From my movie collection
by andykypros | created - 02 Nov 2016 | updated - 02 Nov 2016 | PublicCreated on 02/11/16 My interpretation of these ratings is as follows, Under 2 Rubbish,watch if you have masochistic tendencies Between 2.1 and 3.0 If you want to waste some time Between 3.1 and 4.0 of some interest but not much Between 4.1 and 5.0 mostly mediocre. Between 5.1 and 6.0 Tolerable Between 6.1 and 7.0 OK movie. Between 7.1 and 8.0 Very good. Between 8.1 and 9.0 Excellent Over 9.1 Should be watching the film and not reading this
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1. Nixon (1995)
R | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris
Votes: 32,714 | Gross: $13.56M
2. North Face (2008)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Simon Schwarz
Votes: 16,429 | Gross: $0.71M
3. Nuremberg (2000)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History, War
The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy
Votes: 6,959
4. The Man with the Carnation (1980)
125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.
Director: Nikos Tzimas | Stars: Alekos Alexandrakis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Kostas Kazakos, Vangelis Kazan
Votes: 576
5. The Travelling Players (1975)
230 min | Drama, History, Music
Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Kiriakos Katrivanos
Votes: 4,349
6. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 5,903
7. Ouloi emeis, efenti (1998)
105 min | Drama, History
The film is a documentary and a fiction movie, outlines a true story: At the end of the Civil War, a group of eight persecuted fighters of the Democratic Army of Greece and exiled to Ikaria... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Vardaros | Stars: Vasilis Kolovos, Periklis Moustakis, Antonis Vlisidis, Andonis Mombaitzis
Votes: 26
8. Our Nixon (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin
Votes: 663 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Out of the Blue (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, History
The definitive investigation on the UFO phenomenon narrated by Peter Coyote.
Directors: Tim Coleman, James Fox, Boris Zubov | Stars: Peter Coyote, Amir D. Aczel, Bernhard Haisch, John Samford
Votes: 861
10. The Pacific (2010)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.
Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ashton Holmes
Votes: 129,871
11. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Approved | 173 min | Drama, History, War
August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 5,191
12. Parkland (2013)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 17,464 | Gross: $0.65M
13. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,829 | Gross: $27.19M
14. The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
TV-G | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernadette knows she's been chosen to be the Bride of the Lord.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sydney Penny, Emmanuelle Riva, Catherine de Seynes, Malka Ribowska
Votes: 154
15. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Passed | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Votes: 60,618 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Franklin Caicedo
Votes: 1,285
17. The Patriot (2000)
R | 165 min | Action, Drama, History
Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs
Votes: 293,363 | Gross: $113.33M
18. The Physician (2013)
R | 155 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby
Votes: 41,913
19. Pirates (1998)
104 min | Documentary, History
Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the harsh lives of pirates, their tactics, motivations and why they would choose such a life. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Chancellor | Stars: Lorna Bennett, Rachel Ferjani, Gabriel Byrne, Chris Jarman
Votes: 70
20. Pompeii (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 116,586 | Gross: $23.22M
21. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,406
22. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
64 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Marc Jacquier
Votes: 5,954
23. Public Enemies (2009)
R | 140 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke
Votes: 318,470 | Gross: $97.10M
24. Quo Vadis (1951)
Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 16,732 | Gross: $24.29M
25. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 122,341 | Gross: $2.20M
26. Massacre in Rome (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner
Votes: 1,486
27. Rasputin (1996 TV Movie)
R | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
HBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen, David Warner
Votes: 3,979
28.
Bible Mysteries (2004)
Episode:
The Real Mary Magdalene
(2004)
History
Stars: Afaf Chayab, Stevan Davies, M'Barek El Mamoudi, Stephen Emmel
29. Recount (2008 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 116 min | Drama, History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Denis Leary, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 13,595
30.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Red Star in Orbit: The Dark Side of the Moon
(1990)
Documentary
History of the early Soviet space program, with emphasis on the "space race" with the United States to land a man on the moon, the Soviet unmanned lunar probes, the ill-fated N1 moon rocket, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Stars: Joss Ackland, James E. Oberg
31. Rembetiko (1983)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Director: Costas Ferris | Stars: Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Themis Bazaka
Votes: 3,121
32. Rise and Fall of the Spartans (2002)
Documentary, History, War
The history of the great militaristic Ancient Greek city state.
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Travis Wojcik
Votes: 64
33. Rome (2005–2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Stars: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon
Votes: 185,225
34. Ruby and Oswald (1978 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History
A docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, in 1963, based on eyewitness and other testimonies.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Michael Lerner, Frederic Forrest, Doris Roberts, Lou Frizzell
Votes: 143
35. Rommel (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Director: Niki Stein | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Tim Bergmann, Johannes Silberschneider, Benjamin Sadler
Votes: 2,486
36. Roots (1977)
TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 18,862
37. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
R | 200 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Christopher Jones
Votes: 10,679 | Gross: $30.85M
38. Salem Witch Trials (2002 TV Movie)
189 min | Drama, History
A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kirstie Alley, Henry Czerny, Gloria Reuben, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 963
39. Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell
Votes: 169,986 | Gross: $83.30M
40. Scandal (1989)
R | 106 min | Drama, History
Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen
Votes: 5,522 | Gross: $8.80M
41. The Scarlet Letter (1934)
G | 69 min | Drama, Romance
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall, Cora Sue Collins
Votes: 499
42. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,449,619 | Gross: $96.90M
43. The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler (1958 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
Director: Walter D. Engels | Stars: Westbrook Van Voorhis, Paula Wolf, Julius Schaub, Wilma Schaub
Votes: 137
44. Separate But Equal (1991)
PG | 190 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little
Votes: 784
45. Sergeant York (1941)
Passed | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Votes: 19,776 | Gross: $16.40M
46. Sex in the Ancient World: Egyptian Erotica (2009 TV Movie)
History
Director: Stuart Clarke | Star: Bill Graves
Votes: 77
47. Sex in the Ancient World: Prostitution in Pompeii (2009 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, History
The excavations of Pompeii reveal a thriving sex industry with prostitutes ranging from female slaves to male celebrities. But like today sexual promiscuity was not considered proper or ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Sayenga | Stars: Anthony Velazquez, Angelina Bulygina, Tiffany Lauren Bennicke, Mariann Gavelo
Votes: 106
48.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
(1996)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
She debuted at age three and became a star at six when her mother landed her the lead role in Little Miss Marker, the box-office sensation of 1934. As America's princess, Shirley Temple ... See full summary »
Directors: Jeff Scheftel, Andrew Thomas, Kevin Burns | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Shirley Temple, James R. Parish, Anne Edwards
Votes: 111
49. Shogun (1980)
TV-MA | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 15,467
50. Shooting Dogs (2005)
R | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney
Votes: 11,968
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