Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant 1980

7.09

O filme conta a realidade de uma guerra australiana onde três tenentes, que se juntaram ao exército britânico, são acusados injustamente de um crime. O julgamento vai apresentar um belo debate, levantando o tema da ética na guerra

1980

O Atirador

O Atirador 1976

7.05

O filme conta o final da vida de John Bernard (J.B.) Books, um veterano pistoleiro apelidado de "shootist", que no passado já havia matado mais de trinta homens. Em 1901, ele sofre de uma doença terminal (câncer na próstata) e vai à Carson City, (Nevada), (no livro era El Paso (Texas)). Sua intenção é visitar um médico, seu velho amigo Doc E.W. Hostetler, em busca de uma segunda opinião. Depois de confirmado o diagnóstico, Books aluga um quarto da viúva 'Bond' (apelido que significa "mulher") Rogers, que mora com o filho, Gillom Rogers. A presença de Books vira notícia, pois ele é muito famoso. E logo começam a chegar antigos inimigos à cidade. Mesmo debilitado, Books resolve confrontá-los, sabendo que esse será seu último desafio.

1976

Inimigos Públicos

Inimigos Públicos 2009

6.69

Ninguém conseguia parar Dillinger e o seu gang. Nenhuma prisão o conseguia deter. As suas encantadoras e audazes fugas fazem com que o povo se apaixone por ele numa altura em que os americanos não tinham qualquer simpatia pelos bancos que tinham feito cair o país numa depressão. Mas enquanto as aventuras do gang de Dillinger, incluindo posteriormente o sociopata Baby Face Nelson e Alvin Karpis, maravilhavam tudo e todos, o Presidente Hoover tinha intenção de capturar Dillinger de forma a elevar o seu Centro de Investigação à condição de policia nacional. Tornando Dillinger "Inimigo Público Número Um" atribui a Purvis, um impetuoso agente conhecido como "Clark Gable do FBI", a missão de capturar o mais famoso gangster da América.

2009

Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! 2001

7.53

Paris de 1899. Christian, um jovem com sonhos de ser poeta, desafia o seu pai quando passa a frequentar o submundo da cidade, precisamente o tradicional clube parisiense Moulin Rouge. Neste glamoroso refúgio de sexo e drogas, o inocente poeta conhece e apaixona-se por Satine, a grande estrela do clube e a cortesã mais famosa da cidade, com quem vive um trágico caso de amor.

2001

Haverá Sangue

Haverá Sangue 2007

8.08

Quando Plainview recebe uma misteriosa dica de que numa pequena cidade do Oeste um oceano de petróleo está revelar-se à superfície, dirige-se até lá com o seu filho, H.W., para tentar a sua sorte na pequena e pobre Little Boston. Nesta miserável cidade onde a maior atenção está nos fervorosos seguidores da igreja do carismático pregador Eli Sunday, Daniel Plainview e H.W. ganham a sorte grande comprando terras e descobrindo mais e mais poços de petróleo por explorar. Com o decorrer do tempo e o aumento da fortuna, nada se mantém igual e à medida que os conflitos vão aumentando todos os valores humanos – amor, esperança, comunidade, fé, ambição e mesmo os laços que unem pais e filhos – são ameaçados pela corrupção, pela decepção, ao ritmo dos fluxos de petróleo.

2007

Tolkien

Tolkien 2019

6.92

Tendo nascido em 1892 na África do Sul, o autor de “Hobbit” ficou órfão quando era um adolescente. “Tolkien”, filme realizado por Dome Karukoski, segue os anos formativos do escritor enquanto estudava em Birmingham e encontrou companhia num grupo de ‘outcasts’.

2019

Perdidos no Ártico

Perdidos no Ártico 2022

6.79

Em 1909, uma expedição dinamarquesa liderada pelo Capitão Ejnar Mikkelsen tenta contradizer a reivindicação dos Estados Unidos em relação ao território nordeste da Gronelândia, enraizada na ideia de que a a ilha estava dividida em duas partes. Deixando para trás a tripulação e o navio, Mikkelsen desliza sobre o gelo com o inexperiente Iver Iversen. Conseguem determinar que a Gronelândia é uma única ilha, mas o regresso ao barco acaba por ser mais longo e tortuoso do que esperavam. Após sobreviverem à fome extrema, à fadiga e ao ataque de um urso polar, conseguem regressar, mas encontram o navio engolido pelo gelo e o acampamento abandonado. Na esperança de serem resgatados, têm agora de se manter vivos. À medida que os dias se tornam maiores, a ligação mental à realidade começa a desaparecer e fomenta a desconfiança e a paranoia, uma perigosa combinação que ameaça a sobrevivência de ambos.

2022

The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga 2002

7.88

The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.

2002

Love Through a Prism

Love Through a Prism 2026

8.84

In early 1900s London, a young Japanese woman enrolls in a famous art school, only to be surprised when rivalry with a gifted classmate becomes romance.

2026

Vienna Blood

Vienna Blood 2019

7.33

Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.

2019

Lillie

Lillie 1978

8.40

The affair that shook Victorian society to its core: he was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.

1978

When Hope Calls

When Hope Calls 2019

8.60

Sisters Lillian and Grace open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, the duo strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the challenges of helping the children in their care.

2019

Theodosia

Theodosia 2022

7.60

In 1906 London, 14-year-old Theodosia “Theo” Throckmorton gathers an eclectic team that includes her younger brother Henry, along with friends Will and Egyptian Princess, Safiya, to fight a powerful secret society bent on destroying the world with ancient Egyptian dark magic.

2022

The Duchess of Duke Street

The Duchess of Duke Street 1976

8.00

The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

1976

Pit Pony

Pit Pony 1999

10.00

Pit Pony is a 1999 CBC television series which tells the story of small-town life in Glace Bay, on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1904. The plot line revolves around the lives of the families of the men and boys who work in the coal mines.

1999

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander 1984

8.30

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

1984

Tientsin Mystic

Tientsin Mystic 2017

6.84

In 1900s Tianjin, a shipping magnate is found mysteriously drowned and chained underwater, and police dive captain Guo Deyou becomes the prime suspect. As the victim’s son, Ding Mao, investigates, more strange drownings occur, forcing him to team up with Guo, a spirit medium, and a journalist. Their search uncovers a dark secret tied to a deadly cult from decades ago, now resurfacing to wreak havoc. Together, they must uncover the truth and stop the rising threat.

2017

There Will Be People

There Will Be People 2020

8.80

The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the changes in their own way through their concept of truth. However, all of them shared fundamental desire to live, love and find their own place in the new era.

2020

Casualty 1900s

Casualty 1900s 2008

7.90

Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago.

2008

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square 1998

7.70

Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.

1998

Paris Police 1900

Paris Police 1900 2021

6.40

Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

2021

The Last Czars

The Last Czars 2019

7.30

When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.

2019

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys 1978

6.00

The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.

1978

Flambards

Flambards 1979

6.80

In early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.

1979

A Little Princess

A Little Princess 1987

7.60

Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door. Based upon the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

1987