Great List of Top Romantic Period Films and Series

There are some who like romantic comedies while there are some who just love to get lost in the evergreen world of romance in history. I find myself in favour of the latter and have been so ever since I first read Pride and Prejudice. Well today’s topic is not historical/period novels or books; it is about period films and mini-series.

Although Pride and Prejudice (BBC version) is without a doubt one of my all time favourite, this hub will concentrate more on the period films/series that are somewhat like an endangered species amongst the movie world. So this is to the underdog in the world of period films. The unsung heroes of romance who are nevertheless as moving, as intriguing and as wonderful to watch as any crowned and acclaimed historical romance movie.

I do not quite like to list period films in descending or ascending order deeming any one particular to be no. 1 or no 7 in my list. The reason being that they all have something special about themselves and I believe it to be an insult to those characters living in the kaleidoscopic world of film reels (I know, I know, it is more like a movie in a usb drive or a DVD and not the traditional reels so to speak, it’s just how I imagine them to be, endlessly living in their world of film reels). Every period film holds its own special place in their alternate worlds.

The Buccaneers is a TV mini-series, comprising of 5 episodes. The mini-series is based on the novel by Edith Warthon. The Buccaneers tells the stories of four affluent girls who travel all the way from America to England in the hopes of finding appropriate husbands. The four girls are all different from each other and yet all to be related with. Nan, Conchita, Virginia and Lizzy, the four girls who indeed find husbands in the old world but you must watch the Buccaneers to see how it ends. Check out the youtube trailer to get a taste of the Buccaneers.

Little Dorrit is another mini-series comprising of 14 episodes (half an hour each). Little Dorrit follows the story of a young girl who goes by the name Amy Dorrit who lives in the debtors’ prison in London with her father. Amy secretly finds work in a house which turns out to transform her and her family’s life when Amy’s employer’s son, Mr Arthur Clennam returns home from abroad and discovers that Amy and his lives are interlinked. Find out more by watching the trailer.

Somewhere in Time is one of my favourite period films. When you start watching the movie, and you have the feeling that you know the actor, then that would be because it is Christopher Reeve, who is our favourite Superman.

Somewhere in Time tells the story of Richard Collier who travels back into the past to meet a woman whose photographs he sees and falls in love with. It is a beautiful historical romance movie that is sure to tug at your heart.

The Age of Innocence tells the story of a very passionate love story between and man who is betrothed to another innocent woman and a married, about to be divorced lady of the world. This movie takes the viewers into the path of passion, obsession and destruction but then pulls back. 

Fanny Hill is a TV mini-series that follows the life of an innocent girl, left in the cruel world alone when her parents decease due to smallpox, who enters the world of courtesans and then falls in love with a man that she cannot marry due to social rules and norms. The movie is very interesting and exciting at parts and quite sad at times too.