The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini’s powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace. Year 2018.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Harold Cronk |
| Writer: Richard Friedenberg (screenplay by), Ken Hixon (screenplay by), Laura Hillenbrand (based on the book “Unbroken” by) |
| Actors: Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Bobby Campo, David Sakurai |
The seductive Messalina (Betty Roland) will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. Gaining the attention of the Emperor Caligula (Gino Turini), she soon finds herself at… Year 1981.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia, Jean-Jacques Renon(co-director) |
| Writer: Antonio Passalia |
| Actors: Vladimir Brajovic, Betty Roland, Françoise Blanchard, Raul Cabrera |
In Baghdad in the early 1900’s, a young woman rises up through the ranks of power within the Ottoman Empire. She and a eunuch plan an elaborate scheme for the release of the female slaves. Year 1999.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Ferzan Ozpetek |
| Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek (story and screenplay), Gianni Romoli (story and screenplay) |
| Actors: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosè, Valeria Golino |
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. Year 2000.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Gleb Panfilov |
| Writer: Inna Churikova, Gleb Panfilov, Ivan Panfilov |
| Actors: Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham, Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova |
Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival. Year 2005.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Writer: Yuriy Arabov, Jeremy Noble |
| Actors: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano |
When a young woman investigates her town’s Nazi past, the community turns against her. Year 1990.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Michael Verhoeven |
| Writer: Michael Verhoeven |
| Actors: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram |
‘Yellow Earth’ focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns… Year 1984.
| Generes: Drama, History, Music, Romance |
| Director: Kaige Chen |
| Writer: Kaige Chen, Lan Ke (novel), Ziliang Zhang (screenplay) |
| Actors: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan |
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. Year 1966.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Sergey Bondarchuk |
| Writer: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy (novel) |
| Actors: Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava |
N/A Year 1941.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Josef von Báky |
| Writer: Walter Lieck (play), Thea von Harbou (screenplay) |
| Actors: Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack, Karl Ludwig Diehl |
A young swordsman in 1930’s China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes “Let The Bullets Fly” and “Gone With The Bullets.” Year 2018.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Wen Jiang |
| Writer: Beihai Zhang (novel), Wen Jiang (screenplay), Jiping He (screenplay), Fei Li (screenplay), Yue Sun (screenplay) |
| Actors: Eddie Peng, Fan Liao, Yun Zhou, Qing Xu |
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century… Year 1987.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance |
| Director: Sergey Solovev |
| Writer: Sergey Livnev, Sergey Solovev |
| Actors: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov |
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. Year 2007.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Writer: Adolf Burger (book), Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay) |
| Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach |
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Vladimir Khotinenko |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Sergey Makovetskiy, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov |
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King … Year 2007.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, History, War |
| Director: Oleg Ryaskov |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov |
Based on a true story, North Face is a survival drama film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s … Year 2008.
| Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport |
| Director: Philipp Stölzl |
| Writer: Chris Silber, Philipp Stölzl, Rupert Henning, Johannes Naber, Benedikt Roeskau (story) |
| Actors: Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz |
During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. Year 2006.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Yimou Zhang |
| Writer: Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao (play), Nan Wu, Yimou Zhang |
| Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu |