Period Drama Movies

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake".

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...

Japanese film.

A devastated youngster awaits a chance to take revenge on his father's murderer, who is seen as a leader in a village.

Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the...

Father Carlos, a Basque priest, decides to leave voluntarily as a missionary to a village lost in the Philippines. From the first moment, their...

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Early 20th century in a remote place in Catalonia. Mila, a newly wed young woman is forced by her husband and some circumstances to move to a remote...

Japanese film.

A WWII paratrooper gets lost in a forest as the line between reality and memory begins to blur.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

At 30 years old King Gustav III has a number of great projects behind him already, but his most demanding in front of him - to consummate his...

Set in the 1960s, a young photographer becomes obsessed photographing a grieving man - the man that holds the truth to her brother's murder. She...

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

The crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971, causes a violent separation of its three participants: A member...