The Thirty years' War in the Movies
by Burgwaechterchen | created - 27 Nov 2010 | updated - 17 Apr 2017 | PublicNo Ranking,just listing..If the film is not directly connected to the 30 year's war,I at least try to concentrate on the times of the early 17th century.
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1. Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)
145 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Eduard Fernández
Votes: 13,872
2. The Last Valley (1971)
PG | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport
Votes: 3,580 | Gross: $0.25M
3. Krabat (2008)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: David Kross, Christian Redl, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 6,849
4. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)
73 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Jaroslav Moucka, Christian Brückner, Friedrich Schütter
Votes: 1,178
5. Wallenstein (1978– )
340 min | Biography, History
The rise of Albrecht von Wallenstein from minor Moravian nobleman to imperialist generalissimo in the Thirty Years-War, and his fall once the emperor begins to doubt his loyalty.
Stars: Rolf Boysen, Romuald Pekny, Werner Kreindl, Karl Schwetter
Votes: 101
6. Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus (1975– )
384 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The idyllic life of the simple-minded Simplicius Simplizissimus is destroyed with the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, leading him on an adventurous journey.
Stars: Matthias Habich, Herbert Tiede, Christian Quadflieg, Herbert Stass
Votes: 95
7. Nightwatching (2007)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Votes: 3,447
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
PG-13 | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 82,636 | Gross: $11.63M
9. The Musketeer (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea
Votes: 15,062 | Gross: $27.07M
10. D'Artagnan (1991 TV Movie)
135 min
Director: Pierre Cavassilas | Stars: Christophe Malavoy, Valérie Zarrouk, André Obadia, Denis Brandon
11. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,663 | Gross: $8.21M
12. Solomon Kane (2009)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 76,374
13. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,950 | Gross: $1.37M
14. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,934 | Gross: $15.14M
15. Die Seelen im Feuer (2014 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Bamberg 1630. The era of witch-hunting. The surgeon professor Cornelius (Mark Waschke) returns from Vienna, where he is a renowned physician, to his homeland. He is soon forced to face the ... See full summary »
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Mark Waschke, Paulus Manker, Alexander Held, Maximilian von Pufendorf
Votes: 180
16. The Three Musketeers (1993)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
France, 1625: Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them - save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt
Votes: 59,309 | Gross: $53.90M
17. The Three Musketeers (1973)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York
Votes: 20,129 | Gross: $22.02M
18. The Girl King (2015)
Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant
Votes: 4,467
19. Witchhammer (1970)
107 min | Drama, History, Horror
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová
Votes: 2,832
20. Das kleine Gespenst (1992)
86 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A little ghost longs to see the world in daylight. When his wish comes true, chaos ensues.
Director: Curt Linda | Stars: Elfriede Kuzmany, Gustl Weishappel, Eva Kinsky, Niels Clausnitzer
Votes: 71
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