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Shrek(2001)

3.9/5 (with 7,977 votes)

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

Shrek 2(2004)

3.7/5 (with 5,730 votes)

Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fairy godmother discovers that Shrek has married Fiona instead of her Son Prince Charming and sets about destroying their marriage.

RRR(2022)

NR
| 3h 7min | Action, Drama
3.9/5 (with 465 votes)

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Rambo III(1988)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
3.1/5 (with 1,367 votes)

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

The Pianist(2002)

R
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Peter Pan(2003)

PG
| 1h 53min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 1,178 votes)

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.

S.W.A.T.(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 1,092 votes)

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.

Nowhere to Run(1993)

3.2/5 (with 298 votes)

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over(2003)

2.5/5 (with 960 votes)

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

The Dark Crystal(1982)

3.6/5 (with 466 votes)

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor(1985)

2.7/5 (with 123 votes)

The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.

Losing Isaiah(1995)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.

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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, War
2.9/5 (with 115 votes)

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974)

1h 49min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 128 votes)

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

The Two of Us(1967)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 33 votes)

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.

The Liberation of Skopje(2016)

1h 50min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and a German officer will help his family get through the hard times….

O Astrapogiannos(1970)

1h 56min | Drama, War, Adventure
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

Innocence Unprotected(1968)

1h 15min | Drama, Documentary
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A documentary about the famous athlete and movie enthusiast who made Serbia's first sound film, Innocence Unprotected. The Nazi occupation of Belgrade prevented the film from gaining wider acclaim. Director Makavejev intersperses clips of the original film with interviews of surviving cast and crew members, as well as newsreel and archival footage.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev

Convoy of Women(1974)

1h 19min | Western, Adventure, War
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

On the coast of France, the police are raiding the streets and taverns at night in search of girls to send to the colonists in North America. A ship takes these girls to America, where they are placed in carts leaving for territories where colonists and soldiers are expecting them.

Countdown at Kusini(1976)

PG
| 1h 41min | Drama

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

Directed by Ossie Davis - With Ruby Dee

My Friend Rashed(2011)

1h 36min | War
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

Directed by Morshedul Islam - With Raisul Islam Asad, Pijush Bandyopadhyay, Chowdhury Zawata Afnan, Wahida Mollick Jolly, Enamul Haque, Arman Parvez Murad, ...

Before It Ends(2023)

1h 30min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The film is inspired by true events and depicts a sensitive chapter in the history of Denmark: The handling of approximately 250.000 German refugees who came to Denmark right before the country´s liberation in the spring of 1945. When a Folk High School is turned into an internment camp for 500 German refugees, the headmaster family is thrust into an impossible dilemma. Should they go against the Danes´ anti-German sentiment and help the refugees – or stand firm in the resistance against the Germans?

Directed by Anders Walter - With Pilou Asbæk, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Ulrich Thomsen, Morten Hee Andersen, Peter Kurth, Jens Jørn Spottag, ...

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile(2012)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Independence Night(1948)

52min | Crime, Drama
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Park, Ohn - Ran (Kim Shin - jae) has been watching the surroundings of the pawn shop owner Min - ga, who is the enemy who killed his father with Song (Choi Dong - san) for five years. The private house tries to rape her daughter who does not recognize her daughter Sunhee to leave the ring. Young-gil (Choi In-gyu) goes in front of the pawn shop and saves Sun-hee and the two hide in a nearby warehouse. Sunhee left after the mother who was driven by the private house and came back from liberation. Song binds Sunhee and Kyungil, but Olan releases her, saying that the house is the enemy and not the daughter. And after hearing the conversation between the two, he finds that he is his younger brother.

Surface Waves(2015)

4min | Music
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A wordless woman rises to confront herself through a dance of self-liberation. Featuring choreography and dance by Carolyn Pavlik, along with an original soundtrack by Robin Guthrie, the film evokes a mystical story-line of struggle and release.

Blue Hours(2020)

13min | Crime, Drama

A family man is extorted to kill another man in less than 24 hours. Everything changes when he decides not to.

Espoir, vertu d'esclave(2008)

1h 10min | Documentary, History

- No description / details available yet. -

Naples Is a Battlefield(1944)

14min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.