Category: History
Posted on May 13, 2013 |
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The Great Escape (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller | War
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. Based on a true story.
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Sturges
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Posted on May 10, 2013 |
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Masquerade / Gwanghae, Wangyidoen namja (2012)
Drama | History
King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-Hun) has been the King for the past 8 years. He now suspects that someone within the royal court is attempting to poison him. In response, King Gwanghae orders his councilor Heo Gyun (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) to find someone that looks like him to sit in his throne.
Heo Gyun then comes across a clown named Ha-Sun (Lee Byung-Hun), who performs lewd shows in front of drunken noblemen. Ha-Sun indeed strongly resembles King Gwanghae and is even able to imitate the way King Gwanghae speaks. Heo Gyun takes Ha-Sun to the royal palace without giving any explanations. At night, Ha-Sun takes the King's seat, while the King slips away to his mistress's home.
A short time later, King Gwanghae collapses and is taken to a safe house. Meanwhile, Ha-Sun continues his ruse as the King until the King can recover. Slowly, Ha-Sun's own personality comes out and the people in the King's inner court notice the changes. The King appears more humane to those around him and far less volatile. While Ha-Sun's true voice comes out, enemies within the King's inner circle plan their next move.
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Seung-yong Ryoo, Hyo-ju Han, In-kwon Kim, Gwang Jang, Eun-kyung Shim, Myung-gon Kim
Director: Chang-min Choo
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Tags: Byung-hun Lee, Chang-min Choo, Eun-kyung Shim, Gwang Jang, Hyo-ju Han, In-kwon Kim, Myung-gon Kim, Seung-yong Ryoo
Posted on May 5, 2013 | Comments Off on The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-CtrlHD
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Drama | History | War
In 1920, rural Ireland is the permanent battlefield of republican rebels against the British troops and their well-paid, local collaborator militia, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy
Director: Ken Loach
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Posted on May 3, 2013 |
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Drama | History | Western
It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West.
Starring: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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Ripples of Desire / Hua Yang (2012)
Action | Drama | History | Romance
The height of gaiety on Piao Dao. Merchants and pirates may have their treasures but the biggest prizes are the sensational twin singing courtesans…
Starring: Michelle Chen, Yi-han Chen, Joe Cheng, Xiaoran Li, Zhiru Lin, Zijun Mao, Sandra Ng, Yongzhi Pang, Simon Yam, Jerry Yan
Director: Meiling Zhou
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Tags: Jerry Yan, Joe Cheng, Meiling Zhou, Michelle Chen, Sandra Ng, Simon Yam, Xiaoran Li, Yi-han Chen, Yongzhi Pang, Zhiru Lin, Zijun Mao
Posted on April 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Seven Years in Tibet (1997) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-DON
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of the Allied forces as a prisoner of war. He and a fellow escapee, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), make their way to the Forbidden City of Tibet, where Peter finds a wife and Heinrich befriends the Western culture-obsessed teenage Dalai Lama (Jaamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk), the spiritual leader of his Buddhist nation. As Heinrich waits out the war, his friendship with the Dalai Lama begins to transform him from naughty to humble.
Starring: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Posted on April 21, 2013 |
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Rurouni Kenshin / Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)
Action | Drama | History
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those who need without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When the cruel Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, and Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.
Starring: Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Kôji Kikkawa, Taketo Tanaka
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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Posted on April 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Asura (2012) BluRay 720p x264 AC3-MySiLU
Asura (2012)
Animation | History | Horror
Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Yoshihiro Ike, Kinya Kitaohgi, Masako Nozawa
Director: Kei'ichi Sato
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Posted on April 11, 2013 | Comments Off on The Mission (1986) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDWinG
The Mission (1986)
Adventure | Drama | History
A man of the sword and a man of the cloth unite to shield a South American tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Roland Joffe
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Posted on April 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Hyde Park On Hudson (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Director: Roger Michell
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Posted on April 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Fire Over England (1937) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-HRiP
Fire Over England (1937)
Adventure | History | Romance | War
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Morton Selten, Tamara Desni
Director: William K. Howard
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Posted on March 31, 2013 | Comments Off on The Brussels Business (2012) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-CtrlHD
The Brussels Business / The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? (2012)
Documentary | History
THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.
Starring: Catherine Ashton, Leon Brittan, Maria Green Cowles, Etienne Davignon, Olivier Hoedeman
Director: Matthieu Lietaert, Friedrich Moser
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Posted on March 27, 2013 | Comments Off on The Last Supper (2012) BluRay 720p DTS x264-CHD
The Last Supper / Wang De Sheng Yan (2012)
Action | History
After years of war that led to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang has become paranoid about conspirators around him and plagued by nightmares. In his nightmares, he begins to remember his rise to the throne, starting with his days as a peasant fighting the Qin ruler under the leadership of Xiang Yu. However, when Liu is suspected of betraying Xiang by entering the Qin Palace before his lord after their victory, Xiang's advisors conspire to kill Liu during a banquet at Hong Gate. Liu escapes and wins a brutal war with Xiang's forces, thanks to help from defected general Han Xin. However, Liu's victory prompts him to rethink the Hong Gate banquet and the events surrounding it.
Starring: Ye Liu, Daniel Wu, Chen Chang
Director: Chuan Lu
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Posted on March 26, 2013 | Comments Off on Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-HD4FUN
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Director: Roger Michell
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Posted on March 22, 2013 | Comments Off on The Last Emperor (1987) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay DD5.1 x264-DON
The Last Emperor (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable-the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Posted on March 22, 2013 | Comments Off on The Grand Heist (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
The Grand Heist / Gone With The Wind / Baramgwa hamjje sarajida(2012)
Action | Comedy | History
In late 18th century ice is a commodity more valuable than gold. When corrupt officials conspire to form a monopoly and fix its price, a gang of 11 professionals is formed to steal all the royal ice blocks in five storage for a night.
Starring: Tae-hyun Cha, Lee Chae-Young, Gil-dong Kim, Hyang-gi Kim, Chang-Seok Ko, Hyo-rin Min, Ji-ho Oh
Director: Joo-ho Kim
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Posted on March 21, 2013 |
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Utomlennye solntsem / Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Drama | History
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom – and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call…
Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Ilin
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
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Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Corações Sujos / Dirty Hearts (2011)
Drama | History | Thriller
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated – by their own countrymen – causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
Starring: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa, Eiji Okuda, Shun Sugata, Kimiko Yo, Eduardo Moscovis, Celine Fukumoto
Director: Vicente Amorim
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Posted on March 14, 2013 | Comments Off on Rebellion (2011) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-EbP
Rebellion / L'ordre et la morale (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Posted on March 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Nightwatching (2007) BluRay 720p x264 DTS-MySiLU
Nightwatching (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting "The Night Watch".
Starring: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Toby Jones
Director: Peter Greenaway
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