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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 »
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
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 »