The Prince and the Pauper

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Quentin Jerome Presher Brosman Tarantino

Cast

Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is ...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Runtime

2h 33m

Director

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Cast

Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Elia Kazan

Cast

James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Cast

Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch

At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her engagement to Dr. Alexander Wenninger (Benjamin Sadler). The gripping historical romance won a 2...

Runtime

3h

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Felicitas Woll, John Light, Benjamin Sadler

The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of th...

Runtime

1h 48m

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is assigned to defend him, but Rohm himself — an expert on Mengele and his crimes — feels ...

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Götz George, Kai Wiesinger, Karoline Eichhorn

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Michael Baral