The best Maurice Roëves’s drama movies

Maurice Roëves

Maurice Roëves

19/03/1937- 14/07/2020
Today we present the best Maurice Roëves’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 Maurice Roëves’s movies.
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David

David
6.9/10
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
7.7/10
In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers, including Hawkeye, a rugged frontiersman and the adopted son of the Mohicans comes to their rescue. A passionate romance soon blossoms between Cora and Hawkeye, but many forces test their love as they continue to journey through the Frontier.

Victory

Victory
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/06/1981
  • Character: Pyrie
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock
5.7/10
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed
6.9/10
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

Moses

Moses
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/12/1995
  • Character: Zerak
An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Moses (Ben Kingsley) leads them to freedom. Philip Stone, Anthony Higgins, Anton Lesser and Anita Zagaria are featured in this award-winning installment from TNT's "greatest stories of the Bible" series directed by Roger Young.

Macbeth

Macbeth
6.6/10
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

The Damned United

The Damned United
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/2009
  • Character: Jimmy Gordon
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures
5.8/10
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

Hallam Foe

Hallam Foe
6.9/10
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic
6.2/10
The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda
6.9/10
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

The Acid House

The Acid House
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/07/1998
  • Character: God
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.

Luna

Luna
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 26/09/2014
  • Character: (Jacob) Doctor
Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing.

Hillsborough

Hillsborough
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/1996
  • Character: Chf Supt. Duckenfield
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.

The Big Man

The Big Man
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/08/1990
  • Character: Cam Colvin
An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich
7.2/10
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.

Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/06/2000
  • Character: Michael O'Neil
David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah's insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams' talk-show, "forgive and forget", with tragic consequences for their friendship and David's family.

Ulysses

Ulysses
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1967
  • Character: Stephen Dedalus
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...

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