Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with medieval genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 124 films · Page 4.
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, fantasy film, medieval film, musical film, science fiction film, time-travel film
American mechanic Hank Martin is knocked unconscious and awakens in the land and time of King Arthur. Initially captured and sentenced to die, he is freed and claims to be a wizard, awing the aged king and his court with the lighting of a …
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Adventure, Fantasy, fantasy film, medieval film
The mysterious Green Knight appears before King Arthur's court in the New Year and demands the head of Sir Gawain as the prize in a bizarre game. Given a year's grace, Gawain sets off in search of the Knight for a rematch.
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Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film
thumb|left|Fairbanks and O'Hara in the film's trailer Sinbad regales a group of travelers around a nighttime campfire. When his listeners become bored with his tired tales, Sinbad recounts his eighth voyage. With his friend Abbu, Sinbad sa…
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comedy film, fantasy film, medieval film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, time-travel film
After Trimble's NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, it takes him and his android back to King Arthur's Camelot in the year 508 AD. They then use their 20th-century technology to help defeat a plot by the evil Sir Mordre…
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Adventure, medieval film, silent film, swashbuckler film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|The full film The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades …
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Knights Tale, adventure film, medieval film
The blacksmith and swordsmith John is tutored at the court of King Arthur, but as a commoner he cannot hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonil. The earl's castle is attacked by Saracens and Cornishmen — disguised…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
Shortly after the death of Charlemagne a girl called Johanna is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen). He also rules his wife (Jördis Triebel) and family with a rod of iron, though his Saxon wife s…
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Action, adventure film, drama film, medieval film
Five years after the events of Ironclad, the de Vesci family struggles with Scot raiders along the English-Scottish border. A blood feud begins after the Scot chieftain's son is killed in one of these raids. The wounded de Vesci patriarch,…
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Historie, Knights Tale, medieval film
Myles Falworth (Tony Curtis) and his sister Meg (Barbara Rush) live in obscurity on a farm in Crisbey-Dale with their guardian Diccon Bowman (Rhys Williams). This is to protect them from the attainder placed upon their family by King Henry…
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adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, romance film
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere. A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall a challenge from a ri…
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, medieval film, romance film
The film takes many of its elements and main characters from the Third Crusade, which was prompted by the Saracen capture of Jerusalem and the crusader states in the Holy Land in A.D. 1187. The character of King Richard the Lionheart is a …
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drama film, medieval film
In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however. Two no…
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Adventure, Historie, adventure film, medieval film
King Arthur learns that one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. Soon the soldiers of double-dealing Edmund of Cornwall slay the king. However his daughter Katherine escapes with the help of outlaw Robert Marshal…
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Historical drama, historical film, medieval film
"Italy. 12th century AD. Northern Italy is ruled over by a German Emperor: Frederick I Hohenstaufen, known as 'Barbarossa'.
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Adventure, Horror, fantasy film, horror film, medieval film
A group of Viking women from Stannjold, led by Desir (Abby Dalton), decide to go out to sea in search of their missing men. They soon encounter a giant dragon-like sea serpent which destroys their ship. They wash up ashore on the mysteriou…
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Fantasy, fantasy film, medieval film
For 1,500 years, the powers of Merlin (Rik Mayall) have kept the evil Mordred (Craig Sheffer) and his mother Morgana (Grethe Fox) captive in another world. When a present-day scientist (Tia Carrere) stumbles upon the gateway between this w…
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Adventure, Historie, adventure film, medieval film
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to North America to find his father, who was captured by Native Americans during a previous voyage.
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Komödie, medieval film, speculative fiction, time-travel film
Scientist Vivien Morgan is zapped back to the medieval age and time of King Arthur and Camelot, when her scientific machine malfunctions. She is sent back along with many objects from her desk, including her laptop and boom box. As she is …
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medieval film
Initially narrated by the titular character through a flashback, Grendel (Peter Ustinov), the "Great Boogey", recounts how he first left his cave as a child and encountered the Danish King Hrothgar (Ed Rosser) and his thegns. After being r…
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Action, Fantasy, Horror, Werewolf, medieval film
{{plot}} In the opening, A narrator tells us, It was unmistakable. A wolf rising it's stem and stern. It sailed drip blood, red.
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film
Based on Viking folklore and the poems they left, Vikingdom is a fantasy, action adventure film about a forgotten king named Eirick. Tasked with the impossible odds to defeat Thor, the Norse god of thunder, who is on a mission to gather ke…
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fantasy film, medieval film
In a war between pagans and Christians, the Saracen Ruggero and Christian Bradamante fall in love. A sorceress warns Bradamante that Ruggero will be killed in battle by the paladin Rolando, who is himself in love with Ruggero’s sister, Isa…
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Fantasy, independent film, medieval film
In ancient Britain, a time of magic and legend, a powerful druid named Aberthol(Nigel Cooke) is bent on destroying the Celtic people. Keeping the aging Celtic King under his control, Aberthol sends many warriors to their death under the gu…
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adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film
In a land ruled by Vikings, the daughter of King Thorsson: Freya is due to wed one of her father's mightiest clan warriors. Before their engagement is set, the ailing king decides to take one last expedition to Gungnir, a foreboding island…
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