Gangs of New York (
2002) | IMDb:
7.5
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Cameron Diaz
,
Jim Broadbent
,
John C. Reilly
,
Henry Thomas
Francesco (
1989) | IMDb:
6.3
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.
Starring:
Mickey Rourke
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Andréa Ferréol
,
Nikolaus Dutsch
,
Peter Berling
,
Hanns Zischler
The Last Temptation of Christ (
1988) | IMDb:
7.5
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
The Name of the Rose (
1986) | IMDb:
7.7
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Starring:
Sean Connery
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Christian Slater
,
Helmut Qualtinger
,
Elya Baskin
,
Michael Lonsdale
Directed by:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Fitzcarraldo (
1982) | IMDb:
8
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.