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1970s Movies

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

October 23, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

Nicholas and Alexandra opens in 1904 with Alexei’s birth during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas II is warned by his cousin Grand Duke Nicholas and the Prime Minister Count Sergei Witte that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They also tell him there is a rising demand by the Russian people for representative government, health care, voting, and workers’ rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky have formed.

1970s Movies

Dracula (1979)

June 27, 2020February 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

Dracula movie storyline. When a ship is wrecked off Whitby, the only survivor, Count Dracula, is discovered lying on the beach by the sickly young Mina Van Helsing, who is visiting her dear friend Lucy Seward.

1960s Movies

Spartacus (1960)

June 21, 2020February 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

Spartacus movie storyline. In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus (Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south.

1970s Movies

Marathon Man (1976)

June 7, 2020July 4, 2023 - by greatmovies

Marathon Man movie storyline. Thomas “Babe” Levy, whose brother Henry James “Doc” Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University.

1970s Movies

Three Sisters (1970)

May 18, 2020July 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Three Sisters movie storyline. Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post.

1970s Movies

A Little Romance (1979)

May 9, 2020July 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Little Romance storyline. 13-year-old Daniel Michon, a movie buff, especially Hollywood movies, lives just outside of Paris with his crooked cabbie father.

1960s Movies

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

July 28, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

Romeo and Juliet storyline. Adapted in this modern and realistic version by Zefferelli for the first time with two teenaged leads as the youthful, innocent, lovers Romeo and Juliet.

1930s Movies

Wuthering Heights (1939)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Wuthering Heights is William Wyler’s somber tale of doomed and tragic love, conflicting passions, and revenge. It is considered one of Hollywood’s all-time classics.

1940s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rebecca (1940)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Rebecca storyline. On holiday in Monte Carlo, the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter meets a young woman who is working as a lady’s companion to Mrs. Van Hopper.