14 Apr
John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and […]
Posted in 1982, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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28 Mar
A WWII paint set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces please different parts of the island. When a devise of British soldiers are sent on a lesson behind rival lines, things don’t progress exactly to ambition. This coat differs in that some of the ‘heros’ are extremely reluctant, but they appear good when […]
Posted in 1970, Action, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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22 Feb
A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders […]
Posted in 1951, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA by: admin
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22 Feb
The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare […]
Posted in 1959, Comedy, UK, War by: admin
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19 Oct
The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems […]
Posted in 2006, Drama, USA by: admin
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04 Oct
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. […]
Posted in 2005, Action, Biography, Drama, Germany, USA, War by: admin
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18 Aug
In the 50’s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to […]
Posted in 2006, Drama, Germany, USA by: admin
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15 Aug
After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man’s land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes […]
Posted in 2001, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Drama, France, Italy, Slovenia, UK, War by: admin
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08 May
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects […]
Posted in 1986, Action, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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05 May
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese’s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the […]
Posted in 1998, Action, Canada, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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