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The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they mus …t negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeterrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | military trucksewerisraelrooftoptruckshipcourtroompolice stationtaximotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | military officerjewish girlofficeruncle nephew relationshipamerican abroadmuslimjewjewishnursebrother sister relationshipteenage girlchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship …father son relationship (See All) |
Period: | year 19471940s |
Story: | israeli flagarab israeli conflictterrorist bombingjewish refugeearmy officerisraeli palestinian conflictprison escape planrefugee campmuslim prayerprison visitprison cellbomb explosionteenager killedinterfaith friendshipcarrying a child …call to prayermale male relationshipaliyah betloaf of breadremoving a bullethospital visitinterfaith relationshippublic address systemzionistintermissionsteamshipyear 1948sentenced to deathpiggy back rideamerican womanworld war two veterandeath of unclezionismhunger strikecypruskibbutzbritish empirestar of davidcarrying someoneplaying chessdead teenageroperating roomexodusescaped prisonerblockadetime bombradio broadcastmale male huginitiationhomosexual subtextloudspeakerguerrilladeath sentencebased on true eventsbritish soldiersubmachine gunbomberhanged mantour guidemilitary uniformbritish armywar violenceisraeliholocaust survivorroadblock15 year oldstretcherstethoscopepost world war twomolotov cocktailhistorical fictionharborenglishman abroadflagpalestinecrowdnotesiegeraiddynamitearabfalling to deathgunshot woundshovelanti semitismmiddle eastbombingburialgaggedrebelimpersonationoverallstouristjeeprefugeegeneraltragic eventinjectionstatuefugitiveimmigrationchild in perilimmigranttoiletwidowdeath of frienddisguiseterroristinterrogationdead bodyarrestblondebased on true storyexplosionbare chested maleone word titlebased on novel (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: | terrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | israeltrucktaximotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | jewjewishchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | arab israeli conflictrefugee campcypruskibbutzguerrillabomberpalestineraidarabmiddle eastbombingimpersonationjeeprefugeegeneral …child in perildeath of friendterroristdead bodyarrestbased on true storyexplosionbare chested maleone word title (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: | escapeprison |
Locations: | israeltrucktaxi |
Characters: | jewjewishbrother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | prison cellremoving a bulletkibbutzdeath sentencebritish soldierbomberroadblockraidbombingtouristjeeprefugeeinjectionfugitivetoilet …disguiseterroristinterrogationdead bodyarrestbased on true storyexplosionbare chested maleone word 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: | terrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | rooftoptruckpolice stationmotorcycle |
Characters: | muslimchildrendoctormother son relationship |
Story: | blockadeloudspeakerguerrilladeath sentencebomberhistorical fictionraidarabgunshot woundbombingrebeljeeprefugeegeneralterrorist …interrogationdead bodyarrestbased on true storyexplosionbare chested male (See All) |
Evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26- June 04, 1940, during Battle of France in World War II.
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | military truckship |
Characters: | military officernursefather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | british soldiermilitary uniformbritish armystretcherhistorical fictionharborflagcrowdbombingburialgeneraldeath of friendbased on true storyexplosionone word title |
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs … for interrogation which includes torture. An American CIA operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him despite being pregnant but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | rooftoptaxihospital |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipmuslimbrother sister relationshipdoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | terrorist bombingprison cellmiddle eastbombingterroristinterrogationdead bodyexplosionbare chested male |
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an imp …ossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | military officeramerican abroaddoctor |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | based on true eventsbritish soldiermilitary uniformbritish armypost world war twoenglishman abroaddynamitegeneralstatuefugitivedeath of frienddisguiseinterrogationarrestbased on true story …explosionbare chested male (See All) |
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all ov …er Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorism |
Locations: | military truckrooftophospital |
Characters: | american abroadmuslimnursedoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | terrorist bombingrefugee camphospital visitraidarabmiddle eastjeepinjectiondeath of friendterroristdead bodyexplosionbased on novel |
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violen …t war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | rooftoptruckcourtroommotorcycle |
Characters: | childrendoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | prison cellbomb explosioncyprushunger striketime bombisraeliroadblockpalestinearabmiddle eastrebeldisguiseterroristinterrogationarrest …based on true storyexplosionbare chested male (See All) |
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant 'T.E. Lawrence' (qv) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his s …uperior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port. (Read More)
Locations: | truckmotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | military officerofficermuslimnursefather son relationship |
Story: | british empirehomosexual subtextbritish soldiermilitary uniformarabgunshot woundmiddle eastrebelgeneralstatueinterrogationdead bodyarrestbased on true storyexplosion …bare chested male (See All) |
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this dis …ease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | israelrooftopshipmotorcycle |
Characters: | american abroaddoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | israeli flagblockadeisraelipalestinefalling to deathrefugeegeneralinjectionchild in perildeath of friendinterrogationexplosionbare chested malebased on novel |
Famous symbologist on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unlea …shing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescape |
Locations: | shiptaximotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | american abroadnursedoctor |
Story: | blockadehistorical fictionfalling to deathinjectionstatuefugitivedisguiseterroristinterrogationexplosionbare chested maleone word titlebased on novel |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wi …th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescape |
Locations: | rooftoppolice stationmotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | muslimnursedoctor |
Story: | terrorist bombingbomb explosionbased on true eventsbombertragic eventfugitiveterroristinterrogationarrestbased on true storyexplosionbare chested male |
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
Themes: | prison escapeterrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | sewerrooftoptruckpolice stationtaximotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | american abroaddoctor |
Story: | blockadetime bombhanged manroadblocksiegetragic eventinjectionstatuefugitivechild in perildisguiseterroristinterrogationexplosionbare chested male |
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: | terrorism |
Locations: | taxihotel |
Characters: | american abroadbrother sister relationshipchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | refugee camppiggy back ridestretchermolotov cocktailgunshot woundshovelbombingrebelrefugeechild in perildeath of friendterroristdead bodyexplosion |
CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bi …shop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeterrorismprison |
Locations: | rooftoptaximotorcycle |
Characters: | muslimdoctor |
Story: | refugee campsentenced to deathcyprusisraelimiddle eastinjectionterroristexplosion |
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: | terrorismescapeprison |
Locations: | rooftopmotorcycle |
Characters: | childrenfather daughter relationship |
Story: | british empirebritish soldiermilitary uniformbritish armyraidrebeldead bodyarrestexplosion |
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice …, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor. (Read More)
Themes: | escapeprison |
Characters: | officerfather son relationship |
Story: | british empirebritish soldiermilitary uniformbritish armywar violencesiegeburialrebelgeneraldisguisedead bodybased on novel |
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.
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | british empirehomosexual subtextbritish soldiermilitary uniformbritish armytragic eventdeath of frienddead bodybased on true storyexplosionbare chested maleone word titlebased on novel |
It is 1942, America has entered World War II, and sickly but determined Steve Rogers is frustrated at being rejected yet again for military service. Everything changes when Dr. Erskine recruits him for the secret Project Rebirth. Proving his extraordinary courage, wits and conscience, Rogers undergo …es the experiment and his weak body is suddenly enhanced into the maximum human potential. When Dr. Erskine is then immediately assassinated by an agent of Nazi Germany's secret HYDRA research department (headed by Johann Schmidt, a.k.a. the Red Skull), Rogers is left as a unique man who is initially misused as a propaganda mascot; however, when his comrades need him, Rogers goes on a successful adventure that truly makes him Captain America, and his war against Schmidt begins. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescape |
Locations: | rooftopshiptaximotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | military officeramerican abroadnursedoctor |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | british soldierwar violenceenglishman abroadfalling to deathgeneralinjectionchild in perildeath of friendterroristinterrogationexplosionbare chested male |
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: | escapeprison |
Locations: | truckshipmotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | nursedoctorfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | stethoscopeharborcrowdbombingrefugeestatuedead bodybased on true storyexplosionbased on novel |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initia …tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorism |
Locations: | israelcourtroomtaxi |
Characters: | muslimjewjewishmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bomberraidanti semitismbombingterroristdead bodyarrest |
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He … needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeescapeprison |
Locations: | shiphotel |
Characters: | muslimdoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | escaped prisonerfalling to deathinjectiondisguiseinterrogationarrestexplosionbare chested male |
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: | escapeprison |
Locations: | sewer |
Characters: | military officerjewnurse |
Story: | prison cellmilitary uniformstretchershovelanti semitismgeneralfugitiveimmigrantwidowdisguise |
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: | escape |
Locations: | truckmotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipjewjewishnursebrother sister relationshipteenage girldoctorfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | military uniformsiegeanti semitismbombingrefugeegeneralstatuefugitivedead bodyarrestbased on true storyexplosion |
Colonel Katherine Powell is a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill." But …as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescape |
Locations: | hotelhospital |
Characters: | military officerofficerfather daughter relationship |
Story: | british armybombinggeneralchild in periltoiletterroristbare chested male |
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.
Locations: | truckshiphospital |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipchildrendoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | piggy back ridestretcherpost world war tworaidbombingburialdead bodybased on true storyexplosionbased on novel |
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: | escapeprison |
Locations: | rooftoppolice stationtaxihotelhospital |
Characters: | military officeramerican abroadnursefather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | british soldierbritish armyhistorical fictionraidbombinggeneralinterrogationexplosionbare chested maleone word title |
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)
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipteenage girlmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | loudspeakermilitary uniformwar violencesiegeanti semitismbombingburialrefugeedead bodyexplosion |
The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's lif …e: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismprison |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | jewnursebrother sister relationshipchildrenfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | prison cellanti semitismstatueinterrogationarrestbased on true story |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor …mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeescapeprison |
Locations: | sewerrooftopcourtroomtaximotorcyclehotel |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | loaf of breadrefugeestatuefugitiveimmigrantwidowdead bodyarrestbare chested male |
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The nearest New York Police officer immediately responds to a screaming woman and calls dispatch. More Officers arrive with SWAT and tactical command along with fire-fighters. The police then dispatch a police psycho …logist personally requested to talk him down from the ledge. However, things aren't as they seem. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeprison |
Locations: | rooftoppolice stationhotel |
Characters: | officer |
Story: | prison visitmale male hugfugitivedisguisearrestblondeexplosion |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca …tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | truckhotelhospital |
Characters: | american abroadnursedoctormother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | stretcherhistorical fictionenglishman abroadnotetouristtragic eventinjectionchild in perildead bodyblondebased on true storybare chested male |
Four American soldiers who are in Iraq are sent on a mission to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a billion dollars. After doing the job and returning to the base their commanding officer is killed in an explosion and the plates are stolen by another operative. The …y would be court martialed and sent to different prisons. 6 months later, the leader, Hannibal Smith is visited by a CIA spook who tells him he knows where the man who took the plates is and wants him and his men to recover it. So he helps him escape and he breaks out the others and they go after the plates. But after doing it, they discover that the spook might not be ok. And a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them is pursuing them. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeescapeprison |
Locations: | sewerrooftopshipmotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | military officerofficer |
Story: | dynamitegeneralfugitivedisguiseinterrogationarrestexplosionbare chested male |
Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to brin …g Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape. (Read More)
Themes: | escapeprison |
Locations: | sewerrooftopmotorcyclehotel |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | englishman abroadnotetoiletwidowdisguisearrestexplosion |
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: | motorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | submachine gunmilitary uniformbritish armywar violencedynamitedisguiseinterrogationexplosionbased on novel |
1994. In Rwanda, the classification of the native population into Hutus and Tutsis, arbitrarily done by the colonial Belgians, is now ingrained within Rwandan mentality despite the Rwandan independence. Despite the Belgians having placed the Tutsis in a higher position during the Belgian rule, they …have placed the majority Hutus in power after independence. 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv), a Hutu married to a Tutsi, Tatiana Rusesabagina, is the House Manager of the Hotel Des Milles Collines in Kigali. The Milles Collines, owned by Sabena (the national airline of Belgium), is a four-star hotel catering primarily to wealthy white westerners. Paul, who knows how to work the system to run the hotel effectively for its guests and for Sabena, is proud that most of the Caucasians who he meets in this professional capacity treat him with respect. After a specific incident, the relative calm between the Tutsi guerrillas and government-backed Hutu militia takes a turn. Paul's thought that the native population as a whole who are not directly involved in the conflict will be protected as the UN peacekeeping forces and thus the world is watching doesn't happen as the western world largely evacuates from Rwanda and abandons the natives. Such begins what will become a genocide of the Tutsi population. Paul, who is able to get his immediate family to the hotel which is still largely seen as a place of sanctuary, will have to use the considerable skills he has used to run the hotel as well as he ha… (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | rooftoptruckhotel |
Characters: | nursebrother sister relationshipchildrenfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | refugee campexodusbombingrebelrefugeegeneraldead bodyarrestbased on true story |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to … prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Themes: | prison escapeescapeprison |
Locations: | sewerrooftoppolice stationhotelhospital |
Characters: | nursedoctor |
Story: | sentenced to deathblockadeinjectionfugitivedisguisearrestexplosionbare chested male |
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)
Locations: | courtroommotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | military officerofficerjewchildrenfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | time bombhanged manbombinggeneralarrestbased on true storyexplosionone word title |
A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident …puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on. Is the answer in the briefcase? (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismescape |
Locations: | taxihotelhospital |
Characters: | american abroadnursedoctor |
Story: | bomb explosiontime bombinjectionchild in perilimmigrantdeath of friendterroristexplosionbare chested maleone word titlebased on novel |
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all thr …ee of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother... (Read More)
Characters: | military officeramerican abroadjewish |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | world war two veteranmilitary uniformwar violencemolotov cocktailanti semitismburialgeneraldeath of friendbased on true storyexplosion |
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring …out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything? (Read More)
Themes: | terrorism |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | israeli flagstretcherflagarabbombingtouristchild in perildisguiseterroristexplosion |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i …mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | terrorismprison |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | british armymolotov cocktailbombingdisguiseterroristinterrogationarrestbased on true storyexplosion |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who … have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
Locations: | rooftoptruckpolice stationhospital |
Characters: | nursedoctormother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | refugee campbomb explosionguerrillastethoscopeharborrefugeeblondeexplosionbare chested maleone word title |
Okwe is an illegal Nigerian immigrant leading a hard life and struggling to survive in London's underground. He works as a hotel receptionist in the night time and as he has a doctor degree he practices some medicine, during the day, in a very odd way. Besides that he must constantly escape from Imm …igration officers. One day Okwe discovers by chance an illegal scheme of surgeries is being lead by Juan, his boss in the hotel. Juan quickly comes up with a tempting proposal: if Okwe accepts to perform the illegal surgeries he makes a lot of money and gets legalized situation in the U.K. Can Okwe keep his moral values intact? (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | taxihotelhospital |
Characters: | muslimdoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | impersonationrefugeeinjectionimmigrationimmigranttoiletdead body |
It was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach l …eaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that begins to unlock her mind's full potential. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | police stationtaximotorcyclehotelhospital |
Characters: | american abroadnursedoctor |
Story: | removing a bulletoperating roomenglishman abroadinjectionstatuedisguiseinterrogationarrestblondeexplosionbare chested maleone word title |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | courtroomtaxihotel |
Characters: | jewjewishdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | public address systemdeath of unclestar of davidanti semitismburialrefugeearrestbased on true story |
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views sep …arate them. During the welcome parade a roof tile falls down from Judah's house and injures the governor. Although Messala knows they are not guilty, he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | prison |
Locations: | rooftopship |
Characters: | officerjewjewishbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | stretcherarabanti semitismwidowarrestbare chested malebased on novel |
The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Said, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force hav …e raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody. (Read More)
Locations: | rooftoppolice stationhospital |
Characters: | officerjewbrother sister relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | molotov cocktailarabtragic eventtoiletinterrogationarrestexplosion |
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.
Locations: | rooftophotel |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipnursefather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | call to prayerbritish soldierbritish armyshovelburialrefugeewidowdead bodybased on true storyexplosionbare chested male |