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Kaloyan
🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 13th Century The 12th Century1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering from a century of Byzantine subjugation. He is forced to carry out a very flexible foreign policy in order to strength his positions. Pope Innocent III recognizes him as Emperor (Tsar), but a little later the fourth Crusade crosses the country under Emperor Baldwin. A new conflict is coming. Tsar Kaloyan wages the decisive battle at Adrianople and wins.
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La venganza de don Mendo
The 12th CenturyDon Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.
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The Tale of the White Serpent
🇨🇳 China The 12th CenturyThe adventures of a cute little panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent. — As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and she is in love with him. Many years later, when they are both adults, the princess is magically transformed into a human and sets out to find her love. But the local wizard believes her to be a vampire, and banishes Xu-Xian from the village in order to save him. Xu-Xian's pet pandas Panda and Mimi set out to save him and bring him, in the process becoming leaders of an animal gang.
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The Conqueror
🇲🇳 Mongolia The 12th CenturyGENGHIS KHAN! The world trembled at his name! — Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
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The Legend of the White Serpent
🇨🇳 China The 12th CenturyLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
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King Richard and the Crusaders
The 12th CenturyBased on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Gate of Hell
🇯🇵 Japan The 12th CenturyThe most honored screen import in a decade! — Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
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Ivanhoe
England The 12th CenturyAt Last on the Screen ! Biggest Spectacle since QUO VADIS! — Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Murder in the Cathedral
The 12th CenturyMurder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
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The Flame and the Arrow
🇮🇹 Italy The 12th CenturyAll the adventure a man can live, he lives. — Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
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Genghis Khan
🇲🇳 Mongolia The 12th CenturyTemujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy commander's daughter, and struggling to restore his demolished hometown. Meanwhile his steps guide him to be a great conqueror. Khan's witty, humorous side in his adolescent years before he takes the throne.
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Remorse at Death
🇨🇳 China The 12th CenturyThe story of two people who were forced to marry each without sincere feelings, resulting in a story of life and death.
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Son of the Guardsman
The 12th CenturyLooking for all the world like Robin Hood, Robert Shaw starred in this typically threadbare Sam Katzman serial as David Trent, a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard (Charles King). The outlaws of Sherwood Forest (yes, Sherwood Forest!) are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard (Robert "Buzz" Henry), whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent (John Merton).
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Ishikawa Prefecture The 12th CenturyYoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.
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The Crusades
The 12th CenturyKing Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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Two White Snake Ghosts
🇨🇳 China The 12th CenturyThe white snake demon transforms into a beautiful woman when she is attracted to a man named Khouw Han Boen. The two marry. Later, Han Boen finds out that his now-pregnant wife is the white snake demon in disguise.
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Nathan der Weise
🇮🇱 Israel The 12th CenturySilent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
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Woman
🇺🇸 United States of America 🇮🇹 Italy The 1860s The 12th Century The 1st CenturyA series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
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Palnati Yudham
The 12th Century1947 Movie in Telugu language
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