2006-07-24 09:15:56 · 16 answers · asked by mommy_2_little_man 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The Joy Luck Club (1993) Through flashbacks, four chinese women born in US and their mothers born in feudal China, explore their past and present. Amazing!
Madama Butterfly (1954) Japanese geisha who ignoredsocial rejection to marry an American naval officer, only to be abandoned and rejected by him. I don't want to give too much away but it was a blow.
My Geisha (1962) comedy as Shirley MacLaine's character plays a movie-star wife posing as a geisha to win a role in her director husband's version of Madame Butterfly.
Farewell My Concubine (1993) It is the story of two male perfoermors in a Beijing Opera house, who perform the opera, Farewell My Concubine, and the woman who comes between their friendship.
and
MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE!!!!
Empire of the Sun (1987) Christian Bale plays a rich spoiled boy, James Graham, whose life is turned upside down by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, in 12/1941. Separated from his parents, he is captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp and that is when he learned to respect, share and grew up. it is an amazing movie
Their is more but these are my absolute favorite
2006-07-24 09:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by qemme0125 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dangerous Liaisons
The Patriot
The Wild Bunch
The Long Riders
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The Godfather
Once Upon a Time in America
High Noon
Out of the Past
Double Indemnity
Bright Lights, Big City
Desperately Seeking Susan
2006-07-24 16:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by cboni2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amadeus, Dangerous Laisons, Mutiny On The Bounty, The French Lietenant's Woman, Great Expectations, Withering Heights, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Gangs Of New York, Casablanca, The Godfather ( Parts 1 & 2 ), On The Waterfront, Annie Hall.
2006-07-24 16:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by michael g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sense and Sensibility - Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson romance
Wuthering Heights - romance and greed
The Patriot - Mel Gibson Good History Lesson on the U.S getting it's freedom from Britian. It's not based on fact.
Master and Commander - Very good movie with Russell Crowe about an English and a French Ship during the war.
Little Women - the original not the remake with Liz Taylor, June Allison, Janet Leigh and more.
2006-07-24 16:42:35 · answer #4 · answered by Cyndee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Age of Innocence
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
All About Eve
indochine
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Women (made in the '30's; only women in the cast)
2006-07-24 16:28:27 · answer #5 · answered by stseukn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends how far back? BIrth of a Nation is a very early silent film I guess Casablanca is a period film. There is a new flim call A new world it is supposed to be good . The history channel has some very good movies sometimes
2006-07-24 16:26:42 · answer #6 · answered by saber36819 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Wedding Singer - Adam Sandler nailed the 1980's.
2006-07-24 16:17:34 · answer #7 · answered by Steak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeferelli..Starring Oliva Hussey and Leonard Whiting...
Hard Days Night, starring The Beatles
Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russle and Natalie Wood...True story
This Propery is Condenmed, starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood
Sex and the Single Girl, Starring Tony Curtis
The days of Wine and Roses, starring Jack Lemmon
Amadeus, starring Tom Hulce..True story
Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
A Summer Place, Starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue
Caberet, starring Joel Grey and Liza Minelli
The Crying Game
The Day the Earth stood Still
The Boston Strangler, Starring Tony Curtis..True story
The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor
Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret
Kiss Me Goodbye, starring Sally Field
In Cold Blood...True story, directed by Stanley Kubrick
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Oliver, starring Oliver Reed
Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hithcock
The Summer of 42
The Last Picture Show
Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson
Excaliber, made in the 70s or 80s
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Muriel's Wedding
Jason and the Argonauts,...Made in the 1960s
The Continental Devide,starring John Bulushi
Carnival of Souls,..Made in the 1960s. Not the newer one.
The Bad Seed,...Made in the 1960s, not the newer one
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Harvey, starring James Stewart
Unfaithfully Yours
Good Morning Viet Nam
Saturday Night Fever
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?...Starring Bette Davis
Bunny Lake is Missing,..Starring Carol Linley
Lolita, starring Sue Lyons
Somewhere in Time,..Starring Christopher Reeve
Stars and Stripes Forever..... True story
The Englishman Who went up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain....True story
A Room with a Veiw
Sixteen Candles
Pretty Poison...starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld
Roots
The Onion Feild...True story
Bye Bye Birdie,..Starring Ann Margaret
Coal Miner's Daughter,..Starring Sissy Spacek...True story
The Buddy Holly Story,..True story
La Bamba..True story that is an annex of The Buddy Holly Story.
The Color Purple
The Seven Year Itch, starring Marylin Monroe
The Outsiders, starring Matt Dillon
Heidi..Starring Shirlet Temple
Gone with the Wind..Starring Clark Gable
The Unsinkable Molly Brown... Starring Debbie Rynolds....True story.. Her character was in the Movie, "Titanic". That was one of 2 reasons why she was called unsinkable. She survived the sinking of the Titanic. When she was only a few weeks old, a family of guys found her abandoned, floating in a basket in a river with rapids. She was almost dry as a bone.
Sybil..Starring Sally Feild True story
The Three faces of Eve..True story
"who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?..Elizabeth Taylor
To Sir with Love..Starring Sydney Potier
A Patch of Blue..Starring Shelly Winters & Sydney Potier
2006-07-24 16:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by Molly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare In Love
2006-07-24 16:39:19 · answer #9 · answered by K Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moll Flanders
Tom Jones
Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility
The Europeans
These are all pretty good costume dramas from the 18th and 19th century time periods.
2006-07-24 16:24:23 · answer #10 · answered by JP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋