Search

7.3

♡ 29

74%

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on memoir or autobiography

Joseph Sargent Director

Clarence Felder as Commandant Kramer

Marisa Berenson as Elzvieta

Robin Bartlett as Etalina

Melanie Mayron as Marianne

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

Warm Springs

2005

7.4

♡ 6

77%

Biography

Joseph Sargent Director

Robert C. Treveiler as Dan Reed

Kenneth Branagh as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Mike Pniewski as Hastings, Party Leader

Matt Malloy as Lionel Purdy

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

MacArthur

1977

6.5

♡ 14

45%

Joseph Sargent Director

Tom Rosqui as General Sampson

Garry Walberg as General Walker

Lloyd Kino as Japanese Administrative Assistant

Barry Coe as Television Reporter

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

2008

parent child relationship

6.6

♡ 1

73%

Joseph Sargent Director

Chris Gartin as Dr. Weisman

Sonya Walger as Joanna Tate

Nolan Gould as Mark Scott

Geoff Pierson as Max

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

Freedom

1981

6.7

♡ 5

Joseph Sargent Director

Bill Morey as

Jerry Gatlin as

Ray Girardin as John

Tony Bill as Richard

Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.

Miss Evers' Boys

1997

7.1

♡ 4

70%

Joseph Sargent Director

Laurence Fishburne as Caleb Humphries

Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez as Chauffeur Driver

Ossie Davis as Mr. Evers

Obba Babatundé as Willie Johnson

The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

Goldengirl

1979

5.0

♡ 3

Joseph Sargent Director

James Coburn as Dryden

Susan Anton as Goldine

Curd Jürgens as Serafin

Harry Guardino as Valenti

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

1971

6.1

♡ 4

Joseph Sargent Director

Eleanor Parker as Claire Miller

Sally Field as Denise 'Dennie' Miller

Jean Byron as House Party Guest

Lane Bradbury as Susie Miller

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.

Abraham

1993

7.0

♡ 17

Joseph Sargent Director

Richard Harris as Abraham 2 episodes, 1993

Francesco Carnelutti as Egyptian Priest 2 episodes, 1993

Christian Kohlund as Eshcol 2 episodes, 1993

Maximilian Schell as Pharaoh 2 episodes, 1993

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.

Sunshine

1973

7.8

♡ 2

Joseph Sargent Director

Noble Willingham as Bartender

James Hong as Dr. Wilde

Cristina Raines as Kate Hayden

Meg Foster as Nora

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.

The Hell with Heroes

1968

5.7

♡ 4

Joseph Sargent Director

Rod Taylor as Brynie MacKay

Kevin McCarthy as Col. Wilson

Harry Guardino as Lee Harris

Pete Duel as Mike Brewer

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

7.1

♡ 16

90%

76%

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

artificial intelligence

based on novel or book

Joseph Sargent Director

James Hong as Dr. Chin

Susan Clark as Dr. Cleo Markham

Robert Quarry as Scientist

Byron Morrow as Secretary of State

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Out of the Ashes

2003

6.7

♡ 4

holocaust (shoah)

Joseph Sargent Director

Sandy Robson as Leiku's Husband

Oliver Cotton as Moshe Perl

Bruce Davison as Peter Schuman

Edie Inksetter as Woman in Labour

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

The Incident

1990

7.1

♡ 5

69%

Joseph Sargent Director

Susan Blakely as Billie

Peter Firth as Geiger

Harry Morgan as Judge Bell

William Schallert as Wallace

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.

White Lightning

1973

6.4

♡ 11

67%

smuggling (contraband)

Joseph Sargent Director

R.G. Armstrong as Big Bear

Burt Reynolds as Gator McKlusky

Diane Ladd as Maggie

Laura Dern as Sharon Anne

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Jaws: The Revenge

1987

3.1

♡ 66

2%

Joseph Sargent Director

Tina Lifford as Additional Voices

Barbara Harris as Additional Voices

J.D. Hall as Additional Voices

Michael Caine as Hoagie

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

2000