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Sumptuous costume dramas can provide a much-needed escape in troubling times, but if you’re tired of the usual assortment of airless parlours, manicured lawns and straight-laced suitors, there is an alternative: a subset of films that play with our expectations of the genre. Combining post-punk soundtracks with cross-dressing, lobster racing, colour-blind casting and illicit love affairs, they allow us to view history through a new lens and feel surprisingly modern as a result.

The latest release to join its ranks is The Great, a raucous retelling of Catherine the Great’s rise to power starring a radiant Elle Fanning. Ahead of the show’s global launch, we shortlist 10 lavish, quick-witted and gloriously unconventional period dramas to watch now.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette, 2006.

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With shopping montages set to 1980s pop, salacious masked balls and midnight wanders through Versailles, Sofia Coppola’s account of the doomed French queen’s reign is gleefully subversive. As embodied by a fresh-faced Kirsten Dunst, she is an exuberant teenager who seeks solace from her loveless marriage in reckless hedonism. From the candy-coloured Manolo Blahniks to her ruffled silk ballgowns, the film is a visual feast that lets you revel in the pleasures of centuries past.

Available to buy on Amazon Prime Video

Wuthering Heights (2011)

Wuthering Heights, 2011.

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Elemental and erotic, Andrea Arnold’s reimagining of Emily Brontë’s 19th-century novel drips with longing. It casts Solomon Glave and James Howson as younger and older incarnations of Heathcliff—the first time the Byronic hero has been played by black actors—and Shannon Beer and Kaya Scodelario as the wild and wayward Cathy. As childhood friends, they run through misty marshes and windswept hilltops together but as adults, their love soon proves to be mutually destructive.

Streaming on YouTube and available to buy on Amazon Prime Video

Belle (2013)

Belle, 2013.

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A remarkable true story forms the basis of Amma Asante’s swoon-worthy romance. It sees Gugu Mbatha-Raw play Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain. Born into slavery in the 18th century, she becomes an heiress who attracts her fair share of suitors, until an idealistic lawyer (Sam Reid) catches her eye. Their relationship marks Dido’s political awakening, as she considers her position in society against the people of colour who are still treated as property.

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Lady Macbeth (2016)

Lady Macbeth, 2016.

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It’s impossible to take your eyes off Florence Pugh in William Oldroyd’s steely Hitchcockian thriller set in 19th-century Northumberland. She plays a teenager who is married off to a tyrannical older man (Paul Hilton) and forbidden from leaving their estate. When he has to travel on business, she gets a taste of freedom, falls for a rugged groomsman (Cosmo Jarvis) and decides to take control of her life. The performances are haunting, the set decoration pristine and the tension rapidly rising.

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Love & Friendship (2016)

Love and Friendship, 2016.

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Jane Austen’s acerbic wit takes centre stage in Whit Stillman’s social satire based on her epistolary novel Lady Susan. It stars Kate Beckinsale as a charismatic widow who is desperate to secure her future, and that of her young daughter (Morfydd Clark), by marriage. She travels from the home of one wealthy friend to another, decked out in plumed hats and silk capes, enchanting everyone she meets and plotting her next move. Expect big laughs, surprise cameos and a scandalous final twist.

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The Favourite (2018)

The Favourite, 2018.

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The 18th-century court of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) provides the setting for Yorgos Lanthimos’s absurdist black comedy about power struggles and palace intrigue. Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are delicious as the two ruthless favourites of the monarch, who try to outmanoeuvre each other at all costs. Their days are taken up with shooting practice, lobster racing, pelting men with fruit and slipping poison into unattended cups of tea. Best of all, there isn’t a damsel in distress in sight.

Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

7. Colette (2018)

Colette, 2018

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Period drama veteran Keira Knightley shines as the titular French novelist in Wash Westmoreland’s love letter to 19th-century Paris. We follow her as she marries Henry Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West) and writes Claudine à l’école, which is published under his name. Its success leads her to rebel, firstly through passionate love affairs with women and then by reclaiming her authorship. Her costumes—straw boaters, puff-sleeved blouses, louche suiting—only add to the film’s appeal.

Streaming on Netflix

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019.

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An artist (Noémie Merlant) arrives on a deserted island in Brittany at the start of Céline Sciamma’s mesmeric 18th-century love story. She is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of a troubled young woman (Adèle Haenel) who is promised to a Milanese nobleman. Through the course of their sittings, the pair embark on a secret affair and dare to imagine a world where they could be together. The final product is as ravishing as it is revolutionary in its celebration of the female gaze.

Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Little Women (2019)

Little Women, 2019.

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Female ambition is at the core of Greta Gerwig’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic. Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson and Eliza Scanlen are charming as the March sisters, freewheeling teenagers who put on plays, form a secret society and develop a keen understanding of the relationship between art and commerce. As they chase their dreams in New York, Paris and at home in Concord, Massachusetts, they transcend the limits imposed on the women of their era.

Streaming on Netflix

Emma (2020)

Emma, 2020.

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Snarky retorts, fleeting male nudity and a proposal scene cut short by an unexpected nosebleed are just some of the elements that set Autumn de Wilde’s Regency romp apart from the average Jane Austen adaptation. Anya Taylor-Joy sizzles as the matchmaker at its centre who is determined to find an eligible bachelor for a new friend (Mia Goth). The suitors—Johnny Flynn, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner—are sultry, the pastel-hued interiors delectable and the costumes ostentatious.

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