Alors que son petit ami vient de la quitter, lui reprochant son manque de goût pour l’aventure, Wanda, une adolescente timide affublée d’énorme lunettes, apprend par une lettre que son père, l’archéologue Arnold Saknussemm, est mort. Wanda quitte Los Angeles pour l’Afrique du Nord, où elle retrouve les notes de son père concernant l’Atlantide…
En Tchécoslovaquie au début des années 1980, le régime communiste musèle l’église. Deux jeunes séminaristes devront choisir entre la soumission à la police secrète, ou une fidélité à leurs convictions qui pourrait leur coûter la vie.
À Stockholm, le jour de la Sainte-Lucie, un bandit braque audacieusement un bureau de poste bondé. En quinze jours, deux témoins sont morts. Deux flics de la brigade des mœurs, Johansson et Jarnebring, qui ont été les premiers sur la scène de crime, poursuivent toutes les pistes et identifient un suspect, un membre arrogant de la police secrète, un homme chargé de surveiller le ministre de la Justice. Juste comme les flics pensent qu'ils ont serré le suspect, les témoins perdent leurs certitudes, les alibis surgissent, les flics mêmes, doutent de ce qu'ils ont vu. Qui protège le suspect et pourquoi ?
Film-fiction inspiré par l'histoire de Popielusko, prêtre polonais idealiste et fervent militant du mouvement Solidarnosc, arrêté et tue par la Police Secrete en 1984.
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.
Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
La tante préférée de Lissette, Adriana, installée en Australie, est arrêtée en 2007 alors qu'elle rendait visite à sa famille au Chili. Elle est accusée d'avoir travaillé pour la célèbre police secrète du dictateur Pinochet, la DINA, et d'avoir participé à la commission de crimes d'État. Lorsqu'Adriana nie ces accusations, Lissette commence à enquêter sur son histoire pour en faire un documentaire.
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany's terrifying secret police force from 1933 through 1945.
While scouting locations for a shoot in Belgrade, Jelena, a young director makes up a story about Marija, a professor of political theory, whose dying father has revealed to her some medical files that could be of interest to several intelligence services. Marija has affection for Marko, a student - until she realizes that he had gotten close to her in order to learn her father's secrets. Marko explains that her father took part in Medical experiments in Africa, which led to deaths of many people in the Congo. Marija has no way of checking whether these allegations are true, because her father dies. She is faced with a dilemma: should she give her father's files to Marko or sell them to foreign intelligence services.