Best historical romance films - Charts
Best historical romance films
1. Titanic (1997)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
2. Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (1999)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Cast: Mayo Suzukaze, Hirotaka Suzuoki
3. The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Japan, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Yōji Yamada
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, 宮沢りえ
4. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
France, Biography / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet
5. The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot
6. The Road Home (1999)
China, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Hong-lei Sun
7. Cleopatra (1963)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
8. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman
9. Lady Jane (1986)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes
10. Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot
11. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
12. Samurai X: Reflection (2001)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Cast: Mayo Suzukaze, Miki Fujitani
13. The King (2019)
UK / Hungary, Drama / Historical
Directed by: David Michôd
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton
14. East/West (1999)
France / Bulgaria, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Régis Wargnier
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov
15. Colonia (2015)
Germany / Luxembourg, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Florian Gallenberger
Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl
16. Quo Vadis (1951)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr
17. Les Misérables (1998)
UK / Germany, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Bille August
Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush
18. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Fred Niblo, J.J. Cohn
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman
19. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Carol Reed, Lewis Milestone
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard
20. The Leopard (1963)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
21. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mike Newell
Cast: Lily James, Michiel Huisman
22. The Taste of Things (2023)
France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Anh Hung Tran
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche
23. Elizabeth (1998)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush
24. Liaison royale (2012)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen
25. Cadillac Records (2008)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Darnell Martin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright
26. Valmont (1989)
France / UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening
27. Queen Margot (1994)
France / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
28. Montevideo: Taste of a Dream (2010)
Serbia, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Dragan Bjelogrlic
Cast: Milos Bikovic, Petar Strugar
29. The Far Pavilions (1984)
UK / Italy, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Peter Duffell
Cast: Ben Cross, Amy Irving
30. Camille Claudel (1988)
France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Bruno Nuytten
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu
32. Agora (2009)
Spain, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella
34. Samson and Delilah (1949)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature
35. Queen Christina (1933)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
36. Quills (2000)
UK / Germany, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet
37. Reign of Assassins (2010)
China / Hong Kong, Historical / Action
Directed by: Chao-Bin Su
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Woo-seong Jeong
38. Le Casanova de Fellini (1976)
Italy / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont
39. Children of Glory (2006)
Hungary, War / Historical
Directed by: Krisztina Goda
Cast: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyő
40. Amazing Grace (2006)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Apted
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Gambon
41. Assa (1987)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sergei Solovyov
Cast: Sergej Bugajev, Tatyana Drubich
42. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
43. Les Misérables (2012)
UK / USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe
45. Restoration (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill
46. Public Enemies (2009)
USA / Japan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale
47. Frantz (2016)
France / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: François Ozon
Cast: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer
48. Brides (2004)
Greece / USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Pantelis Voulgaris
Cast: Damian Lewis, Andréa Ferréol
49. The Last Princess (2016)
South Korea, Historical / Biography
Directed by: Jin-ho Heo
Cast: Ye-jin Son, Hae-il Park
50. Ivanhoe (1952)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
51. The Border (2007)
Finland / Russia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Cast: Martin Bahne, Minna Haapkylä
52. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Greece / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Theodoros Angelopoulos
53. The Lost Talisman (1968)
Hungary, Romance / Historical
Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy
54. The Duchess (2008)
UK / Italy, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes
55. The Royal Tailor (2014)
South Korea, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Won-seok Lee
Cast: Suk-kyu Han, Dong-seok Ma
56. Marie Antoinette (1938)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power
58. The Lost Talisman (1968)
Hungary, Romance / Historical
Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy
59. Virginia City (1940)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins
62. The Ring (1944)
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Vlasta Fabianová
63. Illuminata (1998)
Spain / USA, Romance / Historical
Directed by: John Turturro
Cast: Katherine Borowitz, Georgina Cates
64. Oh My God! (2011)
UK / France, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Tanya Wexler
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal
65. The Young Victoria (2009)
UK / USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend
67. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
USA, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett
68. Reign of Terror (1949)
USA, Historical / Romance
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart
69. The Third Half (2012)
Republic of Macedonia / Czech Republic, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Darko Mitrevski
Cast: Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev
70. The Lady (2011)
France / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Luc Besson
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis
71. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Sweden / UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Peter Flinth
Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin
73. Bajirao Mastani (2015)
India, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone
74. Rob Roy (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange
75. Lost Illusions (2021)
France / Belgium, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Xavier Giannoli
Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France
76. The Last Relic (1969)
Estonia / Soviet Union, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Grigori Kromanov
78. The Emperor of the Mughals (1960)
India, Drama / War
Directed by: K. Asif
Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala
79. Kincsem - Bet on Revenge (2017)
Hungary, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Gábor Herendi
Cast: Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrik
81. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton
83. Hwang Jin-Yi (2007)
South Korea, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Yoon-hyun Jang
Cast: Lorraine Song, Ji-tae Yoo
84. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: King Vidor
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida
85. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
86. The Danube Pilot (1974)
Hungary, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Miklós Markos
Cast: Gábor Koncz, Gábor Agárdi
88. Paint It Yellow (2006)
India, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
Cast: Aamir Khan, Siddharth
89. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
UK, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson
91. Ambush (1999)
Finland, War / Drama
Directed by: Olli Saarela
Cast: Peter Franzén, Irina Björklund
92. The Story of Vickie (1954)
Austria, Comedy / Historical
Directed by: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven
93. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
94. Gold Coast (2015)
Denmark, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Daniel Dencik
Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Danica Curcic
95. A Frozen Flower (2008)
South Korea, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ha Yu
Cast: In-sung Jo, Jin-mo Joo
96. Snowy Love Fall in Spring (2005)
Japan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Isao Yukisada
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yuko Takeuchi
97. Shiraz: A Romance of India (1928)
India / German Empire, Historical / Romance
Directed by: Franz Osten
Cast: Himanshu Rai, Enakashi Rama Rao
98. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn
99. Mrs. Brown (1997)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Romance
Directed by: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly