Amadeus(1984)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.



The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.



Empire of the Sun(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.



Reds(1981)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.



Eight Men Out(1988)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.



Mississippi Burning(1988)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.



Silkwood(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.



Gandhi(1982)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.



Cry Freedom(1987)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 47

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.



Gallipoli(1981)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.



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.



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.



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.



Caravaggio(1986)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.



Salvador(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

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



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.



Young Einstein(1988)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his ...



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.



'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.



Europa Europa(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.




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