
Catching up with what I call Appendix N Cinema that helped form the 80s fantasy look D&D
Silent stuff like Nosferatu, der golem and some of those Russian dragon fighting films or killing german sword order are worth a mention.
Older Harryhausen films like original Sinbad, king kong and gave us some monsters
70s & 80s was the shiz though we had
1 Beastmaster
2 Sword & the Sorcerer
3 Dragonslayer
4 Legend
5 Sinbad Golden VOyage
6 Sinbad Eye of the tiger
7 Lady Hawke
8 Excalibre
9 Conan
10 Conan the Destroyer
11 Red Sonja
12 Krull
13 Hawk the Slayer
14 Willow
15 Labyrinthe
16 Dark Crystal
There are some terrible barbarian ones im not including or have never seen outside a video case in a rural vhs vcr rental in 80s
Im not touching anything from post 80s here cept...
Id Add some good Psuedo History Films
Flesh & Blood
The Last Valley
The Seventh Seal
Troy
Seven Samura
Kingdom of Heaven
Gladiator
Red Cliff
Centurian
master & Commander: Far Side of the World
All the Sharpe's Rifle series/films
Baahubali the beginning and the conclusion films
Ran
Throne of Blood
Sure I will think of more
300 is nasty trash and slander on democracy so nope
Oddly I like the Noah Film - weird gnostic post apocalypse
Lots of giant bug and lizard movies and b sf helped too
Suggestions welcome