Rather, if one approaches the supposed war story as the romantic drama it truly is, then Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche’s ...

But thanks in part to all the Jane Austen adaptations and movies about long-dead monarchs, the phrase period piece often evokes poofy dresses and elaborate manors—or, at the very least ...

But there's more to period pieces than you might think, especially when you consider the sheer volume of the subgenre. What are Westerns, war movies and historical epics if not period pieces?

The words “period piece” can suggest boring, dry, and slow. But the movies we’re about to discuss on this list are anything but. So the next time you hear that title thrown around in ...