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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (occasionally referred to as simply 2001) is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial...
Initial release date:
- 1968
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 160 min (96 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 10,500,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
Initial release date:
- 1957
Runtime:
- 161 min (96.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
Initial release date:
- 1962
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 216 min (130 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes (1948) is a British feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers. The movie employs the story within a story device, being about a...
Initial release date:
- 1948
Runtime:
- 133 min (79.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 551,927 (UK £)
Fantasia
Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney. It is the third feature-length film produced by the Walt Disney Company. Fantasia features animation set to classical music and no dialogue—only spoken introductions by the host,...
Initial release date:
- 1940
Rating:
Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 2,280,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 motion picture that dramatized the biblical story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. It was released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956. It was directed by...
Initial release date:
- 1956
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 220 min (132 hs )
Produced by:
The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King.
The film was adapted...
Initial release date:
- 1943
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 156 min (93.6 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The...
Initial release date:
- 1944
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 172 min (103 hs )
Produced by:
Henry V
Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (the title of the 1600 quarto edition of the play)....
Initial release date:
- 1944
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 137 min (82.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 475,000 (UK £)
Hamlet
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of...
Initial release date:
- 1948
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 155 min (93 hs )
Produced by:
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet.
The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume...
Initial release date:
- Oct 8, 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 138 min (82.8 hs )
This is Cinerama
This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved. This is Cinerama premiered on 30 September 1952 at the New...
Initial release date:
- 1952
Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun is a Technicolor 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza (half-Native American) girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in...
Initial release date:
- 1945
Directed by:
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- 138 min (82.8 hs )
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Chicago
Chicago is a 1927 silent comedy-drama crime film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Frank Urson.
Drawn from the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart (Phyllis...
Initial release date:
- Dec 27, 1927
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
Produced by:
Ryan's Daughter
Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 film directed by David Lean. The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The film is a...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 195 min (117 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Gandhi
Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and...
Initial release date:
- 1982
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 188 min (113 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 22,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon is a 1973 musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer.
The film is a remake of...
Initial release date:
- 1973
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 150 min (90 hs )
Screenplay by:
El Cid
El Cid (1961) is an historical epic film, a highly romanticized story of the life of the Castilian knight El Cid.
Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with The Rank Organisation and released by Allied Artists, the film was directed by...
Initial release date:
- 1961
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 184 min (110 hs )
Produced by:
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson. John Farrow, the original director, was replaced by Anderson after a few days of shooting....
Initial release date:
- 1956
Runtime:
- 167 min (100 hs )
Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 World War II action-adventure spy film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton and shot on location in Austria and Bavaria.
Best-selling author Alistair MacLean wrote the...
Initial release date:
- 1969
Runtime:
- 158 min (94.8 hs )
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The Longest Day
The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II.
Producer Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author of the book, Cornelius Ryan, ...
Initial release date:
- 1962
Runtime:
- 178 min (107 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 10,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Alamo
The Alamo is a 1960 American War film released by United Artists, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, and featuring Frankie Avalon, Chill Wills, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal,...
Initial release date:
- 1960
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 202 min (121 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 12,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur (or Benhur) is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, the third film version of Lew Wallace's 1880 fictional novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. The film went...
Initial release date:
- Nov 18, 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 212 min (127 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Richard III
Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play Richard III, including elements of Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role. The cast includes many noted...
Initial release date:
- Apr 16, 1955
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 161 min (96.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 6,000,000 (UK £)
Othello
Othello is a 1965 film based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman. It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre, staged by John Dexter,...
Initial release date:
- 1965
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 165 min (99 hs )
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is a 1948 Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine,...
Initial release date:
- 1948
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Produced by:
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King of Kings
King of Kings (1961) is an American motion picture epic made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus from his birth to his crucifixion and Resurrection.
An earlier silent film...
Initial release date:
- Oct 11, 1961
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 168 min (101 hs )
Produced by:
Hawaii
Hawaii is a 1966 American film based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student (Max von Sydow) who, along with his new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes a Calvinist missionary in...
Initial release date:
- Oct 10, 1966
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 189 min (113 hs )
Produced by:
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by N. Richard Nash is based on the libretto for the 1935 opera of the same name by DuBose Heyward, his 1925 novel Porgy, and the subsequent 1927 stage...
Initial release date:
- Jun 24, 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 139 min (83.4 hs )
Produced by:
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. The epic film, set in the American South...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Rating:
Runtime:
- 222 min (133 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,900,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Camelot
Camelot is the 1967 film version of the successful musical of the same name. Richard Harris appears as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was directed by Joshua Logan.
As in the original stage version, the...
Initial release date:
- Oct 25, 1967
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 179 min (107 hs )
Produced by:
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006, with a...
Initial release date:
- Dec 9, 2006
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 131 min (78.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
War and Peace
War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the...
Initial release date:
- 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 208 min (125 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 6,000,000 (US$)
Rio Rita
Rio Rita is a 1929 RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a...
Initial release date:
- Sep 15, 1929
Runtime:
- 140 min (84 hs )
Screenplay by:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and...
Initial release date:
- 1943
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Runtime:
- 170 min (102 hs )
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion...
Initial release date:
- 1964
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 170 min (102 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Sound of Music
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and...
Initial release date:
- 1965
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 174 min (104 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 8,200,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Oliver!
Oliver! is a 1968 musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris.
Both the film and play are based on the famous...
Initial release date:
- Sep 26, 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 153 min (91.8 hs )
Produced by:
Cleopatra
Cleopatra is a 1963 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Mario Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,...
Initial release date:
- 1963
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 192 min (115 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 44,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: До́ктор Жива́го) is a 1965 epic or drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. It is also the eight highest grossing film of all time adjusted for...
Initial release date:
- 1965
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 197 min (118 hs )
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from the play by William Shakespeare.
Many of the actors in this...
Initial release date:
- Oct 30, 1935
Runtime:
- 133 min (79.8 hs )
Produced by:
The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 pre-code epic film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman, based on the 1895 play by Wilson Barrett. Both play and film have...
Initial release date:
- Nov 30, 1932
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
The Robe
The Robe is a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in CinemaScope. Although it was...
Initial release date:
- 1953
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 135 min (81 hs )
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 American film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams. It was nominated for several...
Initial release date:
- Nov 3, 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 181 min (109 hs )
Produced by:
Oklahoma
The 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein), was adapted into a musical film in 1955, starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod...
Initial release date:
- Oct 11, 1955
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 5,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Desert Song
The Desert Song is a 1929 musical operetta film photographed partly in Technicolor. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production. It was based on the hit musical play...
Initial release date:
- Apr 8, 1929
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
Screenplay by:
South Pacific
South Pacific is a 1958 film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which was based on James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. The film starred Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor in the leading roles, with Juanita Hall...
Initial release date:
- 1958
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Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon is a musical film released in 1969, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 stage musical by Lerner and Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. Chayefsky provided a significantly changed storyline from the stage...
Initial release date:
- Oct 16, 1969
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 164 min (98.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 20,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Show Boat
Show Boat (1929) is a film based on the novel by Edna Ferber. This version was released by Universal in two editions, one a silent film for movie theatres still not equipped for sound, and one a part-talkie with a prologue. The storyline follows the...
Initial release date:
- 1929
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Produced by:
Che
Che is a 2008 film directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Initial release date:
- 2008
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Runtime:
- 268 min (161 hs )
