A History in Film - BOT Top 50 Historical Fiction/Narrative Films - Counting Lists Now, Will Still Take A List Today

[terrestrial]

1 hour ago, el sid said:

Same here with the old cold war spy films. I always remember a bridge where they meet but do not know in which film it was .
Probably you have seen it once. Here the three victims at the beginning are intentionally unrecognizable and found because it thaws.

Jaja, those bridges in cold war movies 😉

 

I think now the one I meant is another one, I start to remember more details about Gorky Park, that was the one with the smuggled animals. I think the one with the snow plow might be some years earlier or later released.

Yes, i think I saw it then in the cinema then.

 

I‘ll add for e.g. another movie with a snow plow 

 

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

 

and 

 

Missing (1982) (Jack Lemmon searches for his missing son in Chile after a US backed coup in Chile

[lorddemaxus]

I feel like I should've watched The Passion of Joan of Arc with more context (only thing I knew about her was that she fought in a war and got executed) since I found a lot of it quite confusing. And it's my first silent drama (watched multiple silent Keaton and Chaplin movies before) so the medium itself was quite hard to engage with. There's still stuff to admire: Falconetti's performance is really powerful, the music is amazing, and it's an incredibly progressive film for its time (I really didn't expect it to touch upon themes of gender identity). So yeah, I expected it to make it into my list but I guess it won't.

[The Panda]

9 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

I feel like I should've watched The Passion of Joan of Arc with more context (only thing I knew about her was that she fought in a war and got executed) since I found a lot of it quite confusing. And it's my first silent drama (watched multiple silent Keaton and Chaplin movies before) so the medium itself was quite hard to engage with. There's still stuff to admire: Falconetti's performance is really powerful, the music is amazing, and it's an incredibly progressive film for its time (I really didn't expect it to touch upon themes of gender identity). So yeah, I expected it to make it into my list but I guess it won't.

An interesting story about the film was the original final cut was actually lost in a fire for a long period of time.  It wasn’t until 1981 when the original final cut was found in a janitor’s closet at a mental institution.
 

It’s also one of the key films at the birth of the film medium that helped to establish cinema as an art form on the same level as theater and literature. 
 

But yeah, it certainly can’t be watched through a modern lens.

[DAR]

 

1. Goodfellas 
2. Apollo 13
3. The Right Stuff
4. Titanic
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Malcolm X
7. Braveheart
8. Lawrence of Arabia 
9. Seven Samurai 
10. Gladiator 
11. JFK
12. Bridge on the River Kwai
13. Glory
14. Casino
15. Tombstone 
16. Catch Me If You Can
17. All the President’s Men
18. Wolf of Wall Street 
19. Great Escape 
20. Kingdom of Heaven
21. The Social Network 
22. Hoosiers 
23. Amadeus 
24. Quiz Show
25. Ben-Hur 1959
26. Lincoln
27. Patton
28. Born on the Fourth of July
29. Gandhi
30. Black Hawk Down
31. Throne of Blood
32. Steve Jobs
33. Schindler’s List 
34. Mississippi Burning
35. Bridge of Spies
36. Grand Illusion 
37. Master and Commander 
38. The Last King of Scotland 
39. Unforgiven 
40. Argo
41. The Big Short
42. Chinatown 
43. Doctor Zhivago
44. Dunkirk 
45. Last of the Mohicans 
46. Platoon
47. Blackkklansman 
48. The Grapes of Wrath
49. The Doors
50. Battleship Potemkin 

[TalismanRing]

1. Lawrence Of Arabia
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. Judgement At Nuremberg
4. The Lion In Winter
5. To Live (Huo zhe)
6. Chinatown
7. Doctor Zhivago
8. Beckett
9. Inherit The Wind
10. To Kill A Mockingbird
11. Amadeus
12. Schindler's List
13. Das Boot
14. Ben Hur (1959)
15. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
16. Aleksandr Nevsky
17. Oliver Twist (1948)
18. The Great Escape
19. 1776
20. Cabaret
21. Exodus
22. Captain Blood
23. The Pianist
24. The Wind Rises
25. Singing In The Rain
26. The Remains of the Day
27. The King & I
28. Fiddler On The Roof
29. Maurice
30. Gone With the Wind
31. Bridge On The River Kwai
32. A Very Long Engagement
33. Richard III (1955)
34. The Madness of King George
35. The Right Stuff
36. Malcolm X
37. Spartacus
38. Sophie's Choice
39. The Elephant Man
40. Apollo 13
41. Avalon
42. Zodiac
43. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
44. The Age of Innocence
45. The Favourite
46. El Cid
47. The Grapes of Wrath
48. A Man For All Seasons
49. The Guns of Navarone
50. Rob Roy

 

I omitted any film that was 10 years or less in the past (All The President's Men, Stalag 17,  The Deer Hunter etc)

[Jake Gittes]

10 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

41. Avalon

[The Panda]

16 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

1. Lawrence Of Arabia
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. Judgement At Nuremberg
4. The Lion In Winter
5. To Live (Huo zhe)
6. Chinatown
7. Doctor Zhivago
8. Beckett
9. Inherit The Wind
10. To Kill A Mockingbird
11. Amadeus
12. Schindler's List
13. Das Boot
14. Ben Hur (1959)
15. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
16. Aleksandr Nevsky
17. Oliver Twist (1948)
18. The Great Escape
19. 1776
20. Cabaret
21. Exodus
22. Captain Blood
23. The Pianist
24. The Wind Rises
25. Singing In The Rain
26. The Remains of the Day
27. The King & I
28. Fiddler On The Roof
29. Maurice
30. Gone With the Wind
31. Bridge On The River Kwai
32. A Very Long Engagement
33. Richard III (1955)
34. The Madness of King George
35. The Right Stuff
36. Malcolm X
37. Spartacus
38. Sophie's Choice
39. The Elephant Man
40. Apollo 13
41. Avalon
42. Zodiac
43. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
44. The Age of Innocence
45. The Favourite
46. El Cid
47. The Grapes of Wrath
48. A Man For All Seasons
49. The Guns of Navarone
50. Rob Roy

 

I omitted any film that was 10 years or less in the past (All The President's Men, Stalag 17,  The Deer Hunter etc)

Thanks!  If you could send it to me through a pm that would be great!

[RealLyre]

nvm read the first post 

Edited May 2, 2020 by RealLyre
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[CoolioD1]

6 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

4. The Departed
15. La La Land (if this counts)
28. Chungking Express  

 

 

 

why would these count

[Jake Gittes]

7 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

4. The Departed
15. La La Land
26. Cleo from 5 to 7
28. Chungking Express  

wat

[Eric the IF]

45 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

41. Avalon

Wow I love that movie

 

[RealLyre]

14 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

why would these count

the characters in The Departed were loosely based on real people iirc.   haven't seen the hk film. 

 

 

 

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

the characters in The Departed were loosely based on real people iirc.   haven't seen the hk film. 

 

 

 

the single detail of jack nicholson's character being an FBI informant is inspired by whitey bulger, yes. but that's where it begins and ends my man. don't see how that makes it historical fiction.

Edited May 2, 2020 by CoolioD1

[Jake Gittes]

32 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

not sure if half of these would even count

if only there was some kind of original post in this thread that made it pretty clear what counts and what doesn't

[The Panda]

The Departed, Chungking Express and La La Land are definitely not historical fiction.

 

I think we’ve done a lot of clarifying in the thread so far, so at this point when I’m tallying if somebody has something that clearly doesn’t qualify just going to skip past it

[RealLyre]

2 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

if only there was some kind of original post in this thread that made it pretty clear what counts and what doesn't

yeah that would be quite helpful 

[RealLyre]

Quote

- Also note that period pieces may not necessarily fit the bill of being Historical Fiction.  An example here could be Little Women, it is a period piece, set in the past but the setting isn’t really playing off of a historical period, figure or culture, it’s an intimate character piece.  

That's Unfortunate. Greta Gerwig always losing against the odds.

 

[CoolioD1]

sent in my full list

 

1. Red Beard (1965)

2. Harakiri (1962)

3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

4. Ran (1985)

5. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

6. Unforgiven (1992)

7. The Age of Innocence (1993)

8. Ugetsu (1953)

9. American Graffiti (1973)

10. Gone with the Wind (1939)

11. Amadeus (1984)

12. Schindler's List (1993)

13. Silence (2016)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. The Thin Red Line (1998)

16. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)

17. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)

18. Throne of Blood (1957)

19. The Crucified Lovers (1954)

20. Cabaret (1972)

21. Lust Caution (2007)

22. Chinatown (1974)

23. Bridge of Spies (2015)

24. Gangs of New York (2002)

25. The Gold Rush (1925)

26. Last of the Mohicans (1992)

27. Samurai Rebellion (1967)

28. Sense & Sensibility (1995)

29. Little Women (1994)

30. Far From Heaven (2002)

31. The Wild Bunch (1969)

32. Days of Heaven (1978)

33. Phantom Thread (2017)

34. Gunga Din (1939)

35. The Lost City of Z (2017)

36. Miller's Crossing (1990)

37. Wuthering Heights (1939)

38. MASH (1970)

39. The Mask of Zorro (1998)

40. The Irishman (2019)

41. Road to Perdition (2002)

42. Flesh + Blood (1985)

43. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

44. Carol (2015)

45. Master and Commander (2003)

46. Kagemusha (1980)

47. Kwaidan (1964)

48. Red Sorghum (1987)

49. The Piano (1993)

50. Black Knight (2001)

[terrestrial]

1 hour ago, CoolioD1 said:

38. MASH (1970)

O mei, I totally forgot that one, thank you!

[The Panda]

Lists are due tomorrow! (Sorry if I retagged you and you already submitted)

 

And some mass tagging.  Sorry if I miss somebody or tag somebody who isn't interested, just copied this mass tag from Jake's list.

 

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