Movie List for "united states 2"

House on Haunted Hill (1959) Crime Horror Mystery Movie

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Year 1959.

Generes: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Director: William Castle
Writer: Robb White
Actors: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Adventure Drama War Movie

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. Year 1957.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, War
Director: David Lean
Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Actors: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

The Public Enemy (1931) Crime Drama Movie

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. Year 1931.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Writer: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey F. Thew
Actors: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods

Fargo (1996) Crime Thriller Movie

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. Year 1996.

Generes: Crime, Thriller
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) Drama Romance War Movie

On the Russian front in 1944, German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind. Year 1958.

Generes: Drama, Romance, War
Director: Douglas Sirk
Writer: Orin Jannings, Erich Maria Remarque
Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Drama Horror Sci-Fi Movie

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate. Year 1935.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: James Whale
Writer: Mary Shelley, William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston
Actors: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive

Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. Year 1964.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writer: Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller
Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten

The Ten Commandments (1956) Adventure Drama Family Movie

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh’s household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. Year 1956.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon
Actors: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

Being John Malkovich (1999) Comedy Drama Fantasy Movie

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. Year 1999.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener

Mountains of the Moon (1990) Adventure Drama History Movie

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. Year 1990.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, History
Director: Bob Rafelson
Writer: William Harrison, Bob Rafelson
Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant

The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989) Comedy Movie

6 people comically meet in the Kalahari desert: a female NYC lawyer flying with a local zoologist/pilot in a mini-plane, a Cuban and an African soldier taking each other POW, a Boer elephant poacher and a bushman looking for his 2 ch Year 1989.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Jamie Uys
Writer: Jamie Uys
Actors: N!xau, Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom

Lion of the Desert (1980) Biography Drama History Movie

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar. Year 1980.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Writer: David Butler, H.A.L. Craig, Paul Thompson
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger

King Solomon’s Mines (1950) Action Adventure Romance Movie

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. Year 1950.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Romance
Director: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Writer: Helen Deutsch, H. Rider Haggard
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson

A Family Thing (1996) Comedy Drama Movie

Earl Pilcher, Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he’s not her natural son, but the son of a Bla Year 1996.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Writer: Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson
Actors: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1951) Drama History Romance Movie

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. Year 1951.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Orson Welles
Writer: William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Jean Sacha
Actors: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote

Kagemusha (1980) Drama History War Movie

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord’s double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place. Year 1980.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara