Top rated historical movies on Pantaflix

Check out today’s highest ranked historical movies on Pantaflix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best historical movies on Pantaflix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Warsaw 44 (2014)

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

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2014-07-30 | Drama / History

Cast

Józef Pawłowski, Zofia Wichłacz

Rating

rating icon 6.843
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #105 for
    emotional rollercoaster
  2. Ranked #178 for
    realistic portrayal
  3. Ranked #217 for
    historical significance

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2 Operation Cicero (2019)

Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected events.

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2019-01-18 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Burcu Biricik

Rating

rating icon 6.058
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #308 for
    little disconcerting
  2. Ranked #446 for
    Biography
  3. Ranked #511 for
    ridiculously over the top

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3 Mathilde (2017)

The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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2017-10-25 | History / Drama

Cast

Michalina Olszańska, Lars Eidinger

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #91 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #161 for
    historical point of view
  3. Ranked #246 for
    handsomely mounted

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4 Repentance (1987)

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

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1987-05-01 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #39 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #41 for
    tour de force
  3. Ranked #55 for
    cautionary tale

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5 October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

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1928-01-20 | Drama

Cast

Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov

Rating

rating icon 6.859
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    cross-cut editing
  2. Ranked #99 for
    juxtaposition
  3. Ranked #111 for
    historical point of view

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6 Ju Dou (1990)

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

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1990-04-21 | Drama

Cast

Gong Li, Li Wei

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #112 for
    sluttish character
  2. Ranked #126 for
    didactic
  3. Ranked #126 for
    foster father

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7 The Legend of Rita (2000)

Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

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2000-09-14 | Drama

Cast

Bibiana Beglau, Nadja Uhl

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #101 for
    chintzy
  2. Ranked #202 for
    wild-card actor
  3. Ranked #305 for
    gut-punch

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8 The Iron Horse (1924)

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

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1924-08-24 | Western

Cast

George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    westernized
  2. Ranked #73 for
    headscratcher
  3. Ranked #163 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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9 The Final Countdown (1980)

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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1980-01-31 | War / Action

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen

Rating

rating icon 6.599
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    Aerial Combat
  2. Ranked #51 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #90 for
    multiverse

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10 The Rules of the Game (1939)

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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1939-07-09 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor

Rating

rating icon 7.547
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #47 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #76 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #78 for
    reverse shot

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