Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Operatsioon Market Garden september 1944. Liitlased üritavad hõivata mitut strateegiliselt olulist silda Hollandis lootuses purustada Saksamaa rindelõigud. Liitlased üritavad 1944. aasta septembris teise maailmasõja lõppu kiirendada, tungides läbi Belgia ja Hollandi Saksamaale. Idee on et USA dessantdiviisid hõivaksid Eindhoveni ja Nijmegeni linnad ning Suurbritannia dessantdivisjon, mida tugevdaks Poola dessantbrigaad, vallutaks Arnhemi linna. Neid abistaks õigel ajal omakorda Briti XXX korpus, mis asub maismaal ja tungib lõuna pool asuvalt Suurbritannia rindejoonelt peale. Operatsiooni võtmeks on sillad, sest kui sakslased neid kinni hoidsid või õhku lasid, ei saanud langevarjurid head positsiooni.
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
1 Õnnetus. 10 ellujäänut. 3000 miili kaugusel tsivilisatsioonist. Grupp lennuõnnetuses ellujäänuid läheb Gobi kõrbe keskele kaduma, ilma et neil oleks võimalust päästa. Nende ainus lootus on saavutada "võimatu": ehitada kõrbesse pääsemiseks kokku kukkunud lennuki rusudega uus seade. Kõik algas sellest, kui kaubalennuki piloot Frank Towns ja tema kaaspiloot AJ saadeti Mongooliasse Tan sagi basseini, et evakueerida tühistatud süsivesinike uurimise operatsiooni töötajad. Neil pole aimugi, et sellest rutiinsest missioonist saab elu ja surma võitlus, muutes täielikult kõigi nende eluvaate.
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.