Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



All the President's Men(1976)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 29

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.



Overlord(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 57

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.



A Bridge Too Far(1977)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.



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.



Kagemusha(1980)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.



Die Marquise von O...(1976)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.



Lancelot du Lac(1974)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A million miles away from 'Camelot' or 'Excalibur', this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur's knights, far from being heroic, are conniving ...



The Tragedy of Macbeth(1971)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.



The Devils(1971)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.



Midway(1976)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.



'Breaker' Morant(1980)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.



The Four Musketeers(1974)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.



Caligola(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.



Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.



Novecento(1976)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The epic tale of a class struggle in 20th Century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.



Tosun Pasa(1976)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, ...



Lion of the Desert(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...



Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle(1974)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.




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