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6.2

♡ 18

48%

Martin Bourboulon Director

Emma Mackey as Adrienne Bourgès

Romain Duris as Gustave Eiffel

Stéphane Boucher as Pauwels

Joseph Rezwin as R. Milligan McLane

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.

Lines of Wellington

2012

Portuguese

6.0

♡ 6

42%

Valeria Sarmiento Director

John Malkovich as Duke of Wellington

Michel Piccoli as Leópold Scheitzer

Maria João Bastos as Maria de Jesus Almeida

Catherine Deneuve as Severina

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Belizaire the Cajun

1986

6.5

♡ 1

64%

Glen Pitre Director

Michael Schoeffling as Hypolite Leger

Steven McChattie as James Willoughby

Will Patton as Matthew Perry

Robert Duvall as The Preacher

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is that Belizaire's former flame is now married to his biggest rival, an affluent landowner's son. Before he knows it, Belizaire is caught up in a web of murder, lies, and prejudice.

As in Heaven

2021

Danish

6.2

♡ 5

95%

Action

Tea Lindeburg Director

Jesper Asholt as Doktor Lund

Thure Lindhardt as Far Anders

Flora Augusta as Kusine Grethe

Cyron Melville as Lasse

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.

Jude

1996

6.9

♡ 20

80%

73%

Action

Michael Winterbottom Director

David Tennant as Drunk Undergraduate

Dexter Fletcher as Priest

Kate Winslet as Sue Bridehead

Paul Bown as Uncle Jim

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

Effigy: Poison and the City

2019

German

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Udo Flohr Director

Ruben Apel as Hans

Uwe Bohm as Kommissar Tonjes

Peer Roggendorf as Rademacher Rumpff

Tim Ehlert as Rechtsanwalt Voget

1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together – while the other would do anything not to lose hers. -- Based on a true story.

Vincent & Theo

1990

brother brother relationship

6.9

♡ 12

Robert Altman Director

Kitty Courbois as Anna Van Gogh

Jean-Pierre Castaldi as 'Pere' Tanguy

Paul Rhys as Theodore 'Theo' Van Gogh

Tim Roth as Vincent Van Gogh

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

Amour Fou

2014

German

6.3

♡ 2

88%

Jessica Hausner Director

Christian Friedel as Heinrich

Vincent Krüger as Kaufmann 1

Hana Sofia Lopes as Older Sister

Katharina Schüttler as Sophie

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.

The Chess Players

1977

Hindi

7.5

♡ 11

91%

Satyajit Ray Director

Richard Attenborough as General Outram

Shabana Azmi as Khurshid, Mirza's wife

Amitabh Bachchan as Narration

Victor Banerjee as Prime Minister

In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.

Van Gogh

1991

7.1

♡ 8

77%

Maurice Pialat Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Cathy

André Bernot as La Butte Rouge

Edith Vesperini as Les filles

Jacques Dutronc as Vincent Van Gogh

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.

Swann in Love

1984

6.5

♡ 4

56%

53%

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Alain Delon as Baron de Charlus

Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann

Marie-Christine Barrault as Madame Verdurin

Ornella Muti as Odette de Crecy

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odette's complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus pursues his own ill-advised romance.

Louis Cyr

2013

7.4

♡ 2

Daniel Roby Director

Elias Toufexis as Bryce Johnston

Frédéric Lemay as Pierrot Cyr

Alain Goulem as Professor Attila

Gil Bellows as Richard Kyle Fox

Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.

Louis van Beethoven

2020

German

6.3

♡ 3

Niki Stein Director

Ulrich Noethen as Christian Gottlob Neefe

Tobias Moretti as Ludwig van Beethoven

Johanna Gastdorf as Therese

Sabin Tambrea as Tobias Pfeiffer

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconventional genius and French Revolution are sparking a fire in Louis' heart; he doesn't want to serve a master - only the arts. Facing times of family tragedies and unrequited love, he almost gives up. However, Louis makes it to Vienna to study under Haydn in 1792, and the rest is history. Who was this man, whose music has since touched countless hearts and minds? At the end of his life, the master is isolated by loss of loved ones and hearing. Surely though, he was way ahead of his times.

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

8.0

♡ 5

Andrew Grieve Director

Neil Conrich as Bailiff

Ian McElhinney as Captain Hammond

Ioan Gruffudd as Commander Horatio Hornblower

Tony Haygarth as Master Prowse

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Peterloo

2018

6.5

♡ 30

67%

Mike Leigh Director

Leo Bill as John Tyas

Karl Johnson as Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary

Philip Whitchurch as Magistrate Col Fletcher

Philip Martin Brown as Mill Owner

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov

1980

Russian

7.6

♡ 7

Nikita Mikhalkov Director

Oleg Tabakov as Ilya Ilyich Oblomov

Evgeniy Steblov as Oblomov's father

Elena Solovey as Olga

Nikolai Pastukhov as Stoltz's father

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

The Barber of Siberia

1998

Russian

7.6

♡ 5

13%

Nikita Mikhalkov Director

Julia Ormond as Dzheyn

Nikita Mikhalkov as Imperator Aleksandr III

Jason Done as Kadet

Richard Harris as Makkreken

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.

Perdida

2023

Portuguese

6.1

♡ 1

Action

affectation