Period Dramas Will Be Ruling Our Movie Screens This Fall

Gal Gadot and Emma Mackey in "Death on the Nile"

There’s something instantly comforting about period dramas, and they’re the perfect genre to watch on a gloomy, rainy day. That’s why it doesn’t come as a surprise that we have a bunch of period movies coming our way this fall, and here are a few you shouldn’t miss for the world.

Enola Holmes (September 23)

If your favorite part about period dramas are the great costumes, make sure to check out Netflix’s take on the Sherlock Holmes tales. It centers on his fictional teenage sister Enola, played by Millie Bobby Brown.

Rebecca (October 21)

Netflix has another period drama in store this fall—the latest retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel about a young newlywed woman battling the ghosts of her husband’s past.

Death on the Nile (October 23)

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels are slowly growing into a franchise, and Death on the Nile is the latest mystery he’ll try to unravel this fall.

Ammonite (November 13)

This Oscar contender stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan and centers on an intense relationship between British paleontologist Mary Anning and a young woman recovering from a personal tragedy in her small coastal town.