Victoria & Abdul (
2017) | IMDb:
6.8
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Florence Foster Jenkins (
2016) | IMDb:
6.8
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Starring:
Meryl Streep
,
Hugh Grant
,
Simon Helberg
,
Rebecca Ferguson
,
Nina Arianda
,
Stanley Townsend
The Physician (
2013) | IMDb:
7.2
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Starring:
Tom Payne
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Olivier Martinez
,
Emma Catherine Rigby
,
Elyas M'Barek
Hummingbird (
2013) | IMDb:
6.2
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Starring:
Jason Statham
,
Agata Buzek
,
Vicky McClure
,
Victoria Bewick
,
Michelle Lee
,
Benedict Wong
Anonymous (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Starring:
Jamie Campbell Bower
,
Rhys Ifans
,
David Thewlis
,
Joely Richardson
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Sebastian Armesto
Chéri (
2009) | IMDb:
6.1
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Starring:
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Kathy Bates
,
Rupert Friend
,
Felicity Jones
,
Iben Hjejle
,
Frances Tomelty
Directed by:
Stephen Frears
10,000 BC (
2008) | IMDb:
5.1
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Starring:
Steven Strait
,
Camilla Belle
,
Cliff Curtis
,
Nathanael Baring
,
Mo Zinal
,
Affif Ben Badra
Hannibal Rising (
2007) | IMDb:
6.1
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a med student he hones his appetite for the kill.
The Constant Gardener (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Danny Huston
,
Bill Nighy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Richard McCabe
Sunshine (
1999) | IMDb:
7.5
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rosemary Harris
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Jennifer Ehle
,
Deborah Kara Unger
,
William Hurt
The Peacemaker (
1997) | IMDb:
6
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
Starring:
George Clooney
,
Nicole Kidman
,
Marcel Iureș
,
Aleksandr Baluev
,
Rene Medvešek
,
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Mary Reilly (
1996) | IMDb:
5.8
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Directed by:
Stephen Frears
Braveheart (
1995) | IMDb:
8.3
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Catherine McCormack
,
Sophie Marceau
,
Patrick McGoohan
,
Angus Macfadyen
,
Brendan Gleeson