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

96 Metascore

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

42 Metascore

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

64 Metascore

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

72 Metascore

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

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

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

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

54 Metascore

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

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

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

78 Metascore

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

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

24 Metascore

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

46 Metascore

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

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

66 Metascore

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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