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For those who don't know what a costume drama is, it's basically a film/tv series set in an historical period, normally 18th or 19th century and most likely based on a novel or play.

What are your picks then?
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Some of my favorites are considered 'Costume Dramas' so I could make a much longer list if I included more time periods... but, for now, I chose films exclusively set in the 18th and 19th centuries...


18th Century

The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)



Rob Roy (1995, Michael Caton-Jones)



Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)



Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton)



Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)



19th Century


Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)



Cold Mountain (2003, Anthony Minghella)



Immortal Beloved (1994, Bernard Rose)



Mansfield Park (1999, Patricia Rozema)



Goya's Ghosts ( 2006, Miloš Forman)
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Pride and Prejudice (1995, TV)


Sense and Sensibility (1995, film)


Fingersmith (2005, TV)


Interview With the Vampire (1994, film)


Dangerous Liaisons (1988, film)


Middlemarch (1994, TV)


Gangs of New York (2002, film)


Maurice (1987, film)


Quills (2000, film)


Little Dorrit (2009, TV)



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I have tons to add if you want to go back a few centuries...

From the ones not mentioned thus far, here's my first five:

The Heiress


Tess


Pride and Prejudisce (2005)


A Room with a View


The Innocents
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Gotta love P and P 1995. Didn't like the 2005 film- it lacked the humour and warmth of the TV series and there was no real need for it. It turned the book into a soggy (literally in one scene) love story.



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Some not yet mentioned.


The Claim (2000)



La reine Margot (1994)
*I could post tons from that film, it looks so beautiful.*



The Horseman On The Roof (1995)



The Remains Of The Day (1993)


Camille (1936)



Gosford Park (2001)



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Originally Posted by TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck_
For those who don't know what a costume drama is, it's basically a film/tv series set in an historical period, normally 18th or 19th century and most likely based on a novel or play.

What are your picks then?
No one has yet mentioned the two kings of the costume drama:

ERROL FLYNN:
Capt. Blood (1935, his star-making role)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (the granddaddy of all costume epics 1938)
Dawn Patrol (1938)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (another classic, 1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
That Forsythe Woman (1949)
Kim (1950)
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

TYRONE POWER
Lloyd's of London (his first leading role despite fourth billing 1936)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Suez (1938)
Jesse James (1939 a better than average Western)
The Rains Came (1939)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (they don't get more costumey than that! 1940)
Blood and Sand (or this! 1941)
The Black Swan (1942)
Captain from Castile (one of the greatest costume epics of all time 1947)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
The Black Rose (1950)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

Both Flynn and Power starred in The Sun Also Rises (1957).



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My other five:

The French Lieutenant's Woman (at least two-thirds qualifies)


Tom Jones (comedy should count)


The Little Foxes


The King and I


And the greatest I've ever seen, War and Peace (1967)



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Originally Posted by rufneek
No one has yet mentioned the two kings of the costume drama:

ERROL FLYNN:
Capt. Blood (1935, his star-making role)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (the granddaddy of all costume epics 1938)
Dawn Patrol (1938)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (another classic, 1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
That Forsythe Woman (1949)
Kim (1950)
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

TYRONE POWER
Lloyd's of London (his first leading role despite fourth billing 1936)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Suez (1938)
Jesse James (1939 a better than average Western)
The Rains Came (1939)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (they don't get more costumey than that! 1940)
Blood and Sand (or this! 1941)
The Black Swan (1942)
Captain from Castile (one of the greatest costume epics of all time 1947)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
The Black Rose (1950)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

Both Flynn and Power starred in The Sun Also Rises (1957).
The Merchant in Venice is a great film. Can't really go wrong with Pacino.
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Originally Posted by honeykid
Some not yet mentioned.


The Claim (2000)



La reine Margot (1994)
*I could post tons from that film, it looks so beautiful.*



The Horseman On The Roof (1995)



The Remains Of The Day (1993)


Camille (1936)



Gosford Park (2001)
Love The Remains of the Day.