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Les Misérables(1998)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson, Peter Vaughan, Jon Kenny, Gillian Hanna, Sylvie Koblížková
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Rating: 7.7 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch
Gangs of New York(2002)
Rating: 7.3 Genre:Drama, History, Crime
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Lewis
Dumb Money(2023)
Rating: 6.7 Genre:History, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen, Myha’la Herrold, Talia Ryder, Anthony Ramos, Nick Offerman
The Last of the Mohicans(1992)
Rating: 7.4 Genre:Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig, Steven Waddington, Maurice Roëves, Patrice Chéreau
Richard Jewell(2019)
Rating: 7.5 Genre:Drama, History, Crime
Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Nina Arianda, Ian Gomez, Wayne Duvall, Dylan Kussman
The Founder(2016)
Rating: 7.1 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, B. J. Novak, Laura Dern, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland
Red Cliff(2008)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Feng Yi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun, Shidô Nakamura, Chi-Ling Lin, You Yong
Sully(2016)
Rating: 7.2 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Mike O'Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Jerry Ferrara
Air(2023)
Rating: 7.4 Genre:Drama, History
Cast: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Chris Tucker, Matthew Maher, Gustaf Skarsgård
Agora(2009)
Rating: 7 Genre:Adventure, Drama, History
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans, Homayoun Ershadi, Sami Samir, Richard Durden
The Photographer of Mauthausen(2018)
Rating: 7 Genre:Drama, History, Thriller
Cast: Mario Casas, Richard van Weyden, Alain Hernández, Adrià Salazar, Eduard Bunch, Stefan Weinert, Rubén Yuste, Nikola Stojanovic, Frank Feys
Quiz Show(1994)
Rating: 7.3 Genre:History, Drama, Mystery
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow, David Paymer, Christopher McDonald, Martin Scorsese, Elizabeth Wilson, Hank Azaria
Anna and the King(1999)
Rating: 6.8 Genre:Drama, Romance, History
Cast: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim, Lim Kay Siu, Melissa Campbell, Keith Chin
The Mission(1986)
Rating: 7.4 Genre:Adventure, Drama, Action, History
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Liam Neeson, Cherie Lunghi, Ronald Pickup, Chuck Low, Bercelio Moya
The Dirt(2019)
Rating: 7.5 Genre:Drama, Music, History, Comedy
Cast: Douglas Booth, Machine Gun Kelly, Iwan Rheon, Daniel Webber, Tony Cavalero, Rebekah Graf, Pete Davidson, Christian Gehring, Elena Evangelo
Thirteen Days(2000)
Rating: 7 Genre:Drama, History, Thriller, War
Cast: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman, Henry Strozier, Frank Wood, Kevin Conway, Tim Kelleher
The Best Years(2020)
Rating: 6.8 Genre:Romance, Drama, History
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Micaela Ramazzotti, Kim Rossi Stuart, Claudio Santamaria, Nicoletta Romanoff, Emma Marrone, Alma Noce, Francesco Centorame, Andrea Pittorino
Valkyrie(2008)
Rating: 6.9 Genre:Drama, Thriller, History, War
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Cranham, Thomas Kretschmann, Eddie Izzard
All the Money in the World(2017)
Rating: 6.5 Genre:Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery, History
Cast: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Plummer, Charlie Shotwell, Andrew Buchan, Marco Leonardi
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