Movie List for "history"

Fin de siècle (1998) History Movie

N/A Year 1998.

Generes: History
Director: Claude Champion
Writer: Nicolas Buri, Claude Champion
Actors: Mireille Perrier, Robert Bouvier, Laurent Sandoz, Julien Basler

Pirosmani (1969) Biography Drama History Movie

The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani. Year 1969.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Giorgi Shengelaia
Writer: Erlom Akhvlediani, Giorgi Shengelaia
Actors: Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Zurab Kapianidze

Les Misérables (1995) Drama History Movie

A variation on Victor Hugo’s classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Year 1995.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writer: Victor Hugo, Claude Lelouch
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines

Bonaparte et la révolution (1971) Drama History Movie

Abel Gance’s 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 ‘Napoleon’, which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this ve… Year 1971.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Abel Gance
Writer: Abel Gance
Actors: Albert Dieudonné, Annabella, Antonin Artaud

Angélique (1964) Adventure Drama History Movie

In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer. Year 1964.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, History
Director: Bernard Borderie
Writer: Anne Golon, Serge Golon, Claude Brulé
Actors: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort

Fort Saganne (1984) Drama History War Movie

French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. He catches the eye of Madeline, the dau… Year 1984.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Alain Corneau
Writer: Alain Corneau, Louis Gardel, Henri de Turenne
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve

1922 (1978) Drama History Movie

The consequences of the Destruction of Smyrna and the Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey, as seen through the eyes of three characters who were dragged to the arid plains of Anatolia only to succumb to hunger, thirst, and the winner… Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Nikos Koundouros
Writer: Stratis Karras, Nikos Koundouros, Ilias Venezis
Actors: Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas, Nikos Kapios

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) Biography Comedy History Movie

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and–most of all–the omnipresence o… Year 1969.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, History
Director: Luigi Comencini
Writer: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Luigi Comencini, Giacomo Casanova
Actors: Leonard Whiting, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lionel Stander

Malliswari (1951) Drama History Musical Movie

Nagaraju and Malliswari want to get married. The mother of Malliswari, Nagamma, sends her to rani vasam at Krishnadevaraya palace. Nagaraju tries to get her back at the risk of getting beheaded if caught in the palace. Year 1951.

Generes: Drama, History, Musical
Director: B.N. Reddi
Writer: Buchi Babu, Devulapalli Venkata Krishna Sastri
Actors: Doraiswamy, Subba Rao K.V., Surabhi Kamalabai

The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Biography Drama History Movie

A Joan of Arc’s trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion. Year 1962.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Robert Bresson
Writer: Robert Bresson, Pierre Champion
Actors: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat

History of the World: Part I (1981) Comedy History Musical Movie

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes. Year 1981.

Generes: Comedy, History, Musical
Director: Mel Brooks
Writer: Mel Brooks
Actors: Mel Brooks, Gregory Hines, Dom DeLuise

Sri Krishnanjaneya Yuddham (1972) Action Drama History Movie

When a Hindu Hermit complains to Bhagwan Shri Kishan that his prayers have been interrupted and he has been humiliated, the later decides to use his Sudarshan Chakra to behead the culprit, Chitrasen. No one dares to oppose Kishanj… Year 1972.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Rao C.S.R.
Writer: Samudrala Jr.
Actors: Devika, S.V. Ranga Rao, N.T. Rama Rao