The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Curtiz-Keighley 1938 Technicolor swashbuckler. Errol Flynn defining swashbuckler.
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1970sM*A*S*H (1970)
Robert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
1970sCatch-22 (1970)
Mike Nichols' 1970 Heller adaptation. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.
1960sA Man for All Seasons (1966)
Fred Zinnemann's 1966 Thomas More biopic. Paul Scofield won Best Actor.
2000sIn the Loop (2009)
British and American officials bumble toward Middle East war. The film depicts British and American officials maneuvering through diplomatic incompetence toward a Middle Eastern war that none of them actually want but none can prevent.
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2000sGosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman's 2001 English country house mystery with substantial class commentary. Julian Fellowes screenplay foreshadows Downton.
1960sWest Side Story (1961)
1961 Robbins-Wise adaptation of the Sondheim-Bernstein stage musical. Romeo and Juliet on Manhattan streets.
1990sBut I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Natasha Lyonne plays Megan Bloomfield. Babbit's directorial debut applies bright pastel-color art-direction to substantially serious subject matter, with the conversion-therapy camp setting rendered as deliberately artificial space that signals the screenplay's satirical positioning throughout.
1990sA Few Good Men (1992)
1992 Rob Reiner courtroom drama with Tom Cruise as a Navy lawyer and Jack Nicholson as the Marine colonel who can't handle the truth. A Few Good Men is Rob Reiner's 1992 American courtroom drama and one of the strongest…
1980sTaps (1981)
Scott and a young Tom Cruise. Taps is Harold Becker's 1981 military academy drama.
1960sZulu (1964)
1964 Cy Endfield war film with Stanley Baker and Michael Caine in his breakthrough role. 1879 British defense of Rorke's Drift.