One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
In 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, a famous German art collector, rents an apartment in the town of Senlis, forty kilometers away from Paris, in order to write and to take a rest from the hectic life he has been living in the capital. The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. He is stunned to learn that the artist is no other than Séraphine.
The action-adventure movie tells the heroic story of the times when Vikings tried to conquer North America by destroying local tribes before Christopher Columbus reached its shores. Wrecked during the storm, a ship became the grave of Vikings and their captives. There was only one survivor, a Viking boy whose unconscious body was washed up on the shore by the powerful waves. Fortunately, the People of the Dawn tribe used various healing remedies to fix the kid up and raised him as their own. Many years later, he grows up into a warrior named Ghost (Karl Urban) and bravely defends his abode against an invasion of ferocious Vikings who, after having plundered great cities of Europe, land on the shores of North America. Despite a mighty legion of his foes, Ghost is unwilling to sheathe the sword and attempts to defeat the usurpers.
This biopic drama follows the life and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) who went missing while researching a story about the infamous shoe bomber Richard Reid in Karachi, Pakistan. Six months gone with child, his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie) embarked on a desperate quest to find him, calling on the FBI, Pakistani police, and American embassy personnel to help. However, she soon got the shattering news that Daniel was captured by terrorists, denounced as an Israeli spy and beheaded. Afterwards the kidnappers made the videotape of Daniel's execution public through the media...
Based on Ian McEwan's popular novel, the romantic drama follows Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen from an upper-class English family and fledgling writer with a great power of imagination. She knows about the mutual love between her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robby Turner (James McEvoy) and feels hurt as she has a fancy for Robbie too. So, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) becomes the victim of a rape, a string of misinterpretations, fueled by her vivid imagination and her jealousy, drives her to finger Robby as a rapist. He is arrested and sent to jail but Cecillia strongly refuses to believe her sister and becomes hostile towards her. Many years later, Briony (Romola Garai) writes a novel to expiate her guilt for her childish misdeed that irreversibly changed the course of all their lives.
Two students inspired by their professor Dr Malley (Robert Redford) join the war in Afghanistan to change their lives while Malley tries to reach another enlightened but apathetic student. Meanwhile, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), the Republican presidential hopeful, meets Janine Roth (Meryl Streep), a TV journalist, to announce the new war strategy in Afghanistan. All the characters, their actions and decisions turn out to be closely connected.
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) and an English actor (Pryce) contend with forces that complicate their romance as well as the production itself.
In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.
"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other.
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn't stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.
The 1860s, the end of the American Civil War. Gideon (Pierce Brosnan), deft and experienced with a knife, is hiding in the American Rockies. Eventually, several mountain men, hired to hunt for Gideon, shoot and wound him. It appears that the hunt was organized by Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson), a Confederate officer who has been long craving for getting even with Gideon... But what is his sin?
The suspense-filled war drama is based on the real-life story of German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) who satisfied his passion for flying by becoming a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. While on a secret bombing mission over Laos during the Vietnam War, he was shot down and captured by Vietcong guerrillas. The young man displayed fortitude and endurance when he was brutally tortured by his captors who wanted him to betray his country. Taken to a prison camp, Dengler didn't succumb to despair and began planning an escape from the clutches of the sadistic camp guards.
The four people (Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Brian Presley) experience the most horrible moments of their military service in Iraq just a few days before returning back home to the city of Spokane. The former soldiers who faced violence and cruelty of war, should overstep their recent past and learn to live their usual life from the start - not to think of an accidental killing, to bring up a child being a single mother with a single hand, to cope with the best friend's death. The phychologic trauma brings the war inside their minds.
In the beginning of the 19th century a former British sergeant Sharp (Sean Bean) is sent by Duke Wellington to India to rescue a missing agent who turns out to be Sharp's best friend, Patrick Harper (Daragh O'Malley). On his dangerous way Sharp saves the beautiful general's daughter and meets a lot of other adventures.
