Trumbo (
2015) | IMDb:
7.4
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Cape Fear (
1991) | IMDb:
7.3
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Nick Nolte
,
Jessica Lange
,
Juliette Lewis
,
Joe Don Baker
,
Robert Mitchum
Old Gringo (
1989) | IMDb:
5.8
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Directed by:
Luis Puenzo
The Sea Wolves (
1980) | IMDb:
6.3
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Roger Moore
,
David Niven
,
Trevor Howard
,
Barbara Kellerman
,
Patrick Macnee
Directed by:
Andrew V. McLaglen
Produced by:
The Boys from Brazil (
1978) | IMDb:
7
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Laurence Olivier
,
James Mason
,
Lilli Palmer
,
Uta Hagen
,
Steve Guttenberg
MacArthur (
1977) | IMDb:
6.5
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
The Omen (
1976) | IMDb:
7.5
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Lee Remick
,
David Warner
,
Billie Whitelaw
,
Harvey Stephens
,
Patrick Troughton
I Walk the Line (
1970) | IMDb:
6.5
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Tuesday Weld
,
Estelle Parsons
,
Ralph Meeker
,
Charles Durning
,
Jeff Dalton
Mackenna's Gold (
1969) | IMDb:
6.7
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Directed by:
J. Lee Thompson
Arabesque (
1966) | IMDb:
6.4
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
To Kill a Mockingbird (
1962) | IMDb:
8.3
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
How the West Was Won (
1962) | IMDb:
7
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Cape Fear (
1962) | IMDb:
7.7
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Robert Mitchum
,
Polly Bergen
,
Lori Martin
,
Martin Balsam
,
Jack Kruschen
The Guns of Navarone (
1961) | IMDb:
7.5
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
David Niven
,
Anthony Quinn
,
Stanley Baker
,
Anthony Quayle
,
James Darren
On the Beach (
1959) | IMDb:
7.1
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Ava Gardner
,
Fred Astaire
,
Anthony Perkins
,
Donna Anderson
,
Guy Doleman
Produced by:
Stanley Kramer
Moby Dick (
1956) | IMDb:
7.3
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Richard Basehart
,
Leo Genn
,
James Robertson Justice
,
Harry Andrews
,
Bernard Miles