Film Tone: Lavish

1.

Titanic

1997 American romantic disaster film directed by James Cameron

Overview: Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of ...

Release date: 1 November 1997

Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure, History

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart

Producer: James Cameron, Pamela Easley

Writer: James Cameron

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

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Romantic drama films based on actual events 9T

1990s American films 4,704T

1990s English-language films 6,298T

2.

The Wizard of Oz

1939 movie based on the book by L. Frank Baum

Overview: The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film was primarily ...

Release date: 12 August 1939

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor

Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke

Producer: Arthur Freed, Mervyn LeRoy

Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

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1930s English-language films 4,270T

Films set in farms 104T

American children's musical films 17T

3.

Peter Pan

2003 US children's movie directed by P. J. Hogan

Overview: Peter Pan is a 2003 British-American-Australian fantasy adventure film directed by P.J. Hogan and written by Hogan and Michael Goldenberg. The screenplay is based on the 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter ...

Release date: 9 December 2003

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Director: P.J. Hogan

Cast: Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lynn Redgrave, Richard Briers, Olivia Williams

Producer: Gary Adelson, Mohamed Al-Fayed

Writer: J.M. Barrie, P.J. Hogan

The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is ...

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Films shot at Village Roadshow Studios 34T

Sony Pictures Releasing films 1T

American swashbuckler films 87T

4.

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

1996 film

Overview: Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 Indian historical erotic romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mira Nair. It takes its title from the ancient Indian text, the Kama Sutra and serves ...

Release date: 11 September 1996

Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Mira Nair

Cast: Indira Varma, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Naveen Andrews, Rekha, Khalid Tyabji

Producer: Caroline Baron, Lydia Dean Pilcher

Writer: Helena Kriel, Mira Nair

Two female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.

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1990s English-language films 3,883T

English-language Japanese films 68T

English-language German films 842T

5.

Gone with the Wind

1939 film by Victor Fleming

Overview: Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and d ...

Release date: 15 December 1939

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor

Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves

Producer: David O. Selznick

Writer: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of ...

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Films shot at Culver Studios 11T

Films about Lost Cause of the Confederacy 6T

1930s American films 5,554T

6.

Eyes Wide Shut

1999 British-American drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick

Overview: Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, the movie ...

Release date: 13 July 1999

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris, Sydney Pollack, Leslie Lowe

Producer: Brian Cook, Jan Harlan

Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael

A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.

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1990s English-language films 3,889T

American erotic drama films 109T

British erotic thriller films 19T

7.

Dallas

American television series

Overview: Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. The series revolves around an affluent and feuding Texas family, the Ewings, who own the in ...

Release date: 2 April 1978

Director: Leonard Katzman, Michael Preece

Cast: Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly

Producer: Cliff Fenneman, Leonard Katzman

Writer: David Jacobs, Leonard Katzman

The soapy, backstabbing machinations of Dallas oil magnate J.R. Ewing and his family.

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Television series created by David Jacobs (writer) 4T

Television shows set in New Braunfels, Texas 9T

Television series by Lorimar-Telepictures 32T

8.

North and South, Book I

Three American television miniseries

Overview: North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War, they are based ...

Release date: 3 November 1985

Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War

Director: Richard T. Heffron

Cast: Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Lesley-Anne Down, Genie Francis

Producer: Paul Freeman, Rob Harland

Writer: Douglas Heyes, John Jakes

Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.

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Cultural depictions of Frederick Douglass 22T

Cultural depictions of Ulysses S. Grant 51T

Cultural depictions of Robert E. Lee 30T

9.

Veer-Zaara

2004 film by Yash Chopra

Overview: Veer-Zaara is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Yash Chopra and produced by him and his son Aditya Chopra. It stars Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta as the eponymous s ...

Genre: Romance, Drama, Musical

Director: Yash Chopra

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Kirron Kher, Divya Dutta, Boman Irani

Producer: Padam Bhushan, Singh Maan Bikramjit

Writer: Aditya Chopra

"Veer-Zaara" is a saga of love, separation, courage, and sacrifice. A love story that is an inspiration and will remain a legend forever.

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2004 romantic drama films 72T

2004 drama films 557T

Indian interfaith romance films 56T

10.

The Ten Commandments

1956 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Overview: The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. Based ...

Release date: 5 October 1956

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget

Producer: Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon

Writer: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people ...

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1950s American films 3,265T

Jewish films 28T

Films based on the Book of Exodus 17T

11.

The Sound of Music

1965 film by Robert Wise

Overview: The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor ...

Release date: 2 March 1965

Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance

Director: Robert Wise

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr

Producer: Saul Chaplin, Robert Wise

Writer: Georg Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay

A young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

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1960s English-language films 3,114T

1965 musical films 14T

1965 drama films 238T

12.

The Scorpion King

2002 film by Chuck Russell

Overview: The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by Chuck Russell, starring The Rock, Kelly Hu, Grant Heslov and Michael Clarke Duncan. It is a spin-off of The Mummy franchise ...

Release date: 15 April 2002

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller

Director: Chuck Russell

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill, Grant Heslov

Producer: Sean Daniel, James Jacks

Writer: Stephen Sommers, Jonathan Hales

A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and ...

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Films set in the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt 7T

Films with screenplays by William Osborne (writer) 13T

Films with screenplays by Jonathan Hales 4T

13.

The Godfather

1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Overview: The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name. It is the first inst ...

Release date: 15 March 1972

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden

Producer: Gray Frederickson, Albert S. Ruddy

Writer: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.

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ATU 300-399 9T

1970s English-language films 3,270T

Cultural depictions of the Mafia 81T

14.

The 300 Spartans

1962 film by Rudolph Maté

Overview: The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. The ...

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War

Director: Rudolph Maté

Cast: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar, Donald Houston

Producer: Rudolph Maté, George St. George

Writer: George St. George, Ugo Liberatore

A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army.

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1960s English-language films 3,111T

Films shot in Athens 34T

1960s war adventure films 14T

15.

Romeo and Juliet

1968 film by Franco Zeffirelli

Overview: Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 period romantic tragedy film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.Directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia ...

Release date: 4 March 1968

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Cast: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens

Producer: John Brabourne, Richard B. Goodwin

Writer: William Shakespeare, Franco Brusati

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

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1960s English-language films 3,136T

English-language Italian films 707T

1968 drama films 234T

16.

Pride & Prejudice

2005 film by Joe Wright

Overview: Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright, in his feature directorial debut, and based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name. The film features five sisters from an ...

Release date: 25 July 2005

Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland

Producer: Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin

Writer: Deborah Moggach, Jane Austen

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman ...

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2000s British films 1,497T

2000s French films 1,230T

2000s American films 7,208T

17.

Mulan

1998 film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

Overview: Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical historical action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and was D ...

Release date: 5 June 1998

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, War

Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook

Cast: Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Fierstein, Freda Foh Shen, June Foray, James Hong, Miriam Margolyes

Producer: Pam Coats, Robert S. Garber

Writer: Robert D. San Souci, Rita Hsiao

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

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Films about Hua Mulan 8T

American animated feature films 68T

1990s English-language films 3,888T

18.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus

Overview: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros ...

Release date: 4 November 2001

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Chris Columbus

Cast: Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Saunders Triplets, Daniel Radcliffe, Fiona Shaw

Producer: Todd Arnow, Michael Barnathan

Writer: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves

An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world ...

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2001 children's films 20T

2000s British films 1,487T

2000s American films 7,187T

19.

Dracula

1992 film by Francis Ford Coppola

Overview: Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona ...

Release date: 13 November 1992

Genre: Horror, Romance

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes

Producer: Michael Apted, Francis Ford Coppola

Writer: Bram Stoker, James V. Hart

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign ...

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1990s English-language films 3,955T

Best Horror Film Saturn Award winners 45T

Period horror films 39T

20.

Cleopatra

1963 historical drama film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Overview: Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times ...