A Silent Voice (2016)
dir. Naoko Yamadaletterboxd ★★★ 
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more to atone for his sins.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazakiletterboxd ★★★★★ 
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Pain and Glory (2019)
dir. Pedro Almodóvarletterboxd ★★★★ 
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
The Aftermath (2019)
dir. James Kentletterboxd ★★★ 
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Emma. (2020)
dir. Autumn de Wildeletterboxd ★★★½ 
Following the antics of a young woman, Emma Woodhouse, who lives in Georgian- and Regency-era England and occupies herself with matchmaking (in sometimes misguided, often meddlesome fashion) in the lives of her friends and family.
The Favourite (2018)
dir. Yorgos Lanthimosletterboxd ★★★★ 
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah’s cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen’s favourite.
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
dir. Josie Rourkeletterboxd ★★★★ 
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
dir. Mike Newellletterboxd ★★★ 
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
dir. Susanna Whiteletterboxd ★★ 
In 1890, Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes involved in the struggle of the Lakota people to get the Government respects their rights over the land where they live.
Hostiles (2017)
dir. Scott Cooperletterboxd ★★★★ 
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Flower (2017)
dir. Max Winklerletterboxd ★★★½ 
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom’s new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. When Bob’s mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a high school teacher’s dark secret.
Mary Shelley (2017)
dir. Haifaa Al-Mansourletterboxd ★★½ 
Mary Wollstonecraft's family disapproves when she and poet Percy Shelley announce their love for each other. The family is horrified when it finds that the couple has eloped. While staying in the home of Lord Byron at Lake Geneva, the guests are challenged to write a ghost story, which leads Mary to conceive her novel "Frankenstein."
A Royal Affair (2012)
dir. Nikolaj Arcelletterboxd ★★★½ 
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls in love with her physician and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
The Duchess (2008)
dir. Saul Dibbletterboxd ★★★ 
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Troy (2004)
dir. Wolfgang Petersenletterboxd ★★★★★ 
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
The Post (2017)
dir. Steven Spielbergletterboxd ★ 
Katharine Graham is the first female publisher of major American newspaper, The Washington Post. With help from editor Ben Bradlee, Graham races to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spans three decades and four U.S. presidents.
Drakest Hour (2017)
dir. Joe Wrightletterboxd ★½ 
In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.
Jackie (2016)
dir. Pablo Larraínletterboxd ★★½ 
After her husband's assassination, Jackie Kennedy must console their two young children, vacate the home she painstakingly restored, and plan her husband's funeral. Jackie quickly realizes that the next seven days will determine how history will define her husband's legacy and how she herself will be remembered.
Hidden Figures (2016)
dir. Theodore Melfiletterboxd ★★★★ 
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
The Edge of Love (2008)
dir. John Mayburyletterboxd ★½ 
A love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet, Dylan Thomas, also.
Detroit (2017)
dir. Kathryn Bigelowletterboxd ★★★★ 
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Dunkirk (2017)
dir. Christopher Nolanletterboxd ★★★½ 
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk in 1940 during World War II.
Suite Française (2014)
dir. Saul Dibbletterboxd ★★★★½ 
During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile, a French villager, and Bruno, a German soldier.
Selma (2014)
dir. Ava DuVernayletterboxd ★★★★ 
“Selma,” as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Southpaw (2015)
dir. Antoine Fuqualetterboxd ★★★★★ 
Reigning boxing champion, Billy Hope, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
Braveheart (1995)
dir. Mel Gibsonletterboxd ★★ 
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord’s soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Macbeth (2015)
dir. Justin Kurzelletterboxd ★★★★ 
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Palo Alto (2013)
dir. Gia Coppolaletterboxd ★ 
Three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred, whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.