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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
6.5

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from ...
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
6

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have ...
Evita
6.3

Evita

Dec. 14, 1996

Evita

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and ...
The Crucible
6.8

The Crucible

Nov. 27, 1996

The Crucible

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover’s wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
6.7

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his ...
Andersonville
7.3

Andersonville

Mar. 03, 1996

Andersonville

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy’s most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through ...
Wild Bill
5.8

Wild Bill

Dec. 01, 1995

Wild Bill

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood ...
The Tuskegee Airmen
7.1

The Tuskegee Airmen

Aug. 25, 1995

The Tuskegee Airmen

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot ...
Land and Freedom
7.5

Land and Freedom

Apr. 07, 1995

Land and Freedom

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a ...
Sharpe’s Sword
7.8

Sharpe’s Sword

Apr. 26, 1995

Sharpe’s Sword

Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington’s network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and ...
Sharpe’s Gold
7.2

Sharpe’s Gold

Apr. 01, 1995

Sharpe’s Gold

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking ...
Sharpe’s Battle
7.8

Sharpe’s Battle

Apr. 19, 1995

Sharpe’s Battle

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain’s Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British ...
Sharaku
6.6

Sharaku

Jun. 02, 1995

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and ...
Rob Roy
6.9

Rob Roy

Apr. 13, 1995

Rob Roy

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to ...
Pharaoh’s Army
6.5

Pharaoh’s Army

Apr. 09, 1995

Pharaoh’s Army

Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks’ wounds have ...
Panther
6.4

Panther

May. 03, 1995

Panther

Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the ...
Nixon
7

Nixon

Dec. 22, 1995

Nixon

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from ...
Jefferson in Paris
5.7

Jefferson in Paris

Mar. 31, 1995

Jefferson in Paris

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it ...
Lover of the Last Empress
5.6

Lover of the Last Empress

The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the ...
The Celluloid Closet
7.8

The Celluloid Closet

Jan. 30, 1996

The Celluloid Closet

What “That’s Entertainment” did for movie musicals, “The Celluloid Closet” does for Hollywood homosexuality, as ...
Carrington
6.8

Carrington

May. 25, 1995

Carrington

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is ...
Braveheart
8.3

Braveheart

May. 24, 1995

Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English ...
Apollo 13
7.7

Apollo 13

Jun. 30, 1995

Apollo 13

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, ...
Catherine the Great
6.1

Catherine the Great

Apr. 28, 1996

Catherine the Great

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to ...
Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale
6.1

Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale

Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a ...
Sharpe’s Honour
7.6

Sharpe’s Honour

Jun. 08, 1994

Sharpe’s Honour

1813. Major Sharpe’s old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls ...
Sharpe’s Enemy
7.8

Sharpe’s Enemy

Jun. 01, 1994

Sharpe’s Enemy

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe’s old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a ...
Sharpe’s Company
7.8

Sharpe’s Company

May. 25, 1994

Sharpe’s Company

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe’s past uses a beautiful woman revenge ...
Queen Margot
7.4

Queen Margot

May. 13, 1994

Queen Margot

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the ...
Quiz Show
7.5

Quiz Show

Aug. 25, 1994

Quiz Show

Herbert Stempel’s transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game ...
Princess Caraboo
6

Princess Caraboo

Sep. 16, 1994

Princess Caraboo

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man ...
The Madness of King George
7.2

The Madness of King George

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of ...
Farinelli
6.8

Farinelli

Dec. 01, 1994

Farinelli

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Ed Wood
7.8

Ed Wood

Sep. 28, 1994

Ed Wood

The mostly true story of the legendary “worst director of all time”, who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless ...
Crest of Betrayal
6.4

Crest of Betrayal

Oct. 22, 1994

Crest of Betrayal

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a ...
Bandit Queen
7.5

Bandit Queen

Feb. 17, 1995

Bandit Queen

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India’s patriarchal society, “married” at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi ...
Against the Wall
6.6

Against the Wall

Mar. 26, 1994

Against the Wall

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
The Kung Fu Cult Master
6.4

The Kung Fu Cult Master

A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder, ...
Last Hero in China
6.6

Last Hero in China

Apr. 01, 1993

Last Hero in China

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese “Robin Hood” who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a ...
Wittgenstein
6.9

Wittgenstein

Mar. 26, 1993

Wittgenstein

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, ...
The War Room
7.4

The War Room

Nov. 03, 1993

The War Room

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George ...
Stalingrad
7.5

Stalingrad

Jan. 20, 1993

Stalingrad

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they’re ...
Sharpe’s Eagle
7.8

Sharpe’s Eagle

May. 12, 1993

Sharpe’s Eagle

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When ...
Schindler’s List
9

Schindler’s List

Dec. 15, 1993

Schindler’s List

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory ...