The Hunting Party
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2007
Country: USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: James Brolin, Scott Anderson, Terrence Howard, Richard Gere, Jesse Eisenberg, Gordana Vukres, Sanela Seferagic
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In 1995, the reckless but efficient war correspondent Simon Hunt and his cameraman Duck are covering the war in Bosnia. After a massacre in a Muslin village, Simon has a meltdown live on TV; he is fired and discredited by the network and disappears in the world of journalism while Duck is promoted, working for the famous anchor Franklin Harris. Five years later, while covering the peace in Bosnia with Franklin and the son of the network's VP Benjamin Strauss, Duck is visited by Simon who convinces his friend to chase the most wanted war criminal Boghdanovic a.k.a. The Fox, who has a five million dollar reward, for an interview. Ben joins the ...
Who'll Stop the Rain
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1978
Country: USA
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: David Opatoshu, Nick Nolte, James Cranna, Richard Masur, Gail Strickland, Anthony Zerbe, Tuesday Weld
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Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
Flags of Our Fathers
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Chris Bauer, Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, Jesse Bradford, Neal McDonough, Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. B...
Gallipoli
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1981
Country: Australia
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Mel Gibson, Reg Evans, Tim McKenzie, Robert Grubb, Bill Kerr, David Argue, Mark Lee
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The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Genres: Action, Adventure, War
Year: 1970
Country: USA, Mexico
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Enrique Lucero, Shirley MacLaine, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre, John Kelly, David Estuardo
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Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..
Letters from Iwo Jima
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survi...
Pathfinder
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Marcus Nispel
Starring: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare
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A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Seraphim Falls
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: David Von Ancken
Starring: Robert Baker, Anjelica Huston, Xander Berkeley, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Ed Lauter, Kevin J. O'Connor
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In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and Carver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?
The Hunt for Eagle One
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Brian Clyde
Starring: Theresa Randle, Rutger Hauer, Mark Dacascos, Joe Suba, Zach McGowan, Joe Fozzy, Rey Malonzo
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A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
Forrest Gump
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Mykelti Williamson, Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Bob Penny, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright Penn, Sam Anderson
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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.
Waterloo Bridge
Year: 1940
Country: USA
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Vivien Leigh, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith, Janet Shaw
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
The Guns of Navarone
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA, UK
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, James Robertson Justice, Irene Papas, Percy Herbert, Gregory Peck, David Niven
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Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
King Arthur
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Til Schweiger, Ken Stott, Stephen Dillane, Ray Winstone, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ivano Marescotti
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Based on a more realistic portrayal of "Arthur" than has ever been presented onscreen. The film will focus on the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled -- when the Roman empire collapsed and skirmishes over power broke out in outlying countries -- as opposed to the mystical elements of the tale on which past Arthur films have focused.
The Great Escape
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1963
Country: USA
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, James Garner, James Coburn, James Donald, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough
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Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.
Under Fire
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman, Nick Nolte, Richard Masur, Ed Harris, Holly Palance, Hamilton Camp
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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Year: 2001
Country: USA, UK, France
Director: John Madden
Starring: Christian Bale, John Hurt, Irene Papas, Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Aspasia Kralli, Dimitris Kaberidis, Pietro Sarubbi
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In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Conspiracy
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Adam Marcus
Starring: Jay Jablonski, Gary Cole, Jennifer Esposito, Val Kilmer, Greg Serano, David Frye, Stacy Marie Warden
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During the operation Storm in Desert in Iraq, the tough Marine Sergeant of Special Operations MacPherson and his great pal and family man, the Mexican Corporal Miguel Silva, are seriously wounded and retired. Later, the veteran and traumatized marine is insistently invited by Miguel to visit him in his lands in New Lago, a location nearby the border with Mexico. When MacPherson arrives in the town, he does not find his friend and he gets no information from the locals about Miguel. Sooner he realizes that the CEO of Halicorp and vigilante, Rhodes, is buying cheap lands, giving infrastructure, constructing buildings, housing and facilities usi...
Miracle at St. Anna
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2008
Country: USA, Italy
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: John Leguizamo, John Turturro, Derek Luke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso
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Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish fort...
Tunnel Rats
Year: 2008
Country: Germany, Canada
Director: Uwe Boll
Starring: Garikayi Mutambirwa, Nate Parker, Scott Cooper, Wilson Bethel, Adrian Collins, Mitch Eakins, Erik Eidem
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During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Romany Malco, Neve Campbell, Christian Slater, Leslie Phillips, Jon Culshaw, Tom Clarke Hill, Hamish McColl
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This is a comedy involving a group of the American filmmakers who decided to make a movie about Winston Churchille's life but missed with the casting. They find out that an actor to play the key role is a robust, unattractive cigar smoker they draw in an American G.I. as he seemed to be a better-looking actor to play the part of Churchill. A new interpretation the makers developed depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.