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40 films tagged royalty
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2025 · Horror
A prince renounces God when his wife is killed and spends four hundred years looking for her again, until a solicitor's fiancée in 1889 Paris turns out to be her. Played as a love story more than a scary one, and everything in it is big.
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2025 · Drama
After Shivaji dies, his son Sambhaji takes command of the Maratha resistance and strikes at the Mughal empire, while his own court plots to replace him. A long war epic, battle after battle.
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2025 · Action
In seventh-century Arabia, a princess refuses to become the emperor's concubine and joins a famous bandit to stand against him. Big desert country, feuding tribes, and it builds towards a battle.
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2025 · Action
In seventeenth-century Mughal India, an outlaw who robs the rich to feed the poor is sent to take back the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Big Telugu action, with swords, horses, armies and songs.
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2025 · Animation
In 1860s Mexico, a young woman who cannot get her horror stories published is visited by a prince from the world she invented, whose kingdom runs on human fear. Stop-motion, gothic, and there are songs.
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2025 · Adventure
Four women in France in 1625 are handed the job of protecting the queen. It is a swashbuckler built on The Three Musketeers, with the musketeers replaced by women.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2025 · Fantasy
The second film of a Chinese fantasy trilogy: the city of Xiqi braces for a siege by the emperor's army, with immortals and demons taking sides. Big armies, big creatures, and a lot of mythology to keep up with.
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2025 · Musical
A princess kept as a servant by the stepmother who took her father's throne escapes into the forest, where she finds seven magical beings and a young bandit. A live-action retelling of the Disney film, with songs.
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2025 · Horror
Cinderella from the stepsister's side: a mother with no money puts her eldest through crude, painful surgery to make her fit to win the prince at the ball. The body horror is close up and does not look away.
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2025 · Action
The heir to a Gujarat dynasty humiliates a minister's son for harassing a woman on a flight, and the minister sets out to ruin him for it. A star vehicle: fights, speeches, and a marriage in trouble underneath.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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2026 · Fantasy
Twenty years after the Trojan War, Ithaca is still without its king, his wife besieged by suitors and his son gone to find out whether he is alive. It is a big film that cuts between journeys, with gods and mythical creatures in the way.
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2026 · Fantasy
A prince of Eternia is sent to Earth as a boy when a warlock takes his parents, and grows up in an office job in Oklahoma still hunting the sword he lost. Big, loud sword-and-sorcery once it gets back off-world.
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2026 · Musical
Red and Chloe hide a magic pocket watch in Wonderland's royal vault and start finding out what their trip to the past changed, including a sister Red never had. Songs throughout, made for kids.
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2026 · Drama
Krishna's life told through the women who love him: Radha in Vrindavan, then Rukmini and Satyabhama once he is king of Dvaraka. A devotional film, framed as a priest answering a doubter.
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2026 · Comedy
A Malayalam comedy running in three times at once: an Earth ruled by one regime in 2370, a broke little kingdom facing invasion in 1790, and the present day. Nearly three hours, and it keeps cutting between them.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2013 · Animation
A princess sets out across the mountains to find her older sister, who has run from the kingdom after her power to freeze things got away from her. A musical for children, with big songs and a talking snowman.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2002 · Action
A nameless swordsman is brought before the king of Qin to explain how he killed the three assassins who had been hunting him, and tells it more than once. Each version gets its own color, and the fights are closer to dance than to brawling.
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2021 · Drama
Three days at Christmas 1991 with Princess Diana at the royal family's country estate, weighed down by schedules, meals and being watched. It stays close to her throughout and moves slowly; more mood than story.
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2018 · Drama
A sick and unpredictable Queen Anne is managed by her closest friend, until a ruined cousin turns up at court as a scullery maid and starts climbing. Filthy jokes, wide lenses, three women circling each other.
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2021 · Fantasy
Gawain, King Arthur's untested nephew, takes a swing at a green stranger who rides into the Christmas feast, and a year later has to go and find him. Slow and strange, told as separate episodes on the road.
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2003 · Fantasy
Two hobbits climb toward a volcano with a ring while everyone else fights to keep an army looking the wrong way. Well over three hours, with the biggest battles of the three films.
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2002 · Fantasy
The broken company splits three ways: two hobbits heading for the enemy's land behind a strange guide, the rest into a horse kingdom about to be attacked. Three hours, three storylines, and a very long battle at the end.
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2013 · Animation
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a stalk, and she grows fast into a young woman his new fortune turns into a lady of the capital. Drawn like a brush painting, and gentle for most of its length.
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2021 · Drama
A Scottish general meets three witches who tell him he will be king, and goes home to his wife with the news. Black and white, bare sets, and the original language kept word for word.
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2017 · Action
Thor loses his hammer, lands on a junk planet run by a showman, and has to fight his way off it to get home. Jokes the whole way through, bright colours, and a synthesiser soundtrack.
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1995 · War
A Scottish commoner raises an army against English rule after soldiers kill his wife. Long and loud, and built around two enormous battles.
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2006 · Action
Three hundred Spartan soldiers march out to hold a narrow coastal pass against a Persian army many times their size. It is one fight after another, shot in slow motion, with a narrator carrying you between them.
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1977 · Science fiction
A farm boy on a desert planet picks up a distress message hidden in a droid and ends up joining a rebellion against an empire. Fast, and it explains almost nothing.
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2005 · Fantasy
Four children evacuated from the Blitz find a country of talking animals through a wardrobe, held in permanent winter by a witch. Big, and aimed squarely at children.
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2012 · Fantasy
A comfortable hobbit is talked into joining thirteen dwarves walking east to take back their mountain. Long, and the first third is a dinner party.
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2006 · Mystery
A stage magician in imperial Vienna performs tricks nobody can explain, and the crown prince's police inspector is told to expose him. Handsome, and built as a puzzle.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2010 · Drama
The future George VI works with an unqualified Australian speech therapist on a stammer that makes broadcasting impossible. Mostly two men in one room.
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1994 · Animation
A lion cub who will be king is driven away after his father's death and grows up somewhere else entirely. Big songs, and one scene children remember.
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2006 · Drama
The week after Diana's death, between a monarch who will not make a statement and a new prime minister who wants one. Talky, and mostly indoors.
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