In the mood for a good medieval movie

Guffy

I fancy watching something historically based. A medieval preferably but wouldn't mind a classical one either. A film with a bit of substance in it, something like bravehart or the Gladiator I guess as opposed to the 300 or its like.

omerin

The holy Grail, can't go wrong, true story too

ziedth

The directors cut of Kingdom of heaven is very good. Probably falls short of gladiator in my opinion but it's definitely up there. Stay well away from the theatrical version though.

scouttio

I doubt its the kind you're looking for but I take any chance i can to recommend A Knights Tale.

Guffy

Knights Tale is brilliant, best hungover Sunday movie ever, Love holy grail but not the form I'm in now. Didn't think Kingdom of Heaven was great if I remember correctly but will def give the directors cut a go. I just set up 'Black Death' to start once my grubs done, views?

endacl

seamusk84

Check out Timeline from around 2003.

Cool medieval film, always thought it was underrated. (Does involve time travel though, so hopefully you are ok with that)

Guffy

Ah I'll try anything once seamus

Treora

Arn

RobbingBandit

Ironclad is not bad, post Magna Carta King John tries to break the Lords and Barons that made him sign the oath, Paul Giamatti is an evil fcuker playing King John.

johnny_ultimate

Substance you say? Get yourself a copy of The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman's tale of a knight and his (literal) games with death. Beautifully shot, terrifically acted, intellectually stimulating, deeply atmospheric and littered with some of the most iconic images in all of cinema.

Harry Palmr

The Norseman - Lee Majors as a Viking. What could possibly go wrong?

Robin and Marian (1976) is a beautiful exploration of Robin Hoods later life after the Crusades as he attempts to renew his romance with Maid Marian. A hidden gem of a film.

El Cid if you like epic old school epics.

The Name of the Rose for those enjoy a bookish ecclesiastical murder mystery

Skerries

seamusk84 wrote: »

Check out Timeline from around 2003.

Cool medieval film, always thought it was underrated. (Does involve time travel though, so hopefully you are ok with that)

I actually watched this the other week as I somehow missed it on first release, considering it had a 80m budget in 2003 I thought it was piss poor and can't see where the budget went to and the story was rather cliché

AnonoBoy

The Navigator, A Medieval Odyssey.

jonon9

Watch GoodKnight Mr macgyver part 1 and 2

gallag

It has to be "your highness"

tricky D

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The Navigator, A Medieval Odyssey.

In that case might as well suggest: Les Visiteurs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108500/ and the sequel

R P McMurphy

Army of darkness. Cheesy goodness

razorblunt

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Ironclad is not bad, post Magna Carta King John tries to break the Lords and Barons that made him sign the oath, Paul Giamatti is an evil fcuker playing King John.

Bought Ironclad for a five recently, well worth it.

Black Death was a decent watch too, I have to say.

Would 13th warrior fall into this category? I watched having heard it was awful, must have lowered my expectations but I quite enjoyed it.

Ole Rodrigo

The Devils - Ken Russells adaptation of Aldous Huxleys The Devils of Loudon , based on a true story.

ziedth

Neill Marshall who did the always watchable dog soldiers did a film a few years ago called centurion. It's a little bonkers but I watched it one rainy hungover Sunday and really enjoyed it. Also stars Michael Fassbender who is always good.

siblers

Black Death, Ironclad and Solomon Kane come to mind

Guffy

Did anyone watch that series on bbc a few years ago. Pillars of the earth I think it.was. I didn't watch it yet myself but books were brilliant. Any idea if series I any good?

Viriconia

Ladyhawke is good though quite old now. Very 80's.

BremoreDave

Excalibur - John Boorman directed and filmed in Ireland , based on the Arthurian legend .

mikemac1

Pillars of the Earth
World without End is not a sequel but it's based in the same town about 150 years after POTE. Best to watch POTE first

Same author and both were adapted to TV series. POTE is excellent though it goes a bit magicy/wizardry and there was no need for that.

I read WOE and the book is very different to the TV series.

Both are excellent, thumbs up. Will give you over 10 hours of viewing right there

Hard to be a God is a near 3 hour, black and white Russian Sci-fi that should be just what you're looking for.

check_six

Saw Flesh+Blood on netflix in the last few months. Paul Verhoeven directing Rutger Hauer in a grimy, vicious, warts and all medieval set movie about a bunch of mercenaries holing up in a castle for the winter. The general vibe feels quite authentic to the time. Pretty entertaining too.

LuckyLloyd

check_six wrote: »

Saw Flesh+Blood on netflix in the last few months. Paul Verhoeven directing Rutger Hauer in a grimy, vicious, warts and all medieval set movie about a bunch of mercenaries holing up in a castle for the winter. The general vibe feels quite authentic to the time. Pretty entertaining too.

Brilliant film!! Doesn't pull any punches in terms of savagery. I think that's a great suggestion to the question posed in the OP.

Guffy

check_six wrote: »

Saw Flesh+Blood on netflix in the last few months. Paul Verhoeven directing Rutger Hauer in a grimy, vicious, warts and all medieval set movie about a bunch of mercenaries holing up in a castle for the winter. The general vibe feels quite authentic to the time. Pretty entertaining too.

Surprising night off babysitting duties tonight so I shall give this a look. Thanks

check_six

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Brilliant film!! Doesn't pull any punches in terms of savagery. I think that's a great suggestion to the question posed in the OP.

I was really surprised I'd never heard of it before spotting it on netflix to be honest. It doesn't seem to have much of a profile despite being made by well known people, particularly when Verhoeven's very next movie was Robocop!

There was another movie that crossed my mind, something with Michael Caine and another band of mercenaries hiding in a valley (possibly The Last Valley?) during some religious wars of the later medieval period. They're just trying to lay low when internal rivalries get a bit heated.

shrewdness

Black Knight is the obvious choice.

Guffy

check_six wrote: »

I was really surprised I'd never heard of it before spotting it on netflix to be honest.

Not on irish netflix

JP Liz V1

The Princess Bride, love Mandy Patinkin as Montoya

j80ezgvc3p92xu

If you dont mind subtitles, watch Alexander Nevski (Russian, 1930s) and Teutonic Knights (Polish, 1970s I think). V. well made and plenty of emphasis on realism.

Cork boy 55

The War Lord

The War Lord is a 1965 American film about Medieval warfare in 11th century Normandy, starring Charlton Heston and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It is an adaptation of the play, The Lovers, by Leslie Stevens. The film also features Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Guy Stockwell, Maurice Evans, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Wilcoxon and James Farentino, with Jon Alderson, Allen Jaffe, Sammy Ross, and Woodrow Parfrey.
Until this film, most Hollywood representations of feudal life were glamorized. The War Lord attempts to portray the 11th Century in a more accurate fashion as dirty, violent and ruled by brute force. The social stratification imposed by feudalism governed every human relationship, with power devolving from the duke, to the knight, to the men at arms, the church and the peasantry at the very bottom.


its shown on one of movie channels regularly film4 TCM or MCM one of those
7/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Lord

Cork boy 55

check_six wrote: »

Saw Flesh+Blood on netflix in the last few months. Paul Verhoeven directing Rutger Hauer in a grimy, vicious, warts and all medieval set movie about a bunch of mercenaries holing up in a castle for the winter. The general vibe feels quite authentic to the time. Pretty entertaining too.

good movie , its shown on MCM channel regularly.
The story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the passing of the Late Middle Ages to the Early modern period, so maybe border-line medieval.
I stretch it another bit for a brilliant film.

The Last Valley (1971), directed by James Clavell, is an historical drama set during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). A mercenary soldier (Michael Caine) and a teacher (Omar Sharif), each fleeing the religious war in southern Germany, accidentally find the valley, untouched by the war, and there live in peace. Based upon the novel The Last Valley (1959), by J.B. Pick, the cinematic version of The Last Valley, directed by James Clavell, was the final feature film photographed with the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process; it was re-used to make the film Baraka

8/10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Valley_(1970_film)

PhiloCypher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cg_5UVL3fs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1acYvpR_E

Fall of the Roman Empire. Much of gladiator was stolen on this. I think is better film than gladiator