6.8 /10
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: PG . Release: 16 Dec 1983
Director: Alan Johnson
Producer: Howard Jeffrey , Mel Brooks , Irene Walzer
Stars: Mel Brooks , Anne Bancroft , Tim Matheson , Charles Durning , José Ferrer , George Gaynes
6.8 /10
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Run Time: 2hr 49` . MMPA: NR . Release: 16 Dec 1965
Director: Ken Annakin
Producer: Milton Sperling , Philip Yordan , Sidney Harmon
Stars: Henry Fonda , Robert Shaw , Robert Ryan , Dana Andrews , George Montgomery , Ty Hardin
6.8 /10
The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and its aftermath, the Cold War. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Run Time: 2hr 4` . MMPA: . Release: 06 Sep 2004
Director: Peter Greenaway
Producer:
Stars: JJ Feild , Roger Rees , Stephen Billington , Valentina Cervi , Roberto Citran , Giovanni Capalbo
6.8 /10
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: R . Release: 08 Aug 2019
Director: Kriv Stenders , Carl Edge , Jamie Leslie
Producer: Kirsty McGregor , Marcus Englefield , Tony H. Noun
Stars: Travis Fimmel , Luke Bracey , Daniel Webber , Alexander England , Aaron Glenane , Nicholas Hamilton
6.8 /10
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Run Time: 2hr 15` . MMPA: NR . Release: 12 Dec 2008
Director: Steven Soderbergh , Pedro Manuel Lazaga , Amy Lauritsen
Producer: Pilar Moya , Paul Schnee , Félix Rosell
Stars: Benicio del Toro , Carlos Bardem , Demián Bichir , Joaquim de Almeida , Pablo Durán , Eduard Fernández
6.8 /10
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: R . Release: 11 Feb 1997
Director: Carolynne Cunningham , Noni Roy , Colin Fletcher
Producer: James Bramley , Martin Meader , David Giles
Stars: Glenn Close , Frances McDormand , Pauline Collins , Cate Blanchett , Julianna Margulies , Jennifer Ehle
6.8 /10
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
Run Time: 1hr 55` . MMPA: R . Release: 11 Mar 2010
Director: Dan Bradley , Louise Wade , Ceri Evans
Producer: Michael Bronner , Cathy Sandrich Gelfond , Kate Solomon
Stars: Matt Damon , Greg Kinnear , Brendan Gleeson , Amy Ryan , Khalid Abdalla , Jason Isaacs
6.8 /10
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Run Time: 3hr 22` . MMPA: NR . Release: 23 Oct 1960
Director: John Wayne
Producer: Frank Leyva , James Edward Grant , Michael Wayne
Stars: John Wayne , Richard Widmark , Laurence Harvey , Frankie Avalon , Patrick Wayne , Linda Cristal
6.8 /10
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Run Time: 2hr 10` . MMPA: R . Release: 05 Dec 1986
Director: Clint Eastwood , L. Dean Jones Jr. , Paul Moen
Producer: Clint Eastwood , Linda Sony Kinney , Phyllis Huffman
Stars: Clint Eastwood , Marsha Mason , Everett McGill , Moses Gunn , Mario Van Peebles , Eileen Heckart
6.7 /10
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: . Release: 15 May 2018
Director: Ariel Vromen , Maya Markova , Ben Lanning
Producer: Zafrir Kochanovsky , Marianne Stanicheva , Mark Birmingham
Stars: Marwan Kenzari , Toby Kebbell , Hannah Ware , Waleed Zuaiter , Maisa Abd Elhadi , Sasson Gabai
6.7 /10
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Run Time: 2hr 5` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 15 Mar 1965
Director: Sam Peckinpah , Floyd Joyer , John Veitch
Producer: Jerry Bresler
Stars: Charlton Heston , Richard Harris , Jim Hutton , James Coburn , Michael Anderson Jr. , Senta Berger
6.7 /10
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Run Time: 1hr 38` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Oct 2002
Director: Gregor Jordan , Patrick Clayton , Kate Dennis
Producer: Chris Thompson , James Schamus , Kai May
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix , Ed Harris , Scott Glenn , Anna Paquin , Elizabeth McGovern , Michael Peña
6.7 /10
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Run Time: 2hr 34` . MMPA: NR . Release: 06 May 1963
Director: Nicholas Ray , Andrew Marton , José López Rodero
Producer: Maude Spector , C.O. Erickson , Alan Brown
Stars: Charlton Heston , Ava Gardner , David Niven , Flora Robson , John Ireland , Harry Andrews
6.7 /10
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valerie Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Run Time: 1hr 25` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 31 Jul 1991
Director: Jim Abrahams , Robin Leigh Fleck , Ernie F. Orsatti
Producer: Harriet Katz-Stevens , Mali Finn , Jeanie Daniels
Stars: Charlie Sheen , Cary Elwes , Valeria Golino , Lloyd Bridges , Kevin Dunn , Jon Cryer
6.7 /10
The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Run Time: 2hr 7` . MMPA: . Release: 24 May 2003
Director: Peter Greenaway
Producer: Pep Armengol , Sascha Schwill , Radica Jovicic
Stars: JJ Feild , Caroline Dhavernas , Jordi Mollà , Steven Mackintosh , Raymond J. Barry , Scot Williams
6.7 /10
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: PG . Release: 18 Jun 1976
Director: Jack Smight
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Stars: Charlton Heston , Henry Fonda , James Coburn , Glenn Ford , Hal Holbrook , Robert Mitchum
6.7 /10
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.
Run Time: 2hr 18` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Nov 1999
Director: Ang Lee , Korey Scott Pollard , Robert Huberman
Producer: Avy Kaufman , Christopher V. Bromley , Anne Carey
Stars: Skeet Ulrich , Tobey Maguire , Jewel , Jeffrey Wright , Simon Baker , Jonathan Rhys Meyers
6.7 /10
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Run Time: 3hr 28` . MMPA: . Release: 15 Dec 1960
Director: Otto Preminger , Angela Martelli
Producer: Otto Preminger , Noreen Hipwell
Stars: Paul Newman , Eva Marie Saint , Ralph Richardson , Peter Lawford , Lee J. Cobb , Sal Mineo
6.7 /10
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Run Time: 1hr 43` . MMPA: R . Release: 09 May 1997
Director: Michael Winterbottom , Susanna Lenton
Producer: Billy Hopkins , Graham Broadbent , Ivo Sunjic
Stars: Stephen Dillane , Woody Harrelson , Marisa Tomei , Goran Visnjic , Emira Nušević , Kerry Fox
6.7 /10
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Run Time: 3hr 8` . MMPA: NR . Release: 24 Mar 1964
Director: José López Rodero , Julio Sempere , Andrew Marton
Producer: C.O. Erickson , Samuel Bronston , Maude Spector
Stars: Sophia Loren , Stephen Boyd , Christopher Plummer , Alec Guinness , James Mason , Anthony Quayle
