Tolkien

2019-05-03

world war i, male friendship, biography, based on a true story, coming of age, mentor protégé relationship, boys' school, troubled relationship, birmingham, male writer, boys club, edwardian england, early 1900s, domenica

The King

2019-10-11

biography, hundred years' war, british history, mentor protégé relationship, king of england, costume drama, 15th century, british monarchy, battle of agincourt, medieval england, father son relationship, henry v, medieval france

Legends of the Fall

1994-12-16

sibling relationship, montana, based on novel or book, world war i, journey around the world, early 1900s

The Passion of Ayn Rand

1999-01-27

new york city, california, based on novel or book, infidelity, immigrant, biography, based on a true story, psychologist, writer, surprise party, polyamory, older woman younger man relationship, mentor protégé relationship, philosopher, russian woman, objectivism, female author

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939-07-28

world war i, teacher, school, schoolteacher, boys' boarding school, headmaster, boys' school, 19th century, early 1900s, reminiscing

Wilde

1997-09-01

london, england, prison, coming out, wife, biography, victorian england, male homosexuality, author, ireland, lgbt, marriage problems, 19th century, early 1900s, gay

Pawo

2016-04-11

biography, based on a true story

Howards End

1992-03-13

london, england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, empowerment, sister, class differences, english countryside, turn of the century, edwardian england, early 1900s, wealthy family, sister sister relationship

Reds

1981-12-25

husband wife relationship, russia, world war i, war correspondent, biography, based on a true story, co-worker relationship, docudrama, russian revolution, russian history, greenwich village, russian civil war, 1920s, 1910s, political repression, government witch hunt, bolshevism, comunism, soviet union history, female writer, american journalist

The Green Years

1946-07-04

scotland, based on novel or book, grandparent grandchild relationship, coming of age, orphan, early 1900s, great grandfather

My Friend Dahmer

2017-11-03

1970s, ohio, biography, high school, based on a true story, based on comic, sociopath, murder, male homosexuality, coming of age, serial killer, divorce, based on graphic novel, social outcast

Lessons in Red

2020-10-02

cold war, child hero, only child, based on a true story, coming of age, young boy, period drama, history class, junior high school, fictional biography, 1960s, short, rural setting, lessons

Pétain

1993-05-05

biography

Testament of Youth

2014-10-14

nurse, poetry, world war i, pacifism, flanders, summer, based on memoir or autobiography, compassion, pacifist, war injury, aspiring writer, nursing, edwardian, oxford university, 1910s, edwardian england, summertime, bad news, tenacity

The Imitation Game

2014-11-14

england, homophobia, world war ii, mathematician, biography, male homosexuality, logician, cryptography, gay, lgbt interest

The Fighting Sullivans

1944-02-03

world war ii, biography

Three Comrades

1938-06-02

world war i

Chasing Mavericks

2012-10-25

wave, surfing, progress, sports, based on a true story, mentor protégé relationship, santa cruz california, dedication

Little Women

2019-12-25

sibling relationship, based on novel or book, massachusetts, sister, remake, writer, 19th century, sister sister relationship

Monarch

2000-10-08

england, assassination, monarchy, biography, based on a true story, history, henry viii, monarch

King Petar the First

2018-12-05

based on a true story

My True Friend

2012-01-19

male friendship, growing up, gang

The Wooden Horse

1950-10-16

world war ii, prisoner of war, based on a true story

Daphne du Maurier: In the Footsteps of Rebecca

2017-02-21

mystery writer, edwardian england, female writer, british literature

The Girl in White

1952-05-23

new york city, hospital, doctor, early 1900s

Breaker Morant

1980-06-11

war crimes, writing, mythology, australian, south africa, military court, military service, based on a true story, based on play or musical, trial, court martial, boer war, early 1900s

Fellows

1959-05-16

female friendship, coming of age

Zaklina

2012-04-03

coming of age, teacher student relationship, female teacher

Kazantzakis

2017-11-23

Beautiful Boy

2018-10-12

san francisco, california, based on novel or book, drug addiction, biography, based on a true story, drug rehabilitation, methamphetamine, based on memoir or autobiography, father son relationship, 2018, domenica

A Brighter Summer Day

1991-07-27

baseball bat, elvis presley, high school, taiwan, based on a true story, murder, coming of age, gang, youth gang, juvenile delinquent, teenage boy, troubled teen, first love, taipei, 1960s, slow cinema, teenage protagonist

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

2014-10-20

world war ii, cold war, nobel prize, world war i, british empire, biography, family relationships, british politics, communism, diplomacy, british politician, nazism, 19th century

Come Undone

2000-06-07

depression, beach, male friendship, relationship problems, summer vacation, summer romance, gay

This Special Friendship

1964-09-04

male homosexuality

El Noa Noa

1981-02-19

biography, based on a true story

Heavenly Creatures

1994-09-12

mother, secret, obsession, literature, passion, christchurch, based on a true story, love, friends, murder, relationship, 1950s

Salinger

2013-09-06

new york city, based on novel or book, world war ii, biography, older man younger woman relationship, docudrama, traumatic experience, male writer, portrait of an artist, american writer

Magic Mike

2012-06-28

dancing, florida, seduction, strip club, based on a true story, male stripper, novice, muscled, brother sister relationship

A Paris Education

2018-04-18

paris, france, male friendship, coming of age, film school

Madeline's Madeline

2018-08-10

pregnancy, theatre group, coming of age, mental illness, dream sequence, mentor protégé relationship, woman director, mother daughter relationship, reality shifts, improvisational theatre

My Father's Glory

1990-08-29

parent child relationship, provence, southern france, biography, teacher, rural area, summer, based on memoir or autobiography, hill, turn of the century, early 1900s

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978-06-21

based on novel or book, biography, based on a true story, murder, rampage, criminal, axe murder, indigenous australians, aborigine, new south wales, early 1900s

Lloyd's of London

1936-11-25

male friendship, french revolution, napoleonic wars, 18th century, battle of trafalgar, shipping company, 19th century, insurance company, england history

Eternal Summer

2006-10-13

love triangle, sexuality, school friend, male friendship, friendship, loneliness, unrequited love, coming of age, school, lgbt, gay

Viva Zapata!

1952-02-07

mexico, u.s. president, mexican revolution, presidential election, peasant, biography, revolutionary, early 1900s

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

2002-01-01

based on novel or book, remake, schoolteacher, 19th century, early 1900s, boys school

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940-02-23

biography, syphillis, doctor, medical breakthrough, early 1900s

The Scent of Mandarin

2015-09-30

world war i

The World of Us

2016-06-16

friendship, elementary school, children, coming of age, relationship, woman director

A Room with a View

1985-12-13

based on novel or book, tennis, kiss, bed and breakfast (b&b), surrey, florence, italy, skinny dipping, spinster, edwardian england, early 1900s

Ночь длиною в жизнь

2010-12-07

Личное счастье

1977-09-20

Wish You Were Here

1987-07-24

england, rebel, pregnant minor, based on a true story, teenage girl, seaside, post war, father daughter conflict, 1950s

Someone

2018-09-27

rape, world war ii, based on a true story, post world war ii, red army, short

Cardelinas

2020-02-11

spanish civil war, biography, based on a true story

Hope and Glory

1987-08-01

london, england, based on a true story, wartime, homefront, 1940s, bomb shelter, children in wartime

Reach for the Sky

1956-07-05

world war ii, pilot, biography, based on a true story, accident, royal air force, raf

Edward II of England: The Unhappy King

2019-11-15

male friendship, biography, male homosexuality, king of england, palace intrigue, medieval england, 14th century

Book Girl

2010-05-01

japan, based on novel or book, love-hate relationship, book club, high school friends, aspiring writer, based on light novel, anime, bookworm, boy girl relationship

To Hell and Back

1955-09-22

hero, world war ii

The World According to Irving

2012-03-01

biography, novelist, male writer, portrait of an artist, usa literature

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

2010-03-01

based on a true story, lesbian relationship, male homosexuality, 19th century

Henry V

1989-10-05

france, kingdom, based on a true story, based on play or musical, medieval, king of england, henry v

Driven

2018-09-08

delorean, fbi, biography, based on a true story

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010-10-20

based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, lisbon, portugal, family secrets, 18th century, mentor protégé relationship, 19th century, mother son relationship, social prejudices

Hot Seat

2017-01-20

coming of age, male stripper, short

Cold Sassy Tree

1989-10-16

romance, woman director, early 1900s

Henry V

1944-11-24

england, based on a true story, based on play or musical, king, battle, medieval, henry v

Philippe Pétain

2010-11-24

france, world war ii, world war i, biography, history

J.T. LeRoy

2019-04-26

based on a true story, impersonator, writer, based on memoir or autobiography, male impersonator

Cavalcade

1933-02-08

london, england, world war i, pre-code, upstairs downstairs, early 1900s, wealthy family

소년들

2021-12-31

based on a true story

Invierno

2015-03-18

literature, friendship, writer

Suffragette

2015-10-16

london, england, biography, feminist, period drama, woman director, 1910s, suffragettes

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet

2016-02-17

male friendship, biography, poet, based on a true story, black and white, 1940s, korean resistance, japanese occupation of korea, study abroad

Bombal

2012-01-05

literature, biography

Bajirao Mastani

2015-12-18

husband wife relationship, epic, based on a true story, love, romance, battle, period drama, 18th century, warrior, mother son relationship

Jobs

2013-08-16

biography, computer, based on a true story, apple computer, steve jobs, entrepreneur

The Vanishing

2018-10-11

scotland, shipwreck, lighthouse keeper   , based on a true story, remote island, vanished, early 1900s

The Last Four Days

1974-03-27

Scandal

1989-03-03

london, england, sex scandal, scandal, based on a true story, cabaret dancer, member of parliament, 1960s, british government

Paul Rusch: His Life and Dream

2002-10-19

biography, based on a true story, post world war ii

Domenica

1993-01-01

Bequest to the Nation

1973-04-18

biography, napoleonic wars

Our Town

1940-05-24

small town, new hampshire, based on play or musical, teenage girl, dream like experience, early 1900s

Through a Boy's Eyes

2018-01-01

sexual identity, friendship, family relationships, compilation, lgbt, male sexuality, short

Fathers and Sons

1986-11-12

world war ii, biography, firma

The Intouchables

2011-11-02

male friendship, masseuse, friendship, based on a true story, aristocrat, paragliding, interracial friendship, unlikely friendship, duringcreditsstinger, quadriplegic, quadriplegia