Blaze(1989)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.



Another Country(1984)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.



Wired(1989)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.



An Angel at My Table(1990)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education ...



La gloire de mon père(1990)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their ...



Danton(1983)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...



Cross Creek(1983)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 12

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.



King David(1985)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.



Dance with a Stranger(1985)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.



Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling(1986)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 12

After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.



Romero(1989)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.



Le château de ma mère(1990)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With ...



Le retour de Martin Guerre(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.



Triumph of the Spirit(1989)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...



Hangar 18(1980)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with an UFO in front of the crew's eyes. Because of an election campaign some politicians try to hide the...



Dreamchild(1985)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...



Patty Hearst(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined ...



The Wizard of Speed and Time(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. ...



Chattahoochee(1989)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.



Heart Like a Wheel(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...




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