The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Germans so successfully he was awarded their highest honour, the Iron Cross, the only UK citizen ever to have received one.
19381 Matches Found
The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Germans so successfully he was awarded their highest honour, the Iron Cross, the only UK citizen ever to have received one.
La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère.
Frank, an introspective astrophysics major, visits a remote lab to work with his mentor; doctor Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that Helen; a young woman seemingly from another world, a metaphysical realm, has been taken in by the doctor. The unexplainable phenomena that follow force Frank and doctor Roberts to look at life from a different angle.
Bruno finally decided to move in with his new girlfriend, Camille. The very same day his ex-girlfriend shows up on his doorstep. And Bruno has sex with her. But, when he wants to remove himself, it's impossible to split the couple. Thus starts a desperate quest to unlock themselves before Camille comes.
Greg Davies, the star of BAFTA-winning TV series and hit film "The Inbetweeners," presents his own solo show: "Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog."
Nuclear security expert Katja Wernecke (Ulrike Folkerts) helps cover up a fire in the German nuclear reactor she works in, before the government takes a decision on extending the usage license for it. But the press uncovers it. PR man Steffen Stratmann (Matthias Koerbelin) is brought in to improve the companies image - but before he can implement his plan a nuclear meltdown occurs. 2m people have to be evacuated. Wernecke re-enters the hot zone to investigate the cause...
An 80-year-old lonely man feels sorry for the loss of his wife and the divorce of his son. One day, his old maid makes a hopeful dream. For her, that is for sure, the situation will be getting better soon.
A boy from Sumenep, Madura Island, participates in the International Physics Olympiad in Singapore to find his mother who left him to work in Singapore when he was a child.
Tom Winkler and Alina Liebermann are the heart and soul of the Altkirch Strategy Consulting restructuring team. Smart, intelligent and extremely effective, they always work flawlessly as a perfect team. If they didn't work together so professionally, they would have been a couple for a long time, Alina hopes. But so far, to her regret, there has never been a truly private moment between them. Altkirch Strategy Consulting is a management consultancy that looks after the profitability of ailing companies. Their latest assignment is the mechanical engineering company Salerno AG in Oberhausen. Once there, it quickly becomes clear that the company's employees do not see the team of consultants as helpers, but rather as the enemy. After all, the restructuring of the company could mean its possible closure and thus jeopardize the existence of thousands of jobs.
Pearl Jam play live at Praça da Apoteose, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on November 6th 2011. >> SETLIST: Unthought Known, Last Exit, Blood, Corduroy, Given to Fly, Nothingman, Faithfull, Even Flow, Daughter (with "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Ramones) tag), Habit, Immortality, The Fixer, Got Some, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Why Go, Rearviewmirror >> ENCORE: Just Breathe, Come Back, I Believe in Miracles (Ramones cover), State of Love and Trust, Of the Earth, Do the Evolution, Jeremy >> ENCORE 2: Mother (Pink Floyd cover) (First performance at a proper concert), Better Man, Black, Alive, Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover), Indifference, Yellow Ledbetter
Trente tableaux is a 2011 autobiographical feature documentary by Quebec film director Paule Baillargeon, made during her two-year film residency with the National Film Board of Canada. It is an anthology film composed of 30 short portraits—or tableau vivant—of her 66 years of life to date, reflecting her experiences as a woman in Quebec's changing society.
"Fist of Dragon" tells the story of Li, who comes to South East Asia by the request of his father to help out his uncle who has been facing financial difficulties. Li, upon arriving in the town, feels out of place due to the differences in cultures of the people here. When he discovers that his uncle has been facing many hardships posed by the local mobsters, Li decided to stay and to help his uncle and get rid of them. However, Li encounter numerous resistances from the locals as Li's action brings the wrath of the triad and drags the whole town into turmoil. Moreover, his uncle's daughter, Lily is on the triad side, and their relationship is badly affected when the confrontation between the two groups reach its peak.
Donald is a Nigerian immigrant who after being expelled from Spain three years ago, has returned to meet again with Teresa, with whom he had a secret love affair. But on arrival he finds that she has married and is mother of a child. However, the return of Donald wakes strong contradictions in her. By chance, Donald starts working in the garage of Carmen, where Antonio also works, who ignores what happened between his wife and his new partner. Francisco, a foreman of the town and Carmen's suitor, cannot stand the situation. The tension between these frustrated passions ends up playing a key role in the outcome of a seemingly impossible love.
The banker Vagif Fataliyev is found murdered in his own house. During the investigation, two more murders occur one after the other.
The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.
Geografens Testamente explores the mysterious geography of Sweden, The Nordics and Europe with clues into a deep, thrilling and exciting adventure, that you will never forget.
A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.
The vast Amazon hides many secrets. And Amazonian shamans surprise us with their abilities and knowledge. They can cure even so-called incurable diseases because they communicate directly with plants, which tell them how to heal. Local shamans can leave their bodies, travel across the Earth and the universe, download any information, and learn anything that interests them. The key to this is ayahuasca, a mysterious vine whose decoction not only heals and cleanses a person on all levels, but also gives them knowledge of anything in this world and in worlds yet unknown, opening the door to other dimensions...
An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.
In the final, climactic musical finale to the Deck'd series, 18-year-old Peter Bell finds himself revelling in his new Christmas celebrity status. But when Peter's Christmas-adventuring pal, Hark the Herald Angel, is accused of a heinous Christmas crime, Peter lets his ego get the best of him, and finds himself arrogantly standing up to the laws of Santa Claus himself!
A neo-noir dark comedy about two competitive, philosophically self-absorbed best friends who make an ill-conceived bet: The first person to meet, date, and successfully propose to a woman online wins $500.
Feminine and romantic melodrama that women are the main target audience. The story of four intersecting narratives are intertwined and linked together. Foojan released the designer has to ...
A young biracial woman raised in France travels to Burkina Faso in search of the mother she hasn’t seen in many years. Meanwhile, in Paris, an émigré from Burkina Faso who makes her living as a cleaner teaches the Dioula language to a white middle-class office worker, in this affecting story of global displacement.
German nature film from 2011. Mention the "Elm Fight" in Sweden and most people there think of when protesters and police fought in Kungsträdgården in 1972. But only for a few years previously, a stealthy enemy had reached Sweden, which today threatens the elms far more than any city planner.
Part Time Fabulous weaves a narrative of love, pain, and healing with real-life stories in an exposé on living with Clinical Depression. Mel falls in love with Don while on vacation. So taken with each other, he moves in twelve days later. It's not until then that her deep-rooted and untreated Clinical Depression reveals itself.
Sonora, Mexico, 1852, during the war with the Apaches and the invasion of the United States to Mexico, a carrier decides to leave his homeland to seek better life in Mexico, for it is forced to cross the land of the Chiricahua in search of gold.
Edward, Susan, and their son, Lino, live a nice life in the suburbs having all that their bourgeois life can afford. Then, one day and without warning, stinky, brown, "doughy" stuff starts appearing outside their expensive and luxurious home. Despite their son's pleas to get their hands dirt and clean it up, the parents insist that this is "someone else's job"
The film follows 40-year-old Nana, who takes a $100,000 loan to open a sex shop. She agrees to an affair with the credit department head for the loan and a job for her son. Her husband, Zaza, disapproves and hires detective Tamuna.
In the woods, in the middle of the night, a girl is running for help. She sees a light and is drawn to an old house. Inside, a young man is lost in mourning. She discovers that his mother has committed suicide, and he believes himself to be bad. The girl is in danger, but she has a secret. One that could save the boy or destroy him.
Seven years after the massacre of the first film, the survivors Niandra and Eliseu still fear the return of Geison, the terrible psychopath who mutilated his friends on a Friday the 13th. New murders start happening in the small town of Carlos Barbosa, putting a new generation of victims as targets of the killer. But who is behind that "Scream" mask?
Three first year junior high school teenagers lives closely in a housing complex since childhood.
Meet Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Now Jonny has given himself over, heart and heel, to the world of Running. Jonny let us follow him on a tour down the California coast as he braved injury and isolation on his quest to complete the Surf City USA Marathon in Huntington Beach, CA.
Three children befriend a spirit and take him home. The spirit helps the children to overcome their problems but things get tough for the spirit when an evil sorcerer tries to hunt him down.
Manuel passes 18 months at Buchenwald before his return to Paris. He wonders even before his arrival who will have the patience and passion to listen to his narrative. He chooses silence.
Alice har tröttnat på sin pålitlige men förutsägbare Bosse. Hon håller så smått på att kasta sig i armarna på en annan man. Bosse söker å sin sida tröst hos vännen John som rekommenderar sin egen metod: att antyda otrohet och låta svartsjukan rädda äktenskapet. Bosse väljer dock att ”kompromettera sig” med Johns fru Wiwianne. Tillsammans övar de förförelse utan att på allvar förföra någon och därmed är otrohetskarusellen i gång.
Maria is happy. Her little sister Kira returns after being gone for a bunch of months, caused by the death of their beloved mother. When Maria and Kira stayed at their family's house for the first night after a long time, strangers enter the house and start a night full of fear, horror and torture. Everyone who enters the family's house has to fight for his life... What do the strangers want? And what is the secret behind the family's past?
Antonio decides to break free of his mundane existence and rents a silver convertible to take his wife on a dream vacation. Everything seems perfect. Except he doesn't know the way.
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Two couples belonging to different social strata got intertwined by coincidences face different kinds crisis on a day. The corporate executive and his wife face an unforeseen and bewildering situation when they confront a burglar first and later the burglar's wife. Meanwhile an expensive necklace went missing from their apartment and was later discovered shining on the burglar's wife who claimed it's ownership!
Randall, a hard working yet fragile soul faces his inner demons buried behind a drag queen persona while pursuing the dream of a lifetime.
Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated and surprised that at night they dance. Such frankness among Arabic women is all too rare in films.
Rookie is a German spoof on several movies, e.g, Forrest Gump, Rocky, Rambo, Indiana Jones, Predator, Star Trek, Spider Man and The Wizard of Oz. Story: After a failed career as a boxer, Rookie is going to search for Sam in the Vietnamese jungle.
A feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a story of rebellion, love, and discovery unfolds. Shot entirely in public spaces, and funded entirely by crowd-sourcing, the film is a statement about the power of community and public space. Set to the album "All Day" by mashup musician Girl Talk, it's also an insanely fun love letter to New York.
Panic over, he’s back! Everyone’s favourite grumbling funny man and star of BBC2’s Mock The Week, Andy Parsons is back on the road in 2011 with his brand new show, Gruntled. Britain's foremost topical comedian returns to the stage and DVD for more logically rigorous, cutting edge comedy. Expect the usual clever politically inspired bemusements and disappointedly crushed enthusiasm. This is a sharp, thought provoking show by one of our most astute comedians in the UK.
Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of conflict.
A man goes to rescue his ex-girlfriend from an underground ski cult.
Romeo is a romantic Bengali film directed by Sujit Mondol and starring Dev and Subhashree Ganguly in lead roles with Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Laboni Sarkar, Koushik Banerjee in supporting roles, whilst the music was scored by critically acclaimed Jeet Ganguly. The film was released on 4 November 2011. It is an official remake of the Telugu movie Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam. It was a flop for Dev after a long time.
An unsuspecting family on a road trip stumbles into a motel on a seedy stretch on historic Route 66. From the outside this looks like any other budget motel, but as the doors slowly open they uncover a world of sin, addiction, pain, longing and desperation from which there is little chance of escape.
While on the lookout for her missing son, Susie has an intimate encounter with his friend.
At the age of thirteen, Monette is already forced to realize that money plays an important role in life. As a result of the economic crisis, her father Frank becomes unemployed from one day to the next. This has unexpected consequences for the whole family. They have to say goodbye to their detached family home and move into a much smaller apartment. In contrast to her sister, who finds the new circumstances very difficult, Monette is a modest girl. What really bothers her, however, is that there are suddenly a lot of arguments in the family, almost always about money, and mutual recriminations. Monette doesn't want her family to suffer and thinks back and forth about what she could do to get money. In the end, she comes up with the abstruse idea of auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder on the internet.
A 35 year old woman - Alice Bell - is at a point of re-examination, wondering how her life went so wrong over the last ten years.
Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads in their lives.
Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely take over the Superman stories to refocus and revitalize them, centered on a more relaxed and reflective Superman.
An enraged and influential gangster plans the ultimate vengeance against an honest police officer.