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1. Rob Roy (1995)

R | 139 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth

Votes: 45,728 | Gross: $31.60M

2. Black Knight (2001)

PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Regan

Votes: 43,353 | Gross: $33.42M

3. 100 Rifles (1969)

R | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, native revolutionary Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people, but finds himself sought by an American lawman and the Mexican Army.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas

Votes: 3,933

4. Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Zorro, the legendary swordsman, has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman

Votes: 4,852 | Gross: $11.12M

5. Viva Zapata! (1952)

Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman

Votes: 12,483

6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.

Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester

Votes: 6,113 | Gross: $2.22M

7. Zorro (I) (1975)

G | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.

Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache

Votes: 4,270

8. Reign of Terror (1949)

Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl

Votes: 2,125

9. Catherine the Great (1995 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Drama, History

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed

Votes: 1,349

10. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 3,626

11. The Wind's Fierce (1970)

97 min | Drama, Western

In 19th century Valencia, Spain, a gunslinger begins to develop a conscience after he and his brother are hired by a ruthless landowner to kill the leaders of a local labor movement.

Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Terence Hill, Maria Grazia Buccella, Mario Pardo, Máximo Valverde

Votes: 830

12. Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999 TV Movie)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Samuel West

Votes: 4,289

13. Old Gringo (1989)

R | 119 min | Adventure, History, Romance

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ... See full summary »

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras

Votes: 2,108 | Gross: $3.57M

14. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western

When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel

Votes: 691

15. The Painted Veil (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland

Votes: 1,724 | Gross: $1.17M

16. Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.

Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough

Votes: 662

17. Born to Fight (2004)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A group of athletes helping a poor village must stop an evil tyrant and his men from terrorizing the village.

Director: Panna Rittikrai | Stars: Nappon Gomarachun, Santisuk Promsiri, Dan Chupong, Piyapong Piew-on

Votes: 3,072

18. Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.

Directors: Walter Lang, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Carol Heiss, Joe DeRita

Votes: 1,185 | Gross: $2.62M

19. The Black Room (1935)

Passed | 68 min | Horror

Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Thurston Hall

Votes: 2,256

20. The Four Days of Naples (1962)

120 min | Drama, War

The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans during World War II. During the four days in Naples, the revolt turns over in just a few hours. ... See full summary »

Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi, Silvana Buzzanca

Votes: 1,020

21. Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Fantasy

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.

Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Kirk Morris, Iloosh Khoshabe, Liana Orfei, Diletta D'Andrea

Votes: 698

22. Tempest (1928)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

Directors: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast

Votes: 523

23. Bushido (1963)

122 min | Action, Drama

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.

Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori

Votes: 508

24. Rebecca's Daughters (1992)

96 min | Comedy

The film is set in Wales and concerns itself with the aristocracy who are taxing to common people to ruin. Naturally, a certain member of said aristocracy decided that all this is not on, ... See full summary »

Director: Karl Francis | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys, Joely Richardson, Dafydd Hywel

Votes: 187

25. I cento cavalieri (1964)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Don Fernando, the son of El Cid, rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Mark Damon, Antonella Lualdi, Rafael Alonso, Manuel Gallardo

Votes: 212

26. Zwischen Himmel und Hölle (2017)

180 min | Drama, History

Two-part drama about how, 500 years ago, a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever.

Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Jan Krauter, Johannes Klaußner, Joachim Król

Votes: 159

27. The Royal Bed (1931)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy

More interested in playing checkers with the servants than in governing his people, King Eric VIII is dominated by Martha, his queen, a humorless woman who believes in doing her royal duty ... See full summary »

Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor

Votes: 264

28. Der Tod des weißen Pferdes (1985)

111 min | Drama

The peasants in a 16th century German village revolt against their landlord, the new and oppressive abbot of the local monastery.

Director: Christian Ziewer | Stars: Thomas Anzenhofer, Raimund Dummert, Peter Franke, Udo Samel

Votes: 19

29. Rise Against the Sword (1966)

101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the Age of Warring States in feudal Japan, Kaga's Seven Clans of peasants unite to rebel against the local samurai warlords who oppress them.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô, Ryô Tamura

Votes: 151

30. En defensa propia (1977)

104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man teams up with the most feared man in the region to avenge the murder of his relatives.

Director: Toni Sbert | Stars: Jorge Luke, Mario Almada, Carlos Cardán, Alicia Encinas

Votes: 21

31. Cipollino, the Onion Boy (1961)

38 min | Animation, Short, Action

An oppressed vegetables and fruits rebel against tyranny leading by Chipollino, an onion boy.

Director: Boris Dyozhkin | Stars: Nina Gulyaeva, Erast Garin, Sergey Martinson, Grigoriy Shpigel

Votes: 1,257

32. Dynasty Wars (1989 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure, War

In this arcade game by Capcom, you play as one of four generals fighting on horseback against the evil general Dong Zhou and the Huang Ching organization during the Three Kingdoms period in China.

Votes: 32

33. Inés of My Soul (2020)
Episode: Sangre y fuego (2020)

Drama

BLOOD AND FIRE: Six months have passed since the Spanish expedition led by Valdivia arrived in Chile and founded the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. Since then, Valdivia has been ... See full summary »

Directors: Alejandro Bazzano, Vicente Sabatini | Stars: Elena Rivera, Eduardo Noriega, Benjamín Vicuña, Enrique Arce

Votes: 25

34. Blake et Mortimer (1997)
Episode: Le piège diabolique (1997)

Animation, Adventure, Crime

Mortimer inherits the castle of his former adversary Professor Miloch. Curious as ever, he tries the machine he finds there and instantly arrives - In the prehistoric era.

Directors: Yannick Barbaud, Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Yves Barsacq, Pierre Baton, Patrice Baudrier, Hervé Bellon

Votes: 25

35. Ryan Reeves (2014–2018)
Episode: 100 Years War (2014)

28 min | Documentary, History

The Hundred Years War was a series of military conflicts in the three century feud between England and France that finally ended the King of England's claim to the throne of France. ... See full summary »

Star: Ryan Reeves

36. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Robot of Sherwood (2014)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In Sherwood Forest, the Doctor uncovers a sinister alien plot and forms an alliance with Robin Hood. With Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake.

Director: Paul Murphy | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Tom Riley, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Votes: 7,189

37. Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets (2014– )
Episode: Richard II (2014)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Tyranny: Last in the part-dramatised history series with Dan Jones. Richard II was the boy king who stopped a peasants revolt but grew up to be hated.

Director: James Tovell | Stars: Dragos Onisei, Dan Jones

Votes: 47

38. Macklean (1993)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1993)

98 min | Drama

After having been forced to leave Stockholm, Macklean return to his Skurup parish in Skåne. He admires the French revolution and decide to introduce agricultural reforms despite protests from the conservative peasants.

Director: Ragnar Lyth | Stars: Henric Holmberg, Gösta Ekman, Marcus Groth, Anette Bjärlestam

39. Meurtres à... (2013– )
Episode: Meurtres à Sarlat (2017)

TV-14 | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sarlat, in south-west France, was the site of violent peasant revolts in the 17th Century. Now, the son of the region's largest manufacturer of preserved foods has been murdered in a ritual recalling those historical events.

Director: Delphine Lemoine | Stars: Cécile Bois, Thierry Godard, Christopher Buchholz, Sabrina Aliane

Votes: 113