Hero (2002), Bill (2015), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Love Among the Ruins (1974), Amadeus (1984), The Party (1968), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Brief Encounter (1945) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Period Piece movies.
Storyline: Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
Plot Keywords: action, drama, historical, romance, war, artistic, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream, explaining the "lost years" of Shakespeare.
Plot Keywords: adventure, animation, comedy, family, music, fantasy, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A plot to drive a man insane backfires when the intended victim adopts his late father's sadistic persona.
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, psychological thriller, period piece, torture, madness, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, tv movie, classic, british, laurence olivier, nostalgic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God's rewards for his piety. He's also content as the respected, financially well-off, court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. But he's shocked to learn that Mozart is such a vulgar creature, and can't understand why God favored Mozart to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is ready to take revenge against God and Mozart for his own musical mediocrity.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, music, classical music, 18th century, court, jealousy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, british film, black and white, 1960s, absurd, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, drama, mystery, crime, stylized, eccentric characters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small café, although they know that their love is impossible.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british film, black and white, classic, extramarital affair, train station ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Plot Keywords: gangster, crime, drama, classic, american, 1930s, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacy is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacy's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie...
Plot Keywords: coming of age, drama, small-town life, 1950s, texas, nostalgia, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, school, teacher, british, classic, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Sir Anthony Hopkins) should be King. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive King choose his or her option.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, court, power struggle, family conflict, medieval, british history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, 1920s, american film, black and white, classic film, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two teenage girls (Amanda Plummer, Diane Lane) rally what's left of the Doolin-Dalton outlaw gang after Doolin (Burt Lancaster) is caught.
Plot Keywords: western, drama, outlaw, biographical, historical, adventure, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, british film, 1980s, friendship, alcoholism, london, absurdity ...
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