The best Peter Brocco’s drama movies

Peter Brocco

Peter Brocco

16/01/1903- 20/12/1992
Today we present the best Peter Brocco’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 Peter Brocco’s movies.
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Spartacus

Spartacus
7.9/10
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/11/1975
  • Character: Col. Matterson
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy, inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.

The War of the Roses

The War of the Roses
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/12/1989
  • Character: Elderly Mourner
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.

Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/08/1971
  • Character: Ancient Prelate
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1950
  • Character: Macho (uncredited)
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe
6.7/10
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin
7.6/10
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

House by the River

House by the River
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 25/03/1950
  • Character: Harry - coroner chairing inquest
Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy man who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, but was over ruled

Fuzz

Fuzz
5.4/10
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A.
7.3/10
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Three Secrets

Three Secrets
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1950
  • Character: Stephani (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

El Alaméin

El Alaméin
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 03/12/1953
  • Character: Selim
A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Butler (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1951
  • Character: Charles Rodale (uncredited)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film star shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.

No Place to Run

No Place to Run
6.4/10
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

The Bandits of Corsica

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

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/07/1962
  • Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.

The Balcony

The Balcony
6/10
Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop, and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.

Hot Blood

Hot Blood
5.7/10
Stephen Torino (Wilde), who is tricked by his brother Marco (Adler) into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash (Russell). Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.

Flaming Fury

Flaming Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: E. V. Wessman
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

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