History Movies

Pretty Good for a Human

68/100

Rhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.

Ceplis

71/100

A story about the destructive human features: envy, greed, selfishness, cynicism, cruelty.

A Place Called Home

65/100

Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.

The Secret Ways

61/100

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.

Galileo

68/100

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. He has few supporters and many enemies. When Giordano Bruno dies a martyr's death... See full summary »

Bandit aus gutem Haus

67/100

Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the ... See full summary »

Boris Godunow

70/100

Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.

Kavirathna Kaalidaasa

78/100

Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.

Titanic

58/100

Voltaire

66/100

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ... See full summary »

Louis XV - Der Abstieg eines Königs

66/100

Liebesträume

71/100

Pianist and composer Liszt was giving performances all over Europe and made his famous concert tour to St. Petersburg, Russia. Liszt's brilliant piano playing impressed the Russian royalty ... See full summary »

Mayura

78/100

The movie presents the story of a saintly boy who realises his royal connections and his return to his rightful place

Belgrano

65/100

An Argentine film of the genre biopic, based on the life of the Argentine heroine Manuel Belgrano.

The Survivor

71/100

The Secret Agents

58/100

The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

Scipio the African

65/100

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius... See full summary »

Ungarische Rhapsodie

70/100

The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.

Seide und Schwert

71/100

Influence

42/100

Steeped in wonder and mystery, HISZPANKA (Influenz) tells the story of a group of clairvoyants committed to restoring the Polish state as World War One dwindles to an end. Gathered inside a... See full synopsis »