Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "16th-century", "painting"

1. Highlander (1986)

R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart

Votes: 147,371 | Gross: $5.90M

2. Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance

The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor.

Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey

Votes: 81,693 | Gross: $65.71M

3. Borgia (2011–2014)

TV-MA | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.

Stars: Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, John Doman

Votes: 7,211

4. Dangerous Beauty (1998)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Director: Marshall Herskovitz | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward

Votes: 19,630 | Gross: $4.53M

5. The Inventor (2023)

PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Inventing flying contraptions, war machines and studying cadavers, Leonardo da Vinci tackles the meaning of life itself with the help of French princess Marguerite de Nevarre.

Directors: Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon | Stars: Matt Berry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Fry

Votes: 521

6. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Passed | 97 min | Biography, Drama

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander

Votes: 4,862

7. Chastity Bites (2013)

TV-MA | 93 min | Comedy, Horror

In the early 1600s, Countess Elizabeth Bathory slaughtered more than 600 young women, believing that if she bathed in the blood of virgins, she would stay young and beautiful forever. Still... See full summary »

Director: John V. Knowles | Stars: Allison Scagliotti, Francia Raisa, Louise Griffiths, Eddy Rioseco

Votes: 1,055

8. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp

Votes: 6,160

9. The Mill and the Cross (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, History

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin

Votes: 4,427 | Gross: $0.31M

10. El Greco (2007)

119 min | Biography, Drama

The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".

Director: Yannis Smaragdis | Stars: Nick Clark Windo, Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos

Votes: 4,946

11. Two Nudes Bathing (2001)

35 min | Short

An anonymous painting from the Fontainebleau School hangs in the Louvre. The mysterious pose whereby two young women sit in a bath, one holding the nipple of the other between finger and thumb, has baffled all the experts.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: John Hurt, Charley Boorman, Angeline Ball, Jocelyne West

Votes: 103

12. The Emperor and the Golem (1952)

110 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Emperors baker and Bakers emperor - it refers to the fact that in movie just a regular young baker gets switched with real old Emperor which leaves everyone thinking that emperor did get younger by drinking the potion of youth.

Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová, Bohus Záhorský

Votes: 1,467

13. Art of the Western World (1989– )

60 min | Documentary

Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Stars: Michael Wood, Germano Celant, Rosalind Krauss, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt

Votes: 85

14. Nuevo mundo (1978)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History

A story of a priest set in 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of the Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.

Director: Gabriel Retes | Stars: Aarón Hernán, Tito Junco, Bruno Rey, Juan Ángel Martínez

Votes: 102

15. The Renaissance Unchained (2016)

60 min | Documentary

In this series critic and writer Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional review that the European Renaissance originated in southern Europe, advocating a case for the north instead.

Star: Waldemar Januszczak

Votes: 163

16. Chicana (1979)

23 min | Documentary, Short, History

Over a collage of artworks, photographs, and documentary footage, Carmen Zapata and an array of Chicana activists narrate the history of struggles faced by Mexican and Mexican-American women from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.

Director: Sylvia Morales | Stars: Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta

Votes: 56

17. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: Heretic (1986)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Arrogant art "dealer" Harte buys an expensive 16th century tempera painting from an art fence, then lands in a Court of Inquisition to face judgment for his act.

Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Roberts Blossom, Bruce MacVittie, Michael O'Hare, Alan Scarfe

Votes: 206

18. Man, Moment, Machine (2005–2007)
Episode: DaVinci and the Handgun (2006)

Biography, History

An episode dealing with the MAN, famed artist and inventor Leonardo DaVinci, whose constant mechanical sketches for fantastic inventions leads to the weapons milestone of the enclosed "... See full summary »

Director: Jon Taylor | Stars: Tristan Ott, Stephan Smith Collins, Peter Solimene

19. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

TV-PG | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion.

Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston

Votes: 19,803