Beloved (1998)
Drama | History | Horror
Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards, LisaGay Hamilton
Director: Jonathan Demme
Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers / The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (1954)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa, Yôko Minamida
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Comedy | History
Follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Jeffrey Tambor, Adrian McLoughlin
Director: Armando Iannucci
Darkest Hour (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | War
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Ronald Pickup
Director: Joe Wright
Handia / Giant (2017)
Drama | History
A story about the world's tallest man, this is an unsettling Basque-language period drama focused on sibling rivalry.
Starring: Ramón Agirre, Iñigo Aranburu, Iñigo Azpitarte, Aia Kruse, Eneko Sagardoy, Joseba Usabiaga
Director: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño
To Keep the Light (2016)
Drama | History
Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine.
Starring: Jarlath Conroy, Erica Fae, Meagen Fay, Gabe Fazio, David Patrick Kelly
Director: Erica Fae
Ikitie / The Eternal Road (2017)
Drama | History
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Starring: Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund, Ville Virtanen, Sampo Sarkola
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
Sekigahara (2017)
History | War
A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Kasumi Arimura, Kôji Yakusho
Director: Masato Harada
Maze (2017)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Starring: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh, Aaron Monaghan, Niamh McGrady, Ross McKinney
Director: Stephen Burke
A Taxi Driver / Taeksi Woonjunsa (2017)
Action | Drama | History
A widowed father and taxi driver takes a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Thomas Kretschmann, Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu, Hyuk-kwon Park, Gwi-hwa Choi
Director: Hun Jang
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Fantasy | History | Mystery
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper.
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Anthony Head, Chris Cox, John DiMaggio, Grey DeLisle
Director: Sam Liu
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Biography | Family | History
A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Macdonald, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Lawther, Stephen Campbell Moore
Director: Simon Curtis
Chasing the Dragon / Chui lung (2017)
Action | Biography | Crime | History
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Philip Ng, Kent Cheng, Kang Yu, Philip Keung
Director: Jason Kwan, Jing Wong
James Clavell's Shogun / Shogun (1980)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern, Miiko Taka, Nobuo Kaneko
Director: Jerry London
Winter in Wartime / Oorlogswinter (2008)
Drama | History | War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver, Anneke Blok
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Liken: Esther and the King (2006)
Family | History | Musical | Romance
When a modern-day girl named Amelia faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible. Esther, an orphan raised by a relative named Mordecai, is chosen from all the maidens in the land to become queen. While becoming a queen is where most fairy tales end, this is just the beginning of the true story of this courageous woman who must risk her life to save her people from a treacherous plan of the charmingly wicked prince Haman. Through reliving the story of Esther, Amelia gains an understanding of the power of fasting and how it can help her learn courage.
Starring: Dallyn Vail Bayles, Lori Broadhead, Erik Denton, Frank Gerrish, Brian Hadfield
Director: Dennis Agle Jr., Aaron Edson
Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield / Xiu chun dao II: xiu luo zhan chang (2017)
Action | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
In the Ming dynasty of China, Shen Lian, a secret police of corrupt government, is trapped by the conspiracy on a mission. To prove the innocence, he seeks the truth with a girl called Bei Zhai.
Starring: Chen Chang, Mi Yang, Yi Zhang, Shih-Chieh King, Jiayin Lei, Zhilei Xin
Director: Yang Lu
Salyut-7 / Salyut 7 (2017)
Action | Drama | History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Starring: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Oksana Fandera, Lyubov Aksyonova, Vitaliy Khaev, Mariya Mironova
Director: Klim Shipenko
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas, Ike Barinholtz, Tony Goldwyn, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Peter Landesman
Viceroy's House (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow
Director: Gurinder Chadha
