With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The Prestige
2006
Christopher Nolan
8.2
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
United Kingdom
130
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
There Will Be Blood
2007
Paul Thomas Anderson
8.1
Drama
United States of America
158
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview'...
Yojimbo
1961
Akira Kurosawa
8.1
Drama, Thriller
Japan
110
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a p...
The Elephant Man
1980
David Lynch
8
Drama, History
United States of America
124
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deforme...
Loving Vincent
2017
DK Welchman
8
Animation, Drama, History
Poland
95
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
12 Years a Slave
2013
Steve McQueen
7.9
Drama, History
United Kingdom
134
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, So...
Little Women
2019
Greta Gerwig
7.9
Drama, Romance, History
United States of America
135
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The Count of Monte Cristo
2024
Alexandre de La Patellière
7.9
Adventure, Action, Drama
France
178
Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his re...
The Hateful Eight
2015
Quentin Tarantino
7.8
Drama, Mystery, Western
United States of America
188
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Dances with Wolves
1990
Kevin Costner
7.8
Adventure, Drama, Western
United Kingdom
181
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Kevin Reynolds
7.7
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Thriller
Ireland
131
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
The Last Samurai
2003
Edward Zwick
7.6
Drama, Action, War
United States of America
154
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to ...
The Woman King
2022
Gina Prince-Bythewood
7.6
Action, Drama, History, War
Canada
135
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy d...
The Revenant
2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu
7.5
Western, Drama, Adventure
Canada
157
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
The Lighthouse
2019
Robert Eggers
7.5
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Brazil
109
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Moulin Rouge!
2001
Baz Luhrmann
7.5
Drama, Romance, Music
Australia
128
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
The Call of the Wild
2020
Chris Sanders
7.5
Adventure, Family, Drama
United States of America
100
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck e...
Glory
1989
Edward Zwick
7.5
Drama, History, War
United States of America
122
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Interview with the Vampire
1994
Neil Jordan
7.4
Horror, Drama, Fantasy
United States of America
123
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Ang Lee
7.4
Drama, Romance
United States of America
136
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughter...
The Piano
1993
Jane Campion
7.4
Drama, Romance
Australia
120
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
1992
Brian Henson
7.4
Music, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Drama
United States of America
86
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Gangs of New York
2002
Martin Scorsese
7.3
Drama, History, Crime
United States of America
168
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle....
Les Misérables
2012
Tom Hooper
7.3
History, Drama
United Kingdom
158
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of th...
Dead Man
1995
Jim Jarmusch
7.3
Drama, Fantasy, Western
United States of America
122
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Little Women
1994
Gillian Armstrong
7.3
Drama, Romance
United States of America
115
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
13 Assassins
2010
Takashi Miike
7.3
Adventure, Drama, Action
Japan
141
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Peter Weir
7.2
Adventure, Drama, War
United States of America
138
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of hi...
Open Range
2003
Kevin Costner
7.2
Western, Drama, Action
United Kingdom
139
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
The Young Victoria
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
7.2
Drama, History, Romance
United Kingdom
105
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man ...
An Officer and a Spy
2019
Roman Polanski
7.1
History, Drama, Thriller
France
132
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
The Professor and the Madman
2019
Farhad Safinia
7.1
History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
France
124
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
The Age of Innocence
1993
Martin Scorsese
7
Drama, Romance
United States of America
138
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Far from the Madding Crowd
2015
Thomas Vinterberg
7
Drama, Romance
United Kingdom
119
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
Mary Shelley
2017
Haifaa al-Mansour
7
Romance, Drama
Ireland
120
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
A Christmas Carol
2009
Robert Zemeckis
6.9
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Drama
United States of America
96
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterne...
Lincoln
2012
Steven Spielberg
6.9
History, Drama
United States of America
150
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succee...
Hostiles
2017
Scott Cooper
6.9
Drama, Western, History, Adventure
United States of America
134
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
News of the World
2020
Paul Greengrass
6.9
Drama, Western, Adventure
United States of America
118
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
