The best Michael McGuire’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michael McGuire’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 Michael McGuire.
Hard Times
7.2/10
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Bird
7.1/10
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Valley Forge
6.9/10
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Coming Apart
6.6/10
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Report to the Commissioner
6.7/10
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
The Long Days of Summer
6.3/10
A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
The Karen Carpenter Story
6.9/10
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie is the authorized version of the life of Karen Carpenter and was made with the approval of Richard Carpenter and the Carpenter family.
Like Normal People
7/10
A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
7.1/10
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln
The Gun
6.9/10
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
Home to Stay
6.3/10
A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.
The Hunted Lady
5.8/10
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.
A More Perfect Union
7.1/10
Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness the struggles and the miracles that produced the Constitution of the United States and the freest nation on earth. Filmed on location at Independence Hall; Williamsburg, Virginia; and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation. It is exciting drama of the best kind-fact, rather than fiction. "It brings the history books to life," writes one reviewer. "Dramatically moving, and visually handsome," says another. Officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, who cited the film as being "of exceptional merit."
