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.

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.

The Wind and the Lion

1975

English

6.8

♡ 23

63%

political negotiations

John Milius Director

Roy Jenson as Admiral Chadwick

Sean Connery as Raisuli

Vladek Sheybal as The Bashaw

Brian Keith as Theodore Roosevelt

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

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.

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955

Swedish

7.7

♡ 19

100%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Bibi Andersson as Actress

Eva Dahlbeck as Desiree Armfeldt

Gunnar Björnstrand as Fredrik Egerman

Gull Natorp as Malla

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

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.

Anglerfish

2022

English

4.9

♡ 2

Calvin Jacob Director

John Wilkins III as Jonathan

Paula Black as Juliette

Katy Wilson as Mary

Amidst apocalyptic darkness and endless war, a young couple's mundane relationship is threatened by the arrival of a mysterious widow and a supernatural force that lurks in the forest around their cabin.

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.

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.

Cavalcade

1933

English

5.8

♡ 11

64%

Frank Lloyd Director

Mary Stewart as Dancer / Singer

Margaret Lindsay as Edith Harris

Una O'Connor as Ellen Bridges

Eric Wilton as Robert - Marryot's Later Butler

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.

The Grey Fox

1982

English

7.3

♡ 11

100%

Phillip Borsos Director

Stephen E. Miller as Danny Young

Timothy Webber as Sergeant Fernie

Tom Glass as The Mountie

Tom Heaton as Tom

Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison. A genial and charming old man, he re-enters a world unfamiliar to him, and returns to the only thing that gives him purpose — robbery.

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 Greatest Game Ever Played

2005

English

7.4

♡ 42

62%

Bill Paxton Director

Shia LaBeouf as Francis Ouimet

Peter Firth as Lord Northcliffe

Marnie McPhail as Mary Ouimet

Peyton List as Sarah Wallis

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

Legends of the Fall

1994

English

7.5

♡ 131

61%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

early 1900s

journey around the world

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Edward Zwick Director

Bill Croft as Bartender

Anthony Hopkins as Col. William Ludlow

Kenneth Welsh as Sheriff Tynert

Brad Pitt as Tristan Ludlow

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

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A Girl from Hunan

The Last Tycoon

Vsadnik po imeni Smert

The Wind and the Lion

Sunday Light

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Smiles of a Summer Night

The Littlest Horse Thieves

Anglerfish

Carrie

The Barber of Siberia

Cavalcade

The Grey Fox

Elisa & Marcela

The Greatest Game Ever Played

Legends of the Fall