A HIDDEN LIFE (2019)
byAn Austrian conscientious objector refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II…
GENRE: PERIOD DRAMA
DOWNTON ABBEY (2019)
byThe continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early-20th-century.
AMADEUS (1984)
byThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.
LES MISERABLES (BBC, 2018)
byBBC TV adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as unrest beings to grip the city of Paris once more.
THE FAVOURITE (2018)
byIn early 18th-century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
THE SWORD OF DOOM (1966)
byThrough his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
THE WITCH (2015)
byI wasn’t surprised to learn that The Witch’s writer-director, Robert Eggers, is from New England (his hometown is Lee, New Hampshire, about an hour from…
SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
byWonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who…