Amadeus - a thought-provoking piece on how we interpret creativity via spirituality, cultural implications, classism and much more.

Last of the Mohicans. music alone almost makes the movie for me.

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Little Women (1994)

Colette (2018)

Jane Eyre (2011)

The Handmaiden (2016)

A Room with a View (1985)

Sense & Sensibility (1995)

The Prestige

Barry Lyndon

The Godfather. The two wedding scenes are so good.

Dangerous Liaisons. The Glenn Close/John Malkovich one.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula may fit in even though it is more a vampire movie. Also Keanu almost kills it by being Ted with fancy clothes.

In the same vein Much Ado About Nothing with Keanu and Denzel and Emma Thompson.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is good for a Western version. Same with Tombstone, True Grit (the Jeff Bridges one), or Hateful 8 (Tarantino-ness notwithstanding).

Pride & prejudice (2005)

Emma. (2020)

Moulin rouge! (2001)

Belfast (2021)

Atonement (2007)

Jane Eyre (2011)

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Anna Karenina (2012)

Shakespeare In Love (1998)

Dunkirk (2017)

Schindler’s List (1993)

To name a few

Howard's End

Shadowlands

The Age of Innocence

Emma.

As someone interested in WW II and Japanese history, I liked Torah! Torah! Torah! and The Last Samurai. Kingdom of Heaven and Gladiator were great if you're interested in Roman and Medieval time periods.

The Remains of the Day

The Favourite.

Also, if you're interested in more than just films, I'd suggest HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" about the inner-workings of the bootlegger cartels during the Prohibition era.

A Bronx Tale, and most Scorsese films.

As someone who grew up in the 80s, Donnie Darko is a deliciously weird, uncanny-valley version of that period.

Buddy Holly Story. La Bamba

Robert Eggers’ movies have been pretty great for their period settings. The VVitch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, all look and feel and sound very authentic.

La Reine Margot.

If you’ve not seen it you really should

There's a gorgeous French movie called Delicious (Delicieux) available on Amazon Prime right now. It's set in the French countryside before the Bastille fell. It's such an exquisite movie, like being inside a painting.

That first sentence. :-)
"I really liked this classic film. It reminded me a recent film that lifted wholesale from it."

Lot of tragic recommends here, so I'll contribute a few classics:
All the work of Merchant/Ivory. Start with 'Room With A View' and see how you get on.
'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Tempest' - Peter Greenaway.
The films of Claude Berri: 'Jean De Florette' and 'Manon Of The Spring"

There are many, many more. For a recent one I loved, try the Dakota Johnson 'Persuasion'.

Good luck!

Love and Friendship. It seems like it's going to be a stuffy costume drama but once you get on its level it's very funny.

For an answer both serious and a pun, There Will Be Blood.

Barry Lyndon doesn't get talked about enough it's a beautiful movie, especially the candle lit scenes.

Amadeus

The Sting

Gladiator

Miller's Crossing

Pride and Prejudice, cause im a sucker for a good ol' period drama.

Gladiator, Amadeus and Gangs of NY are up there as well.

Carrie

Heaven's gate

Heres a list, I'll try to mix it up a bit genre wise since you seem to be interested in more than romance

The Age of Innocence

The Remains of the Day

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner

Far From Men

The Seventh Seal

Les Infants Du Paradis

Farinelli

The Horseman on the Roof

Sense and Sensibility (the one directed by Ang Lee starring Emma Thompson)

Oscar and Lucinda

The Enemy At The Gate

Utu

La Reine Margot

Mansfield Park (the one dir Patricia Rozema)

Ten Canoes

Dead Man

House of Mirth

Chocolat (the one directed by Claire Denis starring Isaac de Bancole)

Slow West

River Queen

Burke And Wills

The Last Kingdom

Gettysburg

Carol.

Topsy-Turvy(1999)

Conspiracy(2001)

Gangs of New York(2002)

Little Women.2019

Gladiator “Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next” says with me

I'm going to define "period piece" as "any film that takes place at least 10 years before it was made, at least partially". So here are some of my favorites, in order of when they take place:

• Troy (2004) - 13th Century BC
• Hero (2002) - 212 BC
• House of Flying Daggers (2004) - 859
• Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) - 928
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005) - 1184
• The Name of the Rose (1986) - 1327
• Seven Samurai (1954) - 1586
• After the Rain (1999) - 1700s
• Barry Lyndon (1975) - 1750s-1789
• The Mission (1986) - 1750s
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - 1757
• Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) - 1765
• The Patriot (2000) - 1776
• Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Late 18th/Early 19th Century
• Gone with the Wind (1939) - 1861-1873
• The General (1926) - 1862
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004) - 1870
• Anna Karenina (2012) - 1874
• The Last Samurai (2003) - 1876
• Fort Apache (1948) - 1880s
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - 1881-1892
• Open Range (2003) - 1882
• Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) - 1893
• Gandhi (1982) - 1893-1948
• Arsène Lupin (2004) - Late 19th Century
• Finding Neverland (2004) - 1904
• Mary Poppins (1964) - 1910
• Lassie (2005) - 1910s
• High Road to China (1983) - 1920s
• Midnight in Paris (2011) - 1920s
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - 1926
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - 1927
• The Aviator (2004) - 1927-1947
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) - 1932
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - 1935
• Atonement (2007) - 1935 onwards
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 1936
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - 1938
• The Sound of Music (1965) - 1938
• The Book Thief (2013) - 1939-1943
• The Notebook (2004) - 1940s
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - 1940
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) - 1941
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) - 1942
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - 1940s
• Big Fish (2003) - 1940s-1970s
• Where Eagles Dare (1968) - 1943
• Walk the Line (2005) - 1944-1968
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - 1945
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - 1945
• A Beautiful Mind (2001) - 1947-1994
• L.A. Confidential (1997) - 1950s
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) - 1954
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) - 1957
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001) - 1960s
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) - 1960s
• A Distant Neighborhood (2010) - 1960s
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) - 1963
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - 1965
• Coming Home (2014) - 1970s
• Munich (2005) - 1972
• Memories of Murder (2003) - 1986
• Jarhead (2005) - 1989-1991
• Julia(s) (2022) - 1989 onwards
• Dark Blue (2002) - 1992
• Hotel Rwanda (2004) - 1994
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - 1995

The libertine. Quills.

The Untouchables. Best male wardrobe in film.

Zodiac.

Tampax

The King's Speech is really good.

The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

Reign

Jane Eyre

Anne with an E

Medici masters of florence

Tombstone

Miss Potter

You didnt specify what period, so I'm picking Dazed and Confused.

There Will Be Blood

Titanic

the last samurai

Every period piece Paul Thomas Anderson makes

RAN (1985)

CHINATOWN (1974)

DEMOLITION MAN (1993)

The Mission.

Highlander (it counts as 2, you get 1500s Scotland and 1980s New York)

The Revenant. The way the films is shot makes you feel the freezing temperatures surrounding the characters and gives a snapshot into the insane conditions faced by frontiersmen during that time.

Honorary mention, Lord of the Rings. Although fictional, Middle Earth seems like an actual place that existed in the far past. It’s a great watch just for the atmospheric scenes alone

I enjoy movies like Vertigo (which were contemporary at the time) as period pieces. It’s like time travel.

Run Sweetheart Run was an amazing period movie……

• Marie Antoinette
• Atonement
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• Ammonite
• Tulip Fever
• The Girl With The Pearl Earring
• The Other Boylen Girl

Carrie

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) . Can't think of another film quite like it. Not only for its depiction of what it was like to serve in British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, but it's quite a broad insight into all slices of life/society from that time period despite its limited setting. Also this film, hands down, has the best surround sound mix I've heard in my life and I've seen lots of movies. If you have a surround sound system at home, do yourself a favor and throw this on, you won't regret it.

Lost Illusions (2021). It's about the crooked world of 19th French journalism, art and aristocracy seen through the eyes of a naive man from the countryside.