17th Century Movies

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective...

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro...

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent...

A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.

In the 17th century, long before modern science and in a time of great fear of the unknown, the villagers of a small coastal community find...

In late 17th Century France, a young, insecure woman resorts to desperate ways to be reunited with her lover, who's become a nun at a convent. Based...

Dave is the last of his kind: a naive, relentlessly optimistic dodo, who faces extinction in the dangerous streets of 1628 London. With the help of...

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being...

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the...

In war-torn 17th-century Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu sends his trusted samurai, Mayeda, and his son Yourimune to Spain. There, they're to buy five...

A fictionalized study of real-life witch hunter Matthew Hopkins and the heinous crimes he committed during the English Civil War in 1645.

Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

In the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only survivor. He takes steps to get food and shelter,...

Julian Nakaura, a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1582, as proof that Japan had...