‘Yellow Earth’ focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns… Year 1984.
| Generes: Drama, History, Music, Romance |
| Director: Kaige Chen |
| Writer: Kaige Chen, Lan Ke (novel), Ziliang Zhang (screenplay) |
| Actors: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan |
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. Year 1966.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Sergey Bondarchuk |
| Writer: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy (novel) |
| Actors: Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava |
N/A Year 1941.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Josef von Báky |
| Writer: Walter Lieck (play), Thea von Harbou (screenplay) |
| Actors: Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack, Karl Ludwig Diehl |
A young swordsman in 1930’s China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes “Let The Bullets Fly” and “Gone With The Bullets.” Year 2018.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Wen Jiang |
| Writer: Beihai Zhang (novel), Wen Jiang (screenplay), Jiping He (screenplay), Fei Li (screenplay), Yue Sun (screenplay) |
| Actors: Eddie Peng, Fan Liao, Yun Zhou, Qing Xu |
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century… Year 1987.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance |
| Director: Sergey Solovev |
| Writer: Sergey Livnev, Sergey Solovev |
| Actors: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov |
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. Year 2007.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Writer: Adolf Burger (book), Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay) |
| Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach |
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Vladimir Khotinenko |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Sergey Makovetskiy, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov |
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King … Year 2007.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, History, War |
| Director: Oleg Ryaskov |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov |
Based on a true story, North Face is a survival drama film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s … Year 2008.
| Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport |
| Director: Philipp Stölzl |
| Writer: Chris Silber, Philipp Stölzl, Rupert Henning, Johannes Naber, Benedikt Roeskau (story) |
| Actors: Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz |
During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. Year 2006.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Yimou Zhang |
| Writer: Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao (play), Nan Wu, Yimou Zhang |
| Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu |
A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Year 2011.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Tao Hai, Wei Li, Guoqiang Tang, Li Zhang, Jackie Chan |
| Writer: Xingdong Wang (screenplay), Baoguang Chen (screenplay) |
| Actors: Jackie Chan, Winston Chao, Bingbing Li, Chun Sun |
Young Czech-Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, investigates a murder conspiracy in 1880’s Vienna. Year 2020–.
| Generes: Biography, Crime, History, Thriller |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Robert Finster, Ella Rumpf, Georg Friedrich, Christoph F. Krutzler |
A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved –police, conspirators, victims, middlemen. Year 2004.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Anurag Kashyap |
| Writer: Anurag Kashyap (screenplay), Hussain Zaidi (book), Piyush Mishra (lyrics) |
| Actors: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav, Dibyendu Bhattacharya |
N/A Year 2006.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Writer: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Actors: Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniil Strakhov, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Yuriy Itskov |
N/A Year 1971.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Tengiz Abuladze |
| Writer: Akhmed Abu-Bakar (story “A Necklace for my Serminaz”), Tengiz Abuladze, Akhmed Abu-Bakar, Tamaz Meliava |
| Actors: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Nani Bregvadze, Erosi Manjgaladze, Gogi Gegechkori |
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Year 1939.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood |
| Writer: Margaret Mitchell (story of the old south “Gone with the Wind”), Sidney Howard (screenplay) |
| Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes |