Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action Read More »
War
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom AKA Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. Read More »
The Last of the Vikings AKA L’ultimo dei Vikinghi (1961) Giacomo Gentilomo, Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom, Isabelle Corey
Harald and younger brother Guntar return to Norway after a 10-year voyage to find their father Read More »
Rosenstrasse (2003) Margarethe von Trotta, Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Svea Lohde
When Ruth’s husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. Read More »
The White Rose AKA Die weisse Rose (1982) Michael Verhoeven, Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University Read More »
Long Live the Republic AKA At’ zije Republika (1965) Karel Kachyna, Frank Argus, Josef Barta, Eduard Bredun
It’s the spring 1945 along with the front is becoming closer to the tiny Moravian village of Nesovice. Read More »
Take the High Ground! (1953) Richard Brooks, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor Read More »
Dead Presidents (1995) Albert Hughes, Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker
This action film, directed by the Hughes brothers, depicts a heist of old bills Read More »
The Finest Hours (1964) Peter Baylis, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations Read More »
An Ordinary Man (2017) Brad Silberling, Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world, his maid. Read More »
Unvanquished City AKA Robinson warszawski (1950) Jerzy Zarzycki, Jan Kurnakowicz, Zofia Mrozowska, Igor Smialowski
The story of those who stayed in the ruins and rubbles of Warsaw after the failure of the 1944 uprising. Read More »
Punishment Battalion AKA Strafbataillon 999 (1960) Harald Philipp, Werner Peters, Kurd Pieritz, Heinz Weiss
On the Eastern Front in World War II, a German battalion fights Russian and Partisan soldiers. Read More »
China (1943) John Farrow, Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1936) Robert Florey, Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »