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Westerns, Wars & Period dramas

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  • Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, and Hamilton Morris in Sweet Country (2017)

    1. Sweet Country

    20171h 53mR88Metascore
    6.9 (9.8K)
    Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
    DirectorWarwick ThorntonStarsHamilton MorrisShanika ColeEwen Leslie
  • Jason Clarke in The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

    2. The Man with the Iron Heart

    20172hR
    6.4 (19K)
    As Germany expands its borders, scorching Europe from end to end, two brave Czechs of the Resistance prepare to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind behind the hideous "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question".
    DirectorCédric JimenezStarsJason ClarkeRosamund PikeJack O'Connell
  • Charles Dance and Maxine Peake in The Delivered (2019)

    3. The Delivered

    20191h 52m
    6.2 (2K)
    Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
    DirectorThomas ClayStarsMaxine PeakeCharles DanceFreddie Fox
  • Hermione Corfield in The Road Dance (2021)

    4. The Road Dance

    20211h 56m54Metascore
    7.1 (2K)
    A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
    DirectorRichie AdamsStarsHermione CorfieldWill FletcherMark Gatiss
  • Kathy Bates, Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Agnes O'Casey, and Eric D. Smith in The Miracle Club (2023)

    5. The Miracle Club

    20231h 30mPG-1349Metascore
    6.4 (8K)
    There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.
    DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsMaggie SmithLaura LinneyKathy Bates
  • Bill Nighy in Living (2022)

    6. Living

    20221h 42mPG-1381Metascore
    7.2 (38K)
    In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
    DirectorOliver HermanusStarsBill NighyAimee Lou WoodAlex Sharp
  • Jonathan Bailey, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, and Colin Ryan in Leonardo (2011)

    7. Leonardo

    2011–201226 epsTV Series
    6.5 (388)
    Fictitious account of young Leonardo da Vinci encountering Lisa Gherardini disguised as a boy, sparking his inspiration to paint the famed Mona Lisa portrait.
    CreatorsPia AshberryMelanie StokesDan DankoStarsJonathan BaileyColin RyanFlora Spencer-Longhurst
  • Boundless (2022)

    8. Boundless

    20226 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    6.8 (2.6K)
    Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago.
    CreatorMiguel Menéndez de ZubillagaStarsÁlvaro MorteRodrigo SantoroNiccolò Senni
  • Joseph Millson, Paul Marlon, and Rebecca Scott in War Blade (2024)

    9. War Blade

    20241h 34m
    3.8 (260)
    It follows agent Banks as he is tasked with rescuing a French resistance fighter from a hidden Nazi bunker.
    DirectorNicholas WinterStarsJoseph MillsonAde DimberlineAlice Dardenne
  • Colosseum (2022)

    10. Colosseum

    2022– 8 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    7.1 (561)
    It showcases the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Colosseum, one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity.
    StarsCampbell ScottAlexander MariottiRobert R. Cargill
  • Kasia Smutniak in Domina (2021)

    11. Domina

    2021–202316 epsTV-MATV Series
    7.3 (7.5K)
    The life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.
    CreatorSimon BurkeStarsAlex LanipekunEwan HorrocksMatthew McNulty
  • Jamie Bamber, Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata, and Varada Sethu in Strike Back (2010)

    12. Strike Back

    2010–202077 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.1 (35K)
    Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
    StarsPhilip WinchesterSullivan StapletonMichelle Lukes
  • Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon (2014)

    13. Closer to the Moon

    20141h 52mNot Rated47Metascore
    6.7 (4.4K)
    A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
    DirectorNae CaranfilStarsVera FarmigaMark StrongHarry Lloyd
  • Toby Stephens in Cambridge Spies (2003)

    14. Cambridge Spies

    20034 epsTV Mini Series
    7.4 (2.4K)
    The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
    StarsTom HollanderToby StephensRupert Penry-Jones
  • Matthew Broome, Guy Remmers, and Kristine Froseth in The Buccaneers (2023)

    15. The Buccaneers

    2023– 16 epsTV-14TV Series
    6.6 (8.4K)
    Sent to secure husbands and titles, young American women explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash.
    CreatorKatherine JakewaysStarsKristine FrosethAlisha BoeMatthew Broome
  • Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, and Jannis Niewöhner in Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

    16. Munich: The Edge of War

    20212h 10mPG-1353Metascore
    6.8 (38K)
    A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
    DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsGeorge MacKayJannis NiewöhnerJeremy Irons
  • A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

    17. A Dandy in Aspic

    19681h 47mApproved
    6.2 (1.5K)
    The British and Soviet intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin, a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin, as a pawn in a complex spy-game that takes place in Berlin.
    DirectorsAnthony MannLaurence HarveyStarsLaurence HarveyTom CourtenayMia Farrow
  • Bel Powley in A Small Light (2023)

    18. A Small Light

    20238 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    8.4 (15K)
    Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
    CreatorsTony PhelanJoan RaterStarsBel PowleyJoe ColeAmira Casar
  • Lezione 21 (2008)

    19. Lezione 21

    20081h 32m
    6.1 (392)
    A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
    DirectorAlessandro BariccoStarsJohn HurtNoah TaylorLeonor Watling
  • Jack Lowden in Benediction (2021)

    20. Benediction

    20212h 17mPG-1381Metascore
    6.6 (4.2K)
    Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
    DirectorTerence DaviesStarsJack LowdenThom AshleyOrlando Jopling
  • Niels Schneider in Sympathy for the Devil (2019)

    21. Sympathy for the Devil

    20191h 40m
    7.4 (726)
    In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
    DirectorGuillaume de FontenayStarsNiels SchneiderVincent RottiersElla Rumpf
  • John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in The Wall (2017)

    22. The Wall

    20171h 28mR57Metascore
    6.2 (34K)
    Two American soldiers are pinned down in the Iraqi desert by a lethal sniper with only a crumbling wall between them.
    DirectorDoug LimanStarsAaron Taylor-JohnsonJohn CenaLaith Nakli
  • A Hazard of Hearts (1987)

    23. A Hazard of Hearts

    19871h 30mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.7 (1.6K)
    When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley (Christopher Plummer) has lost his estate and all of his money playing dice, he realizes that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena (Helena Bonham Carter). In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Harry Wrotham (Edward Fox). Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Justin Vulcan (Marcus Gilbert), who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Harry Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes Staverley Court and Miss Serena. Lord Justin Vulcan wins and is simply pleased that he has saved someone from the nasty Wrotham, he thinks no more about the event. One evening, however, Vulcan's friend Lord Peter Gillingham (Robert Addie) insists upon them going to Staverley Court to take a look at Vulcan's "prize". When arriving there, Vulcan finds Serena Staverley more beautiful than he ever imagined.
    DirectorJohn HoughStarsDiana RiggEdward FoxHelena Bonham Carter
  • Lili Marleen (1981)

    24. Lili Marleen

    19812hR
    7.1 (4.6K)
    In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
    DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaGiancarlo GianniniMel Ferrer
  • Sean Flynn in Stop Train 349 (1963)

    25. Stop Train 349

    19631h 35m
    7.8 (127)
    Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
    DirectorRolf HädrichStarsJosé FerrerSean FlynnNicole Courcel

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