Category
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Unforgiven
Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.

Van Helsing
2004 film directed by Stephen Sommers

The Elephant Man
1980 film by David Lynch

Cimarron
1931 film by Wesley Ruggles

The Blue Lagoon
1980 film by Randal Kleiser

The Life of Emile Zola
1937 film by William Dieterle

The Quick and the Dead
1995 US film by Sam Raimi

Shanghai Noon
2000 film directed by Tom Dey

Tombstone
1993 film by George P. Cosmatos

The Man Who Would Be King
1975 film by John Huston

Lust for Life
1956 film by Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor

Pale Rider
1985 film by Clint Eastwood

Original Sin
2001 film directed by Michael Cristofer

Love in the Time of Cholera
2007 film directed by Mike Newell

Silverado
1985 film directed by Lawrence Kasdan

Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959 film by Henry Levin

Ludwig
1973 film directed by Luchino Visconti

The Four Feathers
2002 film by Shekhar Kapur

3:10 to Yuma
1957 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves

Duel in the Sun
1946 film by King Vidor

Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 film by Walter Hill

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 film by Hugh Hudson

Jesse James
1939 film directed by Henry King

Two Rode Together
1961 film by John Ford

The Missing
2003 film by Ron Howard

The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 film by John M. Stahl

Pandora's Box
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Come and Get It
1936 film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 film by Billy Wilder

Open Range
2003 American western film directed by Kevin Costner

Shalako
1968 film by Edward Dmytryk

Mrs. Brown
1997 film by John Madden

Young Winston
1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

Arsène Lupin
2004 film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé

Life with Father
1947 film by Michael Curtiz

Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The work explores the creative conflict between playwright and composer, and depicts their decision to continue their partnership, which led to their creation of several more Savoy operas.

The Proposition
2005 film by John Hillcoat

Mayerling
1968 film by Terence Young

Sergeant Rutledge
1960 film by John Ford

Bad Girls
1994 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan

Phantom of the Opera
1943 horror film directed by Arthur Lubin

Eiffel
2021 film directed by Martin Bourboulon

Lord Jim
1965 film by Richard Brooks

The Merry Widow
1934 film by Ernst Lubitsch

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 film directed by Will Sharpe

The Bostonians
1984 film directed by James Ivory

Vincent & Theo
1990 film by Robert Altman

Show Boat
1936 film by James Whale

French Cancan
1955 film by Jean Renoir

Freud: The Secret Passion
1962 film directed by John Huston

The Legend of Frenchie King
1971 film by Christian-Jaque

Flowers of Shanghai
1998 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hobson's Choice
1954 film directed by David Lean

Elena and Her Men
1956 film by Jean Renoir

Heidi
1937 film by Allan Dwan

Ulzana's Raid
1972 film by Robert Aldrich

Tesla
2020 film directed by Michael Almereyda

Heidi
2015 film by Alain Gsponer

The Old Maid
1939 film by Edmund Goulding

Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 film by John Cromwell