Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "12th-century"

1. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock

Votes: 316,217 | Gross: $47.40M

2. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck

Votes: 137,079 | Gross: $35.74M

3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Robin Hood decides to fight back as an outlaw when faced with the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater

Votes: 208,680 | Gross: $165.50M

4. Robin Hood (2010)

PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In twelfth-century England, Robin Longstride and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow

Votes: 283,474 | Gross: $105.27M

5. Robin Hood (1973)

G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The story of the legendary British outlaw portrayed with the characters as anthropomorphic animals.

Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, David Hand | Stars: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Roger Miller, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 139,150 | Gross: $32.06M

6. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

R | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller

A prequel centered on the origins of the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their former slaves, the Lycans.

Director: Patrick Tatopoulos | Stars: Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 168,021 | Gross: $45.80M

7. The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.

Stars: Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell

Votes: 33,153

8. Robin Hood (1984–1986)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A forest mystical being appoints two men in succession as the legendary outlaw defender of the oppressed.

Stars: Peter Llewellyn Williams, Ray Winstone, Mark Ryan, Clive Mantle

Votes: 4,999

9. Rashomon (1950)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura

Votes: 180,795 | Gross: $0.10M

10. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)

R | 126 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun, Honglei Sun

Votes: 49,244 | Gross: $5.70M

11. The Lion in Winter (1968)

PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle

Votes: 34,259 | Gross: $22.28M

12. Robin Hood (2006–2009)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After 5 years of fighting in the crusades, Robin returns to England and leads a band of outlaws to outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Gordon Kennedy, Sam Troughton, Joe Armstrong

Votes: 17,311

13. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Votes: 54,557 | Gross: $3.98M

14. Mystery!: Cadfael (1994–1998)

TV-14 | 983 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.

Stars: Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman

Votes: 3,119

15. Robin and Marian (1976)

PG | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris

Votes: 13,986 | Gross: $8.72M

16. The Visitors (1993)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier, Marie-Anne Chazel

Votes: 38,036 | Gross: $0.70M

17. The Court Jester (1955)

Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 13,971 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Outcast (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel brother, who seeks their deaths.

Director: Nick Powell | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen, Alexandre Bailly, Bozhao Wang

Votes: 14,313

19. Becket (1964)

PG-13 | 148 min | Biography, Drama, History

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi

Votes: 15,878

20. Kwaidan (1964)

Not Rated | 183 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama

Votes: 20,037

21. Robin Hood (1991)

TV-14 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Fox

Votes: 5,878

22. Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)

R | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice.

Directors: Victor Cook, Mike Disa, Sangjin Kim, Shûkô Murase, Jong-Sik Nam, Lee Seung-Gyu, Yasuomi Umetsu | Stars: Graham McTavish, Vanessa Branch, Steve Blum, Peter Jessop

Votes: 10,198

23. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960)

Approved | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Robin of Loxley, otherwise known as Robin Hood, and his band of Merry Men protect England from the evil machinations of Prince John while King Richard the Lionheart is away fighting in the Crusades.

Stars: Richard Greene, Victor Woolf, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge

Votes: 880

24. Ivanhoe (1952)

Approved | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Votes: 10,248

25. Just Visiting (2001)

PG-13 | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A French count is in England to marry the princess. She's killed. A wizard helps him time travel back before the murder - but ends up in Chicago, April 2000. A descendant helps him. Can he return to the 1100s?

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matt Ross

Votes: 20,221 | Gross: $4.78M

26. The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997–1999)

54 min | Action, Adventure

The legendary outlaw and his Merry Men battle evil around Nottingham and Sherwood Forest.

Stars: Martyn Ellis, Richard Ashton, Barbara Griffin, Matthew Porretta

Votes: 741

27. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)

R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Nyqvist

Votes: 23,187

28. Black Cat (1968)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Rokkô Toura

Votes: 8,605

29. Ivanhoe (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 142 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern

Votes: 5,591

30. The Lion in Winter (2003 TV Movie)

167 min | Drama, History, Romance

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrew Howard

Votes: 2,394

31. Assassin's Creed (2007 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.

Stars: Kristen Bell, Philip Shahbaz, Nolan North, Phil Proctor

Votes: 20,351

32. Robin Hood (1922)

Not Rated | 143 min | Adventure, Family, Romance

A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett

Votes: 2,486 | Gross: $5.45M

33. The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)

110 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Knight Godefroy de Montmirail and squire Jacquouille are stranded in 1793. Using trickery to break free from their shackles, both perilously partake in the Montmirail family's run away in the quest for an exiting time-shift.

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Franck Dubosc, Karin Viard

Votes: 4,737

34. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)

25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Robin was a cowardly tailor from Kensington, and Marian was the brains behind the Merry Men. With her ruthless band of freedom fighters, Marian seeks to save the villagers of Worksop from the tyrany of King John and his cunning henchman.

Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 1,608

35. Ivanhoe (1997)

270 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

After returning from the Third Crusade in the Holy Land, Ivanhoe discovers that England is under the rule of the corrupt Prince John.

Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Susan Lynch, Victoria Smurfit, Steven Waddington

Votes: 1,210

36. The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)

G | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century.

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Marie-Anne Chazel

Votes: 13,310 | Gross: $0.15M

37. Uyanis: Büyük Selcuklu (2020–2022)

120 min | Drama, History, War

The war of the Great Seljuk Emperor, Meliksah and her loyalist, Sencer against Hasan Sabbah, who is sworn to destroy the Seljuks.

Stars: Bugra Gülsoy, Ekin Koç, Hatice Sendil, Gürkan Uygun

Votes: 4,711

38. Sphinx (1981)

PG | 118 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud

Votes: 1,735 | Gross: $2.02M

39. Gate of Hell (1953)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, History

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Yatarô Kurokawa

Votes: 4,290

40. Samrat Prithviraj (2022)

135 min | Action, Drama, History

A magnum opus recounting the glorious tale of one of India's bravest emperors- Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan. Inspired from the epic poem Prithviraj Raaso and other folklores.

Director: Chandra Prakash Dwivedi | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Manushi Chhillar, Ashutosh Rana

Votes: 53,503

41. Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road (2008)

128 min | Action, Drama, Romance

The Knight Arn is sent on a last mission against Saladin. He has to win this battle, before he can go home to Sweden, and finally marry his Cecilia and start a family. But the peace back home is threatened by the Danes.

Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Bibi Andersson

Votes: 8,570

42. Barbarossa (2009)

R | 139 min | Drama, History, War

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor.

Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan, F. Murray Abraham, Christo Jivkov

Votes: 1,436

43. Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime

120 min | Biography, History

The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Peter Duffell | Stars: Richard Tyson, Daming Chen, Bekim Fehmiu, Rodney A. Grant

44. Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan (2006–2009)

Drama, History

The historical story begins with the childhood of Prithviraj.It shows how he became the king.The begins the epic love story of Prithviraj and Sanyogita and how Mohammed Ghor attack Delhi.

Stars: Rajat Tokas, Mugdha Chaphekar, Jas Arora, Geet Prajapati

Votes: 257

45. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 4,242

46. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)

Not Rated | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken'ichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori

Votes: 4,377

47. Kurozuka (2008– )

Animation, Action, Horror

Kuro, a 12th-century man, flees into the mountains after losing to his brother, where he meets a strange, beautiful woman named Kuromitsu. Kuro falls in love with Kuromitsu but realizes she... See full summary »

Stars: Brad Swaile, Janyse Jaud, Kelly Sheridan, Trevor Devall

Votes: 528

48. Ivanhoe (1958–1959)

30 min | Adventure, History

The adventures of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a noble knight and champion of justice during the rule of the evil Prince John.

Stars: Roger Moore, Robert Brown, Andrew Keir, Martin Wyldeck

Votes: 371

49. Knights of Santiago (2023)

74 min | Drama, History

In a country divided in an eternal internal war, an order of knights rises to build a nation.

Director: Ana L. Martín | Stars: Fran Nortes, Eloy Arenas, Martina Herrero, Javier Esparza

Votes: 66

50. The Crusades (1935)

Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History

King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 1,293