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1. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 131,012 | Gross: $51.27M
2. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
134 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala
Votes: 2,956
3. Heaven's Gate (1980)
R | 219 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Votes: 17,256 | Gross: $3.48M
4. Broken Arrow (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 9,745
5. News of the World (2020)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson
Votes: 95,940
6. Red Sun (1971)
PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Western
In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress
Votes: 10,793 | Gross: $4.84M
7. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 23,471 | Gross: $19.74M
8. The Invisible Woman (2013)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander
Votes: 10,526 | Gross: $1.23M
9. Rosalie (2023)
115 min | Drama, History
The story of the first bearded lady attraction.
Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Guillaume Gouix
Votes: 239
10. The Hanging Tree (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Western
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
Votes: 4,784
11. Surrounded (2023)
R | 100 min | Drama, Western
Former Buffalo Soldier Mo Washington travels West to lay claim on a gold mine. After her stagecoach is ambushed, Mo is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit's gang tries to free him.
Director: Anthony Mandler | Stars: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kenneth Williams
Votes: 2,152
12. The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Western
A pardoned stagecoach robber, becomes government agent and marries a naive unsuspecting east-coast dentist in order to join a wagon train and catch the smugglers who have been selling guns to the Indians.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 3,036
13. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorizes the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves.
Directors: Nick Morris, Laurence Connor | Stars: Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Wendy Ferguson
Votes: 9,972
14. Abilene Town (1946)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming
Votes: 1,317
15. Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Western
In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw
Votes: 960
16. Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western
In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson
Votes: 1,099
17. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,065
18. Anne of Green Gables (1979)
24 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this 50 episode series tells the story of Anne Shirley, a young orphan living in 19th century Canada.
Stars: Eiko Yamada, Fumie Kitahara, Michio Hazama, Ryûji Saikachi
Votes: 2,100
19. April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Directors: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 8,472 | Gross: $0.29M
20. A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling but their ship is taken over by pirates who become fond of the kids.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 2,347
21. A Thunder of Drums (1961)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Western
The trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 944
22. Man of Evil (1944)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Fanny's father dies in a fight. Her family runs a brothel. Her real father is a politician. She falls for his advisor Harry. Lord Manderstoke's interference causes conflicts between classes. Tragic events occur due to the Lord's schemes.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger
Votes: 638
23. The Possessed (1988)
116 min | Drama
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier
Votes: 673
24. Grizzly Mountain (1995)
G | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Present-day Portland suburbs kids Dylan and Nicole go on the camping trip with their family, and when they enter a mysterious cave in the mountains, they're transported back in time to 1870, where they meet mountain man Jeremiah.
Director: Jeremy Haft | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Dylan Haggerty, Nicole Lund, Kim Morgan Greene
Votes: 304 | Gross: $0.34M
25. Carl & Bertha (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
The biopic film follows visionary Inventor Carl Benz, who invented the first car and was the founding father of Mercedes-Benz.
Director: Till Endemann | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Ken Duken, Hansjürgen Hürrig, Michou Friesz
Votes: 198
26. The Savage Guns (1961)
83 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In Sonora, in a lonesome valley near the border of Arizona: ex-major Summer tries to forget about the horrors of the war of independence on his farm. He has foresworn to violence. His ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Richard Basehart, Paquita Rico, Don Taylor, Alex Nicol
Votes: 235
27. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2004 TV Movie)
G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
The larger-than-life Jules Verne adventure about reclusive genius Captain Nemo, his magnificent submarine, The Nautilus, and the perilous voyage he makes with a group of captive adventurers, on of which is a young woman disguised as a man.
Director: Scott Heming | Stars: John Michael Lee, Jennifer Andrews Anderson, Anthony Kaczmarek, Nils Haaland
Votes: 183
28. Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier
Votes: 623
29. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw's hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 242
30. The Oklahoman (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 651
31. The Proud and Damned (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Western
In 1870, five ex-Confederate soldiers get embroiled in a foreign civil war south of the border.
Director: Ferde Grofé Jr. | Stars: Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, José Greco
Votes: 410
32. The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Adventure, History, Romance
A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame
Votes: 266
33. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
90 min | Drama, History
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè, Vito Cipolla
Votes: 877
34. Samar (1962)
Approved | 89 min | Adventure
In 1870, in the Spanish Philippines, the commandant of an island penal colony, aided by an American doctor and local villagers, decides to relocate his coastal camp to a fertile valley inland but the arduous trek is fraught with dangers.
Director: George Montgomery | Stars: George Montgomery, Gilbert Roland, Ziva Rodann, Joan O'Brien
Votes: 118
35. Champ d'honneur (1987)
PG | 87 min | Drama, History, War
The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Cris Campion, Pascale Rocard, Eric Wapler, Frédéric Mayer
Votes: 81
36. A Civilized Life (2018)
15 min | Short, Drama
In 1870 survival endures over morality as Jack convinces her friend Dana to live life on their own terms.
Director: Victoria Keon-Cohen | Stars: Wade Crescent, Tanya Fischer, Lucinda Jubb, Britt Lower
Votes: 18
37. Angel and Sinner (1945)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
Ten people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte, Mona Dol
Votes: 221
38. Culture Club: Karma Chameleon (1983 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Official music video of "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club.
Director: Peter Sinclair | Stars: Boy George, Mikey Craig, Culture Club, Roy Hay
Votes: 355
39. Inés de Villalonga 1870 (1979)
85 min | Drama
Director: Jaime Jesús Balcázar | Stars: María Rey, Mónica Zanchi, Antonio Maroño, Daniel Martín
Votes: 34
40. Showdown at Williams Creek (1991)
R | 96 min | Drama, Western
Brown arrives in Canada from Europe to seek his fortune as a gold-digger and is appalled by the murderous greed of the prospectors. He then lives with the first nations but the situation escalates through dealings with conning fur traders.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Tom Burlinson, Stephen E. Miller, Michelle Thrush, Pascal Bernier
Votes: 112
41. 1870 (1972)
116 min | Drama, History
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their... See full summary »
Director: Alfredo Giannetti | Stars: Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Mario Carotenuto, Osvaldo Ruggieri
Votes: 101
42. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996)
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Tresca, Catherine Aymerie, Hélène Schwaller, Aurore Clément
Votes: 85
43. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 105
44. The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871 (2007)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
The Franco-Prussian war is largely considered to be the first modern war in Europe. This documentary explores the two years war from the perspective of modern advances in infantry and artillery weaponry of the 1870's.
Votes: 12
45. Die Gans von Sedan (1959)
90 min | Comedy, War
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Jean Richard, Dany Carrel, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 97
46. 1870 Texas (2014)
77 min | Action, Adventure, Western
In 1870, a gunfighter with a rattlesnake temper, Cletus Lebow, is hell-bent on gunning down Judge White to seek out his own personal revenge. He tracks down the Judge on the road to Jerome ... See full summary »
Director: William Booth | Stars: Lance Eakright, Bob Fanucchi, Greg Ingram, Dennis O'Neill
47. Pneumatic Transit (2011 Video)
4 min | Short
In 1870, Alfred Ely Beach secretly built the first subway in New York City.
Director: Abby Digital
48. Spice Island, Farewell! (1976 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Peggy Mount, Martin Shaw, George Innes
49. The House with a Secret (1954 TV Short)
Short, Drama, Family
Stars: Anneke Wills, Nell Ballantyne, Robin Willett, Dorothy Marks
50. Les damnés de la Commune (2021 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Animated movie, exclusively created with period engravings, about the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.
Director: Raphaël Meyssan | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Simon Abkarian, Mathieu Amalric, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 95