Films & Events tagged with period piece

Anna Karenina

Keira Knightley re-teams with director Joe Wright (Atonement) for this visionary adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel about a society woman torn between loyalty to her husband and the desires of her heart.

Augustine

Set in Belle Époque France, director Alice Winocour's sensual, fiercely intelligent tale of female sexual awakening follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.

Gebo and the Shadow

Cinematic legends Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale and Michael Lonsdale star in the new film from legendary Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira.

The Last Supper

Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death) returns to the Festival with this breathtaking historical epic about the fall of the Qin Dynasty in the second century B.C.

Lines of Wellington

Valeria Sarmiento, the widow and frequent collaborator of the great Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (Mysteries of Lisbon), completes her late husband’s final project with this expansive and inventive historical epic set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

Lore

Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father is captured by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, a fourteen-year-old German girl (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl) must lead her four siblings on a gruelling trek across the war-ravaged countryside — and must put her trust in the very person she was taught to hate.

No

Gael Garcia Bernal stars in this gripping historical drama from director Pablo Larraín (Tony Manero), about a savvy young ad exec in 1988 Chile who is recruited to craft the political opposition's publicity campaign when the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet is put to a national plebiscite.

A Royal Affair

This sumptuous historical drama from writer-director Nikolaj Arcel (screenwriter of the original version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) chronicles the scandalous love triangle between a queen (Alicia Vikander), her German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen), and the mad King of Denmark (Mikkel Følsgaard).

Tai Chi 0

Martial arts meets steampunk in Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Fung's (Gen-X Cops) slick, stylish pop-art take on the life of Yang-lu Chan (played by new martial-arts sensation Yuan Xiaochao), founder of the Yang school of tai chi.

Tess

Roman Polanski’s gorgeous, sweeping version of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles returns in a glorious new 4K digital restoration.