli,

An aristocratic brother and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A story of desire, love and death beyond all morality.

Actors : Tobias Santelmann, Heidi Ruud Ellingsen, Anders Baasmo,
Directors : Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken,

Summer 1941: Hitler seems unstoppable, invading the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey to Murmansk. Ordinary sailors facing German superiority in the icy Arctic sea with lives at stake.

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Thomas M. Wright, Arthur Angel, Oscar Redding, Paul Ashcroft,
Directors : Jonathan auf der Heide,

The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment,...

Actors : Ian Richardson, Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Peter Brook,

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

Actors : Oksana Fandera, Ilya Andryukov, Pavel Derevyanko, Lyubov Aksyonova,
Directors : Klim Shipenko,

USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.

Actors : Anne Alvaro, Wojciech Pszoniak, Roland Blanche, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...

Actors : Mehmet Ali Erbil, Demet Sener, Sümer Tilmaç, Cem Davran,
Directors : Gani Müjde,

Kahpe Bizans tells us the story of Yetis Bey(Cem Davran)and his struggle with Byzantian Emperor(Illetyus)in a humorous way.

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Actors : Emilia Dobrin, Nicoleta Hâncu, Adrian Vãncicã,
Directors : Bogdan Muresanu,

On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.

Actors : Yilmaz Erdogan, Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Caner Cindoruk,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Actors : Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ...

Actors : Byung-hun Lee, Seung-ryong Ryu, Hyo-ju Han, In-kwon Kim,
Directors : Chang-min Choo,

Amid national chaos and fear for his life, tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted councilor Heo Kyun to find a royal body double. He hires Ha-seon, a peasant mimic who bears a perfect ...

Actors : Pallavi Sharda, Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Srijit Mukherji,

The story of eleven prostitutes who refuse to part ways with their brothel and each other during the partition between India and Pakistan.

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska, Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Directors : Konstantin Khabenskiy,

"Sobibor" is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the ...

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices," a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

Actors : Tanikella Bharani, Pragya Jaiswal, Mohan Babu, Mohammad Ali,
Directors : Diamond Ratna Babu,

Journey of a seasoned politician from a core party leader to the Chief Minister of a state, filled with achievements, manipulations, self - righteous attitude vs pure instinct, of finding despair in the midst of companionship.

Actors : Gijs Naber, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Teun Kuilboer, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Maarten Treurniet,

A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Freddy Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.