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The story of a pioneer, Germaine Le Goff (1891-1986). After World War I, the Breton teacher left Douarnenez for adventure, with a journey that led her to Senegal. In 1938, she founded and directed a teacher training college in Rufisque, near Dakar, the first for primary school teachers in Africa.

A Girl from Hunan

1987

Chinese

7.1

♡ 2

U Lan Director

Dang Hiu-Gwong as

Yu Zhang as Chun Guan

Fan Zhang as Yi Po - Grandmother

Liu Qing as Young Xiao Xiao

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.

À l'école de l'universel: Germaine Le Goff, l'histoire d'une pionnière

2024

French

7.0

♡ 1

Francois-Xavier Freland Director

The story of a pioneer, Germaine Le Goff (1891-1986). After World War I, the Breton teacher left Douarnenez for adventure, with a journey that led her to Senegal. In 1938, she founded and directed a teacher training college in Rufisque, near Dakar, the first for primary school teachers in Africa.

The Last Tycoon

2012

Chinese

6.5

♡ 9

61%

Jing Wong Director

Yun-Fat Chow as Cheng Daiqi

Xiaoming Huang as Cheng Da Qi

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung as Hong Shou Ting

Yasuaki Kurata as Nishino

Cheng, a young man who is set up by the chief of police, must leave the life he knows and Qiu, the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison Cheng quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when Cheng finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?

Vsadnik po imeni Smert

6.3

Karen Shakhnazarov Director

Valeriy Storozhik as Elena's Husband

Kseniya Rappoport as Erna

Dmitriy Gusev as Gashkes

Anna Gorshkova as Rogoznikova

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

Sunday Light

2007

Spanish

6.3

38%

1900s

Action

Adventure

boyfriend girlfriend relationship

José Luis Garci Director

Toni Acosta as Cova

Kiti Mánver as Doña Predes

Enrique Villén as Longinos

Álex González as Urbano

The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941

English

6.4

35%

Tay Garnett Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Dinner Guest

William Bakewell as Jim Forbes

Rosemary DeCamp as Minna Fields

Irene Tedrow as Teacher Waving from Window

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

The Littlest Horse Thieves

1976

English

6.8

♡ 8

Charles Jarrott Director

Duncan Lamont as

Tom Laughlin as

Joe Gladwin as Bert

Prunella Scales as Mrs. Sandman

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.

Carrie

1952

English

7.3

♡ 5

75%

William Wyler Director

Walter Baldwin as Carrie's Father

Don Beddoe as Mr. Goodman

John Alvin as Stage Manager

Robert Foulk as Sven

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.

Where Angels Fear to Tread

1991

English

6.3

♡ 5

64%

52%

1900s

based on novel or book

Charles Sturridge Director

Helena Bonham Carter as Caroline Abbott

Helen Mirren as Lilia Herriton

Barbara Jefford as Mrs. Herriton

Rupert Graves as Philip Herriton

An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.

Tracker

2010

English

6.5

♡ 3

85%

Ian Sharp Director

Ray Winstone as Arjan van Diemen

Greg Johnson as Customs Official

Matthew Sunderland as Posse Soldier Crowther

Mark Mitchinson as Saunders

An ex-Boer war guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Gradually they grow to know and respect one another but a posse, led by the British Commanding officer is close behind and his sole intention is to see the Maori hang. Written by Filmfinders 1903. A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt for Maori seaman Kereama (Morrison), who is accused of murdering a British soldier. What follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of NZ with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against that of the other. Written by Anonymous

55 Days at Peking

1963

English

6.7

♡ 13

57%

Nicholas Ray Director

Ava Gardner as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

Walter Gotell as Capt. Hoffman

Massimo Serato as Garibaldi

John Ireland as Sgt. Harry

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

2002

English

7.4

♡ 9

79%

1900s

19th century

based on novel or book

Stuart Orme Director

Christopher Fulford as Metcalf

Martin Clunes as Mr. Chipping

Henry Cavill as Soldier Colley

Harry Lloyd as Young Rivers

In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.

The Go-Between

2015

English

6.8

♡ 1

1900s

based on novel or book

Drama

illicit affair

Pete Travis Director

Jack Cutmore-Scott as Denys Maudsley

Stephen Campbell Moore as Hugh Trimingham

Lesley Manville as Mrs Maudsley

Jim Broadbent as Old Leo

An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

The Dead

1987

English

7.2

♡ 8

John Huston Director

Paul Grant as 1st Young Gentleman

Anjelica Huston as Gretta

Dan O'Herlihy as Mr. Brown

Sean McClory as Mr. Grace

After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

Cabrini

2024

English

7.3

♡ 53

90%

Alejandro Monteverde Director

Katherine Boecher as American Nurse #2

David Morse as Archbishop Corrigan

Andrew Polk as Deputy Mayor Jenkins

John Lithgow as Mayor Gould

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Elisa & Marcela

2019

Spanish

6.7

♡ 23

58%

Isabel Coixet Director

Rolando Molina as Andres

Mick Wingert as Marcella's Father / Village Priest

Jesse Corti as St. George Priest

Kyle McCarley as Village Doctor

The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.

The Millennial Bee

1983

Slovak

7.8

♡ 3

83%

Juraj Jakubisko Director

Hugo Kaminský as Haderpán

Eva Jakoubková as Kristína

Jana Olhová as Maid

Michal Docolomanský as Valent

A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years (1887–1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry; in the second part, his son is center stage living in a period of socio-political crisis, which ultimately results in the first World War. After originally airing on Czechoslovakian television in 1983 as a four-part 226-minute mini-series, this production received a 163-minute theatrical release in 1984.

Ataturk II: 1881-1919

2024

Turkish

8.8

♡ 13

Mehmet Ada Öztekin Director

Bertan Asllani as Ali Fethi Okyar

Berk Cankat as Ali Fuat Cebesoy

Esra Bilgiç as Madam Corinne

Predrag Bjelac as Otto Liman von Sanders

Mustafa Kemal had just begun his journey after proving himself in 1915 at the Gallipoli front. He would go on to face major battles on the eastern front against the Russians and later against the British in Syria, ultimately becoming the only Ottoman officer not to lose a battle during WW1. However, despite all his success, he would encounter an unexpected challenge upon his return to Istanbul.