Classic Dramas, a list by Riz

7.9

/77831/

79

/1943/

77

/1433/

3.8

/30333/

84

/45/

Audience

87

/60378/

age 9+

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

94

9.2

/2011791/

88

/27000/

87

/19331/

4.6

/1134540/

97

Audience

98

/736053/

100

/16/

4.0

age 16+

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

66

6.9

/502442/

74

/16658/

70

/8114/

3.4

/582710/

57

/77/

Audience

83

/727123/

50

/15/

2.5

age 13+

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

87

8.2

/920377/

79

/13846/

81

/11443/

4.2

/1091535/

89

/159/

Audience

93

/262011/

94

/23/

4.0

age 17+

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

89

8.7

/1072135/

84

/12340/

84

/9913/

4.4

/497075/

93

/120/

Audience

96

/280411/

84

/20/

4.0

age 16+

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

8

83

8.1

/441498/

81

/8284/

79

/5532/

4.1

/471939/

92

/63/

Audience

94

/270919/

75

/20/

age 14+

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

68

7.0

/97503/

73

/2113/

72

/1247/

3.6

/137402/

70

/50/

Audience

82

/138619/

45

/18/

2.5

age 14+

When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.

91

9.0

/1363837/

87

/17096/

85

/11661/

4.6

/612475/

96

Audience

97

/412766/

90

/18/

age 16+

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

69

7.4

/29906/

75

/755/

70

/526/

3.7

/26657/

50

/30/

Audience

76

/36464/

64

/7/

3.0

age 14+

As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

81

8.3

/790220/

82

/14964/

81

/9945/

4.2

/524186/

90

/86/

Audience

94

/325376/

78

/20/

2.5

age 17+

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

76

58

7.8

/5055/

78

/70/

61

/17/

75

/8/

Audience

91

/709/

An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.

82

8.1

/822909/

80

/26756/

79

/13289/

4.1

/865421/

89

/131/

Audience

91

/338977/

84

/15/

3.0

age 16+

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

85

8.3

/377623/

81

/5088/

84

/5106/

4.2

/163190/

87

/55/

Audience

93

/75331/

75

/20/

4.0

age 18+

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

84

8.4

/1106327/

81

/23201/

82

/16724/

4.2

/1556802/

83

/106/

Audience

93

/483832/

68

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

93

9.0

/864749/

88

/11941/

85

/7964/

4.6

/542253/

100

/61/

Audience

97

/106198/

97

/18/

4.0

age 12+

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

90

8.4

/710012/

82

/10419/

82

/7800/

4.4

/515007/

97

/96/

Audience

94

/286885/

94

/15/

4.0

age 17+

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

76

6.8

/99810/

70

/2113/

65

/1214/

3.4

/79838/

92

/50/

Audience

73

/71422/

75

/9/

4.0

age 16+

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

79

7.8

/436412/

79

/12990/

77

/7666/

3.8

/1003163/

89

/65/

Audience

92

/557369/

66

/25/

3.0

age 15+

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

76

7.5

/193215/

77

/5988/

73

/2786/

3.7

/86719/

89

/54/

Audience

83

/110428/

62

/14/

age 15+

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

83

8.1

/253606/

78

/3717/

78

/2606/

4.0

/76623/

85

/54/

Audience

89

/106415/

90

/9/

age 13+

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

83

8.3

/916223/

83

/15906/

81

/11289/

4.1

/704159/

79

/77/

Audience

93

/489945/

65

/9/

4.0

age 18+

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

69

6.7

/88558/

71

/1831/

67

/1051/

3.3

/102955/

75

/56/

Audience

81

/213572/

56

/22/

3.0

age 13+

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

79

8.1

/545762/

82

/12124/

83

/10741/

4.2

/1091265/

84

/63/

Audience

92

/307881/

79

/14/

2.0

age 13+

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

80

8.0

/193107/

77

/5179/

76

/3279/

4.0

/122759/

87

/62/

Audience

88

/119379/

79

/14/

3.0

age 12+

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

91

8.5

/605875/

82

/7068/

81

/5078/

4.3

/386648/

99

/136/

Audience

95

/358303/

100

/18/

4.0

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

82

7.7

/97304/

79

/2144/

77

/1659/

3.9

/80682/

73

/126/

Audience

94

/181160/

78

/7/

4.0

age 14+

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

83

7.7

/120585/

75

/1672/

74

/1484/

3.9

/88655/

90

/69/

Audience

88

/56730/

86

/20/

4.0

age 16+

In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

82

8.1

/454841/

78

/10029/

77

/7585/

4.0

/536362/

78

/175/

Audience

87

/421538/

82

/22/

4.0

age 16+

When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.

67

7.0

/256337/

75

/7950/

73

/5867/

3.6

/350905/

72

/79/

Audience

90

/1055756/

65

/20/

1.0

age 13+

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

69

7.3

/67151/

73

/1366/

69

/927/

3.7

/30147/

72

/94/

Audience

80

/50237/

56

/10/

2.5

age 16+

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.

88

8.1

/349758/

79

/4590/

79

/3559/

4.3

/271262/

99

/80/

Audience

93

/78383/

92

/23/

4.0

age 17+

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

78

7.6

/34761/

72

/542/

74

/635/

3.5

/31452/

95

/43/

Audience

74

/65248/

69

/12/

4.0

age 14+

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

87

8.4

/427927/

81

/6004/

80

/4006/

4.3

/258457/

89

/153/

Audience

95

/180480/

87

/28/

4.0

age 15+

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

69

6.7

/10248/

75

/222/

64

/116/

3.3

/4977/

60

/15/

Audience

78

/7028/

55

/12/

3.5

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.

74

7.7

/215655/

76

/3687/

76

/3115/

4.1

/349872/

95

/83/

Audience

88

/77350/

75

/15/

1.0

age 18+

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

86

8.1

/439404/

79

/6897/

77

/4255/

4.0

/176847/

89

/123/

Audience

93

/240443/

92

/16/

4.0

age 17+

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

65

7.1

/115707/

71

/2474/

68

/1147/

3.5

/102804/

78

/60/

Audience

80

/171078/

61

/21/

1.0

age 17+

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. At the center of the film is Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer who faces-off with the resolute Mr. Hand—a man convinced that everyone is on dope.

79

8.1

/260980/

80

/5876/

77

/3097/

4.1

/282957/

83

/77/

Audience

91

/606748/

63

/11/

age 6+

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

78

7.3

/244420/

75

/8595/

71

/3952/

3.7

/259617/

89

/46/

Audience

82

/317216/

60

/15/

4.0

age 11+

Daniel moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

86

8.1

/362117/

78

/4431/

80

/3624/

4.2

/165951/

86

/132/

Audience

91

/103851/

90

/18/

4.0

age 17+

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

86

8.2

/334212/

78

/4037/

80

/3731/

3.8

/118111/

90

/103/

Audience

92

/294141/

97

/18/

4.0

age 10+

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

83

8.0

/240179/

77

/2754/

75

/2170/

3.7

/51577/

89

/111/

Audience

92

/49950/

79

/16/

4.0

age 12+

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

90

8.4

/236388/

81

/2623/

83

/2408/

4.4

/190740/

98

/114/

Audience

95

/53695/

94

/32/

4.0

age 13+

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

87

8.0

/235100/

78

/4608/

78

/3719/

4.2

/333230/

96

/84/

Audience

87

/74234/

96

/15/

4.0

age 16+

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

80

7.5

/63100/

73

/1038/

72

/988/

3.9

/78134/

82

/104/

Audience

84

/36034/

80

/18/

4.0

age 16+

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.

89

8.3

/314285/

80

/4011/

79

/2799/

4.3

/161207/

94

/133/

Audience

93

/75473/

100

/8/

4.0

age 13+

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

89

8.6

/499053/

84

/7011/

82

/4012/

4.4

/342802/

94

/97/

Audience

95

/219854/

89

/17/

4.0

age 9+

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

65

6.5

/12826/

63

/304/

69

/310/

3.0

/8042/

71

/28/

Audience

58

/5156/

66

/10/