Movies like Peterloo
If Peterloo's mix of massacre, period drama and british history stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Peterloo's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
2002 · Directed by Kevin Reynolds · 131 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: period drama, 19th century · Also drama and history
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: period drama, historical drama · Also drama and history
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2019 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 173 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: period drama, 19th century · From the same decade (2010s)
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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I Swear
2025 · Directed by Kirk Jones · 121 min8.3
Why you'll like itWith Maxine Peake · Also drama and history
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in…
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A Night to Remember
1958 · Directed by Roy Ward Baker · 123 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: period drama · Also drama and history
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller.
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Lion of the Desert
1981 · Directed by Moustapha Akkad · 173 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: historical drama · Also history and drama
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for…
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Directed by D.W. Griffith · 197 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: massacre · Also drama and history
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2010s)
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Gods and Generals
2003 · Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell · 219 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history
Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.
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Oliver!
1968 · Directed by Carol Reed · 153 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master…
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News of the World
2020 · Directed by Paul Greengrass · 118 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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Exodus
1960 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 208 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: historical drama
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus.