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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. (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | illnessdrinkingpoliticsreligiondeathmurderlove |
Locations: | beach partyshipvillageairplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | german officernazi officerdeafnessgrandfather granddaughter relationshipfishermanmayorteenage girlgermancatholiclove triangledancergirlprostituteboysinger …childrendoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship (See All) |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | greek islanditalian operagreek historygreek orthodoxitalian soldieritalian armyitalian historyvoice over letterfemale doctormedical suppliesfemale underarm hairallied forcesfemale armpit hairtown squaremandolin …parachutistpearesistance movementdowryreference to benito mussoliniearreference to leninalbaniacollaboratorembroideryreference to josef stalinresistance fighternude bathinglynchingnazi occupationsurrendermarriage engagementpartisanturkishguerillailliteracytaverndockgreekfianceetranslatorprisoner of wartangohealingparachutenewsreel footagegreecebombingcelebrationcannonearthquakewatching a moviereference to adolf hitlerrecordinginjurycaptainitalianrecord playerchickenpremarital sexhangingflash forwardfishingdisarming someoneno opening creditsmassacrebandcandleoperaislandbombrifleshootingletterdrinkshot in the headmachine gunbased on booksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditygunkissblood (See All) |
The feature film directed by Elem Klimov, shot in the genre of military drama. The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action, turning from a cheerful teenager into a gray-haired old ma …n for two days. (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | villageairplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | german officernazi officerteenage girlgermandancergirlboymother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | collaboratorresistance fighternazi occupationpartisantranslatorparachutenewsreel footagebombingreference to adolf hitlermassacrebombrifleshootingmachine gunbased on book …explosiondancinggunkiss (See All) |
Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of 'Michael Collins (XIV)' (qv), the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsreligiondeathmurderlove |
Locations: | motorcyclebeach |
Characters: | catholiclove triangledancerprostitutesingerchildrenfather daughter relationship |
Story: | collaboratorguerillacannonhangingno opening creditsmassacrebandcandlerifledrinkshot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosiondancing …cigarette smokingcharacter name in titlegun (See All) |
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores …these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessdrinkingpoliticsdeathmurder |
Locations: | airplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | nazi officergrandfather granddaughter relationshipteenage girlgermandancergirlboysingerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | voice over letterallied forcescollaboratorreference to josef stalinsurrenderbombingrecordingrecord playerhangingflash forwardcandlerifleshootingletterdrink …shot in the headmachine gunbased on booksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditykissbloodgun (See All) |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | shipairplane |
Characters: | dancerboysingerchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | docknewsreel footagebombingcelebrationwatching a movierecordingcaptainrecord playerfishingno opening creditscandleislandbombrifledrink …singingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingbloodkiss (See All) |
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 o …f 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 survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessdrinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | shipairplanebeach |
Characters: | girlboysingerchildrenmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | voice over lettersurrenderprisoner of warcannoncaptainchickenno opening creditsislandbombrifleshootingletterdrinkshot in the headsinging …explosioncigarette smokinggunblood (See All) |
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunte …ers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | drinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | shipairplanebeach |
Characters: | germanlove triangledancerboymother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | parachutenewsreel footagebombingwatching a moviereference to adolf hitlercaptainbandbombshootingletterdrinkmachine gunexplosiondancingblood …gunkiss (See All) |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife … is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsreligiondeathlovemurder |
Locations: | airplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | germancatholicdancergirlboysingerchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | reference to josef stalinbombingcelebrationreference to adolf hitlerhangingfishingno opening creditsmassacrebandcandlebombrifleshootingdrinkshot in the head …machine gunbased on booksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditygunblood (See All) |
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convince …d he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsmurderdeath |
Locations: | airplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | german officerdancerboysingerchildrenmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | reference to benito mussolinibombingrecordingrecord playerhangingflash forwardno opening creditsbombrifleshootingdrinkshot in the headsingingexplosiondancing …cigarette smokingkissgunblood (See All) |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres …umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Themes: | deathlove |
Locations: | villageairplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | dancerprostituteboysingerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | italian soldierfianceetangobombingwatching a movielettersingingdancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditykissblood |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr …ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsmurderdeathlove |
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | germandancerprostitute |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | resistance fighterpartisannewsreel footagebombinghangingbandislandrifleshootingdrinkexplosiondancingfemale nuditygunkiss |
In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops. The … political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually start to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. From Germany comes the master sniper Konig to put an end to the extraordinary skilled Russian sniper. (Read More)
Themes: | politicsmurderlovedeath |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | nazi officerlove trianglegirlboyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | reference to josef stalindocktranslatorbombingreference to adolf hitlerhangingmassacrerifleshootinglettershot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosiondancing …cigarette smokingkissbloodgun (See All) |
In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Jus …t when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessdrinkingpoliticsmurderdeathlove |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | catholicdancersingerdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | voice over lettersurrenderguerillanewsreel footagebombingwatching a moviemassacrebandcandlerifleletterdrinkshot in the headmachine gunsinging …dancingcigarette smokinggunkissblood (See All) |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied tro …ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
Themes: | religiondeathmurderlove |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | nazi officergermandancerprostitutesingerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | resistance movementresistance fighternazi occupationparachutebombingcelebrationreference to adolf hitlerrecordingrecord playerflash forwardmassacrebombrifleshootingshot in the head …machine gunsingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditybloodkiss (See All) |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta …y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and di… (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | drinkinglovemurderdeath |
Locations: | airplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | germandancersinger |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | reference to benito mussolinipartisanhealingnewsreel footagewatching a moviereference to adolf hitlerrecordingitalianrecord playerflash forwardcandlebombrifledrinkmachine gun …singingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditygunkissblood (See All) |
In 1945, the Marines attack twelve thousand Japaneses protecting the twenty square kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six Marines raise their flag on the top, the picture becomes a symbol in a post Great Depression America. The …government brings the three survivors to America to raise funds for war, bringing hope to desolate people, and making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio has difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors, sharing the heroism with their mates. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | shipairplanebeach |
Characters: | dancerboysingermother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | flash forwardno opening creditsbandislandrifleshootingletterdrinkshot in the headmachine gunbased on booksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smoking …blood (See All) |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | germandancergirlprostituteboysingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | turkishgreekprisoner of warcelebrationchickenflash forwardbandcandlerifleshootingdrinkshot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosion …dancingcigarette smokinggunblood (See All) |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the … Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
Themes: | drinking |
Locations: | airplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | dancersingerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | greek islanddockgreeceearthquakeno opening creditsbandislandletterdrinksingingdancingkiss |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
Themes: | illnessdrinkinglovemurderdeath |
Characters: | girldoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | voice over lettermandolincannoninjuryhangingflash forwardmassacrerifleshootingletterdrinksingingexplosionfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity …kissbloodgun (See All) |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li …ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia… (Read More)
Themes: | drinkinglovedeath |
Locations: | airplanebeach |
Characters: | teenage girlgirlsingerchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | voice over letternewsreel footagebombingwatching a movierecordingrecord playerpremarital sexflash forwardcandlerifleletterdrinksingingcigarette smokingblood …kissgun (See All) |
It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subo …rdinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance. (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | drinkingdeathlovemurder |
Locations: | shipairplanebeach |
Characters: | dancerprostitutesinger |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | reference to benito mussolinibombingcaptainrifledrinkmachine gunsingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingbloodkissgun |
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | drinkingreligiondeath |
Characters: | deafnesscatholicdancerprostitutemother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | tavernchickenhangingflash forwardcandlerifledrinkexplosiondancingcharacter name in titlefemale nudity |
Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | airplanebeach |
Characters: | german officernazi officermayorcatholic |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | parachutistnazi occupationparachutecannoncaptainmachine gunbased on bookexplosiongun |
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity …works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticslovemurderdeath |
Locations: | villageairplane |
Characters: | teenage girlcatholicdancerprostitutesinger |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | reference to benito mussolininewsreel footageearthquakewatching a moviecandleoperadrinksingingexplosiondancingcharacter name in title |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingreligionlovedeath |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | germancatholicboysingerdoctormother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | voice over lettercollaboratornazi occupationgreeknewsreel footagebombingwatching a moviecandlebombletterdrinksingingcigarette smokingblood |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha …nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | villageairplanebeach |
Characters: | fishermandancerprostituteboysingerchildrendoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | surrenderbombingcaptainfishingmassacrebombrifleshootingdrinkshot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosiondancingcigarette smoking …gunbloodkiss (See All) |
The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Themes: | illnessdeath |
Locations: | shipairplanebeach |
Characters: | girlboysingerchildrendoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | surrenderbombingrecordinginjuryrecord playerbandbomblettersingingexplosionblood |
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apoc …alyptic Hawaii far in the future. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeathlovemurder |
Locations: | shipvillageairplanebeach |
Characters: | grandfather granddaughter relationshipgirlprostituteboysingerchildrendoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | voice over letterrecordingrecord playerflash forwardno opening creditscandlerifleshootingletterdrinksingingexplosioncigarette smokingfemale nudityblood …gunkiss (See All) |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f …inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | airplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | teenage girlgermangirlprostituteboysinger |
Story: | surrendermarriage engagementfianceebombingcannonrecordingcaptainrecord playerbombrifleshootingletterdrinkmachine gunsinging …explosioncigarette smokingfemale nuditykissgun (See All) |
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escap …e. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingreligionlovemurderdeath |
Locations: | villageairplane |
Characters: | german officergermangirlsingermother daughter relationship |
Story: | tavernprisoner of warrecordingcaptainrecord playercandlerifleshootingletterdrinksingingcigarette smokingkissgun |
A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. … During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkinglovedeathmurder |
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | grandfather granddaughter relationshipcatholicdancergirlsingermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | newsreel footagerecordingrecord playerbandletterdrinksingingexplosiondancingkiss |
On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live, not only with the fear of discovery, contending with neighboring Soviet parti …sans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. Women, men, children, the elderly and the young alike are all hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forests in the darkest times of German-occupied Eastern Europe. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessdrinkingmurderdeath |
Locations: | village |
Characters: | children |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | collaboratorresistance fighterlynchingnazi occupationpartisannewsreel footageno opening creditsbombrifleshot in the headmachine gunbased on bookexplosionblood |
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese … airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Locations: | shipairplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | boysingerdoctormother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | surrenderdockprisoner of warparachutebombingrecordingrecord playerno opening creditscandleshootingsingingexplosionkissbloodgun |
Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war t …o end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmurderdeathlove |
Locations: | shipvillageairplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | germandancersingermother daughter relationship |
Story: | translatorcannoncaptainflash forwarddisarming someoneno opening creditsmassacreislandbombrifledrinkshot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosion …dancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in title (See All) |
A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's …use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsreligiondeathmurder |
Locations: | airplanemotorcyclebeach |
Characters: | dancerprostituteboychildrendoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | surrenderguerilladocknewsreel footagebombinginjuryflash forwardbombrifleshootingdrinkmachine gunexplosiondancingcigarette smoking …gunblood (See All) |
In the middle of World War II, in turbulent 1942, a plane flies over Morocco and drops a Royal Canadian Air Force paratrooper who comes in to land on a drop zone, somewhere in the desert dunes outside Casablanca. Just in time before anyone notices him, the fearless Wing Commander Max Vatan gets in a … car and heads to the town with orders to meet Parisian Marianne Beausejour, a skillful member of the French Resistance. On a mission to assassinate the German Ambassador in Casablanca, the two operatives must convince every one of their true feelings as a married couple, while in the background, they need to make the necessary preparations for the critical soiree. Without delay, after the success of this suicide mission, Max and Marianne flee together to England with plans on marrying and making a family, regardless of the war. Instead, heavy clouds of distrust and suspicion threaten their relationship, when Max receives a call from the Secret Service Division to inform him that his beloved wife is actually an impostor. In disbelief, with a terrible task in his hands and crushed under a devastating dilemma, Max must find the courage to seek for answers in the perilous streets of bombarded London, regardless of the outcome. In the end, amid duty and love, who shall live and who shall die? (Read More)
Themes: | lovemurderdeath |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | germanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | resistance fighterparachutebombingreference to adolf hitlerchickenpremarital sexflash forwarddisarming someoneno opening creditsmassacrebombriflelettershot in the headmachine gun …explosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditykissgunblood (See All) |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Themes: | illnessdrinkingdeath |
Locations: | villageairplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | germancatholicdancerboysingerchildrendoctor |
Story: | italianhangingcandlerifleletterdrinksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditygunblood |
In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mia …l to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela. Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money (they often stretching the truth to gain the favor of a variety of strangers to help them), arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get them into trouble, and dealing with Fuser's chronic asthma. But a chance encounter with a couple of Communists in the Chilean desert and an extended visit to the San Pablo Leper Colony in the Peruvian Amazon Basin among other things profoundly affects what each will want to do with his life and the bond each has with the other. (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | illnessdrinkinglovedeathmurder |
Locations: | shipairplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | catholicdancerprostitutesingerdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | docktangocelebrationrecordingrecord playerbandletterdrinkbased on booksingingdancinggun |
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the … events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | historical event |
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsdeathmurderlove |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | love trianglegirlsingerdoctor |
Story: | voice over letterfemale armpit hairtangonewsreel footagebandletterdrinksingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental …ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsreligionmurderlovedeath |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | grandfather granddaughter relationshipteenage girldancergirlprostituteboychildrendoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | reference to leninbombingcannonwatching a moviepremarital sexhangingflash forwardrifleshootingdrinkexplosiondancingcigarette smokingbloodkiss |
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth ce …ntury into a three-hour time-frame. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsdeathlove |
Characters: | love triangleprostituteboysingermother son relationship |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | surrendermarriage engagementhangingflash forwardoperaletterdrinksingingfemale nuditykissblood |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser …ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticslovemurderdeath |
Characters: | catholicdancergirlprostituteboysingerfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | illiteracygreekcannonitalianflash forwardmassacrecandleshootingdrinksingingdancingkiss |
1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased …gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | surrenderprisoner of warcannonreference to adolf hitlercaptainpremarital sexno opening creditsmassacrebombrifleshot in the headmachine gunsingingexplosioncigarette smoking …blood (See All) |
1900. Danny Boodmann, a stoker on an American passenger liner, Virginian, finds a baby abandoned on the ship. He names the child Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' and raises the child as his own until his death in an accident on the ship. The child never leaves the ship and turns out … to be a musical genius, especially when it comes to playing the piano. As an adult he befriends a trumpet player in the ship's band, Max Tooney. After several years on the ship Max leaves, and tells the story of 1900 to the owner of a music store. (Read More)
Themes: | deathlove |
Locations: | ship |
Story: | recordingcaptainitalianrecord playerflash forwardbandrifleexplosiondancingcigarette smokingkiss |
A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits students from Delhi University to act in her docu-d …rama. She finds DJ, who graduated five years ago but still wants to be a part of the University because he doesn't think there's too much out there in the real world to look forward to. Karan, the son of Industrialist Rajnath Singhania, who shares an uncomfortable relationship with his father, but continues to live off him, albeit very grudgingly. Aslam, is a middle class Muslim boy, who lives in the by-lanes near Jama Masjid, poet, philosopher and guide to his friends. Sukhi, the group's baby, innocent, vulnerable and with a weakness for only one thing - girls. Laxman Pandey, the fundamentalist in the group, the only one who still believes that politics can make the world a better place and finally Sonia - the sole girl in the group, tomboy and vivacious spirit, engaged to Ajay - the dashing air pilot. Through her film, Sue wishes to showcase to the world the efforts of these young revolutionaries and the enormity of their contribution to the freedom movement in India. What unfolds is the inspiration behind Sue's passion for bringing their story to the world. The twist in the tale is of course the fact that more than just telling the world, Sue's film makes DJ and his friends stop… (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingpoliticsreligionmurderdeath |
Locations: | airplanemotorcycle |
Characters: | grandfather granddaughter relationshipdancergirlboysingerdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | surrendernewsreel footagebombingwatching a movieinjuryhangingflash forwardmassacrecandlebombrifleshootingdrinksingingexplosion …dancingcigarette smokinggunblood (See All) |
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 resolute Turkish army.
Themes: | drinkingdeathmurder |
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | catholicdancerprostitutesingermother son relationship |
Story: | turkishcannoninjurybandriflemachine gunsingingexplosiondancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditygun |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingreligionmurderdeath |
Characters: | catholicdancerboysingermother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | nazi occupationrecordingrecord playerbandcandleletterdrinksingingdancingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlefemale nuditykiss |
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. Th …e mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?. (Read More)
Locations: | villagemotorcycle |
Period: | 1940sworld war two |
Story: | resistance fightergreekgreececannondisarming someoneislandbombriflemachine gunsingingexplosionkissgun |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | drinkingmurder |
Characters: | germandancergirlboydoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | watching a movierecordingrecord playerflash forwardno opening creditscandleshootingdrinkdancingcigarette smokingfemale nuditygunkissblood |
Themes: | politicsreligionmurderdeathlove |
Locations: | shipvillagebeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | resistance fightergreececelebrationflash forwarddisarming someoneno opening creditslettershot in the headexplosiondancingcharacter name in titleblood |