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Guide | Film Listing
Contemporary Period, Costume, Historical Film
This genre is packed with great stories set during fascinating periods of history. Often epic works, they draw on real historical events and characters, frequently taking inspiration from literature. Let these films transport you back in time.
2007,
Ang Lee, DVD
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During WWII in China, a beautiful spy begins an affair with a powerful political figure to facili...
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2000,
Ridley Scott, DVD
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Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964)...
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2007,
Zack Snyder, DVD
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A visually stunning account of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC in which King Leonidas and 300...
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2011,
Michel Hazanavicius, DVD
£14.99
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One of the most acclaimed films in years, Michel Hazanavicius's modern-day silent film comedy The...
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2010,
Tom Hooper, DVD
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Wonderful Oscar-winning drama from director Tom Hooper telling the story of the relationship form...
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1984,
Tony Palmer, DVD
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Tony Palmer's exhaustive TV biopic of the German composer Richard Wagner stars Richard Burton in ...
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1993,
Peter Greenaway, DVD
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A sumptuously filmed, highly controversial film featuring mass rape and dismemberment, an assault...
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1971,
Ken Russell, DVD
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Ken Russell's controversial film based on the exorcisms of Loudun, The Devils sees Cardinal Riche...
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1978,
Philip Casson, DVD
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Shakespeare's comedy of two sets of identical twins separated in a shipwreck features a wonderful...
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1984,
Christopher Morahan, O Brien Jim , DVD
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This sumptuously 1984 production of Jewel in the Crown brought Paul Scott’s Raj Q...
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2011,
John Wyver, DVD
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Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show abou...
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1970,
Ken Russell, DVD
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'The story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac,' said Ken Russell of his film...
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2011,
Bertrand Bonello, DVD
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Selected for official competition at Cannes 2011 and nominated for 8 French Césars, Bertrand Bone...
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1965-77,
Ken Loach, DVD
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Ken Loach is one of Britain’s most respected film directors with a career spanning over 40 years....
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2010,
Bertrand Tavernier, DVD
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A gripping, superbly-staged period romance from Bertrand Tavernier, The Princess ...
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1980,
Donald McWhinnie, DVD
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An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, and starring Jud...
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2011,
Woody Allen, DVD
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A magical-realist romantic comedy from Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris pays nostalgic tribute to t...
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1962-86,
Andrei Tarkovsky, DVD
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All seven of Tarkovsky's masterpieces presented in one set. Contains Ivan's Child...
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1977,
Bruce Beresford, DVD
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Set in a posh Melbourne girls boarding school during the Victorian era, The Getting of Wisdom is ...
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1991,
Peter Greenaway, DVD
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Prospero's Books is Peter Greenaway's complex, innovative and typically ravishing retelling of Sh...
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1995,
Tony Palmer, DVD
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The story of composer Henry Purcell, performed by actors and singers. Simon Callo...
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1.
The Comedy of Errors
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2.
House of Tolerance
£10.99
3.
The Artist
£14.99
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Bluebeard
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskerv...
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Bluebeard
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Cries And Whispers
£6.99
House of Tolerance
£10.99
The Artist
£14.99
The Best Intentions
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