Best History movies

Actors : Hiroko Isayama, Kô Nishimura, Shima Iwashita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Natalya Bondarchuk, Irina Kupchenko, Oleg Strizhenov,
Directors : Vladimir Motyl,

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and...

Actors : Toma Dimitriu, Violeta Andrei, Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Actors : Pamela Villoresi, Lajos Balázsovits, Teresa Ann Savoy, Franco Branciaroli,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Rudolf is a good-natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He refuses to leave his country ...

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Giovannella Grifeo, Carmen Scarpitta, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Adel Imam, Said Abdel Ghani, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Actors : Daniel Dicenta, Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

El 21 de agosto de 1910, en el pueblo de Osa de la Vega, provincia de Cuenca, desaparece el pastor José María Grimaldos... See full synopsis »

Actors : Kostas Kazakos, Angelos Antonopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Nikos Tzimas,

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A ...

Actors : Valentin Teodosiu, Serban Ionescu, Ioana Craciunescu, Petrica Gheorghiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Laurence Olivier, Toshirô Mifune, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Terence Young,

During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.

Actors : Judit Hernádi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Ildikó Bánsági, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak,

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia ...

Actors : Yao Lin Chen, Hark-On Fung, Fung Fung, Yeh Fang,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

The story of "Fok Yun Gap" also know as "Hou Yuan Chia" one of China's greatest marital artists.

Actors : Mahmoud Behrouzian, Mehdi Hashemi, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh, Yasaman Arami,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

Death of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Ion Marinescu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

Actors : George Motoi, Ion Dichiseanu, Ioana Pavelescu, Traian Stanescu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Lino Troisi, Arnoldo Foà, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo...

Actors : Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of ...