An American oil company executive of Swedish descent, now living in Sweden Read More »
History
The Egyptian (1954) Michael Curtiz, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney
In eighteenth dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), a poor orphan Read More »
Mayerling (1968) Terence Young, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason
It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince Read More »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
If I Were King (1938) Frank Lloyd, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. Read More »
Betrayed (1954) Gottfried Reinhardt, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature
Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy for the British intelligence in The Netherlands during WW2 Read More »
Sin / Il peccato (2019) Andrey Konchalovskiy
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries Read More »
Quiz Show (1994) Robert Redford, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. Read More »
Waterloo (1970) Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war Read More »
Battle of the Bulge (1965) Ken Annakin, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. Read More »