When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War Read More »
War
Fort Graveyard / Chi to suna (1965) Kihachi Okamoto, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Reiko Dan
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China Read More »
Bekstva / Escapes (1968) Rados Novakovic, Dusan Djuric, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans. Read More »
The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980) François Truffaut, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs. Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »
The Night of the Generals (1967) Anatole Litvak, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
In 1942, in Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Read More »
And Agnes Chose to Die / L’Agnese va a morire (1976) Giuliano Montaldo, Ingrid Thulin, Stefano Satta Flores, Michele Placido
An old couple, Agnes and Palita, lulled by their quiet routine Read More »
The Damned / La caduta degli dei (1969) Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. Read More »
Five Scouts AKA Gonin no sekkôhei (1938) Tomotaka Tasaka, Isamu Kosugi, Bontarô Miake, Ichirô Izawa
Five airmen set out on a reconnaissance mission over northern China; the worst is feared when only four of them return. Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »