Coco Before Chanel (2009)
A biography starring Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde and Alessandro Nivola
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
Ironclad
A history movie starring James Purefoy, Kate Mara and Jason Flemyng
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men ... (more)
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Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
A history movie starring Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin and Stellan Skarsgård
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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The Seventh Seal (1958)
A fantasy movie starring Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot and Nils Poppe
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life ... (more)
Season of the Witch (2011)
A fantasy movie starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman and Ulrich Thomsen
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
Black Death (2011)
A history movie starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.