Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers Read More »
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The Prince of Homburg (1997) Marco Bellocchio, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. Read More »
Shivers (1981) Wojciech Marczewski, Tomasz Hudziec, Teresa Marczewska, Marek Kondrat
Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Read More »
Fraulein Doktor (1969) Alberto Lattuada, Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Nigel Green
In WW1,German intelligence sends a team of saboteurs and a female spy to Scotland to kill Lord Kitchener. Read More »
The Hiding Place (1975) James F. Collier, Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O’Connell
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father’s watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Read More »
Galileo (1968) Liliana Cavani, Cyril Cusack, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Nikolay Doychev
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. Read More »
Young Dr. Freud (1976) Axel Corti, Karlheinz Hackl, Guido Wieland, Sylvia Haider
The film probes deeply into the ways in which Freud’s own experiences Read More »
The Age of the Medici (1972) Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Di Falco, Virgilio Gazzolo, Adriano Amidei Migliano
This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history Read More »
Spionage (1955) Franz Antel, Ewald Balser, Barbara Rütting, Gerhard Riedmann
Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Read More »
Reign of Terror (1949) Anthony Mann, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror Read More »
The Longest Day (1962) Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Read More »
St. Francis of Assisi (1989) Liliana Cavani, Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death Read More »
Adventures of Casanova (1948) Roberto Gavaldón, Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered Read More »
Wild Girl (1932) Raoul Walsh, Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Bret Harte’s story of Salomy Jane,a California mountain girl Read More »
Hell in the Aegean (1970) Vasilis Georgiadis, Hristos Politis, Stephanos Stratigos, Giorgos Tzortzis
In May 1941, after the fall of the mainland of Greece just before the Germans entered Athens Read More »