16th Century Drama Movies

List of the best drama movies about the 16th century, selected by visitors to our site: Big Eyes, Whiplash, The Social Network, Minamata, The Judge, My Name Is Khan, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Detachment, Animal Kingdom, The Sisters Brothers.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:46

    The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genredrama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

      A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

        A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama
        CountryIndia, USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
        Duration02:35

          Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
          Duration02:26

          A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:57

          The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, western, crime
          CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
          Duration01:56

          Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:13

          Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
          Duration02:09

          Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:35

          After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:17

          In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:31

          Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, western
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

          A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
          Duration02:04

          Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredrama
          CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
          Duration01:49

            In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
            Duration01:41

              Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

                An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration01:38

                Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:44

                Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:23

                Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genredrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:46

                  The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genredrama, adventure, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:09

                  A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genredrama, adventure, family
                  CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
                  Duration01:38

                  A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA, Germany

                  The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:49

                  Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

                  Markimdb: 7.9
                  Genredrama, family
                  CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
                  Duration02:15

                  The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                  CountryUSA

                  A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genredrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:33

                  After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrecomedy, drama, biography
                  CountryFrance, USA
                  Duration01:50

                  On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:24

                    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genredrama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:26

                    Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

                    Markimdb: 7.6
                    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:40

                    Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:00

                      After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

                      Markimdb: 7.1
                      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:41

                      A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

                      Markimdb: 7.1
                      Genredrama, adventure, biography
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:55

                      A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

                      Markimdb: 6.2
                      Genreaction, drama, family, sport
                      CountryUSA, China
                      Duration02:20

                      12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

                      Markimdb: 8
                      Genrethriller, drama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:43

                        A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

                        Markimdb: 7.6
                        Genredrama, musical, biography
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:25

                        The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

                        Markimdb: 5.8
                        Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:44

                        Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

                        Markimdb: 9
                        Genredrama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:36

                        The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

                        Markimdb: 7.7
                        Genredrama, adventure, history
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:20

                        The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

                        Markimdb: 6.4
                        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:39

                          Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.

                          Markimdb: 7.3
                          Genremelodrama, drama
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                          Duration02:00

                          After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrecomedy, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:34

                          A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.




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