Tag Archives: nazi

Black Book

IMDB Rating: 8.00
17567 votes

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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team.
Actors
DI John RebusKen Stott
DS Siobhan ClarkeClaire Price
DI DalcastleRobert Cavanah
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

Marathon Man

IMDB Rating: 7.60
14066 votes

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Babe's brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.
Actors
Thomas 'Babe' LevyDustin Hoffman
Dr. Christian SzellLaurence Olivier
Henry 'Doc' LevyRoy Scheider
Also posted in 1976, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

IMDB Rating: 8.70
125868 votes

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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: "Hello, Dimitri....I'm fine....Now then, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb....The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb....Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders...he went a little funny in the head....and he went and did a silly thing....He ordered his planes to attack your country." A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating "all our precious bodily fluids" as part of their plan to take over the world." Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian's ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.
Actors
Group Captain Lionel MandrakePeter Sellers
President Merkin MuffleyPeter Sellers
Dr. StrangelovePeter Sellers
Also posted in 1964, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Adam Resurrected

IMDB Rating: 6.60
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"Adam Resurrected" follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer—cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician—loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. "Who brought a dog in here?" he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog but Adam finds him—a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs—and their journey begins. "Adam Resurrected" is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
Actors
Adam SteinJeff Goldblum
Commandant KleinWillem Dafoe
VolkCristian Motiu
Also posted in 2008, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Schindler’s List

IMDB Rating: 8.90
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"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
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Oskar SchindlerLiam Neeson
Itzhak SternBen Kingsley
Amon GoethRalph Fiennes
Also posted in 1993, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (0)

Twilight Zone: The Movie

IMDB Rating: 6.30
9227 votes

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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood's famous directors based on TV's most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode "A Quality of Mercy") a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940's France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of 'Kick the Can') an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of 'It's a Good Life') a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.
Actors
PassengerDan Aykroyd
Ambulance DriverDan Aykroyd
Car DriverAlbert Brooks
Also posted in 1983, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Valkyrie

IMDB Rating: 7.50
12334 votes

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Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.
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Col. Claus von StauffenbergTom Cruise
Albert SpeerManfred-Anton Algrang
Adolf HitlerDavid Bamber
Also posted in 2008, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Thriller | Comments (0)

Journey Into Fear

IMDB Rating: 6.70
900 votes

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L'ingegnere Graham e sua moglie stanno viaggiando attraverso la Turchia. Una notte subiscono un apparente attentato. Il colonnello Haki, capo della polizia segreta turca, consiglia ai due di lasciare immediatamente il paese. Sulla nave su cui sta viaggiando Graham incontra strani e misteriosi personaggi. Sfuggito a vari attentati alla sua vita, sfugge agli agenti nazisti e raggiunge la moglie. Banat, un agente nazista, vorrebbe uccidere l'ingegnere, ma Haki lo salva, lanciando il nazista giù dal cornicione del palazzo dove si sono scontrati all'ultimo sangue.
Actors
Howard GrahamJoseph Cotten
Josette MartelDolores del Rio
Mrs. Stephanie GrahamRuth Warrick
Also posted in 1943, Drama, Film-Noir, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Miracle at St. Anna

IMDB Rating: 5.60
2485 votes

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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
Actors
2nd Staff Sergeant Aubrey StampsDerek Luke
Sergeant Bishop CummingsMichael Ealy
Corporal Hector NegronLaz Alonso
Also posted in 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

IMDB Rating: 6.40
559 votes

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Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS. During WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France. Heinrich would come and go. Julio was a playboy. Chichi joined the resistance and was eventually tortured to death by Gestapo. Julio has a relation to a woman whose husband is a POW, and who will after release become a district leader within the resistance movement. Julio eventually feels that it is his duty to fight the Nazis. With a firm reputation as a superficial playboy, he can attend the nightclub favoured by German officers and gather much important information. Finally he and another partisan (posing as his chauffeur) accept a highly important suicidal task involving a courtesy call to Heinrich.
Actors
Julio DesnoyersGlenn Ford
Marguerite LaurierIngrid Thulin
Marcelo DesnoyersCharles Boyer
Also posted in 1962, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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