Period Drama Themed Movies

Devoting 50 years to her husband meant nothing when Emily discovered his heart belonged to another. Reborn in the '70s with her college letter in hand, she rips up their marriage deal. Leaving romance behind, she sets off to build her own legacy. He's history now.

Duncan, once a renowned master chef, is transported to another world and reduced to a lowly kitchen hand at the Marquis of Farhaven's estate. When a grand banquet is nearly ruined, he saves it with leftover ingredients and catches the Marchioness's eye. After earning a chance to cook, he faces sabotage from powerful food merchants. Undeterred, Duncan turns humble lotus root, cabbage, and crab into exquisite dishes, wins the Golden Key, earns his freedom, and opens a restaurant of his own.

A modern medical student transmigrated into the body of Theresa, the obese queen of the Kingdom of Bolun in the Middle Ages. The original owner had been publicly humiliated at the blessing ceremony and then strangled to death by the white lotus Lia. After being reborn, the female lead was determined to take revenge. Banished to the desolate cold palace, she relied on a cross-time device to purchase modern supplies online and lose weight scientifically, stunning the palace by shedding fifty kilograms in a single month. Coincidentally, the old king fell gravely ill with abdominal pain, and she saved him with modern surgery, firmly establishing her position. Thereafter, facing successive provocations from Lia, the queen dowager, the biased king, and treasonous nobles, she brought out modern high-tech gadgets such as air conditioners, sports cars, and firearms, crushing foreign enemies in a martial arts competition between the two kingdoms, exposing everyone's treason and conspiracies, and severely punishing the villains. In the end, she let go of palace romance, accompanied the old king on a road trip across various countries, and found freedom.

For centuries, Pale Wraith has been trapped in a graveyard, visible only to a girl named Gianna. Gianna feeds the lonely spirit for years, and they form a deep bond until she marries and disappears. Pale Wraith waits, only to see Gianna's children return to bury their mother. Refusing to let her story end, Pale Wraith takes over Gianna's body, avenges her death, raises her children, and transforms the lives of women throughout the village, earning the name Lady Pale Wraith.

After their fates are reset, two sisters embark on completely different life journeys. Letting go of past pains, the younger sister chooses to stand side by side with a duke misunderstood by the whole world. Step by step, she uncovers the truth of manipulated destinies with courage and wisdom, breaking the invisible chains that trap countless people. In the end, everyone breaks free from prearranged lives and learns to take responsibility for their own choices.

A wedding mix-up sends gentle, gifted Natalie to Yale, heir to the Quill family, while fiery Lucy marries his timid half-brother, Calvin. But Yale is secretly being poisoned by Calvin's mother, who wants the family fortune for her son. A skilled healer, Natalie saves Yale and helps him defeat his enemies. When she is framed for poisoning, the truth comes out, and Yale finally wins both the family business and Natalie's heart.

Noble heiress Luna lost her memory after falling off a cliff, completely forgetting Evan, the heir to the empire’s overlord, whom she had humbly pursued for five years. After awakening, she cut off all affection, agreed to a family-arranged marriage, and coldly struck back at the provocations from Evan and the two-faced “white moonlight” woman. After a drowning incident in which Evan left her to die, Luna made a dignified farewell to the past at a banquet. Meanwhile, Evan, long accustomed to being favored, gradually lost control amid Luna’s coldness and headed toward an irredeemable wife-chasing crematorium.

Sold into slavery by her cruel stepmother, fallen Numidian princess Lenora spends one night with Rome's war god, General Lucius Valerius, who leaves her his signet ring. A few months later, she gives birth to a boy alone and sells the ring to save their sick son, never knowing the buyer is Lucius's mother. Lucius has been searching for her ever since. Once he learns the truth, he rescues Lenora and brings her home. Now, against a jealous rival and a powerful senator, she must fight to protect her child.

Leonis of Thrace was the legendary gladiator known as the God of the Arena, until his enemies murdered his wife and he vanished from the fighting pits. He hides his identity, working as a handyman at his son's gladiator training ground, enduring humiliation from everyone unaware of his true identity. When his son's team faces dissolution, he chooses to join them in the prestigious War Trials competition, showing off his legendary skills and drawing attention to his mysterious identity.