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I Want to Live!
1958 film by Robert Wise
Duel in the Sun
1946 film by King Vidor
The Westerner
1940 film by William Wyler
Pulgasari
Pulgasari is a 1986 monster film directed and produced by Shin Sang-ok during his North Korean abduction. A co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is supposedly a remake of Bulgasari, a 1962 South Korean film that also depicts Bulgasari/Pulgasari, a creature from Korean folklore. The ensemble cast includes Chang Sŏnhŭi, Ham Kisŏp, Ri Chongguk, Ri Ingwŏn, and Yu Kyŏngae, with Kenpachiro Satsuma in the title role. Set during the Goryeo dynasty, Pulgasari follows a blacksmith's daughter who brings to life a metal-eating monster her late father created to defeat the monarchy.
Just Mercy
2019 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Orphans of the Storm
1921 film directed by D. W. Griffith
Infamous
2006 film by Douglas McGrath
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 film by John Frankenheimer
Cromwell
1970 British film directed by Ken Hughes
Manhattan Melodrama
1934 film by W. S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Sacco and Vanzetti
1971 film by Giuliano Montaldo
The Front Page
1931 film directed by Lewis Milestone
Marie Antoinette
1938 American film
The Crucible
1996 film by Nicholas Hytner
Red Corner
1997 film directed by Jon Avnet
The Devils
1971 film by Ken Russell
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 film by John Huston
The Bravados
1958 film by Henry King
The Chamber
1996 film by James Foley
Cargo 200
2007 film directed by Aleksei Balabanov
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 film by Charles Jarrott
The Judge and the Assassin
1976 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Just Cause
1995 film directed by Arne Glimcher
Sommersby
Sommersby is a 1993 period romantic drama film directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th-century French peasant Martin Guerre. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Clarice Taylor, Frankie Faison, and R. Lee Ermey in supporting roles. Set in the Reconstruction era, it depicts a farmer returning home from the American Civil War, with his wife beginning to suspect that he is an impostor while also falling in l
Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine, Will Geer, and Clint Ritchie. The story centers on two brothers on the run from a posse, led by a local sheriff who wants to arrest the runaways and free a hostage whom they took along the way. They head into the wrong territory, which is controlled by "Bandoleros".
There Is No Evil
2020 film by Mohammad Rasulof
Day of Wrath
1943 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956 American film directed by Fritz Lang
Ted Bundy
2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright
Shocker
1989 film by Wes Craven
Breaker Morant
1980 film by Bruce Beresford
The Great Raid
2005 film by John Dahl
Return to Paradise
1998 film by Joseph Ruben
Two Men in Town
1973 film by José Giovanni
Not on Your Life
1963 film by Luis García Berlanga
Compulsion
1959 film by Richard Fleischer
The New Land
1972 film directed by Jan Troell
The Confession
1970 film by Costa-Gavras
Dynamite
1929 film by Cecil B. DeMille, Mitchell Leisen
The Last Knights
2015 film by Kazuaki Kiriya
Salvador
2006 Spanish film directed by Manuel Huerga
Tom Horn
1980 film directed by William Wiard
Citizen X
1995 television film directed by Chris Gerolmo
The Crow: Salvation
2000 American film by Bharat Nalluri
The Return of Martin Guerre
1983 film by Daniel Vigne
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
2008 film by Edward Neumeier
10 Rillington Place
1971 film by Richard Fleischer
One Way Passage
1932 film by Tay Garnett
Open Doors
1990 film by Gianni Amelio
Rust
2024 film directed by Joel Souza
Last Dance
1996 film by Bruce Beresford
The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One
2027 Christian film directed by Mel Gibson
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000 film by Patrice Leconte
Seed
2007 film directed by Uwe Boll
King & Country
1964 British film
Nuremberg
2000 miniseries directed by Yves Simoneau
The Conspirator
2010 film directed by Robert Redford
Most Wanted
1997 film directed by David Glen Hogan
Breath
2007 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk
Dance with a Stranger
1985 film by Mike Newell