Period films for inspirational purposes ;)

If you simply can't watch TV without stitching, knitting, doing something you will appreciate a collection of films fitting the era of your recent costume-in-progress. There's a few hidden gems especially for the baroque era, as I recently discovered. I'll just list them here without much further ado, maybe a word or two on their quality of dress and plot, or a warning if they're too gruesome to watch :D Some of them are truly inspiring in their quality of costumes, others are just nice fillers for a sewing evening. The whole list to be completed, as all of my projects...

Antique

Medieval

Renaissance

La Reine Margot (1994)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Elizabeth I. (2005)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
La Princesa de Éboli (2010)
Isabel, la Reina (2011)


Baroque

By the Sword Divided (BBC-series, 1983-85)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Black Robe (1991)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994)
Le Bossu (1997)
Le Roi Danse (2000)
Vatel (2000)
Saint-Cyr (2000)
Alatriste (2006)
Snapphanar (2006)
Molière (2007)
Sluga Gosudarev (The Souvereign's Servant, Слуга государев, 2007)
The Devil's Whore (2008)
The Three Musketeers (2011) - Plot is horrid, the king's outfits nice. Forget the rest...
The Three Musketeers (Tri Mushketera, miniseries, 2013)
Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste (TV-series, 2013)
Definitely NOT recommending the 2014 BBC-Musketeers, as plot AND costumes are crap...
Tale of Tales (2015)
The Girl King (2015) - forget it unless you're keen on Alice's Red Queen...

 Rococo

Barry Lyndon (1975) - Perfect costumes despite dating from 1975!
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Rob Roy (1995)
Catherine the Great (1995)
Ridicule (1996)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (BBC-series, 1999-2000)
Le Pacte des Loups (2001)
The Lady and the Duke (2001)
Fanfan la Tulipe (2003)
Jeanne Poisson Marquise de Pompadour (2006)
The Duchess (2008)
Belle (2013)
Outlander (TV-series, 2014- )

Regency

Sharpe's Regiment (TV-series, 1993-2008)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Persuasion (1995)
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Emma (1996)
Emma (British version, 1996)
Hornblower (1998-2003)
Mansfield Park (1999)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Persuasion (2007)
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Mansfield Park (2007)
Becoming Jane (2007)
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Lost in Austen (2008)
Emma (2009)
Love and Friendship (2016)
Mary Shelley (2017)

later 1800s

The Age of Innocence (1993)
Cranford (BBC-series, 2007)
Lark Rise to Candleford (TV-series, 2008)
Return to Cranford (2009)
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (miniseries, 2013-2014)
Ripper Street (TV-series, 2013-2017)
In Secret (2014)
Penny Dreadful (TV-series, 2014)

early 1900s

A Promise International (2013)
Summer in February (2013)
Winter's Tale (2014)

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)