Best "statue" Movies of All Time

33 movies found (page 1/2):

The Sorcerer's Apprentice(2010)

3.0/5 (with 2,231 votes)

Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub - With Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Alice Maud Krige, ...

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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla(1974)

1h 24min | Action, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 92 votes)

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.

Directed by Jun Fukuda - With Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Koizumi, Shin Kishida

Trigun: Badlands Rumble(2011)

1h 30min | Action, Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure

3.8/5 (with 68 votes)

In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting the bounty. Vash the Stampede is in town, along with Meryl and Milly, along with the female bounty hunter Amelia and Nicholas D. Wolfwood.

Directed by Satoshi Nishimura

Flesh + Blood(1985)

2h 6min | Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 147 votes)

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven - With Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Ronald Lacey, Susan Tyrrell, Jack Thompson, ...

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Last Year at Marienbad(1961)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 202 votes)

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Françoise Spira, ...

Stadium Nuts(1972)

1h 28min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Paul Préboist, Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Aimable, ...

Gamera vs. Jiger(1970)

1h 23min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new rival, only to be injured when Jiger lays eggs inside of him. As two boys in a submarine go on a dangerous quest inside of Gamera's body to save him, Jiger threatens the Expo '70 world's fair in Osaka.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa, Bret Morrison - With Ryo Hayami, Franz Gruber, Shō Natsuki, Kon Ōmura

The Shrine(2010)

1h 25min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 93 votes)

A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.

Directed by Jon Knautz - With Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern, Trevor Matthews

The Blood of a Poet(1932)

55min | Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 64 votes)

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

Directed by Jean Cocteau - With Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Enrique Riveros, Jean Desbordes, Odette Talazac

Sabrina Goes to Rome(1998)

1h 24min | TV Movie, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.0/5 (with 54 votes)

Sabrina goes to Rome, with Salem stowaway-ed in her backpack, to free her 16th-century aunt Sophia who was banished for divulging her powers to a non-witch.

Directed by Tibor Takács - With Melissa Joan Hart, Tara Strong, Nick Bakay

The Seventh Curse(1986)

1h 18min | Fantasy, Horror, Action, Adventure

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Action ensues as the cop and cohorts battle the evil sorcerer of the Worm Tribe, a hideous bloodthirsty baby like creature and "Old Ancestor," a skeleton with glowing blue eyes that transforms into a monster.

Directed by Lam Nai-Choi - With Chow Yun-fat, Maggie Cheung, Dick Wei, Chin Siu-ho, Sibelle Hu, Elvis Tsui, ...

Boy on a Dolphin(1957)

1h 51min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Drama

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.

Directed by Jean Negulesco - With Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren, Laurence Naismith, Charles Fernley Fawcett, Jorge Mistral, ...

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The So-Called Caryatids(1984)

12min | Documentary, TV Movie

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.

Directed by Agnès Varda

A Hero in his Slippers(1958)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to immigrate to Australia. On the same day, his cousin Apostolos pays him a visit as well and tells him that the government intending to honor him has decided to construct his statue and place it at the small square in front of his house.

Directed by Alekos Sakellarios - With Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilya Livykou, Nitsa Tsaganea, Lavrentis Dianellos, Vangelis Protopapas

Ascension(2013)

7min | Animation, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In beginning of the 20th century, two climbers carry a statue of the Virgin to the top of a mountain.

How the Monuments Came Down(2021)

1h 26min | Documentary

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Confederate leaders stood for more than a century, and why they fell.

The Green Buddha(1954)

1h 2min | Crime, Mystery

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.

Directed by John Lemont - With Wayne Morris

Stuntman(1968)

1h 38min | Action, Comedy

Stuntman Johnny gets tired of putting his life constantly at risk and instead joins up with a bunch of international thieves who are looking to steal a priceless statue, but that's where the trouble starts....

Directed by Marcello Baldi - With Robert Viharo, Gina Lollobrigida, Marie Dubois, Marisa Mell, Jean-Claude Bercq, Paul Müller, ...

Liberty: Mother of Exiles(2019)

1h 23min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A look at the history of the Statue of Liberty and the meaning of sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's creation to people around the world.

Falcon's Gold(1982)

1h 36min | Adventure, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess.

Directed by Bob Schulz

The Great Man's Lady(1942)

1h 30min | Western, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Etta McDaniel, Fred Toones, George Irving, ...

Serenity(1961)

1h 10min | History, Drama

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

Directed by Gregory Markopoulos

Don Giovanni(1990)

2h 58min | Music, Drama

2.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who brings excitement with him and leaves destruction it his wake has always attracted top singing actors, as in this performance brilliantly led by James Levine. Samuel Ramey is Don Giovanni, pursued by the incandescent Karita Mattila (Donna Elvira) in her Met debut season and role, and by the white-hot avenging fury of Carol Vaness (Donna Anna.) Ferruccio Furlanetto delivers a masterful comic turn as the Don’s servant, Leporello.

Porky's Hero Agency(1937)

7min | Animation, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.

Directed by Bob Clampett

Still(2016)

5min | Comedy, Horror

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Still is a 5min dark zombie comedy that tells the story of 'Statue', a living statue entertainer caught up in the middle of a zombie outbreak. He finds himself frozen in fear whilst everyone around him flees or dies at the hands of the attacking zombie horde. Left alone by the unknowing zombies in an large open square surrounded on all sides he has to rely on his amazing ability to stand very still to try work out a way to survive his ordeal.

Jizo the Ghost(1898)

Horror

Jizo, the protector of dead children and all creatures trapped in Hell, is usually found in graveyards. Bake-Jizo is a stature placed at crossroads. There is no official record of Bake Jizo's existence - only later recollection of cameraman Shiro Asano, Konishi Honten was photography in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, which imported the first film to Japan.

T-O: Triángulo de oro - 'La isla fantasma'(1985)

Action, Adventure

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The disappearance of a girl in high seas and the tragic death of her father make part of a puzzle that points to an island with a valuable solid golden triangle. The relatives of the victims and an unscrupulous group of mercenaries was embarking on a greedy search for triangle of gold in the middle of an island that no one has come alive. What do not know is that the island has deadly dangers that nobody has imagined.