Films set in the 1830s-40s Films se déroulant dans les années 1830-1840
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1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,645 | Gross: $56.67M
2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
R | 105 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie
Votes: 161,706 | Gross: $37.52M
3. Adam's Woman (1970)
M | 116 min | Drama, Western
Adam (Beau Bridges) is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging, but the sentence is commuted... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Beau Bridges, John Mills, Jane Merrow, James Booth
Votes: 201
4. The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino
Votes: 1,310
5. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Approved | 141 min | Drama, Romance
A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 5,387
6. Amistad (1997)
R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 82,833 | Gross: $44.18M
7. Ammonite (2020)
R | 117 min | Drama, History, Romance
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle
Votes: 23,389
8. Schwarzwaldmädel (1933)
Romance
An elderly choir master loves his young housekeeper, but steps aside so that a student from the young generation can marry her instead.
Director: Georg Zoch | Stars: Maria Beling, Hans Söhnker, Walter Janssen, Kurt von Ruffin
9. Brigham Young (1940)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,141
10. The Brontë Sisters (1979)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Votes: 1,218
11. The Buddenbrooks (1959)
99 min | Drama
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid-19th-century Germany.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Hansjörg Felmy, Nadja Tiller, Hanns Lothar
Votes: 237
12. Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
84 min | Drama
Saga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Peter Esser, Mady Christians, Alfred Abel, Hildegard Imhof
Votes: 25
13. Buddenbrooks (2008)
151 min | Drama
In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and ... See full summary »
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, August Diehl
Votes: 1,569
14. Buddenbrooks (1979– )
614 min | Drama
Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Stars: Ursula Dirichs, Reinhild Solf, Volkert Kraeft, Gerd Böckmann
Votes: 142
15. California (1947)
Passed | 97 min | Western
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris
Votes: 1,092
16. California (1963)
Approved | 86 min | Western
Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841.
Director: Hamil Petroff | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Faith Domergue, Michael Pate, Susan Seaforth Hayes
Votes: 88
17. California Conquest (1952)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, History, Romance
In the 1840s, most Californians want their state to break away from Mexico and possibly join the USA but Russia, Britain and France aim to grab California for themselves.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Lisa Ferraday
Votes: 287
18. Can't Help Singing (1944)
Passed | 90 min | Musical, Romance, Western
A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.
Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce
Votes: 650
19. El capitán Veneno (1951)
85 min | Comedy
In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Marquina | Stars: Sara Montiel, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Amparo Martí, José Isbert
Votes: 60
20. The Eagles Cemetery (1939)
94 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Luis Lezama | Stars: Jorge Negrete, Margarita Mora, José Macip, Celia D'Alarcón
Votes: 25
21. Chad Hanna (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Later he falls in love with Caroline another runaway who becomes the Circus' new bareback rider.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 348
22. The Chimes (II) (1914)
50 min | Fantasy, Drama
Trotty Veck, the licensed messenger, reconsiders his promise to allow the marriage of his daughter Meg to Richard, after being advised by Alderman Cute that it is a sin for the poor to wed.... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Blaché | Stars: Tom Terriss, Faye Cusick, Alfred Hemming, Clarence Harvey
Votes: 18
23. Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Music
A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka, Adam Woronowicz, Bozena Stachura
Votes: 810
24. Zirkus Renz (1943)
88 min | Drama
A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: René Deltgen, Paul Klinger, Angelika Hauff, Alice Treff
Votes: 21
25. Corridors of Blood (1958)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee, Finlay Currie
Votes: 2,273
26. The Corsican Brothers (1941)
Passed | 111 min | Adventure, Romance
After their parents are killed, co-joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 757
27. Cousin Bette (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her sister dies in 1846, Bette moves from the château to Paris to work as a theater seamstress. She helps a handsome, starving artist. When her niece lures him away from her, she plans a devious revenge.
Director: Des McAnuff | Stars: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 2,838 | Gross: $1.20M
28. Cousine Bette (1964 TV Movie)
121 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Yves-André Hubert | Stars: Alice Sapritch, Claudine Coster, Jacques Castelot, Jacques Monod
Votes: 7
29. Cousin Bette (1971)
250 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor and homely spinster, who feels she's been walked on all her life, teams up with a scheming courtesan to wreak elaborate revenge on her rich and handsome relatives.
Stars: Margaret Tyzack, Thorley Walters, Helen Mirren, Ursula Howells
Votes: 205
30. La cousine Bette (1928)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Max de Rieux | Stars: Germaine Rouer, Henri Baudin, Alice Tissot, Charles Lamy
Votes: 12
31. The Dead and the Damned (2011 Video)
R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who accidentally release it's spores which turn the population into bloodthirsty mutants.
Director: Rene Perez | Stars: David A. Lockhart, Camille Montgomery, Rick Mora, Robert Amstler
Votes: 763
32. Devotion (1946)
Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Brontë fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,015
33. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann
Votes: 670
34. Dreaming (1944)
78 min | Comedy
A soldier is knocked unconscious during a train journey and has a series of bizarre dreams.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Hazel Court, Dick Francis
Votes: 57
35. Each Heart Has Its Own Story (1948)
104 min | Drama
Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
Director: Bror Bügler | Stars: Edvard Persson, Inger Juel, Hilda Borgström, Dagmar Ebbesen
Votes: 8
36. The Emigrants (1971)
PG | 151 min | Drama, History
Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern
Votes: 7,473 | Gross: $1.16M
37. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
38. Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (2008)
Documentary
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland from America in the ... See full synopsis »
Director: John J. Doherty | Stars: Marcus Valentine, Aaron Edo, Fred Lawal, Matilda Edo
Votes: 11
39. The Gadfly (1955)
94 min | Action, Drama, History
Against the background of Italian Patriots struggle for independence of his homeland, is three people by the tragic destiny of stops. Arthur who has evolved in the revolutionary, cardinal Montanelli and his love Gemma.
Director: Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Stars: Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Strizhenova, Nikolai Simonov, Vladimir Etush
Votes: 207
40. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Approved | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart
Votes: 1,808
41. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Votes: 1,518
42. The House of the Seven Gables (1967)
130 min | Drama
Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.
Director: Jack Glenn | Stars: Carol Glenn, Jack Glenn, Jerome Zerbe, George Shay
43. Ungarische Rhapsodie (1954)
95 min | Music, Romance
Directors: Peter Berneis, André Haguet | Stars: Colette Marchand, Paul Hubschmid, Michel Simon, Willy Fritsch
Votes: 13
44. I Love You Only (1936)
79 min | Comedy
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Milly, Vittorio De Sica, Enrico Viarisio, Giuditta Rissone
Votes: 11
45. It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)
87 min | Adventure, Comedy
Edo and Lupo are two countrymen running away after having robbed their boss. They are chased by 3 mercernaries. They will meet real gangsters, then some excentric nobles. At this time, they... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Paolo Hendel, Giovanni Guidelli, Margherita Buy, Claudio Bigagli
Votes: 155
46. Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration (2011)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed ... See full summary »
Directors: T.C. Christensen, Gary Cook | Stars: Nathan Mitchell, Tayva Patch, Rick Macy, David Nibley
Votes: 881
47. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936)
97 min | Western
A German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Viktoria von Ballasko, Werner Kunig, Karli Zwingmann
Votes: 222
48. Kein Hüsung (1954)
94 min | Drama
Autumn 1847: A couple, unmarried but awaiting a child is trying to survive the East German social stigma. Church and government will play their roles to make this movie a feast for the eyes and senses.
Director: Arthur Pohl | Stars: Fredy Barten, Ilse Bastubbe, Maria Besendahl, Otto Blumenthal
Votes: 15
49. Un roi sans divertissement (1963)
85 min | Crime, Drama
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France.
Director: François Leterrier | Stars: Claude Giraud, Colette Renard, Charles Vanel, Pierre Repp
Votes: 274
50. The Lash (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Don Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler, Marian Nixon
Votes: 173
51. The Little Minister (1934)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp
Votes: 854
52. The Lover of Camille (1924)
80 min | Romance, Drama
A married Parisian actor has a romance with a woman who abandons him but later returns, mistaking him for a different lover of hers. Disappointed in the fickleness of love, the actor is consoled by the stage success of his son.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Monte Blue, Willard Louis, Pat Moore, Pierre Gendron
Votes: 51
53. Lust for Gold (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Romance, Western
Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered.
Directors: S. Sylvan Simon, George Marshall | Stars: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince
Votes: 1,700
54. Mandingo (1975)
R | 127 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward
Votes: 4,224 | Gross: $2.43M
55. Maria Ilona (1939)
94 min | Drama, History
The 1848 Hungarian revolution of Kossuth is suppressed by an Austrian prince and a baroness who sympathizes with the rebels but tries to bring them around.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Paula Wessely, Willy Birgel, Paul Hörbiger, Hedwig Bleibtreu
Votes: 12
56. Marigold (1938)
Drama
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Sophie Stewart, Patrick Barr, Phyllis Dare, Edward Chapman
57. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 2,786
58. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 10,984 | Gross: $4.36M
59. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western
When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel
Votes: 690
60. Mask of the Avenger (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the European revolutionary fervor of 1848, Italian Captain Renato Dimorna tries to avenge his father's death, goes against the corrupt local military governor Larocca and prevents an Austrian military invasion.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance, Arnold Moss
Votes: 302
61. Moby Dick (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama
In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson
Votes: 641
62. Moby Dick (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 21,934 | Gross: $10.40M
63. Moby Dick (1998)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his Captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Stars: Henry Thomas, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Piripi Waretini
Votes: 4,176
64. Moby Dick (2011)
PG | 184 min | Adventure, Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Stars: William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 2,219
65. Monsieur des Lourdines (1943)
109 min
A young man ,who cannot stand his life in the country anymore leaves for Paris and squanders his parents' fortune.
Director: Pierre de Hérain | Stars: Raymond Rouleau, Germaine Dermoz, Mila Parély, Constant Rémy
Votes: 19
66. Les mystères de Paris (1935)
110 min | Drama
Director: Félix Gandéra | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Madeleine Ozeray, Marcelle Géniat, Roger Karl
67. Les mystères de Paris (1962)
110 min | Action, Adventure
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Jean Marais, Dany Robin, Jill Haworth, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 511
68. Nocturno der Liebe (1919)
Biography, Drama
The love tribulations of composer Frédéric Chopin are illustrated through his tunes.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Hermann Bachmann, Rita Clermont, Erna Denera, Erwin Fichtner
69. The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Sophie Vavasseur, Gina McKee
Votes: 779
70. The Old Curiosity Shop (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
When young Nell Trent's grandfather loses the investment money of wharf owner Daniel Quilp with cards, Quilp develops an everlasting urge to get him put in the madhouse. Nell and her grandfather flee the city.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Alan Barry, Adam Blackwood, Tom Courtenay, Brian de Salvo
Votes: 307
71. The Old Curiosity Shop (1979–1980)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of Nell Trent, a beautiful young girl. An orphan, she lives with her Grandfather in The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
Stars: Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Natalie Ogle, Granville Saxton
Votes: 82
72. The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Ben Webster, Elaine Benson, Hay Petrie, Beatrix Thomson
Votes: 113
73. The Old Curiosity Shop (1962– )
25 min | Drama
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Stars: Michele Dotrice, Oliver Johnston, Anton Rodgers, Ronald Cunliffe
Votes: 12
74. The Old Curiosity Shop (1984 TV Movie)
G | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The classic fictional tale of the adventures of Little Nell and her grandfather have been brought to the screen in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family.
Director: Warwick Gilbert | Stars: John Benton, Jason Blackwell, Wallas Eaton, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Votes: 50
75. The Old Curiosity Shop (1921)
70 min | Drama
A dwarf usurer prevents a rich man from finding an evicted gambler and his granddaughter.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Mabel Poulton, William Lugg, Hugh E. Wright, Pino Conti
76. One Man's Hero (1999)
R | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.
Director: Lance Hool | Stars: Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Romo, Mark Moses
Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $0.23M
77. The Oregon Trail (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
In 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 490
78. The Painted Stallion (1937)
Approved | 212 min | Western
The period is the 1820's and the first wagon train leaves Independence heading west to Santa Fe. In order to maintain his power, the ruthless Official at Santa Fe must not let them arrive ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor, William Witney | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, LeRoy Mason, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 196
79. Pirates of Monterey (1947)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny, Phillip Reed
Votes: 145
80. Ravenous (1999)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
Votes: 43,268 | Gross: $2.06M
81. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey
Votes: 3,549
82. Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
96 min | Comedy
The film is set in Wales and concerns itself with the aristocracy who are taxing to common people to ruin. Naturally, a certain member of said aristocracy decided that all this is not on, ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Francis | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys, Joely Richardson, Dafydd Hywel
Votes: 187
83. Red Shirts (2013–2014)
Comedy, Sci-Fi
Red Shirts is a sci-fi/comedy webseries about life, love and, most of all, survival. Ensigns Bostwick, Garibaldi, Monroe and Barry have been assigned to the fleet's best space cruiser, but ... See full summary »
Stars: Nick Armstrong, Shannon McKain, Arnie Pantoja, Heather Barr
Votes: 9
84. Robert Mayer - der Arzt aus Heilbronn (1955)
96 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Director: Helmut Spieß | Stars: Emil Stöhr, Gisela Uhlen, Walther Süssenguth, Otto Stübler
Votes: 9
85. Royal Flash (1975)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed
Votes: 2,292
86. Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Western
A peg legged pirate is searching for treasure with the help of a young boy, teen girl and a parrot. They'll have to fight Natives and his former crew on the way.
Directors: Kirk Douglas, Zoran Calic | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, George Eastman
Votes: 405
87. Song of Love (1947)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell
Votes: 1,150
88. A Song to Remember (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Nina Foch
Votes: 1,618
89. Souls at Sea (1937)
Passed | 92 min | Action, Adventure, History
Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon
Votes: 862
90. Stardust (2007)
PG-13 | 127 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Ian McKellen
Votes: 285,371 | Gross: $38.63M
91. Sutter's Gold (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 139
92. To New Shores (1937)
106 min | Drama
In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Edwin Jürgensen, Carola Höhn
Votes: 477
93. Tom Sawyer (1973)
G | 103 min | Adventure, Musical, Family
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn investigate a suspicious graveyard murder and more in this musical version of Mark Twain's novel.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East
Votes: 2,598
94. Tom and Huck (1995)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two best friends witness a murder and embark on a series of adventures in order to prove the innocence of the man wrongly accused of the crime.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Charles Rocket, Eric Schweig
Votes: 11,664 | Gross: $23.74M
95. Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Director: Jo Kastner | Stars: Joel Courtney, Jake T. Austin, Katherine McNamara, Noah Munck
Votes: 1,034
96. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people with whom he interacts.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly
Votes: 608
97. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
R | 118 min | Drama
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point that they have no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful, honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: John Kitzmiller, Herbert Lom, Olive Moorefield, O.W. Fischer
Votes: 257
98. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1977)
R | 90 min | Drama
Broken and beaten to the point of no return, a sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.
Directors: Al Adamson, Géza von Radványi | Stars: John Kitzmiller, Herbert Lom, Olive Moorefield, Mary Ann Jenson
Votes: 138
99. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Passed | 144 min | Drama, History
Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann
Votes: 503
100. Untamed (1955)
Approved | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1847, the Irish potato famine forces Katie O'Neill and her husband to emigrate to a troubled South Africa where Katie runs into an old flame.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin
Votes: 898
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