Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Drama | History | Thriller
A young program coordinator at the United Nations stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.
Starring: Theo James, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Kingsley, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Wilson, Belçim Bilgin
Director: Per Fly
The Post (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon
Director: Steven Spielberg
Kelebegin Rüyasi / The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Starring: Kivanç Tatlitug, Mert Firat, Belçim Bilgin, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Yilmaz Erdogan, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Director: Yilmaz Erdogan
The Black Prince (2017)
Drama | History
'The Black Prince' is a story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh. His character as it evolves, torn between two cultures and facing constant dilemmas as a result. His relationship with Queen Victoria will be the most impactful relationship in the film, the Queen representing the English culture he was drawn into. The Black Prince begins a lifelong struggle to regain his Kingdom. It takes him on an extraordinary journey across the world.
Starring: Satinder Sartaaj, Jason Flemyng, Shabana Azmi, Amanda Root, David Essex, Sophie Stevens, Keith Duffy, Rup Magon, Ameet Chana
Director: Kavi Raz
Kray / The Edge (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Oleksiy Gorbunov, Anna Ukolova, Anjorka Strechel
Director: Aleksey Uchitel
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
