Rojo atardecer (1959)
The Major was used to having his way - and he meant to take this lovely iceberg - by force if necessary
Género : Drama, Romance, Bélica
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 6M
Director : Anatole Litvak
Escritor : George Tabori
Sinopsis
1956, invasión de Hungría. Unos ciudadanos intentan huir de Hungría cuando el país es invadido por las tropas soviéticas encargadas de reprimir la revuelta popular contra el gobierno comunista húngaro. El autobús en el que viajan es detenido por un oficial soviético, que se siente atraído por una mujer británica que se encuentra entre los pasajeros.
Primavera de 1945. Son los últimos días de la batalla de la liberación de Hungría. Jóska, el protagonista, tiene 17 años. Como miembro de una joven organización de estudiantes desertores es llevado a Alemania, pero se escapa.
Budapest, Hungría, Navidad de 1957. El Estado, inseguro después del fracaso de la revolución de 1956 y sometido cada vez más a la influencia de una renovada atmósfera estalinista, ha decretado que todos los oficiales de seguridad deben pasar un examen para verificar su lealtad. Pero para ser realmente efectivo en un mundo sombrío donde reinan la sospecha y los secretos, los sujetos deben ignorar que están siendo probados.
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
At early 16th century a priest joins the spanish conquerros in order to bring christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.
This is a historical account of an army officer in 1759 who managed to gather together and train 400 civilians for a special mission to try to repel an incoming Burmese army contingent.
El profesor Withmore llega a Budapest con la intención de desentrañar el misterio de unas tablillas de hace más de 5000 años. (almasoscuras)
En la calle lo llaman "salsa de soja" y transporta a los que la toman a través del tiempo. Sin embargo, cuando algunos regresan ya no son seres humanos. Así es como se produce una invasión silenciosa de la Tierra que hace que la humanidad necesite urgentemente un héroe. Aquí aparecen John y David, un par de desertores de la universidad que apenas son capaces de mantener un trabajo. ¿Podrán estos dos seres aterrados salvar a tiempo a la humanidad?.
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
Un grupo de soldados del ejército estadounidense que participaron en la Guerra de Vietnam están organizando una misión: su objetivo es hacer estallar un nuevo conflicto, cuanto más grande mejor, que les haga aumentar la industria armamentística de su país y, así, obtener grandes beneficios. La Unión Soviética no está dispuesta a que esto ocurra y manda a un soldado a frenar la operación. Pero no es un soldado cualquiera, se trata del comandante Shatokhin, un auténtico héroe de la URSS que no parará hasta realizar su cometido.
The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the Socialist Republic of Germany. A favorable moment for a military attack approaches and plans are developed. These plans are placed in the hands of Major Collins, who keeps them in a safe. Hansen has worked for him for many years, but also for the Stasi as a double agent. Security Chief Colonel Rock knows there is a leak, but Hansen has passed every test thrown at him. He is trying to deal with his current assignment: acquiring the plans so they can be made public. His mission is to get them out of the safe and into the GDR without getting caught.
Un oficial de inteligencia de los Estados Unidos, destinado en Berlin tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), se ve atrapado en un dilema político cuando los rusos secuestran un soldado norteamericano, hijo de un importante hombree de negocios. Pretenden canjearlo por un matrimonio de ancianos alemanes, a los que buscan por traición.
Una mujer anciana es dueña del apartamento en que vive con su hijo. La mujer está enferma, y una joven enfermera, acompañada por su novio, se ha mudado con ella para administrarle las inyecciones. (FILMAFFINITY)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
It's the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World leaders in a panic. Fears about the nature of the satellite force the United States to send an agent undercover behind the Iron Curtain to discover what the Soviets have learned. What he finds is the Communists have used the information acquired from their spy satellite to help them perfect a new and even more deadly nuclear weapon.
A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur.
A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deliriously nihilistic, and convoluted, than you could imagine. Also known as War of the Insects, GENOCIDE enacts a cracked doomsday scenario like no other.
Londres, 1962. Ginger y Rosa son dos adolescentes amigas inseparables. Juntas hacen novillos, hablan de amor, religión y política, y sueñan con una vida más emocionante que la doméstica existencia de sus madres. Pero la creciente amenaza de la guerra nuclear proyecta una sombra sobre su futuro. Ginger se siente atraída por la poesía y por la protesta política, mientras que Rosa le enseña a Ginger a fumar, a besar a los chicos y a rezar. Las dos se rebelan contra sus respectivas madres.
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.