The best Nestor Paiva’s drama movies

Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

30/06/1905- 09/09/1966
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Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young
7/10
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 22/12/1948
  • Character: Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquers Orleans.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHorrorRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

The Southerner

The Southerner
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/04/1945
  • Character: Bartender
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?

Salome, Where She Danced

Salome, Where She Danced
5.4/10
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.

Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn
7.2/10
Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so Rick becomes a star musician, but a troubled marriage and the desire to play pure jazz instead of commercial swing songs cause him problems.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

The Left Handed Gun

The Left Handed Gun
6.4/10
When a crooked sheriff murder his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/02/1962
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

Humoresque

Humoresque
7.3/10
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
7.6/10
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Cornered

Cornered
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 23/11/1945
  • Character: Police Official (uncredited)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.

Boom Town

Boom Town
7/10
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Beau Geste

Beau Geste
7.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureDramaWar
  • Release: 24/07/1939
  • Character: Corporal Golas (uncredited)
Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Ray Milland star along with Robert Preston in the epic adventure Beau Geste. When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, Beau Geste has been universally acclaimed by generations of critics and audiences alike as a true motion picture classic.

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/09/1941
  • Character: Fred Flores
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Can-Can

Can-Can
6.3/10
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache (Shirley MacLaine) is known for her performances of the can-can, a provocative dance recently outlawed for being immoral. Though her dancing delights patrons to no end, it also attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier (Louis Jourdan), who aims to punish her. The judge hatches a plot to photograph Simone in the act and ends up falling for her -- much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, handsome lawyer François Durnais (Frank Sinatra).

Background to Danger

Background to Danger
6.4/10
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Nob Hill

Nob Hill
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 13/06/1945
  • Character: Luigi
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

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