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HD 104
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...
HD 90
Director: Roberto Faenza
Stars: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson
Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...
HD 104
Director: Carl Colby
Stars:
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
HD 38
Director: Sara Nesson
Stars:
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never...
HD 140
Director: Izuru Narushima
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya
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HD 100
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...
HD 113
Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty he is injured and ends up in the hospital where he falls in love with his nurse Agnes von...
HD 89
Director: Jorge Hinojosa
Stars: Betty Beck, Camille Beck, Diane Beck
Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim 1918-1992 and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim Chris Rock Henry Rollins Ice-T Snoop Dogg and Quincy...
HD 114
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige
This is a movie about the life of Israels king...
HD 125
Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
HD 152
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
HD 130
Director: Christian Duguay
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
HD 120
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Stars: Dong-kun Yang, Aya Hirayama, Masaya Katô
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HD 137
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...
HD 140
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor
The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...
HD 113
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse Ines is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father Thomas comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo whom he is painting can secure the release of his...
HD 91
Director: Tanio Boccia
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...
HD 90
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...
HD 93
Director: Brian Kirk
Stars: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall
English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....
HD 126
Director: Sergey Bodrov
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun
The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and...
HD 133
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...
HD 130
Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...
HD
Director: Mark Meily
Stars: Jorge Estregan, Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon
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HD 139
Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...
HD 119
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly...
HD 145
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought...
HD 104
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette
In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...
HD 124
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
HD 84
Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier
Stars: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
HD 141
Director: Robert Rossen
Stars: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...
