The best Ed Nelson’s drama movies

Ed Nelson

Ed Nelson

21/12/1928- 09/08/2014
Today we present the best Ed Nelson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ed Nelson’s movies.
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Airport 1975

Airport 1975
5.7/10
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

Midway

Midway
6.7/10
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Runaway Jury

Runaway Jury
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/01/2003
  • Character: George Dressler
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 18/12/1961
  • Character: Captain at Nightclub Announcing Call-up of Officers (uncredited)
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Swamp Women

Swamp Women
3.4/10
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.

Teenage Doll

Teenage Doll
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1957
  • Character: Police Officer 'Dutch' / Blind Man
The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed; they suspect Barbara, sometime girlfriend of the leader of rival gang The Vandals. As the gangs prepare for a rumble, we glimpse the members' home lives, exaggerating every type of family dysfunction; but that of their "average American" quarry is no better. Full of shadowy urban night scenes.

Superdome

Superdome
2.9/10
It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into the firm has been told that if he doesn't get him, he will be out. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's a killer running around. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the team's trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage.

Soldier in the Rain

Soldier in the Rain
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/11/1963
  • Character: James Priest
Maxwell Slaughter is a kind, heavyset guy who has reached the rank of master sergeant in the army. Admired by handsome young Sgt. Eustis Clay, Slaughter forms a close bond with his peer. Clay hopes to convince Slaughter to join him in a business venture outside of the service, but, in the meantime, he introduces the older officer to the beautiful young Bobby Jo Pepperdine, inadvertently creating trouble for both men.

Rock All Night

Rock All Night
5.7/10
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.

That's the Way of the World

That's the Way of the World
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/06/1975
  • Character: Carlton James
Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.

The Crash of Flight 401

The Crash of Flight 401
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 28/10/1978
  • Character: Philip Mulwray
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

Along Came a Spider

Along Came a Spider
6.4/10
Dr. Janet Furie comes to believe that her husband and fellow scientist were set up to die in a lab accident. She blames another scientist, not only for the murder but also for taking credit for her husband's groundbreaking work. When she can't prove her husband was murdered, she spins a web of intrigue and deceit that results in the suspected scientist being framed for another murder that never actually happened.

Murder in Peyton Place

Murder in Peyton Place
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 03/10/1977
  • Character: Dr. Michael Rossi
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.

Doctors' Private Lives

Doctors' Private Lives
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 20/03/1978
  • Character: Dr. Mike Wise
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

Carnival Rock

Carnival Rock
4.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Cannon
An ocean-side nightclub owner (David J. Stewart) loves a singer (Susan Cabot) who only has eyes for a gambler (Brian Hutton).

Sworn to Silence

Sworn to Silence
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 06/04/1987
  • Character: Victor Handler
A lawyer who is defending an accused murderer, is told by his client the whereabouts of the bodies. However, being his lawyer, he is unable to reveal this information.

Anatomy of a Seduction

Anatomy of a Seduction
5.6/10
The story of a divorced woman who begins an affair with the college-age son of her best friend, and the effects it has on her relationship with her own son, who is not much younger than her lover.

Leave Yesterday Behind

Leave Yesterday Behind
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 11/01/1978
  • Character: Mr. Clarkson
Paul was injured while playing polo. He then learns that he is paralyzed from the waist down. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather's ranch. He meets Marnie a horse trainer. For some reason she decides that she wants to get him to get his head out of the sand that he placed it in since the accident. She finds herself falling for him and he for her, too. But he tries to resist cause he doesn't know what kind of future, he could give her, cause he fears that he could be impotent.

New Orleans Uncensored

New Orleans Uncensored
5.7/10
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.

Cries of Silence

Cries of Silence
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1996
  • Character: Dr. August Claiborne
In the wake of Hurricane Camille, the infamous '60's storm that crippled the Gulf Coast, a mysterious teenage girl washes up to shore, and the secrets of Mississippi's Sister Island crawl to the surface. Dorrie (Kathleen York), a young doctor living with her mother (Karen Black), assumes custody of the unknown girl (Erin Buchanan) and names her Camille. Terrified and unable to speak, Camille spends her days hiding underneath the dining room table. But when Dorrie unearths a series of curious circumstances surrounding Camille's past, a shocking mystery comes unraveled.

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