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23 Best Movies in Genre History
Ainda Estou Aqui ( 2024 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 137
Country: Brazil | France
Language: Portuguese | French
Director: Walter Salles
Writer: Murilo Hauser | Heitor Lorega | Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Stars: Fernanda Torres | Fernanda Montenegro | Selton Mello | Valentina Herszage
Plot: A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Oppenheimer ( 2023 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 180
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Italian
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan | Kai Bird | Martin Sherwin
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Emily Blunt | Robert Downey Jr. | Alden Ehrenreich
Plot: A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
The Message ( 1976 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 177
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait
Language: Arabic | English
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Writer: H.A.L. Craig | Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar | Tewfik El-Hakim | A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi | Mohammad Ali Maher
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Irene Papas | Michael Ansara | Johnny Sekka
Plot: Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.
Gandhi ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 191
Country: United Kingdom | India
Language: English | Hindi
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Rohini Hattangadi | Roshan Seth | Candice Bergen
Plot: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
All the President's Men ( 1976 )
Genre: Drama | History | Thriller
Runtime: 138
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Carl Bernstein | Bob Woodward | William Goldman
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Robert Redford | Jack Warden | Martin Balsam
Plot: "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon\'s resignation.
Glory ( 1989 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 122
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Edward Zwick
Writer: Kevin Jarre | Lincoln Kirstein | Peter Burchard | Robert Gould Shaw
Stars: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman
Plot: Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
The Killing Fields ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 141
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French | Central Khmer
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands
Plot: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
The Right Stuff ( 1983 )
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 193
Country: United States
Language: English | Russian | Spanish
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Philip Kaufman | Tom Wolfe
Stars: Sam Shepard | Scott Glenn | Ed Harris | Dennis Quaid
Plot: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
'Breaker' Morant ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 107
Country: Australia
Language: English | Afrikaans
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Jonathan Hardy | David Stevens | Bruce Beresford | Harold Lander | Kenneth G. Ross | Kit Denton
Stars: Edward Woodward | Jack Thompson | John Waters | Bryan Brown
Plot: Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
The Last Emperor ( 1987 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 163
Country: China | Italy | United Kingdom
Language: English | Mandarin | Japanese
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Enzo Ungari | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | Puyi
Stars: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying
Plot: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.
La historia oficial ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama | History
Runtime: 112
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish | English
Director: Luis Puenzo
Writer: Aída Bortnik | Luis Puenzo
Stars: Héctor Alterio | Norma Aleandro | Chunchuna Villafañe | Hugo Arana
Plot: During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Missing ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico
Language: English | Spanish | French
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Costa-Gavras | Donald E. Stewart | Thomas Hauser | John Nichols
Stars: Jack Lemmon | Sissy Spacek | Melanie Mayron | John Shea
Plot: "When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him."
Tora! Tora! Tora! ( 1970 )
Genre: Action | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 144
Country: Japan | United States
Language: English | Japanese
Director: Richard Fleischer | Kinji Fukasaku | Toshio Masuda | Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Larry Forrester | Hideo Oguni | Ryûzô Kikushima | Gordon W. Prange | Ladislas Farago | Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Martin Balsam | Sô Yamamura | Jason Robards | Joseph Cotten
Plot: The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Henry V ( 1989 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 137
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French | Latin
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: William Shakespeare | Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kenneth Branagh | Simon Shepherd | James Larkin
Plot: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 175
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Dutch
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: Cornelius Ryan | William Goldman
Stars: Siem Vroom | Marlies van Alcmaer | Erik van 't Wout | Wolfgang Preiss
Plot: Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 1971 )
Genre: Drama | History
Runtime: 140
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: William Shakespeare | Roman Polanski | Kenneth Tynan
Stars: Jon Finch | Francesca Annis | Martin Shaw | Terence Bayler
Plot: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Escape from Sobibor ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 143
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Jack Gold
Writer: Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt | Richard Rashke | Reginald Rose | Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
Stars: Alan Arkin | Joanna Pacula | Rutger Hauer | Hartmut Becker
Plot: German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
The Mission ( 1986 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | History
Runtime: 125
Country: United Kingdom | France | United States
Language: English | Guarani | Spanish
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Robert Bolt
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jeremy Irons | Ray McAnally | Aidan Quinn
Plot: Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Waterloo ( 1970 )
Genre: Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 134
Country: Italy | Soviet Union
Language: English
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Writer: H.A.L. Craig | Sergey Bondarchuk | Vittorio Bonicelli | Mario Soldati
Stars: Rod Steiger | Christopher Plummer | Orson Welles | Jack Hawkins
Plot: Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Salvador ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico | United Kingdom
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone | Richard Boyle
Stars: James Woods | Jim Belushi | Michael Murphy | John Savage
Plot: A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.