The Majestic (
2001) | IMDb:
6.9
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
The Relic (
1997) | IMDb:
5.8
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Starring:
Penelope Ann Miller
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Linda Hunt
,
James Whitmore
,
Clayton Rohner
,
Chi Muoi Lo
The Shawshank Redemption (
1994) | IMDb:
9.3
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Nuts (
1987) | IMDb:
6.6
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Starring:
Barbra Streisand
,
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Maureen Stapleton
,
Karl Malden
,
Eli Wallach
,
Robert Webber
Directed by:
Martin Ritt
Tora! Tora! Tora! (
1970) | IMDb:
7.5
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Starring:
Martin Balsam
,
Sō Yamamura
,
Joseph Cotten
,
Tatsuya Mihashi
,
E.G. Marshall
,
James Whitmore
Them! (
1954) | IMDb:
7.2
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Starring:
James Whitmore
,
James Arness
,
Joan Weldon
,
Edmund Gwenn
,
Onslow Stevens
,
Sean McClory
Directed by:
Gordon Douglas
Produced by:
David Weisbart