Top rated stretched to breaking point movies that are also historical
Check out today’s highest ranked stretched to breaking point and historical movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are stretched to breaking point and historical, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Heaven's Gate (1980)
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
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- 1980-11-19 | Drama / Western
Cast
- Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken
Rating
6.8
2 The Weight of Water (2000)
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
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- 2000-09-25 | Mystery / Drama
Cast
- Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack
Rating
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5.8
3 Padmaavat (2018)
Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.
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- 2018-01-25 | Drama / History
Cast
- Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone
Rating
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6.9
4 Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.
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- 1991-08-15 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Jet Li, Yuen Biao
Rating
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7.2
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5 Laal Kaptaan (2019)
In an 18th century setting, a Naga sadhu in India sets out on a journey across Bundelkhand to seek revenge for an injustice committed in the past.
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- 2019-10-18 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Saif Ali Khan, Zoya Hussain
Rating
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7.3
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6 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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- 1957-05-30 | Western
Cast
- Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Rating
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7.0
7 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2005)
One of the most exciting and memorable stories in the history of the World Trade Towers is that of Philippe Petit, a French man who walked a tightrope between the massive monuments in 1974. Narrated by Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, this is an animated adaptation of the lyrical Caldecott Award-winning book by Mordecai Gerstein. Directed and animated by Michael Sporn, with music by Michael Bacon (of the Bacon Brothers).
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- 2005-04-23 | Animation
Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal
Rating
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7.0
8 Rose Island (2020)
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
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- 2020-12-09 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Elio Germano, Matilda De Angelis
Rating
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7.1
9 A Royal Night Out (2015)
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
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- 2015-05-14 | Romance / Comedy
Cast
- Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley
Rating
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6.5
10 Black Robe (1991)
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
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- 1991-09-05 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt
Rating
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6.8