The best John Drew Barrymore’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Drew Barrymore’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 John Drew Barrymore.
While the City Sleeps
6.9/10
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"
Pontius Pilate
5.5/10
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
Thunderbirds
5.8/10
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Never Love a Stranger
5.4/10
Orphan turns bad, finds redemption with some help from boyhood pal. This movie is of interest because of the presence of a young Steve McQueen, the leading man being John Drew Barrymore, father of the more famous Drew, and for being based on a novel by Harold Robbins, famous for steamy writing in his day.
The Shadow on the Window
6.1/10
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farm owner at an isolated farm house. The one witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage.
The Centurion
4.7/10
High School Confidential!
6.1/10
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
The Big Night
6.3/10
A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.
Invasion 1700
5.3/10
Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.
Night of the Quarter Moon
6.3/10
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
Rome Against Rome
4.7/10
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
The Christine Keeler Story
6.3/10
A teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal.
