Winter is here and many of us are in winter hibernation mode. I don’t know about you but in this cold I have no desire to leave the house and be social. On these cold dark nights there’s nothing better than putting on a good movie – and if you don’t know by now I am a lover of period dramas. Basically, if the movie is set before 1970 and there are costumes, I’m probably going to like it.
I love how these films take you back to a different time, and I usually like them not just for their classic story lines, but also the amazing visuals that come with period dramas. The settings, the costumes, are usually a feast for the eye. And I love how the actors work hard to recreate a bygone world.
I’m always being asked for recommendations , so I’ve gathered a list of my favorites below – check them out and let me know what you ended up loving.
My All Time Favorites
These are films or tv series’ that are my all time favorites. They are in a class of their own I can re-watch them over and over again and never get bored.
- Pride & Prejudice (the 2005 version)
- Downtown Abbey
- Outlander
- Ever After
- The Tudors
- Marie Antoinette
- The Crown
Less Known But Need To Watch
- Suite Francaise
- Tulip Fever
- Gosford Park
- The Devil’s Whore
- North & South
- Testament of Youth
- Far From the Madding Crowd
TV Series
- Vanity Fair (the 2018 miniseries)
- Poldark
- Versailles
- Alias Grace
- Call the Midwife
- Madam Bovary (the 2014 version)
- Birdsong
- The Passing Bells
- Death Comes To Pemberley
- The Borgias
- Grantchester
- Victoria
- Great Expectations (the 2011 version)
- The Virgin Queen (the 2005 version)
- Traitors
- War & Peace (the 2016 version)
- Bleak House
- The Forsyte Saga
- Northanger Abbey (the 2007 version)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (the 2008 version)
- Wuthering Heights (the 2009 version)
- Les Miserables (the 2019 BBC One version)
- A Dance to the Music of Time
- Anne of Green Gables (the 1985 version)
- Sandition
Movies
- The Danish Girl
- Vanity Fair (the 2004 version)
- Young Victoria
- Interview with the Vampire
- Sense & Sensibility
- The Exception
- Emma
- The Young Victoria
- Legends of the Fall
- Atonement
- The Affair of the Necklace
- The House of Mirth (the 2000 version)
- Shakespeare In Love
- Anna Karenina
- The Crucible
- Gone with the Wind
- Memoirs of A Geisha
- Much Ado About Nothing (the 1993 version)
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Foreign Language Films
- Mathilde
- Farewell My Queen
- A Royal Affair
- Lady J
- Charite
Action Movies (male friendly!)
- The Patriot
- King Arthur
- Troy
- Last Samurai
- Turn
- Cold Mountain
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Gladiator
- Braveheart
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Four Feathers
- The Imitation Game
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Man In The Iron Mask (the 1998 version)
- Gangs of New York
- Outlaw King
Most of these are available via Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu. If you don’t have access to any of those definitely head to your local library since they will for sure have copies of these that you can access for free!
Happy watching and stay warm !
