A chronological account of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 world tour through India, Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico and South America in a jet piloted by the band's front man, Bruce Dickinson. Features interviews with the musicians, their road crew and fans.
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Peter returns to his Transilvanian hometown, Valan, where a dead body was found in the snow-capped mountains. The investigation about his 22 years missing sister leads him to the maze of grave sins of present and the past, where he has to fight not only with local criminals but his own demons too.
Den amerikanske præsident får en atomnedrustningsaftale med russerne vedtaget i Senatet, men nationen vender sig imod ham. Oberst Jiggs Casey finder samtidig beviser for, at den meget populære general Scott, der er præsidentkandidat, sammen med andre militære ledere har planer om at vælte præsidenten, idet de frygter et russisk lynangreb. Casey går til præsidenten med sin foruroligende viden, og et uoverskueligt net af intriger viser sig i magtens korridorer.
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
After a provincial policeman gets falsely accused of a crime that was committed with his pocket knife, he begins a turbulent hunt for the real murderer.
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
“Beyond the Pale” was written (& partially recorded) in front of a live audience, so it feels extra-strange not to be able to take it on the road at the moment. Fortunately, our friends Iain & Jane suggested a way round the problem: set up our equipment in a cave & they would film the results. We have invented a new way of playing a concert.
Greer Garson ("Madame Curie") vandt en Oscar som en engelsk husmor, hvis familie kæmper for at overleve 2. verdenskrig. Et stærkt krigstidsdrama som blev nomineret til 11 Oscars og vandt syv, deriblandt bedste film, instruktør og manuskript. Teresa Wright ("The Best Years of Our Lives") vandt en Oscar for bedste kvindelige birolle. Medstjernerne Walter Pigeon ("How Green Was My Valley"), Dame May Whitty ("Gaslight"), og Henry Travers ("It's a Wonderful Life") blev alle Oscar nominerede. Blev for nyligt udvalgt af det prestigefyldte amerikanske filminstitut som en af de 400 bedste amerikanske film nogensinde.
Den gamle sherif Steve Judd bliver hyret til at transportere en sending guld gennem et farligt område. Han hyrer sin gamle makker Gil Westrum og dennes protege Heck Longtree til at hjælpe sig. Hvad han ikke ved, er at Gil og Heck planlægger at stjæle guldet undervejs. Undervejs møder de tre en ung kvinde der forsøger at komme væk fra sin far og sin forlovede.
Året er 1963. Stedet: Hamburg, Tyskland. En ældre jødisk mand begår selvmord og efterlader en dagbog, der falder i hænderne på en freelance journalist, Peter Miller. Dagbogen dokumenterer de ubeskrivelige grusomheder, tortur og massemord, der er blevet begået af SS kaptajn Eduard Roschmann, som under krigen var kommandør i den berygtede udryddelseslejr i Riga, Letland. Miller påbegynder en personlig menneskejagt for at opspore Roschmann, en jagt, som fører ham direkte ind i hjertet af ODESSA, en magtfuld og hemmelig organisation, som blev dannet af SS for at beskytte og genetablere dens skjulte medlemmer overalt i verden. Da Miller finder frem til Roschmann, opdager han, at den tidligere nazist nu er leder af et våbenfirma, hvis produktion har uhyggelige internationale konsekvenser.
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.
Briternes efterretningstjeneste får nys om, at en russisk oberst ønsker at hoppe af i Berlin. Den hornbrillebærende cockneyagent Harry Palmer sendes ind i Østberlin, hvor han arrangerer en skinbegravelse for oberst Stok, så han kan smugle 'liget' over til Vesten. Men da optoget krydser grænseposten, finder Palmer og hans lokale kontakt, Vulkan, en tysk gangster i kisten!
Berlin-muren står for fald, og alle forbereder sig på en ny verdensorden. Men på Theodore Roosevelt Army Base udenfor Stuttgart oplever soldaten Ray Elwood, hvordan hans egen kolde krig er ved at blive hvidglødende. Elwood er en charmerende småsvindler; en værnepligtig, for hvem der er lykkes at omdanne sin militærtid til en blomstrende sortbørsforretning og da den nye oversergent, Lee, ankommer og har det erklærede mål at rydde op på basen, er Elwood overbevist om, at han sagtens kan klare den nytilkomne overordnede.
Den unge og ustabile Billy får et job og et hjem hos en ranchejer ved navn Tunstall. Da Tunstall bliver skudt ned af den korrupte sherifs håndlangere, sværger Billy at hævne mordet og hverver to bindegale makkere for sammen med dem at begive sig ud på et mordtogt.
Kaptajn Ahab havde sin hvide hval at slås med, mens denne western, der egentlig ikke er nogen typisk western, beretter om selveste Wild Bill Hickok, der har nedlægningen af en hvid bisonokse som sit livs mål. I jagten på albinoudgaven af det store dyr bevæger Hickok sig igennem mange spændende landskaber og slår sig på et tidspunkt sammen med en ung indianer ved navn Crazy Horse
Ayato and Haruka are middle-school sweethearts whose lives take a dire turn when the mysterious Mu invade Tokyo in the year 2012. Protecting humanity from the Mu may be Ayato's destiny, but what he really wants is to regain the relationship he once had with Haruka... a love that will have to transcend space, time, and reality itself.
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.