What do you recommend?


I've watched my favorites over and over again (Anne of the Thousand Days, Amadeus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, etc...) Who has a suggestion for me???

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I would recommend 'Charles II' featuring Rufus Sewell. It is a really good period drama.
Also there is 'Elizabeth' and 'The New World' (one of those movies you will either love or hate).

It depends what era you are most interested in..


We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs - Syrus

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I went out and bought Elizabeth (2005)
Thanks! I have a new favorite to add to my collection now --(there definately seems to be a pattern here of period dramas!)

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Replying years later.... :)

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) -- Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson and a wonderful as always Patrick McGoohan.

Becket (1964) -- Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton (looking much younger in this piece just four years earlier from AOTTD).

A Man For All Seasons (1966) -- biodrama about Thomas More, staring Paul Scofield.

Nijinsky (1980)-- if you can find this. Great little piece about the famous dancer in the early 1900's for the Ballets Russes. Alan Bates is superb in this!



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I'm a huge fan of this type of films so I come very often to these boards to look for more recommendation of this style

Here are my suggestions

Shakesepere in love
The other Boleyn Girl
Elizabeth 1998 version with Cate Blanchet
Elizabeth the Golden Age
Danegrous Liaisons
The man in the iron mask

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Juana la Loca is great, The Proposition, and you can never go wrong with Blanchett as Elizabeth. The Duchess and Death Defying Acts. The Brotherhood of the Wolf, and A Very long Engagement. The others have already listed all my other favs. For tv series try Rome, the Borgias, Tudors, or any Jane Austen movie!

"Set yourself free of the shackles of conformity." -Cracks

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The Tudors it's my favorite tv series in the whole world.
Before that show I never I watched a series from the Begining to the very end. But the Tudors became an addiction, I finished this show in Four Weekends

Rome Disapointed me a lot, I tried two episodes and nothing I fount it really boring.
I expected a lot from it because I watched after I finished with my Tudors but felt short and it wasn't as stylish as the Tudors.


I'll watch the Borgias when it comes out on DVD for my region, here in my country they sell an imported edition but it's way too expensive and I hate to watch series that you need to fallow on tv I always wait for the DVD.

When I watch tv I look for other shows to watch like two and a half man or law and order SVU and sometimes house but shows that have a real sequence I don't like to watch just one episode each week.

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