No Greater Love (2017)
VALOR DEPENDS ON LOVE
Género : Documental, Bélica
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 34M
Director : Justin Roberts
Sinopsis
No Greater Love explores a combat deployment through the eyes of an Army chaplain, as he and his men fight their way through a hellish tour in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan and then as they struggle to reintegrate home.
Basado en una novela best-seller, se ha convertido en la película más aclamada del año. Cuando eran pequeños, Amir y Hassan eran dos amigos inseparables hasta que un desafortunado hecho los separa. Años más tarde, Amir comenzará una peligrosa misión para corregir los errores del pasado - y redimirse a sí mismo en formas que nunca imaginó - demostrando además el máximo en valor y en devoción a su amigo. Dirigida por Marc Foster (Descubriendo Nunca Jamás, Bola de Monter), "Cometas en el cielo" nos permite creer que puede haber justicia en el mundo" - Richard Corliss, TIME
Conmovedora historia de varios individuos capturados en distintos lugares en una terrorífica guerra. Un senador (Cruise) que intenta convencer de una última "estrategia exhaustiva" a una periodista de una televisión (Streep). Un catedrático idealista (Redford) que intenta convecer a uno de sus estudiantes más promotedores (Garfield) de que cambie el rumbo de su vida. Y dos hombres jóvenes (Luke y Pena), luchando en las nevadas montañas de Afganistán, cuyos deseos de vivir una vida con sentido les conducen a unirse a las tropas americanas y luchar contra el terrorismo global.
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Remake del film danés de Susanne Bier, "Brothers (Brødre)" (2004). El capitán Sam Cahill, un condecorado marine, es enviado a combatir en Afganistán. Algunos meses después, el gobierno lo declara fallecido o desaparecido. Enterado de la noticia, su hermano pequeño Tommy se queda en Estados Unidos, cuidando de su cuñada Grace y sus sobrinos. Con el tiempo, Tommy se gana su cariño y llega a sustituir a su hermano como marido y como padre. Pero un día reciben una noticia inesperada, cuyas consecuencias sacudirán la unidad de la familia.
Un drama basado en las relaciones encubiertas en Afganistán del miembro del congreso de Texas Charlie Wilson, y de sus esfuerzos para ayudar a los rebeldes en su guerra contra los soviéticos, que tienen algunos efectos imprevistos y de largo alcance.
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
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Five people - two Indian journalists, an American journalist, an Afghan guide and a Pakistani soldier who takes them all hostage - are taken on a 48-hour journey into Afghanistan in a jeep called the Kabul Express, a special and unlikely bond developing between them along the way.
Tras combatir en la guerra de Afganistán, el soldado Robert Miller (Toby Kebbell) regresa a su casa de Inglaterra. Pronto encuentra trabajo de vigilante encubierto y empieza a obsesionarse con un grupo de gángsteres que están relacionados con una célula terrorista. Firmemente decidido a investigar por su cuenta, se verá envuelto en una situación enormemente peligrosa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ben Anderson looks at the in-country experiences of the International Security Assistance Force after the American invasion of Afghanistan, especially in Helmand Province.
The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
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