Julio Madariaga is the Argentine patriarch of a wealthy family. He has two daughters, the elder wed to a Frenchman and the other to a German. Read More »
War
Sharks and Small Fish AKA Haie und kleine Fische (1957) Frank Wisbar, Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Wolfgang Preiss
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. Read More »
Battle of the V-1 (1958) Vernon Sewell, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale
This forgotten war adventure centers on the secret Nazi missile installation of the V1 Rocket. Read More »
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Purple Hearts (1984) Sidney J. Furie, Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee
It’s sometime during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Don Jardian of the US Navy, who would have just started Read More »
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) George Marshall, Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson
Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. Read More »
The Winter War AKA Talvisota (1989) Pekka Parikka, Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka
Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Read More »
My Enemy’s Enemy (2007) Kevin Macdonald, Raymond Aubrac, Robert Badinter, Klaus Barbie
A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as “The Butcher of Lyon.” Read More »
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) Robert Aldrich, Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol
At the end of the Second World War six German ex-soldiers return to Berlin and set up as a bomb disposal group. Read More »
Birds, Orphans and Fools AKA Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni (1969) Juraj Jakubisko, Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Magda Vásáryová
Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is often described as the Fellini of Eastern Europe. After the 1968 film The Deserter and the Nomads Read More »
The Falcon Fighters AKA Rikugun hayabusa sentotai (1969) Mitsuo Murayama, Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi
In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »
Nine Lives AKA Ni liv (1957) Arne Skouen, Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland
The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds Read More »
Never So Few (1959) John Sturges, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled OSS operatives are in WWII Burma to arm and train the Kachin natives. Read More »
The Buccaneer (1958) Anthony Quinn, Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer
During the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Read More »
Home of the Brave (1949) Mark Robson, Jeff Corey, James Edwards, Lloyd Bridges
A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. Read More »