The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 50

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.



Rob Roy(1995)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.



Anna and the King(1999)

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Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



Z(1969)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.



The Mission(1986)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.



The Longest Day(1962)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.



Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A series of mistakes made by the US Navy in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor prove disastrous when Japan strikes.



Inherit the Wind(1960)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.



Salvador(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.



Beloved(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.





A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Vice(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.



Far from the Madding Crowd(1967)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Restoration(1995)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 20

The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.



Ghosts of Mississippi(1996)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.



Matewan(1987)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.




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