04 May
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
Posted in 1989, Adventure, Biography, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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30 Apr
Up-and-coming sports reporter (Hartnett) rescues a homeless man (”Champ”, Jackson) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ’s story and escape the shadow of his father’s success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life […]
Posted in 2007, Drama, Sport, USA by: admin
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23 Apr
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 three of the […]
Posted in 1998, Action, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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21 Apr
In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda’s Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a […]
Posted in 1996, Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller, USA by: admin
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16 Apr
Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals […]
Posted in 1963, Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, USA, War by: admin
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03 Apr
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken. Amidst this, two young lovers-to-be, one a Mormon and […]
Posted in 2006, Canada, Drama, Romance, Western by: admin
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26 Mar
The tight story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a disobey on his expedition. This model follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to procure his men beyond the reach of British reprisal, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to win his loyalists safely to East Timor in a elfin lifeboat.
Posted in 1984, Adventure, Drama, History, UK, USA by: admin
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17 Mar
This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas […]
Posted in 1997, Crime, Drama, Mystery, USA by: admin
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28 Feb
A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he’s really from Mars.
Posted in 2007, Drama, USA by: admin
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26 Feb
Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally […]
Posted in 1967, Crime, Drama, USA by: admin
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