Top Historical Movies


The Top Historical Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Historical List". Lists are calculated daily.

121. Marie Antoinette

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Jason Schwartzman, Molly Shannon, Asia Argento, Jamie Dornan
Plot: The Biography of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, from birth to death told in a new era way.

122. A Dry White Season

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae

123. Travelling Players, The ( O thiasos )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Greek
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Actors: Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Stratos Pahis, Maria Vassiliou, Petros Zarkadis

124. King's Choice, The ( Kongens nei )

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erik Poppe
Actors: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Juliane Köhler, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Andreas Lust, Arthur Hakalahti

125. The Song of Bernadette

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere
Plot: A young peasant girl in 1858 France begins to see visions of a "beautiful lady" in the city dump. Although both church and government want nothing to do with her - the common people rally around her - thinking her vision is of the Virgin Mary herself. As she gains wider acclaim, she will transform lives.

126. Ivan the Terrible, Part II ( Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov

127. Witchfinder General ( Conqueror Worm, The )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Reeves
Actors: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell, Nicky Henson
Plot: Vincent Price plays Matthew Hopkins, a 17th century witch-hunter who
abused his limitless power to convict and burn hundreds of innocent
victims for money and power. When he uses his position to gain sexual
favors from a young woman, he doesn't count on her husband, a career
soldier, to cut of swathe of bloody retribution across the English
countryside in search of vengeance.

128. Masada

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Boris Sagal
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle, David Warner, Giulia Pagano

129. Anastasia

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Sacha Pitoëff

130. Taboo ( Gohatto )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba, Masa Tommies

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