Stylish medieval flicks?
 

I'm wondering are there any stylish medieval flicks? Something like spaghetti westerns, but with sword fights and set in medieval Europe. There's a good number of 'em Japanese and Chinese flicks like this (not necessarily Middle Age times, but still...) with sword duels (samurai/ronin flicks for Japanese and wuxia flicks for Chinese, but I can't really think of something like that in cinema about Europe.

And I'm not just asking about any medieval film with a sword fight, but flicks made in a specific 'cool' way oozing with style. Something like medieval exploitation or medieval spaghetti western if that makes any sense.

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Maybe not what you're after... Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid?


Not sure of anything else though. It's a good question though.


Nicolas Ugh Cage and Ron Pearlman starred in one called Season Of The Witch. Not very good though.

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Oh!


Black Death with Sean Bean... not bad for a low budget simmering broody film.


Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves


A Knight's Tale (Heath Ledger)


Excalibur (1991)

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I've seen some of them, haven't seen some and another one is on my watchlist.

Not 100% what I want, but still + rep for trying.

I'm not sure what you're looking for, but maybe this will help.
It's a list of "Period Dramas-Medieval Times 476-1453" from IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000047833/

Here's a list from ranker.com of "The Best Medieval Movies":

"What are the best medieval movies? Kings, sword fights, jousting, horses... fire, pillaging, knights, people with English accents saying "m'lady" and "ye"... This is a list of all the greatest medieval movies ever made, from dark age movies to renaissance films."

http://www.ranker.com/list/all-medie...e-movies-lists

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LOTR

No gloomy ones?

A few French ones: Le Bossu (97), Cyrano de Bergerac (90), Cartouche (62), Brotherhood of the Wolf (01).

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This isn't quite in line with your description, but Ironclad is super violent, to the point of feeling kinda graphic (no pun intended) novel-ish. It's not really "cool," but it also feels pretty over the top compared to most medieval films, so I thought it warranted a mention.

http://www.medievalists.net/wp-conte...vie-review.jpg

My favorite ones are things like Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers, Flesh+Blood, The War Lord and El Cid, but the last two are pretty straight.

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+ reps for MOAR suggestions from you, guys. I'll check 'em later.

LOTR is a fantasy film. Not what I meant.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cVwBjwRGgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH8TrFQn5QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g04DeqQK3hE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Z1jyoYXU4

Marketa Lazarova is the most stylish medieval film I know of!

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You don't understand what 'stylish' I mean. :(

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Army of Darkness?

I think we have our own definition of stylish... and for a matter of fact... Marketa Lazarova is very stylish and one of the films selected for the Criterion collection....

I know many medieval films as that is one of the genres of films I enjoy...

That's what I meant. As much as I love Marketa Lazarova it by no means fits the description.

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mark has mentioned it, but this is what I'd go with. Also on the HK 100. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djxsIb9KHc

Yoda's suggestion of Ironclad may work, too, but I think Flesh+Blood is what you want.

It does have fighting in it...

as does

The Passion of Beatrice...

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Also, if you like Black Death, you might try Season Of The Witch. It has Nic Cage in it, so beware. :D