Highest-Rated Movies about '20th Century', Sort by Popularity

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015), Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019), Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006), Baadasssss! (2003), Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story (2017), The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 20th Century movies.

#3. Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)

Storyline: For over half a century, "60 Minutes" fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today's precarious tipping point.

Plot Keywords: reporter, interviewee, interviewer, politician, celebrity, athlete, engaging ...

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#4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Storyline: A quiet Connecticut vacation home is the backdrop for domestic decline. Sensitive son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) returns home from spending time at sea to a family in a state of collapse. His father (Ralph Richardson) is an alcoholic miser. His mother, Mary (Katharine Hepburn), is addicted to morphine. His brother, Jamie (Jason Robards), is aggressive and unstable. As Edmund and his brother clash over how to help their mother, she becomes increasingly concerned about Edmund's worsening health.

Plot Keywords: mother, father, brother, son, maid, dark, brooding ...

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#6. Baadasssss! (2003)

Storyline: Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.

Plot Keywords: director, actor, father, son, amusing, brash, crafty ...

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#8. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)

Storyline: As contract songwriters for Disney, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman compose many of the studio's best-loved hits, including "It's a Small World (After All)" and songs from "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and many more. Their prolific professional collaborations result in many awards, including two Oscars. However, a deep, longstanding rift strikes a sour note in the brothers' personal relationship.

Plot Keywords: songwriter, brother, coworker, friend, musician, inspiring, fascinating ...

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#10. Four Seasons Lodge (2008)

Storyline: Every summer, some Holocaust survivors, mostly Polish Jews, gather at the Four Seasons Lodge in the Catskill Mountains. After moving to America after the war, the survivors sought each other out to create a large family to help fill the void left by those they lost. Though many of them are well into their 90s, at the Four Seasons they play poker, cook, dance and tell jokes, creating for one another a loving experience that is the antithesis of the nightmare they survived.

Plot Keywords: holocaust survivor, elderly person, friend, old man, jew, amusing, heartwarming ...

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#13. Kurosawa (2001)

Storyline: Director Adam Low explores the life and work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all-time. Low begins with Kurosawa's childhood in Tokyo and chronicles his ascent following the release of such masterpieces as "Rashomon," "Seven Samurai" and "Throne of Blood." The film also includes interviews with figures Kurosawa has influenced, including such film icons as Clint Eastwood and George Lucas.

Plot Keywords: filmmaker, friend, historian, critic, clint eastwood, fascinating, engaging ...

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#15. Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Storyline: Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out ...

Plot Keywords: entomologist, widow, villager, wife, brother, dark, disheartening ...

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