Topic: 15th Century

Direction Kim Jung Min · Park Hyun Suk

Cast Moon Chae-won · Park Shi-hoo · Song Jong-ho · Hong Soo-hyun

Plot A tragic love story between the daughter of Prince Suyang and grandson of Kim Jong Seo. The son of Kim Jongseo, Seungyoo, is a handsome and wise man who carries...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Maria Falconetti · Eugene Silvain · Maurice Schutz · Michel Simon

Plot Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Keith Baxter · John Gielgud · Jeanne Moreau

Plot Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's...

Direction Richard Curtis · Rowan Atkinson · Martin Shardlow · Geoff Posner

Cast Rowan Atkinson · Stephen Frost · Tim McInnerny · Tony Robinson

Plot TV Series (1983-1989). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....

Direction Israel del Santo

Cast Aitana Sánchez-Gijón · Eduardo San Juan · Nacho Acero · José Sisenando

Plot TV Miniseries (2019). 8 Episodes. A historical drama miniseries that tells the story of the first thirty years after Columbus' first voyage to the New World. It centers on 30...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Florence Delay · Jean-Claude Fourneau · Marc Jacquier · Roger Honorat

Plot Captured for her part in leading French troops to war against the English and her support of Charles VII, Joan faces trial under the direction and influence of the English...

Direction Thea Sharrock

Cast Tom Hiddleston · John Hurt · Julie Walters · Richard Griffiths

Plot Hal is now a responsible monarch as Henry V,his rejection of Falstaff hastening the latter's death. Told by courtiers that,through Edward III,he has a claim to the French throne he...

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Keeley Hawes · Ben Daniels · Geoffrey Streatfield

Plot After a long civil war between the royal families of York and Lancaster, England enjoys a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents the...

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Sophie Okonedo · Stanley Townsend · Geoffrey Streatfield

Plot The young King Henry returns from his victory in France with his new bride, the ambitious and domineering Margaret of Anjou. The gloating Earl of Suffolk believes that he will...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · André Marcon · Jean-Louis Richard · Marcel Bozonnet

Plot Sequel of Joan the Maid I - The Battles. Joan The Maid: The Prisons continues with Joan and the Dauphin of France embarking on a series of victories. But Joan...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Plot The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of...

Direction Jon Cassar · Jan Michelini · Christian Duguay

Cast Daniel Sharman · Synnove Karlsen · Jacopo Olmo Antinori · Edward Dring

Plot 1470. Medici's family power has been consolidated over time. Lorenzo is called to take his father's place after an attempt on his life which reveals years of poor bank management...

Direction Roberto Benigni · Massimo Troisi

Cast Massimo Troisi · Roberto Benigni · Iris Peynado · Amanda Sandrelli

Plot Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Marcello Di Falco · Virgilio Gazzolo · Tom Felleghy · Mario Erpichini

Plot The lives of artists Cosimo de Medici and Leon Alberti are catalogued in an effort to portray the Renaissance art of Italy from the 1400s. The four hours are an...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Jeremy Irons · Tom Hiddleston · Julie Walters

Plot In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Simon Russell Beale · Tom Hiddleston · Jeremy Irons · Joe Armstrong

Plot The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, defies his father, King Henry, by spending his time at Mistress Quickly's tavern in the company of the dissolute Falstaff and his companions....

Direction Jordi Frades · Oriol Ferrer · Salvador García Ruiz · Joan Noguera

Cast Michelle Jenner · Ramon Madaula · Rodolfo Sancho · Ainhoa Santamaría

Plot TV Series (2012-2014). 3 Seasons. 39 Episodes. This series is a biography about the Queen of Castile, Isabella the Catholic. The first season chronicles the period between 1461 and 1474:...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Plot In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed...