The best Gordon Clapp’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gordon Clapp’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gordon Clapp.
Flags of Our Fathers
7.1/10
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Taking Chance
7.4/10
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Eight Men Out
7.2/10
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Moonlight Mile
6.6/10
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Sunshine State
6.8/10
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Falling Up
5.6/10
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Blood Brothers
5/10
Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman who arrives on their island. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal.
Matewan
7.9/10
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Return of the Secaucus Seven
7/10
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Small Sacrifices
7.6/10
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Running
5.9/10
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Ambush in Waco: In the Line of Duty
5.4/10
Religious fanatics are barricaded in a building, and surrounded by police. But they're not going to surrender, they prefer to die.
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
6.3/10
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.
Dead Billy
4.2/10
Graduate student Calliope Girard's orderly life is thrown into chaos by unexplained seizures that unlock buried memories of a violent past.
Bonds of Love
5.7/10
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
Skeletons in the Closet
5.1/10
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
