A Sede que Mata (2018)

Swoff (Jake Gyllenhaal) é a terceira geração de sua família a servir ao exército. Ele passa pelo campo de treinamento antes de ser designado para lutar no Iraque, onde precisa carregar seu fuzil e cerca de 50 quilos de equipamento nas costas através de desertos escaldantes. Estando em local que não entende, lutando contra um inimigo que não consegue ver e sem entender direito o porquê de estar ali, Swoff e seus companheiros de batalhão sobrevivem à adversidade local usando o humor negro e o sarcasmo.

Em março de 1991, foi assinado o cessar-fogo na Guerra do Golfo. Em meio às comemorações no acampamento norte-americano, um mapa é descoberto junto a um dos prisioneitos iraquianos. Mostrando a rota de um tesouro enterrado no deserto do Iraque, quatro soldados americanos resolvem partir em sua busca.

Bennett Marco é um oficial americano com problemas de insónias, que sofreu uma emboscada no deserto do Kuwait, da qual foi salvo pelo heroísmo do sargento Raymond Shaw. À noite, todavia, os pesadelos de Marco revelam-lhe indícios sinistros de que a verdadeira história daquela emboscada tem outra explicação que não a oficialmente aceite e que Raymond Shaw não é o herói impoluto que parece.

Bob Wilton é um repórter que tenta se perder de propósito dentro de uma guerra para que ele termine um casamento, mas ele conhece um agente das forças especiais, que revela a existência de uma unidade psíquica militar cujo objetivo é acabar com a guerra.

Brandon Beckett e Richard Miller são dois atiradores de elite encarregados de proteger um oleoduto contra um ataque terrorista. A situação se complica e os dois soldados deverão usar toda a sua habilidade para salvar suas próprias vidas.

Baseada no provocante romance de Alicia Erian, Tabu narra a história de superação de Jasira, uma garota de 13 anos, entrando na adolescência. Durante a guerra do Iraque, ela vive com a sua mãe americana e o futuro padrasto, que está encantado com a crescente maturidade da garota. Por isso, sua mãe a envia para o Texas com seu rígido pai Libanês. Este trata de educá-la nos valores tradicionais da cultura mulçumana. Entretanto, Jasira segue sem saber muito bem o que fazer com sua sexualidade quando nota que seu corpo afeta os homens que a rodeiam, em especial seu vizinho, um atraente intolerante soldado da marinha. Towelhead, no inglês, (alternativamente intitulado Nothing Is Private ) é um filme de drama americano de 2007 escrito e dirigido por Alan Ball e baseado no romance homônimo de Alicia Erian . O filme fez sua estreia mundial no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Toronto em 8 de setembro de 2007 sob o nome Nothing Is Private .

O presidente dos Estados Unidos (Michael Belson), a poucos dias antes da eleição, se vê envolvido em um escândalo sexual e, diante deste quadro, não vê muita chance de ser reeleito. Assim, um dos seus assessores entra em contato com um produtor de Hollywood (Dustin Hoffman) para que este "invente" uma guerra na Albânia, na qual o presidente poderia ajudar a terminar, além de desviar a atenção pública para outro fato bem mais apropriado para interesses eleitoreiros.

Num acampamento do Exército, Forte Baxter, chega um novo recruta e tem a surpresa de ver que o lugar parece um cassino, comandado por um Sargento simpático, Ernie Bilko, que só se preocupa em apostas e jogatina, sob o olhar complacente do Comandante Coronel John Hall. Até que aparece ali um velho inimigo o Major Thorn.

A história começa no Kuwait, durante a Guerra do Golfo, quando oficiais norte-americanos são abatidos acidentalmente por eles mesmos - o chamado "fogo amigo". Um deles é Sam Harper, cujo corpo é velado na sua cidade natal durante as comemorações do Dia da Independência. E exatamente a meia noite do dia 4 de julho, três jovens profanam alguns túmulos e queimam a bandeira dos Estados Unidos, fazendo com que o oficial morto volte para um acerto de contas com todos os que falam mal do seu país ou desrespeitam o "american way of life". Ironicamente, o zumbi se veste com as roupas do Tio Sam, símbolo do exército norte-americano!

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been the hell itself is presented to the viewer in such beautiful sights and beautiful music that one has to be fascinated by it.

História de um encobrimento nas forças armadas.

20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.

When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.

The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.

Highly interesting documentary Concorde's Last Flight tells the story of this eventually ill fated super plane, which could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours and travelled at twice the speed of sound but it was it's final flight and the crash just outside Paris of Air France Flight AF4590 that ultimately sealed its fate. Ten years later the French Courts are still trying to discover just what happened and who, if anyone, was to blame.

After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.