Un șerif dintr-un oraș mic din vestul american solicită ajutorul unui bărbat cu dizabilități, a unui bețiv și a unui tânăr pistolar în eforturile sale de a-l ține în închisoare pe fratele tipului rău local.
Plasat în secolul al XVII-lea, într-o mănăstire retrasă, filmul relatează povestea unui tânăr preot care trebuie să exorcizeze stareța și măicuțele care erau posedate de demoni. În încercările sale repetate de a alunga răul, preotul se îndrăgostește de frumoasa măicuță Ioana.
A stunningly-photographed, thought-provoking road trip into the heart of the poor white American South. Singer Jim White takes his 1970 Chevy Impala through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truckstops, biker bars and coalmines. Along the way are roadside encounters with present-day musical mavericks the Handsome Family, David Johansen, David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower and old-time banjo player Lee Sexton, and grisly stories from the cult Southern novelist Harry Crews.
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Jack McCandles nu și-a văzut soția de 18 ani, dar se întoarce acasă când nepotul său este răpit de o bandă. John Fain și prietenii lui răpesc băiețelul în speranța unor bani. Dacă ar ști dinainte cu cine se vor confrunta, poate că nici nu ar fi făcut-o. La sfârșit, ei lasă în urmă nepotul rănit al lui Jack și o cerere de răscumpărare de un milion de dolari. Nimeni nu îndrăznește să confrunte temuta bandă, dar Jake, care a fost un campion al dreptății în viața sa, simte că nu poate lăsa acest lucru la voia întâmplării.
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.
După atacul asupra Pearl Harbor, căpitanul Terrey conduce un atac împotriva invadatorilor, dar este respins și condamnat la serviciul de birou la întoarcerea sa. Acolo află că fiul său îl disprețuiește și că primul său ofițer Eddington și-a pierdut soția la Pearl Harbor. În timp ce lui Terrey i se permite să se întoarcă pe mare și se afirmă, Eddington o violează pe iubita fiului lui Terrey. Eddington se sacrifică după sinuciderea lor, declanșând prima bătălie mare pe mare a celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, în care tatăl și fiul Terrey luptă cot la cot.
When scholar Wei Fung is forcibly hired by the Manchu Emperor to infiltrate a clan of rebellious Ming Loyalists, his mission goes adrift when he falls in love with the clan's leader's granddaughter. Wei Fung must choose between his new love and his family, who will be put to death if he doesn't return to the palace successfully.
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "The Black Fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
Unui batalion al Legiunii Străine i se înscenează o capcană în care toți membrii, în afară de 4 mor. Ei trebuiau să asigure transportul unor lingouri de aur în spatele liniei frontului. Cei patru care scapă încep să se lupte între ei pentru aur.
Povestea eroică a 200 de bravi soldaţi care s-au sacrificat în numele libertăţii, apărând un mic fort din Texas timp de 13 zile contra unei armate întregi!
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.