
01 Jan 1994

Leni
A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home.

Deception. The greatest weapon in war.
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Ewen Montagu

Charles Cholmondeley

Jean Leslie

Hester Leggett

Ian Fleming

Admiral John Godfrey

Ivor Montazac

Iris Montazac

Bentley Purchase

Winston Churchill

Sgt. Roger Dearborn / Glyndwr Michael

Adolf Clauss

Connie Bukes

John Masterman

Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley

Capt. David Ainsworth

Salvador Gomez-Beare

Jock Horsfall

Charles Fraser-Smith

Karl Kuhlenthal

01 Jan 1994

A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home.

27 Jul 1938

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

22 May 1972

Based on the novel by Peter Edel: the fate of a young Jewish couple during the Nazi era, who, full of dreams and hopes, search for ways to escape the inhumane situation in Hitler's Germany. In their hopeless situation, they meet a man who leads them down a contradictory and dangerous path, but at the end of which lies a new beginning.Part 1: "Friday Evening," Part 2: "The Decision," Part 3: "The Return," Part 4: "The Summons."
21 Oct 1958
Songstress Mui Yee-wah falls head over heels for painter Wai Tik-fung despite their age difference. Because Wai is a married man, Mui's mother is against the match. Mui falls ill from grief. Rich heir Siu Kar-wai seizes the chance to successfully propose to Mui. However, Siu is unable to let go of Mui's past. In a fit of anger, he fires a deadly shot at Wai.

16 Jul 2008

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06 Dec 2020

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter four-year period inside Japanese POW camps in Hong Kong and Japan.
16 Oct 1967
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01 Jan 1979
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25 Dec 2024

Leo is a single, womanizing guy who lives day to day in a tiny beach town in the Canary Islands. One day one of his old flings, Julia, reappears to leave a baby of a few months in his arms and she disappears at the next morning.

31 Oct 2006

An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

12 Jan 1973

Historical movie set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII. Jackie Chan is one of the good guys but has nothing much more than a supporting role.

11 Nov 2014

As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.

09 Nov 1949

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

14 Oct 2001

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.

19 Dec 1968

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

15 Mar 1974

In 1944 Bulgaria switches sides and joins the war against Germany. The story focuses on the advance of the Bulgarian army through Yugoslavia and Hungary, as well as its internal struggles.

19 Apr 2009

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

15 Jan 1959

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

25 Aug 1995

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

24 Nov 1967

A group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.