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  • The Human Shield picture
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    The Human Shield (1992)

    The brother of an American colonel is kidnapped by an Iraqi colonel in an act of revenge.

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    Fighting Mad (1976)

    An Arkansas farmer (Peter Fonda) declares war on strip miners trying to grab his land.

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    Never So Few (1959)

    A U.S. captain (Frank Sinatra) loves an arms merchant's mistress (Gina Lollobrigida) and leads...

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    Pork Chop Hill (1959)

    A lieutenant (Gregory Peck) is ordered to take an inconsequential hill during the Korean War truce...

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    English, August

    Shedding light upon the "middling" corruption of low-level government bureaucrats in India's...

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    Dog Soldiers

    A pack of werewolves targets a squad of soldiers (Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd) on a training exercise...

  • The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest picture
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    The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)

    After quitting his cushy job, a misfit (Adam Garcia) helps computer geeks develop a revolutionary...

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    Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)

    When Zorro's son cannot carry on his father's tradition due to a sprained ankle, his flamboyant twin...

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    Out for Justice (1991)

    A Brooklyn policeman (Steven Seagal) tries to kill his partner's killer (William Forsythe) and...

  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves picture
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    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

    The archer (Kevin Costner) and his Moorish sidekick (Morgan Freeman) join Sherwood Forest outlaws...

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    Una Ragione Per Morire

    A Union colonel (James Coburn) and condemned men try to take a Missouri fort from a Confederate...

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    Treasure Island (1972)

    Young Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) has a map to a pirate's buried treasure, and pirate Long John...

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    All the Young Men (1960)

    Set right near the 38th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, this conventional...

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    Sounder (1972)

    A sharecropper's (Paul Winfield) wife (Cicely Tyson) keeps the family together after he goes to...

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    Stone Cold (1991)

    An unorthodox policeman (Brian Bosworth) joins and then destroys a crazed biker's (Lance Henriksen)...

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    Fire Birds (1990)

    Army lovers (Nicolas Cage, Sean Young) and their task-force leader (Tommy Lee Jones) join the drug...

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    The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

    Jonathan Swift's Dr. Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and...

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    Z.P.G. (1972)

    In the over-populated, horribly polluted 21st century child-bearing has become illegal. To help ease...

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    Hannibal (1960)

    The Carthaginian general (Victor Mature) crosses the Alps by elephant with his army, invading Italy...

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    Tobruk (1967)

    British officers (Rock Hudson, Nigel Green) lead commandos and German Jews in a desert trick to blow...

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    Power Play (1978)

    After years of an oppressive dictatorship, a group of army officers in a tiny, vaguely delineated...

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    The Great Conqueror's Concubine

    During the turbulent Chin Dynasty a rebellion leads to the formation of the Chu State, which is...

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    Gates to Paradise

    Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival, this tragic historical film from...

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    Hakon Hakonsen (1991)

    The stormy sea puts a Norwegian boy (Stian Smedstad), a girl stowaway (Louisa Haigh) and a sailor on...

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    Anzio (1968)

    A cynical reporter (Robert Mitchum) follows Allied troops gearing up for the 1944 landing in Italy.

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    Moonfleet (1955)

    An 18th-century dandy (Stewart Granger) leads smugglers on the English coast.

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    The Wild Geese (1978)

    The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of...

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    Pather Panchali (1957)

    An aspiring writer (Kanu Banerjee) seeks his fortune in the city, leaving his family (Karuna...

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    That Summer of White Roses (December 01, 2010)

    World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard (Tom Conti) shelters a refugee...

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    Dune (1984)

    Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) leads the fight for vital spice on a desert planet in the year...