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Cold War (2018 film)
Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna) is Paweł Pawlikowski's 2018 black-and-white Polish-British-French romance drama starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot as Zula and Wiktor; it won Cannes Best Director 2018 and earned three Oscar nominations.
Colonia (film)
Colonia (also released as The Colony) is a 2015 historical thriller directed by Florian Gallenberger, starring Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl, set during the 1973 Chilean coup.
Come See the Paradise
Come See the Paradise is Alan Parker's 1990 drama starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita about an interracial marriage and the WWII internment of Japanese Americans, premiered at Cannes 1990 and released by Fox.
Coming Home (1978 film)
Coming Home (1978) is Hal Ashby's Vietnam War drama starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern, about a Marine wife's affair with a paralyzed veteran. It won three Oscars (Actor, Actress, Original Screenplay) of eight nominations; The Deer Hunter took Best Picture the same year.
Coward (2026 film)
Coward (2026) is Lukas Dhont's third feature, a Belgian-French-Dutch WWI drama about soldiers Pierre and Francis behind the Belgian front in 1916; it won shared Best Actor at Cannes 2026 and is Belgium's entry for the 2027 Oscars.
Dead to Rights (南京照相馆) (film)
Dead to Rights (南京照相馆) is a 2025 Chinese historical drama directed by Shen Ao about civilians in a Nanjing photo studio preserving Japanese atrocity photographs during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, based on the Luo Jin and Wu Xuan album.
Death in Venice (film)
Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) is Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, starring Dirk Bogarde as composer Gustav von Aschenbach and Björn Andrésen as Tadzio, scored with Mahler, premiered in London in March 1971 and restored in 2018.
Downfall (2004 film)
Downfall (Der Untergang) is a 2004 German historical war drama directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Bruno Ganz as Hitler during his final days in the Berlin bunker in 1945.
Emperor (2012 film)
Emperor (終戦のエンペラー) is a 2012 Peter Webber historical drama starring Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers and Tommy Lee Jones as MacArthur, deciding Hirohito's war-crimes fate; released March 2013, 31% on Rotten Tomatoes, $3.3M US gross.
The 21
The 21 is a 2024 animated short film (also known as 21 Martyrs) directed by Tod Polson honoring the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya in 2015, made in Neo-Coptic iconography style by 70+ artists from 24+ countries and shortlisted for the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Short.
The 47
The 47 (El 47) is a 2024 Spanish biographical drama by Marcel Barrena starring Eduard Fernández as bus driver Manolo Vital, who in 1978 drove a line 47 bus to Torre Baró; it shared the 2025 Goya for Best Film.
The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵) (1941 film)
Genroku Chūshingura (元禄忠臣蔵), released in English as The 47 Ronin, is Kenji Mizoguchi's two-part 1941–1942 Shochiku film adapting Mayama Seika's kabuki cycle about the Akō rōnin vendetta, a government-commissioned wartime production that became a box-office failure and later a celebrated formalist work.
The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客) (1994 film)
The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客, Shijūshichinin no Shikaku) is a 1994 Toho jidaigeki directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Ken Takakura as Ōishi Kuranosuke, reinterpreting Chūshingura as an information and economic war.
The Assassins (铜雀台)
The Assassins (铜雀台, Tong Que Tai) is Zhao Linshan's 2012 Chinese historical drama, starring Chow Yun-fat as an aging Cao Cao targeted by trained assassins Ling Ju and Mu Shun; 107 minutes, released 26 September 2012.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's novel, stars Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon as boys on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence; a mixed-reception Holocaust drama widely criticized in education research.
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴)
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto) is Kon Ichikawa's 1956 Nikkatsu antiwar film, adapted by Natto Wada from Takeyama Michio's novel, about soldier Mizushima becoming a monk in Burma; San Giorgio Prize winner, Oscar-nominated, remade in color in 1985.
The Counterfeiters (הזייפנים)
The Counterfeiters (Hebrew: הזייפנים; original title Die Fälscher) is Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 Austrian-German drama, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, about Salomon Sorowitsch and Operation Bernhard, the Nazi counterfeiting scheme at Sachsenhausen.
The Crucified Lovers (近松物語)
The Crucified Lovers (近松物語, Chikamatsu Monogatari; also A Story from Chikamatsu) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 Daiei film adapting Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1715 play, starring Kazuo Hasegawa and Kyoko Kagawa as lovers falsely accused of adultery in 17th-century Kyoto.
The Damned (1969 film)
The Damned (La caduta degli dei, Götterdämmerung), Luchino Visconti's 1969 Italy–West Germany melodrama about the von Essenbeck steel family amid the Nazi rise, noted for its X rating, Night of the Long Knives sequence, Jarre score, and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
The Day After
The Day After is ABC's 1983 made-for-TV nuclear-war drama directed by Nicholas Meyer, set in Lawrence, Kansas, watched by over 100 million viewers on November 20, 1983; distinct from the 1909 Griffith short and Hong Sang-soo's 2018 film.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino's Vietnam War drama starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, and Meryl Streep; won five Oscars including Best Picture; famous and controversial for its Russian roulette scenes.
The Devils (film)
The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier and Vanessa Redgrave, adapted from Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun.
The Dumbfounded King
The Dumbfounded King (El rey pasmado) is a 1991 Spanish-French-Portuguese satirical historical comedy by Imanol Uribe, adapted from Torrente Ballester's 1989 novel, in which young Philip IV's wish to see the queen naked scandalizes the Church; it won eight Goyas.
The Empress Dowager (倾国倾城)
The Empress Dowager (傾國傾城) is a 1975 Shaw Brothers historical drama directed by Li Han-hsiang, starring Lisa Lu as Cixi and Ti Lung as Guangxu; it won three 1975 Golden Horse Awards and was followed by The Last Tempest (1976).
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei (楊貴妃, Yokihi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 first color film, the first Japan–Hong Kong co-production with Shaw Brothers, starring Machiko Kyo as the Tang consort Yang Guifei, based on Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow.