
09 Mar 1942

A Singing Girl
A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Courage echoes forever.
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Adrienne Pargiter
Dr. Verstak
Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
Susan Macarthy
Topsy Merritt
Rosemary Leighton-Jones
Mrs. Dickson
Sister Wilhelminia
Mrs. Roberts
Mrs. Tippler
Sergeant Tomiashi, 'The Snake'
Captain Tanaka
the interpreter
Colonel Hirota
Mrs. Pike
Wing
Edna
Oggi
Bett
Bill Seary
09 Mar 1942
A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
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One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
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The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
15 Dec 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
07 Nov 1997
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
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A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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04 Apr 2025
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