Top Historical Movies


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

191. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen ( Jing mo fung wan: Chen Zhen )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wai-keung Lau
Actors: Donnie Yen, Qi Shu, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Yasuaki Kurata, Karl Dominik, Ryu Kohata
Plot: Seven years ago Chen Zhen was shot after discovering who was behind his teacher's murder in Shanghai. Yet he did not die and returns to infiltrate the local mob while fighting crime by night as a caped fighter. He will not stop until everyone responsible has been dealt with.

192. Cleopatra

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, Edwin Maxwell

193. The Egyptian

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Peter Ustinov, Edmund Purdom

194. Antony and Cleopatra

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charlton Heston
Actors: Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey, Freddie Jones

195. Beyond the Edge

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leanne Pooley
Actors: Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa, John Wraight, Joshua Rutter, Daniel Musgrove, Erroll Shand

196. Aftershock ( Tangshan dadizhen )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Actors: Jingchu Zhang, Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Guoqiang Zhang, Jin Chen, Fan Xu
Plot: Shows the extraordinary lengths that a family will go through in the face of tragedy when China is rocked by the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that caused the deaths of 240,000 people.

197. The Time That Remains

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Suleiman
Actors: Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Avi Kleinberger, Amer Hlehel, Menashe Noy
Plot: One man's journey using the backdrop of the history of Israel from its
formation in 1948 through present day.

198. Marquise of O ( Marquise von O..., Die )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr, Otto Sander, Eduard Linkers

199. German Doctor, The ( Wakolda )

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Historical/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lucía Puenzo
Actors: Natalia Oreiro, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Florencia Bado, Guillermo Pfening, Elena Roger
Plot: At the end of WWII, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, Josef Mengele, fled to Argentina. This is the story of a family who unknowingly sheltered him, and the woman who fell in love with one of the most notorious figures in history.

200. 12th Man, The ( Den 12. mann )

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Harald Zwart
Actors: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Vegar Hoel, Håkon T. Nielsen

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