17th Century Movies

Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society?...

A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan...

The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three. The loss of his much younger wife is hard...

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that...

In 17th century Finland young Arvid is forced to marry Brita but their ways soon part when their respective fathers move to different places. Years...

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class...

Russia, 1667: The Cossacks, led by Rasin, are ill-treated by Prince Dolgoruki who arrests and sentences Rasin to forced labor on the ship that brings...

An unorthodox biopic of Italian polymath Galileo Galilei, spanning from his religious calling as a young boy, when he was sent to the monastery...

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and...

Tutor Jeronimo and heiress Josephe fall in love but are quickly torn from one another by execution and jail. However, when fate intervenes in the...

Two Sebechleby musicians, Peter and Jakub, and their guardian Klimo set out in the mid-17th century to rescue the noblewoman Dóciová,...