Renaissance Movies

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing...

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal...

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate...

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill,...

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal...

Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera...

An art dealer is seduced by a wealthy art collector to steal a pair of prestigious paintings. She enlists the help of her ex-lover and curator to...

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar....

Cecily is a lovely young woman, so lovely in fact people can't help but be drawn to her beauty. This becomes a problem for the naive girl once her...

An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.

In this unique documentary, French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot interviews Alfred Deller, the internationally celebrated contemporary countertenor who...

Bianca is a young woman in Renaissance Italy who is promised in an arranged marriage. She inherits a strange power passed down by the women in her...

In Renaissance Italy, a gifted painter becomes entranced by a merchant's wife when commissioned to paint her necklace. Their forbidden connection...