The Young Victoria (2009)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
Action | Drama | History
In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.
Starring: Alexander Dreymon, Harry Gilby, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Cavan Clerkin, James Northcote
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Tetris (2023)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Toby Jones, Nikita Efremov, Togo Igawa, Roger Allam, Matthew Marsh
Director: Jon S. Baird
Battle for Saipan (2022)
Action | History | War
When a US Army hospital on the remote island of Saipan is overrun by Japanese forces, a lone medic puts it all on the line to lead a band of wounded warriors to safety in this edge-of-your- seat WWII ep
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Louis Mandylor, Jeff Fahey, Eoin O'Brien, Jennifer Wenger, Devanny Pinn, Randall J. Bacon
Director: Brandon Slagle
Boston Strangler (2023)
Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane, David Dastmalchian
Director: Matt Ruskin
The Fighting Preacher (2019)
Comedy | Drama | History
When Willard and Rebecca Bean are called on a mission to a town that's hostile towards them, they must choose whether to fight for their right to live there or love their hostile neighbors.
Starring: David McConnell, Charley Boon, Kenna Dawn, Steve Anderson, Richard Benedict, Liz Christensen
Director: T.C. Christensen
Bathory / Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
Biography | Drama | Fantasy | History
With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
Starring: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson, Franco Nero, Anthony Byrne
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
The Countess / La comtesse (2009)
Biography | Drama | History | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
Starring: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca, Sebastian Blomberg, Charly Hübner
Director: Julie Delpy
De Heineken ontvoering / The Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
Crime | History | Thriller
A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Gijs Naber, Teun Kuilboer, Korneel Evers
Director: Maarten Treurniet
She Said (2022)
Drama | History
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, Angela Yeoh
Director: Maria Schrader
Till (2022)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Kingdom 2: Far and Away / Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (2022)
Action | Adventure | History | War
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Amane Okayama, Takahiro Miura
Director: Shinsuke Sato
De Gaulle (2020)
Biography | Drama | History
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Tim Hudson, Gilles Cohen
Director: Gabriel Le Bomin
Call Jane (2022)
Drama | History
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith
Director: Phyllis Nagy
The Woman King (2022)
Action | Drama | History
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Starring: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Jordan Bolger
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Amsterdam (2022)
Comedy | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Starring: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana
Director: David O. Russell
Hibiscus Town / Fu rong zhen (1986)
Drama | History | Romance
Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution.
Starring: Xiaoqing Liu, Wen Jiang
Director: Jin Xie
Operation Seawolf (2022)
Action | Adventure | History | Mystery | Thriller | War
In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats, for one last mission, to attack the United States Homeland.
Starring: Frank Grillo, Dolph Lundgren, Hiram A. Murray
Director: Steven Luke
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventure | Drama | Family | History
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong / Cat yan ngok deoi (2020)
Drama | History
Seven of Hong Kong's leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Starring: Timmy Hung, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng, Sire Ma, Jennifer Yu, Ian Iskandar Gouw, Wah Yuen
Director: Ann Hui, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Woo-Ping Yuen
