The best Shimen Ruskin’s drama movies

Shimen Ruskin

Shimen Ruskin

25/02/1907- 23/04/1976
Today we present the best Shimen Ruskin’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 Shimen Ruskin’s movies.
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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 17/04/1941
  • Character: Hireling (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof
8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/11/1971
  • Character: Mordcha
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Dark Passage

Dark Passage
7.5/10
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy
7.6/10
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Body and Soul

Body and Soul
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/1947
  • Character: Shimen, the Grocer (uncredited)
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

Johnny O'Clock

Johnny O'Clock
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1947
  • Character: Dry Cleaner Guy
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

The Big Street

The Big Street
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/08/1942
  • Character: Joe (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.

Crack-Up

Crack-Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/09/1946
  • Character: Dissenter at Art Lecture (Uncredited)
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain
5.9/10
A scientist takes a the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.

Mr. Soft Touch

Mr. Soft Touch
6.6/10
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WW2 hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.

Undercover Girl

Undercover Girl
6.4/10
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

From This Day Forward

From This Day Forward
6.3/10
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.

The Mask of Diijon

The Mask of Diijon
5.6/10
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

Lady from Louisiana

Lady from Louisiana
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/04/1941
  • Character: Gaston
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.

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