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Among those, 11 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Rating59%
Stewart Graff (Heston) is jogging near the Hollywood Sign. Back home, his wife Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner),a foul-mouthed bitter woman, starts her morning by picking a fight with him. After he has showered and is preparing to leave, Stewart finds Remy unconscious with a bottle of pills nearby. Accustomed to her periodic suicide attempts, Stewart prepares to induce vomiting when a violent tremor shakes the bedroom. Remy bolts out of bed, revealing that she was faking.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Rating69%
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Sports films, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Children's films
Actors Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, William Horace Marshall, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft
Rating65%
The film begins with a clip from the previous film, showing its central characters Marcellus and Diana going to be martyred for their Christian beliefs on the order of Emperor Caligula. Before being executed, Diana hands the robe to Marcellus' servant Marcipor (David Leonard), telling him that it is "for the Big Fisherman," meaning Peter, who was a fisherman before being called as an apostle.
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Adolfo Celi, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter
Rating70%
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, May Britt, Maximilian Schell
Rating70%
German ski instructor Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army as a lieutenant. Dissatisfied with police duty in Paris, he requests to be transferred and is assigned to the front in North Africa. He sees what the war has done to his captain (Maximilian Schell) and the captain's wife (May Britt), and he is sickened by their behavior.
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Children's films
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Leif Erickson
Rating75%
Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) is an apparently schizophrenic inmate at a mental institution called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t recognize her husband Robert (Mark Stevens).
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie, Eugenie Leontovich
Rating57%
In India to purchase some horses, British aristocrat Lord Esketh and his wife, Edwina, come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani. Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings. The spoiled, insensitive Edwina scoffs at this.
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, John Smith, Richard Conte
Rating61%
In 1901, Matt Masters (John Wayne), a Wild West circus star in the mold of Buffalo Bill Cody, bought a bankrupt circus in 1885 and successfully rebuilt it into a combination three ring and Wild West extravaganza, mixing Wild West Show acts with conventional circus acts in a winning combination. He has successfully toured the United States for more than a decade. Now that the century is about to turn, he wants to take his show to Europe.
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Claudia Cardinale, Maurice Ronet
Rating62%
In the final moments of the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a weakened French garrison anticipates a last assault by communist Viet Minh troops.
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek
Rating77%
In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Children's films
Actors Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson
Rating79%
The film covers several months in the life of the Nolans, an Irish American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in 1912. The film is much shorter than the book, which covers the time from before Francie is born until after she turns 16. The film focuses on the time when Francie is around 13 years old.
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Add to a movie listEarthquake (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Rating59%
Stewart Graff (Heston) is jogging near the Hollywood Sign. Back home, his wife Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner),a foul-mouthed bitter woman, starts her morning by picking a fight with him. After he has showered and is preparing to leave, Stewart finds Remy unconscious with a bottle of pills nearby. Accustomed to her periodic suicide attempts, Stewart prepares to induce vomiting when a violent tremor shakes the bedroom. Remy bolts out of bed, revealing that she was faking.
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Rating69%
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
, 1h40Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Sports films, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Children's films
Actors Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, William Horace Marshall, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft
Rating65%
The film begins with a clip from the previous film, showing its central characters Marcellus and Diana going to be martyred for their Christian beliefs on the order of Emperor Caligula. Before being executed, Diana hands the robe to Marcellus' servant Marcipor (David Leonard), telling him that it is "for the Big Fisherman," meaning Peter, who was a fisherman before being called as an apostle.
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
, 1h57Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Adolfo Celi, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter
Rating70%
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.
The Young Lions (1958)
, 2h47Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, May Britt, Maximilian Schell
Rating70%
German ski instructor Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army as a lieutenant. Dissatisfied with police duty in Paris, he requests to be transferred and is assigned to the front in North Africa. He sees what the war has done to his captain (Maximilian Schell) and the captain's wife (May Britt), and he is sickened by their behavior.
The Snake Pit (1948)
, 1h48Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Children's films
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Leif Erickson
Rating75%
Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) is an apparently schizophrenic inmate at a mental institution called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t recognize her husband Robert (Mark Stevens).
The Rains of Ranchipur (1956)
, 1h44Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie, Eugenie Leontovich
Rating57%
In India to purchase some horses, British aristocrat Lord Esketh and his wife, Edwina, come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani. Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings. The spoiled, insensitive Edwina scoffs at this.
Circus World (1964)
, 2h16Directed by Henry Hathaway, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, John Smith, Richard Conte
Rating61%
In 1901, Matt Masters (John Wayne), a Wild West circus star in the mold of Buffalo Bill Cody, bought a bankrupt circus in 1885 and successfully rebuilt it into a combination three ring and Wild West extravaganza, mixing Wild West Show acts with conventional circus acts in a winning combination. He has successfully toured the United States for more than a decade. Now that the century is about to turn, he wants to take his show to Europe.
Lost Command (1966)
, 2h9Directed by Mark Robson
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Claudia Cardinale, Maurice Ronet
Rating62%
In the final moments of the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a weakened French garrison anticipates a last assault by communist Viet Minh troops.
Stagecoach (1939)
, 1h37Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek
Rating77%
In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
, 2h9Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Children's films
Actors Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson
Rating79%
The film covers several months in the life of the Nolans, an Irish American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in 1912. The film is much shorter than the book, which covers the time from before Francie is born until after she turns 16. The film focuses on the time when Francie is around 13 years old.