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Seven Samurai (1954)

Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Release Date: November 19, 1956

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Kingsley-International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Pictures, Films Incorporated, Janus Films, Landmark Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 318,649

International: $ 27,609

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
32 votes

Ugetsu (1953)

Summary: A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Release Date: September 07, 1954

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Hisakazu Tsuji

, Akinari Ueda

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,197

International: $ 13,762

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
16 votes

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

Summary: In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Release Date: August 26, 1983

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Daniel Vigne

Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière

, Janet Lewis

, Daniel Vigne

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Société Française de Production Cinématographique (S.F.P.C.), Production Marcel Dassault, France 3

Distributor: Orion Home Video, Cohen Media Group, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 3,723,036

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
6 votes

Don Juan (1926)

Summary: In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.

Release Date: February 19, 1927

Genres: Adventure, Romance

Director: Alan Crosland

Writers: Bess Meredyth

, Walter Anthony

, Lord Byron

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 546,000

97 - Rotten Tomatoes
38 votes

Intolerance (1916)

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.

Release Date: October 04, 1916

Genres: Drama, History

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Hettie Grey Baker

, Tod Browning

, D.W. Griffith

Runtime: 2 h 43 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: D.W. Griffith Productions

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Kino Video, Cohen Media Group, Film Detective, The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Blackhawk Films, Republic Pictures Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 385,907

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
89 votes

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 28,533

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
50 votes

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Summary: In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Release Date: April 03, 1977

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.

Distributor: Shout! Factory

Countries: Mexico, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 370,000

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
45 votes

Throne of Blood (1957)

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.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
19 votes

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Summary: King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Release Date: September 21, 1933

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Alexander Korda

Writers: Lajos Biró

, Arthur Wimperis

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: London Film Productions

Distributor: Film Classics, Alexander Korda Films, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Eclipse from the Criterion Collection, Film Detective, HBO Max, Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000

94 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 votes

Sin (2019)

Summary: The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Release Date: November 14, 2019

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writers: Elena Kiseleva

, Andrey Konchalovskiy

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky, Jean Vigo Italia, Rai Cinema, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Perviy Kanal, Regione Lazio

Distributor: Corinth Films

Countries: Russia, Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

93 - Rotten Tomatoes
114 votes

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: November 26, 1999

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writers: Hayao Miyazaki

, Neil Gaiman

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Nibariki, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Tokuma Shoten

Distributor: GKIDS, Miramax, HBO Max, Miramax Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 2,400,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,845,631

International: $ 165,125,921

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
140 votes

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Summary: The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Release Date: January 08, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: John Madden

Writers: Marc Norman

, Tom Stoppard

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Miramax, The Bedford Falls Company

Distributor: Miramax Home Entertainment, Starz, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 100,317,794

International: $ 189,000,000

91 - Rotten Tomatoes
65 votes

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

Summary: The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor.

Release Date: July 31, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Andy Tennant

Writers: Susannah Grant

, Andy Tennant

, Rick Parks

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), BYUtv, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 65,705,771

International: $ 32,299,895

90 - Rotten Tomatoes
48 votes

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Summary: Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

Release Date: July 02, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: William Shakespeare

, Kenneth Branagh

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Renaissance Films, American Playhouse Theatrical Films, BBC Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,549,338

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
211 votes

Shrek (2001)

Summary: A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.

Release Date: May 18, 2001

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Directors: Andrew Adamson

, Vicky Jenson

Writers: William Steig

, Ted Elliott

, Terry Rossio

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: DreamWorks Animation, Dreamworks Pictures, Pacific Data Images (PDI), Vanguard Films

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, American Movie Classics (AMC), Bravo!, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, Disney XD, DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada, Sweden

Language: English

Franchise: Shrek

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 268,163,011

International: $ 220,278,357

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
26 votes

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

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.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Twentieth Century Fox, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Fox Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,000,000

International: $ 18,532

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 votes

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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.

Release Date: August 23, 1961

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Roger Corman

Writers: Richard Matheson

, Edgar Allan Poe

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Alta Vista Productions

Distributor: Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Shout! Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
8 votes

The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)

Summary: Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.

Release Date: July 30, 2014

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Han-min Kim