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- DirectorVicente AmorimStarsViggo MortensenJason IsaacsJodie WhittakerJohn Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsJessica SimpsonVivica A. FoxSteve GuttenbergWhen fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident and witlessly enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain that it will change her life.
- DirectorTom RobertsStarsVera FarmigaThomas KretschmannJohn MalkovichIn 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdThe Knight Arn is sent on a last mission against Saladin. He has to win this battle, before he can go home to Sweden, and finally marry his Cecilia and start a family. But the peace back home is threatened by the Danes.
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsJoseph MuirJosef AltinAshley ArtusAwaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsJonathan Rhys MeyersRadha MitchellChow Yun-FatAbout young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsHiam AbbassRona Lipaz-MichaelAli SulimanThe story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsMathieu AmalricAsia ArgentoGuillaume DepardieuAfter a freak accident, Burt finds himself locked in a coffin overnight. After surviving the ordeal, he decides to live his life purely for pleasure, but ultimately he finds himself in a bizarre war of the sexes.
- DirectorUwe BollStarsMichael ParéWilson BethelMitch EakinsHalfway into the Vietnam War (1959-1975), a special US combat unit is sent to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam.
- DirectorAdam MarcusStarsVal KilmerGary ColeJennifer EspositoA wounded United States Marine discovers a corporate conspiracy designed to run illegal aliens out of an Arizona border town by any means necessary.
- DirectorAlain ZaloumStarsCameron Van HoyDanielle DuvalAllan KolmanIn the divided city of Jerusalem, gentle Palestinian Muslim Fatima and idealistic Israeli Jew David fall in love. To escape their judgmental families and continue their romance, they elope and search for peace and happiness together.
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsJan Edgar FjellFrode LieKai Helge HansenThe guys from the Ed Garage find themselves drafted for a National Guard maneuver. After an accidental meeting with a U.S. Admiral (Don Johnson), the six misfits turn out to be the only ones between able to stop a nuclear disaster.
- DirectorNeil AbramsonStarsNick CannonMatt SiglochDotan BaerThe story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
- DirectorGrant MacDonaldStarsGrant MacDonald43,000 people were killed in UK by the Nazis while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin shipping oil to Hitler. Jean Paul Getty's mother; Catherine Risher was German. Dec. 20, 1940 ... the New York Daily News wrote about Getty's involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants. FBI reported that Getty was still shipping oil to Hitler; June, 1941 ... nine months after London was being bombed ... five months before Pearl Harbor.
- DirectorSiddiq BarmakStarsPeter BussianJoe SubaFawad SamaniTwo American soldiers wounded in the Afghanistan desert stumble across a Russian tank which has a group of Afghanis living inside.
- DirectorMichael SpenceStarsMichael FlynnJimmy ChungaTayva PatchA man with a broken heart...4 orphaned wolves... and the act of kindness that saved them all.
- DirectorKatsuo FukuzawaStarsMasahiro NakaiYukie NakamaYuki ShibamotoOne relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder by the American occupation forces.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsAyça DamgaciHama Ali KahnCengiz BozkurtThree years ago, in real-life, Hama Ali, a charismatic actor from Iraq famous locally for his performance as Iraq's version of Superman, met Ayca on a film-set. He and Ayca, a fiery actress from Turkey, had a passionate love affair before returning to their respective homes.
- DirectorD.J. PaulStarsJoshua ColemanJoseph 'Bo' ColenMatthew Del NegroJust when they think the Army can't screw with them any more, four U.S. Army Reservists are sent on a meaningless mission guarding a radio tower on a barren patch of desert in American-occupied Afghanistan. Dying of boredom rather than enemy fire, the soldiers occupy themselves as best they can with pranks, poker, and occasionally shooting at each other. The monotony is broken when the Air Force mistakenly air-drops a keg of beer and a bottle of whisky. With no supervision, no responsibilities, and all that beer to go to waste, the four Weekend Warriors build a bonfire, tap the keg, fill canteens and swap stories over an inebriated afternoon of booze, banter, and bonding. But as night falls, the hard reality of war interrupts their drunken respite, as Afghani irregulars attack their station. BOHICA is at once a recognition of the absurdity and futility of war and a celebration of the men and women who are compelled to fight it.
- DirectorAngelo LopesStarsNatalie BurnGrant Raymond CooperSantiago CraigFive men are conscripted and sent to hostile territory to find a top secret prototype stolen by a group of defectors.
- DirectorRainer LoeserStarsMakoto YamawakiAfter the fall of Manila, the Americans were hurled back by the advanced of the enemy. In the face of the onslaught General MacArthur ordered a fighting retreat by all USAFFE units consisting of some 30.000 American and 120.000 Filipino troops to Bataan Peninsular until reinforcements arrive. But with the Pacific Fleet been crippled at Pear Harbor, no aid would be forthcoming. After Bataan fell 76.000 American and Filipino troops were forced to march under horrendous conditions in the heat for 60 miles to a POW camp enclosure called Camp O'Donnell. By the time they reached the camp nearly 11.000 POW's had died or were murdered by the Japanese.
- DirectorMalcolm McdonaldStarsJennifer VuleticRobert MenziesHeather BoltonThe story of how Australia's 'ANZAC myth' was born and the role of General John Monash in this process as soldier and statesman both during and after WW1.
- DirectorAngus FletcherStarsMeeghan HolawayJustin HuenKenny McClainFour American soldiers are fighting for their lives in a Saudi prison.
- DirectorJared ChandlerStarsNadia AhernJoseph A. AndersonMarkell AndrewFollow Sgt. Tony Ortega as he builds trust between the different cultures that are Iraq in the award winning and very first Interactive Movie experience.
- DirectorIngo StormStarsKylanie LeeLynn LeeLynzabelJapanese WWII hostages, ritual killings for 20 years, one man's dreams and an innocent Malaysian reporter, are drawn together in a true life web of mystery that appears as a modern day conspiracy.
- DirectorZornitsa SophiaStarsAssen BlatechkiTeodora DuhovnikovaKresimir MikicRomance and political drama tight in an adventure, the "Forecast" tells a story of a Balkan conflict with a happy ending. Yes, there is one.
- DirectorDonovan CerminaraStarsDonovan CerminaraKarin HanczewskiJamie SwitchAnother Europe, 1991. When Poland is invaded by an unknown enemy from the East, NATO decides to send in recon squads of undesirable soldiers. This is the story of one such squad, and the village they find amidst ruin and horror.
- DirectorMichael P. NashStarsDavino BuzzottaJoey D. VieiraMarc GomesDan Tor's mind is so beautiful, governments are willing to kill to get inside it.
- DirectorCetywa PowellStarsAki AvniFive Middle-Eastern captives fight to retain their sanity and dignity in the face of their American interrogators, who in turn struggle with demons of their own.
- DirectorSteve JodrellStarsMatthew KingCharles 'Bud' TingwellDennis CoardThe true story of the dark days of 1941 when Menzies battled with Winston Churchill over the strategic direction of the Second World War with the fate of Australia hanging in the balance.
- DirectorLars Harald GatheStarsPhilip WolffKathryn RedwoodTony LeaderEngland, 1947. Private Larson has lost everything: his wife, his leg; his dignity. The war is over. But Larson's war has just begun.
- DirectorSebastian MantillaStarsAmaia ArzuaSlimani Abdel AzizPep RibasThe last day of the Spanish redeployment in the Iraq war, a Spanish soldier gets trapped in an ambush, leading her to fight a new war.
- DirectorElena Maria Sipsas AmorosaStarsKat De LeonJamal Molike HullElias Gustavo MendinoA comparison of war on the streets of New York City and the war in the Middle East.
- DirectorWilliam VanDerKlootStarsCarlo RotaIn 1940 Nazi air strikes had Britain on her knees. The RAF was desperate for aircraft - losing hundreds of planes in air battles over Europe. Their essential supply of US aircraft, sent on ship convoys, was sunk in the icy Atlantic by relentless German U-boats. Desperate times demanded desperate action. The only alternative was to fly the planes across the unforgiving ocean. The Ferry Command was born. The US was still neutral, so word went out through the "aviation grapevine" about a secret operation based in Montreal, that needed experienced civilian pilots. They offered an irresistible combination - a vital and important job, the chance to fly the latest aircraft, and a large paycheck. This attracted a rowdy bunch of airline pilots, bush pilots, barnstormers and daredevils -- men used to danger and risk. But nothing could prepare them for the treacherous winter skies over the North Atlantic, that in1940, no one dared fly. Meteorology was in its infancy: there was no way to predict the fierce winds, intense storms or dense fog that could suddenly pitch planes into darkness, fatally coating them with ice. Flying the Secret Sky tells a story of passionate risk-taking, of young men braving dangerous flights in primitive aircraft. These "cowboys of the air" are forgotten heroes of the air war, men who flew without guns and embodied an improvisational spirit that was key to Allied victory. The story is told by the fliers themselves, including Air Commodore Taffy Powell, Kirk Kerkorian, and Bill VanDerKloot, the American civilian pilot who flew Winston Churchill during the war. Included is never-before-seen home movie footage of Churchill in the American-built B-24 that safely delivered the him to vital war conferences and secret meetings. Also included is rare footage of Ferry Command aircraft and crews from archives around the world, as well as original footage and CGI. Before the U.S. had even entered the War, most of the Ferry Command pilots were American civilians who pioneered the global air routes we use today. Theirs is one of the great unknown stories of the war and of aviation history.
- DirectorAriel NasrAfghanistan immigrants now living in Canada discuss the Canadian bombing of their homeland.
- DirectorJamil ZouaouiStarsMegan BauerNora BauerJoshua CraigIsaiah Benjamin, an ambitious young man from the wrong side of the tracks gets a chance to "wrestle some measure of prosperity" out of the war on terror as an army-trained 97 Echo interrogator. After he is poverty-drafted into 97 Echo, he is tasked with the rendition and interrogation of an innocent Middle Eastern man Youssef Benhouzen, also a US citizen. When Isaiah realizes his error, the material success he achieves as a private interrogator is no cure for the overwhelming guilt he feels. Isaiah falls into a deep depression, and eventually contemplates suicide. Isaiah's girlfriend, Tara, desperate to rescue him, agrees to appear on the talk show of local celebrity, Dr. Bill Brimstone. In a surprising finale, the possibility of a resolution emerges, but will it materialize in time to stop Isaiah's march towards death?
- DirectorRobby BressonMburu KimaniStarsRobby BressonPaul GatonyeNice GithinjiKenya's Presidential Elections of 2007 is marred by political and tribal conflict .Frenzied mobs of one tribe kill, burn and loot their neighbors' simply because they are from another tribe. At the center of the conflict is the issue of Land., its allocation, use and settlement. Against this backdrop Rohno a Kalenjin is set to marry the love of his life Wairimu a Kikuyu. In addition two brothers fight for control of their ancestral land from their Father who hangs on to its control and administration despite his advanced age. When all get caught up in the violence that rocks the country, decisions and choices must be made, the consequences of which could prove deadly to their very existence
- DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsBanna MirzaIqbal AhmedTauquir AhmedDuring Bangladesh's liberation war against Pakistan in 1971, in a remote village Rabeya and Rokeya, two orphan young sisters lived in the religiously conservative household of their uncle Emdad Kazi, a rich kulak and a local Muslim League leader. During the war, for his political ambition, Emdad Kazi collaborated with the marauding Pakistan army. Khaled, the only brother of the two sisters, joined the Bengalee resistance guerrillas to fight against the Pakistan army. During a guerrilla operation Khaled was killed in a skirmish. The Pakistani captain ordered that the dead body of this young guerrilla should not be buried. It had to be kept on the embankment beside the river as a display to scare off the villagers so that nobody dared to oppose the army anymore. Nobody dared to bury Khaled's dead body. One night Rabeya, the sister, secretly proceeded to bury her brother. Rabeya was shot and killed. The villagers rose up. The Bengalee guerrillas won the final battle and declared Rabeya as a martyr.
- DirectorEd HarrisStarsEd HarrisViggo MortensenRenée ZellwegerTwo friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
- DirectorMitch WatersStarsCory HartEvan GambleSonia AcevedoThe cast of six young partying guys and gals visit a sleepy Texas lake town for what they think will be a couple of days of drinking, boating, swimming and skiing and what they find is killing. What ensues is a series of events beginning with fun and frolic and ending in blood and death, as the curse is unleashed on our unsuspecting group. How was the legend born? Who cast the curse? Who gets the GOLD? Who gets the girl? Who gets dead? Everyone thinks Santa Ana was trying to win at the Alamo for his country but he was really looking for his stolen gold.
- DirectorGlen PitreStarsEric BraedenBilly ZaneCarol AltA dozen years after the Civil War, former slaves go on strike at a powerful judge's plantation.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsLou Diamond PhillipsStacy KeachVincent SpanoWith heartening family drama and adrenaline-pumping action, Lone Rider is a western with guts, glory, and a powerful message. Bob Hattaway, an honored soldier, returns to his Western hometown to discover that corrupt landowner Stu Croaker has become the most powerful man in the county. What Stu wants next is the Hattaway family business. And normally, what he wants, he gets. But when his strong-arm tactics turn deadly, Bob fights back with a vengeance. This is the West and it s going to get wild. Featuring an all-star cast including Lou Diamond Phillips, Vincent Spano, and Stacy Keach.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsDaphne ZunigaGreg EviganCameron BancroftDiana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. She takes the place of her dying friend, who was to become some man's mail-order bride. Can she pull off this last con?
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsLuke PerryC. Thomas HowellKim CoatesAfter the murder of his wife and son by an escaped criminal Sheriff Matt Austin sets out to capture him only to find he's been hired by a greedy land baron seeking to take land from a widow and her son.
- DirectorCraig R. BaxleyStarsCasper Van DienBruce BoxleitnerErnest BorgnineAlready taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished but retired gunslinger.
- DirectorLance DotyStarsJohn DomanJim GaffiganJeff HephnerTale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
- DirectorIstván VáradyStarsKeith AntonEmerson BrooksCecilie BullOutside the forgotten desert mining town of Darwin, getaway driver Chooch O'Grady is stranded with a busted car and a bag of stolen cash. He's picked up by J.T., a predatory psychopath who murders Chooch and abruptly disposes of the body, leaving signs on the trail. J.T. and his meth-addicted boss, Archie, butt heads over the incident, but the real tension lies with Archie's girlfriend, Rebecca O'Grady. Her affair with J.T. contains false hope that he would be her ticket to freedom. Chooch's murder is all but forgotten until a quiet Stranger shows up looking for the money. Before he can leave behind the isolation that is Darwin, the Stranger must navigate the bizarre ghost town and bring its outlaw inhabitants to justice.
- DirectorTroy McGatlinStarsJan Van SickleRyan J. ParkerEarla StewartJoe, a rancher in the mountains of Colorado, has his life of solitude interrupted when his luckless son gets paroled from prison and moves back in with him, bringing his ill-fated ways along.
- DirectorJim Comas ColeStarsMichael ParksOlivia HusseyWes StudiSeething with familial conflicts and yearnings, Three Priests offers a powerful journey of affection, fear and fate.
- DirectorKevin WillmottStarsJames McDanielSaeed JaffreyLaura KirkWhen former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon after he arrives in town, all power is lost - there is no electricity, and cars and computers suddenly shut down. Community leaders are at a loss to explain. Is it the rapture? A massive terrorist attack? Aliens? Cut off from the world, the town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy, represented to some by Mr. Farook, an elderly Pakistani immigrant who owns the local convenience store. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder.
- DirectorScott PerryStarsTommy HillBill WiseSue RockWhen three cowboys show up dead Tommy, a hard-drinking, retired bounty hunter whose ranch is on the brink for foreclosure, must saddle up one more time to put a stop to the bandits and collect the missing ransom.
- DirectorSteven R. MonroeStarsMichael WorthTim ThomersonKaren KimThe winner of Best Independent Action Film* DUAL follows drifter Luke Twain in the late 1800s when he discovers a town where all the inhabitants has been brutally murdered. Making a choice to remain and uncover what took place there, he finds himself in a strange game of cat and mouse with a mysterious man that still has one final mission... Official Selection of the True West Film Festival and The Sunscreen Film Festival (2006). *Action On Film International Film Festival.
- DirectorJeff CampagnaMatthew CampagnaStarsDan WoosterMads KoudalChristopher HarrisonIn a desolate place called the Badlands, four men stand off with guns drawn, their fingers ready at the trigger.
- DirectorVitor SantosStarsNancy CalasChris CarbergBrandon ChaseWhen wanted fugitive Prescott Roeh is caught up with by Bounty Hunters, Brock Hadley and Rahul Quadim, he retreats to his old hometown, Braxton, as do the hunters. It is in this small town that they will all come to terms with their past, present, and future.
- DirectorWayne ShipleyStarsMark RedfieldMichael HaganJennifer RouseHadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of Gatewood's brother under the watch of (then) Union Officer Curry has consumed Gatewood and fueled his desire for revenge. Free from jail, Gatewood discovers that Hadley and his world is changed, and that a "new order" of law and prosperity is now the battle cry of the people. His beautiful daughter, Helen has grown his business into a thriving concern and she makes her father promise that he'll forget his past vendetta. Curry has a successful business and willful daughter of his own, and his main concern is for her safety, once it becomes known that Gatewood still wants him dead. As Justin Gatewood methodically hatches his plan for Curry's utter destruction, the entire town is caught in the crossfire, but most tragically, so are the daughters of both men.
- DirectorChristine ParkerStarsJaqueline MartiniConrad OsborneEdward WarnerThe town of Shadowhawk is overrun by zombies when it gets caught in a war between two mysterious brothers. One of the brothers has sold the townsfolk his "magical elixir" promising them immortality. What he doesn't tell them is that he's recruiting them for his zombie army, and they will develop an unquenchable hunger for human flesh!
- DirectorWill James MooreStarsMike LutzChad MathewsMatthew T. JohnstonJoe's a suburban convenience store clerk with big dreams of becoming a cowboy so he packs his boots and relocates to South Texas to learn from the real deal. His idea of the mythic cowboy is quickly shattered however when he finds himself holed up in a town that survives on a human smuggling trade.
- DirectorFred DreschStarsJulian LeeBill AllardSabra BartonA family martial arts film in which Native American Ute traditions come face-to-face with their ancestor's Asian traditions. When Jung Lee shows up on the Ute reservation, he seems out of place. A teacher of the martial arts far from his own home and culture, he hopes to escape the disappointments of his past and the responsibilities of the future. But Jung soon discovers that a man's destiny follows him, wherever he goes. He befriends the Ute boy, John and the two must now face their mutual destiny to save the tribe from evil poachers on the reservation.
- DirectorIsaac PingreeStarsPhil AustinKevin CoppsDavid FineJake Reid's father died in a bloody massacre 15 years ago in Covelo, California, after participating in a botched robbery-the loot from which was never found. Jake comes to this small western town to dig up the past and to dig up the money-he digs too deep. As he uncovers the circumstances of his father's death, Jake enlists the help of the daughter of a man his father killed, and fends off the town's brutal sheriff. But Jake isn't the only one looking to haul away the money. Escaped from prison, and on the run, Jake's father's surviving partner in crime shows up in town to finally collect his ill-gotten gains. The sheriff, the outlaw, the locals and the girl go straight to what they know-the gun-and Jake, caught in the crossfire, must decide who's side he is on.
- DirectorChristopher ForbesStarsPatrick FisherKelly ForbesDanny FrancisWar has always been mankind's most terrible creation. Even in the midst of war, there's a line that most men never cross. Beyond this line, there is only chaos and monstrosity. From the ashes of America's bloodiest conflict, The War Between the States, there arose the legend of a man who appeared when that line was crossed....a man who traveled the countryside fighting for those who had no champion.
- DirectorChris FickleyStarsDan BraunTerance BerryJesse CollverTate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge Carter. As the mystery unravels, Tate and Samuel enlist help from an unlikely source, the mob, in order to bring to justice the man ultimately responsible, the evil Harcourt Simms.
- DirectorJason FriesenStarsGlen Gould
- DirectorJames SnapkoStarsCalvin L. AdamsLaura AdamsLee AdamsFURTHER NORTH follows five people and their relation to murder: as perpetrators, as victims, as conspirators, as avengers and as bystanders. They each have a varied and conflicting path but all somehow lead to the same road in Northern Minnesota.
- DirectorAnja KirschnerDavid Panos
- DirectorPhanos GeorgiouStarsSeamus FraserMartha GeorgiouNigel GreavesEl Rio is run by a corrupt oil baron who wants to get the rights to Sally Mae's ranch which is sitting on a rich oil field. He will stop at nothing to get it, she stands to lose everything unless the stranger who rides into town can stop them.
- DirectorMickey ReeceStarsAli HarterJosh McbeeJames PaulsgroveYoung Eli (Logan Staggs) swears to seek his revenge on The Outlaw Jesse James (Joey Paz) for murdering his Father in cold blood. Eli is raised by Farmer Clarence (Dustin Sanchez) until he reaches the age of manhood (Kameron Primm). Now he will stop at nothing to find Jesse James with the help of his Mexican friend (Dallos Paz).
- DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert FriendThrough the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsTom CruiseBill NighyCarice van HoutenA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
- DirectorRobert LuketicStarsJim SturgessKate BosworthKevin SpaceyInspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie BellJewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsCamilla BelleSteven StraitMarco KhanIn the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsKevin SpaceyBob BalabanDenis LearyA chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
- DirectorPaul GrossStarsPaul GrossMichael GreyeyesJames KotThe lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMartijn LakemeierJamie Campbell BowerYorick van WageningenIn German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
- DirectorCharles Martin SmithStarsCharlie CoxKate MaraStephen McColeThe story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.
- DirectorNandita DasStarsInaamulhaqNassarShahana GoswamiChronicles the devastating impact on vulnerable Muslims in Gujarat after riots.
- DirectorAki AleongGeqi LiStarsReggie LeeTimothy BottomsJason Connery1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit.
- DirectorChris BarnardStarsMiranda FrenchSimon KirkJorge BalçaShe was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and married Anne Boleyn, Mary became an outcast and a threat to the Protestant succession. By a twist of fate, on the death of her brother, she became queen at last in 1553, but her attempts to make England Catholic again were a disaster for her and the country. History has called her "Bloody Mary" for the burning of the Protestants, but how fair is this? This film paints another picture, of a woman true to her beliefs, pushed towards a terrible psychological disintegration.
- DirectorRalph WilcoxStarsTichina ArnoldBeverly ToddPeter CoyoteA chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
- DirectorMichael MouyalStarsKen VedsegaardPeter GantzlerErik HolmeyHelgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents' deaths--and someone he never expected to see again.
- DirectorNonzee NimibutrStarsJarunee SuksawasJacqueline ApithananonAnna ReeseAs sea pirates threaten to invade their kingdoms, three queens of Langkasuka must band together to defend their lands and peoples.
- DirectorWolfgang PanzerStarsFrançois GoeskeFranka PotenteLars SteinhöfelIn this TV remake of the classic German war film, 16-year-old Walter and his friends are recruited to help defend a bridge near their town. What begins as a minor op becomes a life or death battle in which the idealistic young men confronted by the brutal reality of war.
- DirectorAntonio del RealStarsJason IsaacsJulia OrmondJürgen Prochnow16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal.
- StarsMichelle YeohPersonal accounts from the Japanese occupation of Eastern China during the 1930s when many innocent civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese military. Based on Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II".
- DirectorGiacomo BattiatoStarsBenoît MagimelHippolyte GirardotKarolina GruszkaResolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)
- DirectorJonathan B. TaylorStarsSarah StroupDavid Smith-ChristopherJonathan ReedThis program examines the history and physiology of crucifixion. Though generally associated with the Roman Empire, it began with impalement, a method of public execution by torture, in the Assyrian Empire. Through extensive use the Roman Empire refined methods to maximize and, by delaying death, extend the suffering of the victim. In recent centuries crucifixion has experienced a renaissance in various forms but with the same purpose; state sponsored terrorism to suppress opposition.
- DirectorMarius BarnaStarsVitalie BantasIon BarbuMarcel CobzariuUnder an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society. The story fallows the pattern of a modern fairy tale based upon the classic myth of Pygmalion and Galathea with reversed roles. The year is 1957. In her last fairy tales book BEYOND AMERICA, the hauntingly beautiful dissident writer MILENA tells the story of a sailor who committed suicide, after he had been incriminated with intention of fleeing to America and was to be put in jail. The subversive volume is confiscated from bookstores by the Secret Police. Vicious colonel MARCUS charges Milena with trying to corrupt the readers' mind to commit suicide in order to escape the nightmare of the dictatorship. As a punishment, she is deprived of her writer status and ordered to work at a remote re-education camp. She either accepts to be a construction worker (a mason), or she is to be imprisoned for parasitism. To avoid the camp's misery and humiliation, Milena tries to get help from IAN, her former lover. Ian is a French language teacher and a school principal. She used to know him as a tough guy, crazy enough to hire her. But she doesn't know that after her leaving him two years ago, Ian has got some mysterious connections to Bureau nr. 1 of the regime (The Supreme Leader). On this basis, Ian defies the Secret Police's orders, and hires Milena "to reeducate" her as a literature teacher. In exchange, they resume their intimate relationship. Encouraged by her actors-friends, amidst whom the peculiar EDGAR stands out, Milena begins to clandestinely translate her book into English. Edgar promises her to smuggle it out to AUGUSTIN, the leader of the Romanian Exile in Paris. While teaching her students poems like "Have no hope, and have no fear", Milena has an eye for MANU - nicknamed Castle builder -, a young rebellious mason working at the Congress Center construction site neighboring the school. Here there is STAN, an womanizer supervisor, who is after Milena too. Manu is a fervent admirer of her books. His rough, genuine attitude catches Milena's interest. Although he obviously doesn't belong to Milena's milieu, he is in hopeless love with her; so he splits up with MARIA, his current girlfriend, and tries to capture Milena's attention by attempting a fake suicide, mirroring the suicide of the sailor in her book. As a consequence, Milena is arrested and charged with instigation to political sabotage, since the Congress Center construction site was being an important political site of the regime. In the Secret Police interrogation cell, colonel Marcus tries to force her to sign a paper stating that the sailor killed himself not because he couldn't flee to America, but because his girlfriend had been previously raped by other sailors - which Milena refuses. Knowing that a writer usually depicts his or her own secret desire in books, Marcus is wondering whether she wouldn't enjoy the same treatment in real life, so he attempts to rape her and take compromising pictures. She is saved at the very last moment by Ian's phone call. Ian wanted not only to save her, but to get rid of his dangerous younger rival too. So he has talked Manu into turning himself in and playing a madman, as this would exonerate her from any responsibility. Anxious to save Milena, Manu has agreed. Marcus suspects this set-up, but threatened by Ian's high unexplainable connections, release Milena and places Manu in an insane asylum. Impressed with Manu's ordeal, as she begins to fall for him, Milena figures out a way to have him released. She sends an anonymous report, on behalf of "angry workers", to the Supreme Leader, asking for those who hired a madman to be punished (because they had committed the true political sabotage) and threatening to call a strike if not satisfied. Out of the blue, Marcus is ordered to release Manu and declare him sane, since the regime would rather claim there is no madman worker than to punish its own Secret Police servants. Now Marcus hates Ian's gods, and decides to corner him in any way. He places him under permanent surveillance. After her new rescue by Ian, Milena has to surrender again to his protector's sexual fantasies. Tortured by an unknown feeling of culpability, Ian has meanwhile developed an alcohol problem. Unexpectedly released from asylum, Manu pops in and witnesses her sexual submission to Ian, strangely carried on a background screen displaying the Arch of Triumph image in Paris. He is devastated because he never had suspected Milena's intimate relationship with Ian. On top of this, he is now accused by his co-workers of being an informant, otherwise in their view he could not had been released. Devastated, Manu has a nervous breakdown and hurls himself into a freshly made wall, nearly killing himself, thus comitting a true political sabotage. More dead than alive, rejected by hospitals because of his so-called suicidal behavior, Manu is taken by his co-workers to Milena's home. Surrounded by books, Manu is immobilized in bed. She nurses him back to health in a cozy environment that seems this time to be their own only. The young construction worker proves to be not exactly a construction worker, since he had also been assigned at the construction site as a punishment for having written dishes recipes instead of praising the regime in a political-essay test in college. In order to get Milena out of this nightmare for good, and split her up with Manu once forever, Ian offers her a passport to flee the country to Paris, normally an impossible act under the dictatorship. As she is now in love with Manu, she refuses and splits up with Ian, enraging him out of jealousy. She continues to translate her book, to nurse Manu and initiate him in literature issues, forcing him with romantic gestures to read books. Answering his repetitive question (why did the sailor kill himself?), she encourages him to find out the answers to all riddles in the book only. She teaches him that all themes have already been written by masters like Shakespeare or Balzac, and writers ever since have only changed the characters. Thus, reversing the classic legend's roles of Pygmalion and Galathea, Milena brings Manu to a new life and forges him as the real character she wants and needs. Milena finishes the translation of her book. They dream of fleeing to the countryside and write books together. At this point, Maria drops in out of the blue to bring Manu news about his parents, imprisoned in a political camp. Although Manu rejects her, Maria tries to resume their romantic relationship. Suddenly Milena shows up, surprising them embraced. So she leaves Manu and goes back to Ian, accepting to flee the country. Ian, drunk, makes a terrible confession: he is actually an undercover intelligence agent - enrolment that he did for her. After her leaving him two years ago, he had joined the Secret Police forces, being aware that one day she would need his help. He had to be able to provide it, by thus managing to take her back. Milena is bewildered. But Ian's confession continues: he is now assigned to assassinate Augustin in Paris. Once in Paris, he won't accomplish his mission, instead he will defect and join Milena in freedom. Impressed with his sacrifice, Milena goes to an undisclosed address to wait for him to bring her a passport. Manu is looking for Milena everywhere. Apparently she vanished. He goes to Edgar and gives him the translation manuscript that Milena left home, hoping to find out where she could be. Edgar has no clue; instead he brings the manuscript to Marcus, because he is in fact a Secret Police collaborationist. Meanwhile, Marcus had decoded Ian's confession's record at his home. Thus Ian's treason is now exposed. As a consequence, Marcus unleashes Milena and Ian's haunting, as the traitor has now not only lost Bureau nr. 1' s protection, but was even ordered to be arrested and executed. Ian shoots down two agents that have come to arrest him and escapes. Following the sailor's footsteps in Beyond America, Manu ultimately finds Milena in the village on the seacoast where the sailor and his girlfriend in Milena's book used to meet. After their passionate encounter on the beach, they go back home. In the peasant house, there is Ian waiting for them. After Edgar's treason, he and Milena have to flee. He urges her to rush to catch a boat that is to leave in a few hours for Istanbul, but Marcus and a Secret Police platoon show up to arrest them. There is a shooting. Ian resists. He pushes Milena to flee through the back door. In the back yard, there is Stan pointing a gun at her. Milena succeeds escaping. Ian is shut and killed by the platoon agents. Hearing the shooting, Manu comes running. Stan shoots him down. Milena hides on the boat leaving for Istanbul, while Manu is thrown in a prison cell. Many years later, after the collapse of the communism, old Manu, now a writer, inspects his former cell. Over the Ocean, old Milena keeps coming everyday on the ferryboat linking Manhattan with the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. She keeps reading the same book: Beyond America, ferry tales by Manu. History had separated their lives forever.
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