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Sean Connery and Michael Caine - chins out, shoulders squared and with an occasional sly wink - star as British sergeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men like these two. Now they are out to build empire of their own: they're venturing into remote Kafiristan to become rich as kings. - Director:
- John Huston
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- Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
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"Jojo Rabbit" follows a lonely German boy Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided by his wildly idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. - Director:
- Taika Waititi
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- Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Scarlett Johansson
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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece 'The Witch', comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890's. As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored. - Director:
- Robert Eggers
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- Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
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Generation War (2013)Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter / Generation War: Series
Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war. Wilhelm and his brother have been ordered to the eastern front, Charlotte will join them as a nurse in a field hospital there. In Berlin, Greta makes a name for herself as a singer, with the help of a high-ranking party official. Her Jewish boyfriend, Viktor is despatched to a concentration camp in the east. Little do they know how much the unfathomable experiences, deprivations and terrors of the war will change them. It is the experiences of friendship and betrayal, belief and disappointment, illusion and insight, guilt and responsibility that will change their lives forever. - Director:
- Philipp Kadelbach
- Cast:
- Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler
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In 1981, four Polish builders arrive in London to renovate the home of a rich fellow Pole, with only the foreman, Nowak (Jeremy Irons), speaking English. Whilst the military crackdown by the communist regime is underway in Poland, a string of disasters is unravelling for the builders, who are unaware of the turmoil back at home as Nowak keeps events hidden from them in order to get the job finished. - Director:
- Jerzy Skolimowski
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- Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav
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Created by former policeman Oliver Marchal, this French import is dark, compelling and totally uncompromising. With Theo now lingering between life and death after the explosion of his car, Caplan (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and his team are in shock. The depleted squad is more shattered than ever but they are solemnly resolved to overcome their difficulties. Thirsty for revenge and for recognition alike, the rogue cops still have a job to do: a major drugs haul, orchestrated by a powerful Eastern mafia, has to be stopped. Eddy, Roxanne and Walter are thrown right into the middle of a vicious gang war between Russian-speaking mobsters. As for Vogel, he patiently awaits in the shadows, ready to strike at the best possible moment - his opportunity to get rid of Caplan... for good. - Director:
- Frédéric Jardin
- Cast:
- Jean-Hugues Anglade, Joseph Malerba, Antoine Basler
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The Elite Squad (2007)Tropa de Elite
It is 1997 and hundreds of thousands live in Rio’s notorious favelas. Drug trafficking militias have complete control within the slums while the police run their criminal enterprises outside. The elite Bope force fights to combat drug trafficking, but kiiping order has its price and their actions blur the line between right and wrong, justice and revenge. Two of the force's newest recruits, Neto (Caio Junqueira) and Matias (Andr Ramiro), are childhood friends: one is quick on the trigger to maintain order and the other refuses to compromise his ideals. Together they are the perfect replacement. Alone they may not have what it takes to survive. - Director:
- José Padilha
- Cast:
- Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira
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City of Men (2007)Cidade dos Homens
Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjiha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past. - Director:
- Paulo Morelli
- Cast:
- Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen
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Black Book (2006)Zwartboek
September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed by a bomb, the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) joins fellow refugees in an attempt to reach safe Allied territory by boat. Tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol intercepts their escape, ruthlessly killing everybody on-board including Rachel's family; only Rachel escapes the massacre. Embittered and desperate for revenge, she joins the Resistance where, assigned a new identity as the blond Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze (Sebastian Koch). Without warning she becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal... - Director:
- Paul Verhoeven
- Cast:
- Carice van Houten, Emile Jansen, Sebastian Koch
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This stylish black-comedy thriller stars Ralph Fiennes as Harry, a vicious London crime-boss, who send his two hit-men to the picturesque Belgian City of Bruges - to lay low and wait for orders. While Ken (Brendan Gleeson) is happy just to sight see (!), his fast-talking partner, Ray (Colin Farrell) sets out for an adventure. Before long, Ray is experiencing hilariously surreal encounters with tourists, skinheads, dwarves and prostitutes! When, at last, the call comes from Harry, the fun turns to a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions. - Director:
- Martin McDonagh
- Cast:
- Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds
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Ambitions threaten the Saxon kingdoms Alfred had once dreamed of uniting. In the wake of his father's death, the new King, Edward (Timothy Innes), is intent on isolating Wessex and strengthening his reinforcements against possible Dane incursions. Alliances are beginning to fracture as Lord Aethelred (Toby Regbo) of Mercia makes ambitious plans to establish himself as a rival to Wessex. When Northumbria also faces hostility, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) believes the timing is right to take back his ancestral home. Fate shifts in a different direction; news comes that Mercia is in turmoil, and Uhtred's affection for Aethelflaed (Millie Brady) drives him back into the politics that threaten to break out into war. Just as it seems as if peace can be found between the Saxons, a new and unprecedented Dane enemy takes them by surprise. Uhtred begins to realise that his destiny is tied to Alfred's dream and he becomes determined to resolve Saxon struggles before the possibility of a united England slips from their grasp forever. - Director:
- Edward Bazalgette
- Cast:
- Joseph Millson, Anthony Cozens, Mark Rowley
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San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is investigating the murder of a once-celebrated rock star and he's made a few unsettling discoveries: a bloody ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a bedpost and evidence of an otherwise romantic evening. As Nick digs into the case, lie becomes entangled in a deadly affair involving three intriguing women, each with an unexpected motive for the crime. Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is a fast-living novelist whose fictional murders have a strange way of coming true. Roxy (Leilani Sarelle) is Catherine's street-wise, provocative girlfriend. Dr. Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is a police psychologist counselling Nick... - Director:
- Paul Verhoeven
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- Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza
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