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1. Dracula Untold (2014)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom.
Director: Gary Shore | Stars: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Art Parkinson
Votes: 207,715 | Gross: $56.28M
the 1440s, Transylvania
2. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Biography, Horror, Thriller
The dramatized story of Dracula, looking at the historic events rather than the Hollywood version.
Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand, Peter Weller
Votes: 2,673
the 1400s, Romania
3. Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013)
R | 100 min | Action, Fantasy
In his search for the Lightbringer, Dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named Alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride. One look at her and Dracula is ... See full summary »
Director: Pearry Reginald Teo | Stars: Luke Roberts, Kelly Wenham, Ben Robson, Holly Earl
Votes: 1,828
1453, Romania
4. Castlevania (2017–2021)
TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly creatures controlled by Dracula.
Stars: Richard Armitage, James Callis, Alejandra Reynoso, Theo James
Votes: 80,492
1455, Wallachia 1475, Wallachia
5. Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future.
Stars: Tom Riley, Gregg Chilingirian, Eros Vlahos, Laura Haddock
Votes: 79,208
1477 - ..., Italy
6. Medici (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 1,314 min | Biography, Drama, History
A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.
Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen, Sebastian De Souza
Votes: 22,315
1400s, 1429 - ... ,Italy
1470s, Italy
7. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius in Milan (2016)
90 min | Documentary
"Leonardo da Vinci. The Genius in Milan" is a docufilm by Luca Lucini and Nico Malaspina. Through scenes of fiction and interviews with the greatest Leonardo da Vinci world experts, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Luca Lucini, Nico Malaspina | Stars: Vincenzo Amato, Cristiana Capotondi, Alessandro Haber, Gabriella Pession
Votes: 85
8. The White Queen (2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Three different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.
Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, Faye Marsay
Votes: 31,412
1464 - ..., England
9. The White Princess (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII.
Stars: Jodie Comer, Rebecca Benson, Jacob Collins-Levy, Richard Dillane
Votes: 15,596
22 August 1485 - 1499 England
10. Assassin's Creed (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 208,930 | Gross: $54.65M
1492, Spain
11. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
PG-13 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean
Votes: 32,817 | Gross: $7.19M
1491 - 1492, Spain
12. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
PG-13 | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward
Votes: 3,225 | Gross: $8.25M
13. Isabel (2011–2014)
3,038 min | Biography, History
The life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic.
Stars: Michelle Jenner, Ramon Madaula, Rodolfo Sancho, Jordi Díaz
Votes: 2,525
1461 - 1504
14. The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)
TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, History, War
A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
Stars: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Georgeson, John Mackay
Votes: 7,318
1399—1420, England (season 1) ≈1455—1485, England (season 2)
15. The Silence of Joan (2011)
92 min | Biography
Joan of Arc's capture and execution in 1431.
Director: Philippe Ramos | Stars: Clémence Poésy, Thierry Frémont, Liam Cunningham, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 125
16. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud
Votes: 69,718 | Gross: $14.28M
17. Joan of Arc (1999)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Spurred by divine voices and visions, fifteenth century teen Joan d'Arc leads French forces against the English.
Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Chad Willett, Peter O'Toole, Neil Patrick Harris
Votes: 6,337
18. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)
TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, History, Musical
France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre
Votes: 1,172
19. The Advocate (1993)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Megahey | Stars: Colin Firth, Amina Annabi, Jim Carter, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 2,196 | Gross: $0.67M
1452, France
20. The Borgias (2011–2013)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Peter Sullivan
Votes: 53,957
21. Borgia (2011–2014)
TV-MA | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.
Stars: Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, John Doman
Votes: 7,220
March 1492 – June 1493 February 1494 – September 1494 1495 – 1507
22. The Borgia (2006)
120 min | Biography, History
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.
Director: Antonio Hernández | Stars: Lluís Homar, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, María Valverde, Sergio Múñiz
Votes: 1,659
1492 - 1504
23. The Whore (2010 TV Movie)
121 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julian Weigend, Nadja Becker
Votes: 851
1414 - 1415, Konstanz, Germany
24. Die Rache der Wanderhure (2012 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Marie and her husband Michel Adler have a happy life until Michel has to go to war against the Hussites for König Sigismund but does not come back. She not believe on his dead and starts her journey to find out what really happened to him.
Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julian Weigend, Johannes Krisch
Votes: 421
1427, Germany
25. Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure (2012 TV Movie)
121 min | Drama
In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Nennstiel | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julie Engelbrecht, Michael Steinocher
Votes: 290
1427, Germany
26. Asura (I) (2012)
76 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.
Director: Kei'ichi Sato | Stars: Masako Nozawa, Tesshô Genda, Megumi Hayashibara, Hiroaki Hirata
Votes: 1,408
Japan
27. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,071 | Gross: $0.10M
1400 - 1424, Russia
28. Conquest 1453 (2012)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Drama, History
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do - conquer Constantinople.
Director: Faruk Aksoy | Stars: Devrim Evin, Ibrahim Celikkol, Dilek Serbest, Cengiz Coskun
Votes: 59,090 | Gross: $0.07M
29. The Conclave (2006)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals met in Rome to elect a new pope. A 27-year-old Spanish cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, learns to play a very dangerous game; how to survive his first conclave.
Director: Christoph Schrewe | Stars: Manu Fullola, Brian Blessed, James Faulkner, Rolf Kanies
Votes: 617
30. The Maidens' Conspiracy (2006)
122 min | Adventure, Romance
Tirante the knight is as committed to fighting the Turks in Constantinople as he is to relieving Carmesina, the heiress to the Byzantine Empire, of her virginity.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Caspar Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio
Votes: 1,020
31. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.
Director: Mark Dindal | Stars: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton
Votes: 225,607 | Gross: $89.30M
32. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 433,956 | Gross: $2.38M
Muromachi Japan
33. The Hunchback (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Richard Harris, Salma Hayek, Edward Atterton
Votes: 1,852
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
G | 91 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Demi Moore, Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton
Votes: 171,753 | Gross: $100.14M
1482, Paris
35. The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002 Video)
G | 68 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Quasimodo goes into action when a magician seeks to steal one of the bells of Notre Dame.
Director: Bradley Raymond | Stars: Jason Alexander, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tom Hulce, Paul Kandel
Votes: 7,955
the 1480s, Paris
36. Witch Hunter's Bible (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary
Stars: Ronan Barbour, Christa Bella, Adrian Bustamante, Bruce Coughran
Votes: 18
37. Mad Love (2001)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
The love story that transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana "the Mad". A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a political motive behind.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Rosana Pastor, Giuliano Gemma
Votes: 4,056 | Gross: $0.28M
1496 - 1554
38. The King (I) (2019)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, History
Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, Tom Fisher, Edward Ashley
Votes: 152,959
based on several plays from William Shakespeare's "Henriad"
39. Joan of Arc (II) (2019)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama, History, War
In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) leads the army of the King ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez, Benoît Robail
Votes: 785
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