The best Michael Ansara’s drama movies

Michael Ansara

Michael Ansara

15/04/1922- 31/07/2013
Today we present the best Michael Ansara’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 Michael Ansara’s movies.
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The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/10/1956
  • Character: Taskmaster
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/02/1965
  • Character: Herod's commander
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

The Robe

The Robe
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 16/09/1953
  • Character: Judas (uncredited)
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 04/06/1953
  • Character: Pindarus
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

The Message

The Message
8.1/10
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

The Egyptian

The Egyptian
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 25/08/1954
  • Character: Hittite Commander (uncredited)
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.

Assassination

Assassination
5.2/10
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
6/10
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Diane

Diane
6.1/10
Asked by Francis I (Pedro Armendáriz) to tutor his son (Roger Moore), Diane de Poitiers (Lana Turner) becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.

Only the Valiant

Only the Valiant
6.5/10
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.

Action in Arabia

Action in Arabia
6.2/10
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

The Bears and I

The Bears and I
6.1/10
When a man adopts three black bear cubs, he faces one of the hardest decisions of his life. Set in the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, Robert Leslie struggles to keep his bears safe and maintain relations with native Americans and park rangers.

The Confession

The Confession
3.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/05/1964
  • Character: Mayor Pablo
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.

The Bandits of Corsica

The Bandits of Corsica
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 27/02/1953
  • Character: Blacksmith
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.

Bannerline

Bannerline
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/10/1951
  • Character: Floyd
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

Sign of the Pagan

Sign of the Pagan
5.9/10
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.

Stand Up and Be Counted

Stand Up and Be Counted
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1972
  • Character: Playboy Speaker
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.

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.

Daring Game

Daring Game
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1968
  • Character: President Eduardo Delgado
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".

Intrigue

Intrigue
5.8/10
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.

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