The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' er en koncert film, hvor man kan opleve popstjernen, som vi aldrig har set ham før.Filmen viser øvelserne til på den verdensturne, der var planlagt for 2009, men aldrig blev til noget, og tilføjer interviews og backstage-optagelser.'High School Musical'-instruktøren Kenny Ortega trækker i 'Michael Jackson's This is It' på flere hundrede timers optagelser, og instruktøren var også koreograf på forberedelserne til turnéen.
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
Da journalisten Peter Wildeblood forelsker sig i Edward McNally i 1952, bliver homoseksualitet i Storbritannien stadig anset som en forbrydelse. Deres kærlighedsaffære får katastrofale konsekvenser for dem begge. Men får også Peter til at tage kampen op mod et umenneskeligt system.
A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style.
a 90 minute special reuniting the main cast of the American sitcom, "The Golden Girls", where they share their favorite moments from the show, behind-the-scenes footage, and plenty of laughs
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.
Henry Hathaway er på stilsikker grund med denne film noir genistreg, der handler om nazispioner, der opererer i USA i tiden omkring 1940. En af disse prøver at rekruttere Bill Dietrich (William Eythe), som bliver dobbeltagent for FBI. Mens Bill er på træningsophold i Hamburg, involveres han i nogle atombombe-hemmeligheder, og snart bliver han sendt til New York for at stjæle disse. Imens er en hensynsløs person ved navn ”Christopher” på vej til at afsløre ham.
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.
Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia comes to the aid of the sultan, who, in gratitude, gives Denia the most sought-after and coveted object in all of Christendom.
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.
The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two NCOs.