Topic: 12th Century

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Glenn Close · Patrick Stewart · Andrew Howard · Antal Konrád

Plot An elderly king must come to terms with his past as he plots his nation's future in this historical drama. In 1183, aging monarch King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) decides...

Direction Gustavo Pérez Puig

Cast Emilio Gutiérrez Caba · Fernando Guillén · Elisa Ramirez · Agustín González

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideaki Ito · Masanobu Ando · Koichi Sato · Kaori Momoi

Plot Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Django... West drinks from East, East drinks from West and Takashi Miike, at this point in his career, raises his glass fearlessly to surprise us...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Nour El-Sherif · Laila Eloui · Mahmoud Hemida · Safia El-Amary

Plot The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes (ebn roshd) is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Orlando Bloom · Eva Green · Jeremy Irons · Liam Neeson

Plot Set in 12th century Europe and the exotic East, "The Kingdom of Heaven" is an epic romantic action film about a young peasant (Orlando Bloom) who becomes a renowned knight,...

Direction Peter Flinth

Cast Joakim Nätterqvist · Sofia Helin · Stellan Skarsgard · Milind Soman

Plot Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

Direction David Butler

Cast Rex Harrison · Virginia Mayo · George Sanders · Laurence Harvey

Direction Andrei Borissov

Cast Stepanida Borissova · Sergei Egorov · Gernot Grimm · Orgil Makhaan

Direction Mailisi · Saifu

Cast Ai Liya · Tu Men · Basen · Bayaertu

Direction Dick Powell

Cast John Wayne · Susan Hayward · Pedro Armendáriz · Agnes Moorehead

Plot In ancient times, the Mongolian warlord Temujin must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father. The battles pale in comparison with Temujin's home life, as he attempts...

Direction Hansjörg Thurn

Cast Bert Tischendorf · Michael Steinocher · Emilia Schüle · Sebastian Ströbel

Plot The young Isenhart grows at the castle guards to Laurin. Together with his friend Konrad he receives all the privileges of nobility. But it happens a cruel murder: Anna Isenhart's...

Direction Renzo Martinelli

Cast Rutger Hauer · Raz Degan · F. Murray Abraham · Christo Jivkov

Plot In Italy, year 1100, the Northern lands are ruled by the German Emperor Barbarossa. His dream is to also conquer the lands in the center and the South to revive...

Direction Byron W. Thompson

Cast Rutger Hauer · Joanna Pacula · Arnold Vosloo · John Vernon

Plot A beautiful female warrior returns from fighting in the Crusades only to discover that her young son has been abducted by a vengeful ex-Lord in director Byron W. Thompson's violent...

Direction Tom Reeve

Cast James Purefoy · Piper Perabo · Patrick Swayze · Michael Clarke Duncan

Plot The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that...

Direction W.D. Hogan

Cast Tim Abell · William Mendieta · Mapi Galán · Nicholas Kadi

Plot Rene is a dedicated warrior-monk of the famed Knights Templar, a religious order whose mission to protect Christian pilgrims has degenerated into a power grab for wealth and influence in...

Direction Juanra Fernández

Cast Álvaro de Luna · Javier Pereira · Borja Manero

Direction Antonio Hernández

Cast Sergio Peris-Mencheta · Natasha Yarovenko · Manuel Martínez · Adrián Lamana

Plot A 12th-century knight-errant wanders the world fighting injustice and is accompanied by his faithful friends Crispin and Goliath.

Direction Josep María Canyameras

Cast Abel Folk · Imanol Arias · Elisenda Bautista · Blanca Martínez

Direction Christian Arnet

Cast Jan Guillou · Peter Englund · Gunnar Eriksson

Plot An historical journey through 12th century Sweden following a Templar named Arn.

Direction Sebastian Graham Jones · Graham Theakston · Ken Grieve · Richard Stroud

Cast Derek Jacobi · Michael Culver · Julian Firth · Terrence Hardiman

Plot A Crusader-turned-Monk uses his botanical knowledge to solve mysteries in the old Norman England town of Shrewsbury.