How I Want To Be Remembered by Posterity
by mariojacobs | created - 30 Jan 2021 | updated - 18 Oct 2021 | PublicIf you had the power to choose, how would you like to be remembered by posterity?
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1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
Votes: 82,348
2. The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.
Stars: Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Evans
Votes: 111,082
3. The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
77 min | Drama
A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.
Director: Bernard Queysanne | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 4,659
4. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi
Votes: 62,190 | Gross: $3.87M
5. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
Directors: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda | Stars: Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger
Votes: 1,597
6. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton
Votes: 19,983
7. The Man Who Married Himself (2010)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Comedy
Oliver has a mid-life crisis, and decides to get married - to himself. This is the story of his relationship, and how he discovers some truths about life and love on the way.
Director: Garrick L. Hamm | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Warren Clarke, Emilia Fox, Celia Imrie
Votes: 94
8. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini
Votes: 115,029 | Gross: $7.49M
9. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova
Votes: 8,079
10. The Man Who Played God (1932)
TV-G | 80 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming, André Luguet
Votes: 1,275
11. The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 5,786
12. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
PG | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 52,062
13. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Directors: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow | Stars: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 21,514
14. The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?
Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 178,919 | Gross: $56.97M
15. The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero
Votes: 3,739
16. The Most Beautiful Man in the World (2002)
6 min | Short
A bored young girl goes on a walk and encounters a handsome man.
Director: Alicia Duffy | Stars: Holly Bishop, Paige Bishop, Anton Valensi, Julie Moorcroft
Votes: 172
17. The Man with Two Brains (1983)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale whose life he saved, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go even more awry when he falls in love with a telepathic brain.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict
Votes: 27,905 | Gross: $10.10M
18. The Man Who Sold the World (2006)
96 min | Horror, Mystery
The story of Max: a man who becomes embroiled in time and space and the many dimensions of man's mind and his place within his own universe.
Director: Louis Melville | Stars: Jonathan Sidgwick, Rita Kvist, Andrew Tiernan, Dan van Husen
Votes: 63
19. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Votes: 21,179
20. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver
Votes: 22,195 | Gross: $0.39M
21. Last Man Standing (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken
Votes: 61,017 | Gross: $17.60M
22. The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
Director: Robert Guenette | Stars: Orson Welles, Philip L. Clarke, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero
Votes: 1,244
23. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé
Votes: 2,427
24. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.
Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali
Votes: 13,815
25. The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A womanizing sculptor named David goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner
Votes: 2,502 | Gross: $10.96M
26. The Man Who Won (1923)
50 min | Western
Gambler Wild Bill, promises to protect the children of Scipio, an unlucky miner who sets out to find "Lord" James, a bandit who stole Jessie, his wife. Toby, Sunny, and Sandy, three gambler... See full summary »
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Whitlock, Ralph Cloninger
Votes: 25
27. The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey, Michael Alldredge
Votes: 5,258
28. The Man from Outer Space (2017)
Not Rated | 74 min | Sci-Fi
A failing script writer is given one last chance to save his career, yet at what cost?
Director: Ben Hall | Stars: Christopher Mychael Watson, Aliyah Conley, Jordan Dee Crabtree, Todd Christian Elliott
Votes: 68 | Gross: $0.02M
29. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Votes: 8,975
30. The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
PG | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.
Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Dan Stevens, Mark Schrier, Patrick Joseph Byrnes, Miriam Margolyes
Votes: 19,285 | Gross: $5.68M
31. The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
105 min | Comedy
A producer is obsessed with turning his wife into a sexy star, ignoring her needs, and prompting her to return to France, where she becomes attracted to an attentive pilot, and ensuing a revenge plot by a jealous husband, that goes astray.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick
Votes: 240
32. The Man Who Cried (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke
Votes: 16,465 | Gross: $0.74M
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