Films Set i’the c17

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Films and television series

1612 (2011): starring Pyotr Kislov, Artur Smolyaninov, Michal Zebrowski.

A Field in England (2013): starring Julian Barratt.
A Little Chaos (2015): Starring Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts. Read the SCL Review.
Admiral: Command and Conquer (2015): starring Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer.
Against All Flags (1952): starring Errol Flynn and Maureen O’Hara.
Angelique (1964): starring Michele Mercier, Jean Rochefort, Robert Hossein.
Angelique (2013): starring Nora Arnezeder, Gérard Lanvin, Tomer Sisley.

Bathory: Countess of Blood (2011): starring Anna Friel and Hans Matheson.
Battle of Vienna (2012): starring F. Murray Abraham, Enrico Lo Verso, Alicja Bachleda.
Black Corsair, The (1976): starring Mel Ferrer and Kabir Bedi.
Black Field (2009): starring Sofia Georgovassili, Hristos Passalis, Despina Bebedelli.
By the Sword Divided (1983): starring Julian Glover.

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006): starring Viggo Mortensen.
Captain Blood (1935): starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland.
Caravaggio (1986): starring Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Mark Tildesley, Michael Gough.
Charles II: The Power and the Passion starring Rufus Sewell
Countess, The (2009): starring Julie Delpy and William Hurt.
Cromwell (1970): starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness.
The Crucible (1996): starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990): starring Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet.

Day of Wrath (1943): starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam.
D’Artagnan’s Daughter (1994): starring Sophie Marceau.
The Devils (1971): starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.
The Devil’s Whore (2008): starring Andrea Riseborough, Michael Fassbender. Read the SCL review.
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982): starring Anthony Higgins.
Don Juan (1998): starring Emmanuelle Béart and Penélope Cruz.
Don Quixote (2001): starring John Lithgow and Amelia Warner.

El Greco (2007): starring Nick Ashdon.

The First Churchills (1967) starring John Neville.
Forever Amber (1947): starring Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde.
The Four Musketeers (1974): starring Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed.
Frenchman’s Creek (1944): starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone.
Frenchman’s Creek (1998): starring Tara Fitzgerald.

Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003): Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy.
The Great Fire (2014): starring Andrew Buchan, Jack Huston, Rose Leslie, and Charles Dance.
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004): Robert Carlyle, Michael Fassbender, Clemence Poesy.

Harakiri (1962): starring Tatsuya Nakadai.
Hara-Kiri – Death of a Samarai: starring Koji Yakusho.
Henry Purcell – England, My England (1995): starring Simon Callow and Michael Ball.

I, Worst of All (1990): starring Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio.

King’s Whore, The (1990): starring Timothy Dalton, Valeria Golino. Read the SCL review.

L’allée du Roi: starring Dominique Blanc, Didier Sandre.
La Femme Musketeer (2004): starring Natassja Kinski and Michael York.
Le Bossu (1997): starring Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez.
Le Roi Danse (2000): starring Benoît Magimel and Boris Terral.
Lorna Doone (1976): starring Emily Richards.
Lorna Doone (1992): starring Sean Bean, Clive Owen, and Polly Walker.
Lorna Doone (2000): starring Amelia Warner, Aiden Gillen.

Man of La Mancha (1972): starring Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren.
Marquise (1997): starring Sophie Marceau.
Moliere (2007): starring Romain Duris, Laura Morante, and Fabrice Luchini.
Morgan, The Pirate (1960).
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961): starring Lucyna Winnicka.
Musketeers, The (2014): starring Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Peter Capaldi.

New Worlds (2014): starring Jamie Dornan and Jeremy Northam.
Nightwatching (2007): starring Martin Freeman and Jodhi May.

Pilgrim’s Progress (1978): starring Peter Thomas, Liam Neeson.
Pirates of Tortuga (1961): starring Ken Scott.
Plymouth Adventure (1952): starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney.
Pocahontas (1996): featuring voices by Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Christian Bale.
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (2001).

Queen Christina (1933): starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert.

Rembrandt (1936): starring Charles Laughton.
Restoration (1995): starring Robert Downey Jr, Sam Neill, Meg Ryan.
Rise of Louis XIV, The (1966).

Salem (2014-): starring Tamzin Merchant.
The Scarlet Blade (1963): starring Oliver Reed.
Scarlet Letter, The (1994): starring Gary Oldman and Demi Moore.
Serpent’s Kiss, The (1997): starring Ewan McGregor, Greta Scaachi, Richard E. Grant.
Shogun (1980): starring Richard Chamberlain.
Stage Beauty (2004): starring Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Rupert Everett, and Hugh Bonneville.

The Iron Mask (1928): starring Douglas Fairbanks.
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989): starring Hugh Grant, Emma Samms, Oliver Reed. Read the SCL review.
The Libertine (2004): starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, & Rosamund Pike.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998): starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich.

The Man in the Iron Mask (1976): starring Richard Chamberlain and Jenny Agutter.
The Moonraker (1958): starring George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring.
The Musketeer (2001): starring Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari.

The New World (2005): starring Colin Farrell, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer.

The Three Musketeers (1939): starring Don Ameche.
The Three Musketeers (1948): starring Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, and Angela Lansbury.
The Three Musketeers (1973): starring Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed.
The Three Musketeers (1993): starring Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Curry, and Chris O’Donnell.
The Three Musketeers (2011): starring Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Matthew MacFadyen.
Three Musketeers (1966): starring Brian Blessed and Jeremy Brett.
To Kill a King (2003): starring Dougray Scott, Tim Roth, Rupert Everett.
Tous les Matins du Monde (1991): starring Guillaume Depardieu, Anne Brochet.
Tulip Fever (2017): starring Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Holliday Grainger, Dane DeHaan, Judi Dench.

Vatel (2000): starring Uma Thurman, Gerard Depardieu, and Julian Sands.

Winstanley (1976): starring Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins.
Wicked Lady, The (1945): starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason.
Witchfinder General (1968): starring Vincent Price.

17th-century plays and operas

Cadmus & Hermione, tragédie lyrique de Lully et Quinault (2008). Le Poème Harmonique.
Il Sant’ Alessio by Stefano Landi (2008): Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Damien Guillon, Xavier Sabata, William Christie.
L’Incoronazione Di Poppea by Monteverdi (2012): William Christie/Philippe Jaroussky/Danielle De Niese/Anna Bonitatibus/Max Emanuel Cencic/Les Arts Florissants.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (2011). Comédie Ballet de Molière. Musique de Jean-Baptiste Lully / Le Poème Harmonique, dir. Vincent Dumestre

Documentaries/History programmes

Brother Against Brother: The English Civil War (2007)
Discover the Great Masters of Art – Caravaggio (2011)
The English Civil War – A People Divided (2002)
Tim’s Vermeer
Vermeer and Music
Versailles, le Reve d’un Roi