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41) Skiptrace
Language
English
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Description
Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and comedy favorite Johnny Knoxville team up to take down a notorious Chinese drug lord in this explosive and hilarious action-comedy.
42) Good kill
Language
English
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Description
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their...
43) Midway
Language
English
Description
Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.
44) Hatari!
Language
English
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Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don't use bullets - they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
45) Fear and desire
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
46) The Zookeeper
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.
49) Irena's Vow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Danish
Description
Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Karl Skov (Christensen), a successful owner of an electronics factory, tries to make the best of the Nazis Occupation to keep his workers employed. However this collaboration with the Germans, causes friction with in his son, who reacts against the increasing oppression and persecution of jews and communists by joining the rising resistance movement.
51) Klondike
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
52) Blood on the Sun
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
53) The Trench
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of 1917, this epic drama is set against the ill-fated WWI backdrop where a restless platoon receives word that they will soon join the first wave of an attack. Led by a war-hardened Sargent, these young men, confined to a trench on the front lines and the dark abyss, face their destiny on the day the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day in history.
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress. 4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's 35mm restoration.
56) Manhattan
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science--the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb In Los Alamos, New Mexico-- Manhattan follows the project's brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
59) The Men
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set during the Thirty Years' War, in the first half of the 17th century: Anna Fierling, also called Mother Courage, is a merchant with a wagonload of food and goods. She stays out of politics, following the armies as they move back and forth across Central Europe, and does not bemoan war's injustices. She is passionately committed to her three children and tries to protect them. But one after the other, she loses them to the war from which she profits....
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