against-all-odds
  • The Sword and the Sorcerer picture
    Movies

    The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

    A mercenary must battle an evil sorcerer and foil a tyrants plan to rule the land.

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    City of Joy (1992)

    A Houston surgeon (Patrick Swayze) goes to Calcutta and joins an Englishwoman's (Pauline Collins)...

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    Ice Station Zebra (1968)

    A U.S. submarine commander (Rock Hudson) races Russians to a North Pole weather station to recover a...

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    The Last of England (1989)

    A striking vision of a doomed England using home movies, Super 8 film and voice over narration.

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    OT: Our Town (2003)

    Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy follows California high-school students as they produce the...

  • The Guns of Navarone picture
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    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    Allied commandos (Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn) try to knock out a Nazi fortress over...

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    Play Dirty (1967)

    A British army captain (Michael Caine) leads ex-convict commandos on a desert mission to blow up a...

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    Savage Sisters

    In this actioner, three courageous female revolutionaries on a South American island grab their...

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    Villa Rides (1968)

    Mexican rebel Pancho Villa lead a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisonned in Mexico.

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    The Young Runaways (1968)

    Three teens (Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Patty McCormack) join other lost souls on the street in...

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    The Promised Land (1988)

    Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapted his 1975 effort Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana) from an...

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    A Soldier's Story (1984)

    An Army lawyer (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) probes the slaying of a sergeant (Adolph Caesar) from an...

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    Marked for Death (1990)

    A former drug agent (Steven Seagal) and his old Army buddy (Keith David) exterminate a so-called...

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    Megaville

    Thriller set in a huge, faceless city of the future where a remote-controlled human hitman gets a...

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    Memphis Belle (1990)

    An account of the courageous B-17 bomber crew that flew more than two dozen perilous missions over...

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    The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)

    When the monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania plummets to his death from a hot air balloon, the...

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    Guns at Batasi (1964)

    A British sergeant major's (Richard Attenborough) battalion keeps order during an African bid for...

  • Lion of the Desert picture
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    Lion of the Desert (1981)

    Bedouin hero Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) rallies Libyan guerrillas against an Italian general's...

  • Seven Days in May picture
    Movies

    Seven Days in May (1964)

    An aide (Kirk Douglas) discovers his general's (Burt Lancaster) Pentagon plot and tells the...

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    Barrio

    In a poor neighborhood of Madrid, three teenage boys sit out the summer. While the richer classes...

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    The Buccaneer (1958)

    French pirate Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner) charms New Orleans women and aids Gen. Andrew Jackson...

  • Our Song picture
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    Our Song (2001)

    Three teenage girls (Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez) in a prize-winning marching...

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    Raid on Rommel (1971)

    A British commando captain (Richard Burton) goes behind enemy lines to blow up heavy Nazi artillery...

  • The Fighting Prince of Donegal picture
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    The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)

    Adventures of an Irish rebel in the reign of Elizabeth I.

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    The Wild Pack

    A girl orphaned at a young age becomes the spark for a violent confrontation between two street...

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    Movies

    Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954)

    The courageous Roy Roy MacGregor leads a revolt of the Scottish clans against the English monarchy,...

  • The Wages of Fear picture
    Movies

    The Wages of Fear (1955)

    Four men take on the dangerous mission of driving two nitroglycerin-laden trucks through harsh...

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    They Who Dare

    During World War II, a team of British and Greek soldiers are given an assignment to blow up a...

  • Treasure of the Golden Condor picture
    Movies

    Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)

    A French nobleman searches for treasure in the jungles of Guatemala after losing his estate to his...

  • Jackie Chan's Project A picture
    Movies

    Jackie Chan's Project A

    A man (Jackie Chan) tries to protect 19th-century Hong Kong from pirates.