costume drama

noun

: a movie that is set in the past in which the actors are dressed like people from the past

Examples of costume drama in a Sentence

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Both events may take place behind closed doors, but the costume drama will be there for all to see. —Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

What the series share is a tone that splits the difference between prestige costume drama, high melodrama, and fairy tale (the Elizabeths come from a family that practices magic). —Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024

The honor followed on the heels of her BAFTA win for Yorgos Lanthimos’ puckish spin on the costume drama, in which Stone plays a woman who finds liberation and self-actualization after being brought back to life by an eccentric surgeon. —Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024

In Yorgos Lanthimos’ costume drama, Stone plays a woman who goes on a journey of self-discovery after being brought back to life by an eccentric surgeon. —Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024

Annette and Ben’s daughter, Matilda (Hiba Ahmed), who’s around eight, has been cast in a big-budget costume drama, where she’s set to play the daughter of the main character, who’s being portrayed by a glamorous Italian movie star named Alicia (Matilda Lutz). —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024

At their best, the Hammer period horrors approached a serious-minded costume drama as invaded by a variety of murderous predators. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023

The British costume drama was widely considered a wheezing genre — fusty, middlebrow and too calcified in its literary sources to acquire much cinematic vitality — when A Room with a View came along in 1986 and became a global art-house crossover hit. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Arcel has long done well by his star, having cast him in the lavish 2012 costume drama A Royal Affair and co-conceived Mikkelsen’s 2019 vengeance-is-mine thriller Riders of Justice (2020). —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024