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Summary: In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Mexico, West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 370,000
Summary: In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Summary: The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Domestic: $ 46,808
Summary: In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
Summary: A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Summary: The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: Italy, United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Summary: A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the r...
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 205,067
Summary: The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Runtime: 2 h 43 min
MPAA: Passed

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 385,907
Summary: A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
Runtime: 2 h 42 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: Japan, United States
Language: Japanese
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 4,000,000
International: $ 18,532
Summary: Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king...
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Runtime: 3 h 27 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Movie budget: $ 125,000,000
Domestic: $ 318,649
International: $ 27,609
Summary: In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,500,000
Summary: King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: Passed

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 60,000
Summary: During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Summary: The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: R

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Summary: A maverick commander and a young general join forces to battle pirates who pillage small villages in 16th-century China. The violent clash of wits and weapons will ultimately decide who rules the land.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: China, Hong Kong
Language: Chinese
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 53,000
International: $ 9,506,524
Summary: A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,075,000
Summary: During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,791,328
International: $ 23,841,356
Summary: Nostradamus (1503-66) was a French doctor, astrologer and seer during the Inquisition, successful in treating patients during an outbreak of plague.
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 364,164