Sentences with phrase «war drama set»

The White Countess A war drama set in 1936 Shanghai with Natasha Richardson as a Russian countess and Ralph Fiennes as a blind ex-diplomat.

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In one of the later season's of Foyle's War, (a British crime drama set in the 1940's, which I highly recommend, by the way, if you enjoy murder mysteries and period wartime dramas) there was an episode where the character of Sam is seen discussing shoes with a coworker.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy - drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom.

Synopsis: This is a drama set in Nazi - occupied France at the height of World War II.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periWar II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periwar to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

White Material (Unrated) Post-colonial drama, set in a war - torn African country in the midst of racial strife, about a French coffee farmer (Isabelle Huppert) who refuses to flee like the rest of the whites whose plantations have been nationalized.

That simple action sets into motion a series of events that allow Boorman to deal with some difficult aspects of war in a near perfect balance of comedy and drama.

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Battle Hymn, a psychological drama set during wartime, tells the story of Colonel Dean E. Hess, an Ohio minister who flew with the US Air Force in the Korean War during the early 1950s.

The World War II drama Churchill is set for release in the UK next Friday, June 16th, and thanks to Lionsgate UK we've got an exclusive clip from the film, which features Brian Cox as the legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Miranda Richardson as his wife Clementine.

The undertaking alone is worth commending: a sports drama; a survivalist story (on ocean water no less); a war drama crossed with a prison drama - and all of it set in early - to - mid twentieth century period.

The high winds of hamminess roar through the rafters in Corinna McFarlane's The Silent Storm (2 *, 16, 102 mins), a po - faced drama set on a remote Scottish island just after the Second World War.

Set entirely within the confines of a tank, it would have been pretty hard for this war drama to avoid an almost unbearable sense of claustrophobia.

Claire Denis resolutely refuses to make simple movies, so this intense drama set during a civil war in central Africa feels somewhat elusive as it concentrates on emotions rather than plotting.

Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Gwendoline Christie is set to join the cast of the BBC Two drama Top of the Lake, when it returns for a second season early next year.

The movie is a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama «The Girl Of Your Dreams,» also starring Cruz and set during the Spanish Civil War.

British star Mark Rylance won the best supporting Oscar for his role of KGB agent Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Cold War - set drama «Bridge of Spies».

Clandestine Childhood (Unrated) Dirty War drama, set in the Seventies, following the fortunes of a couple (Natalia Oreiro and Ernesto Alterio) which assumed new identities upon moving with their sons (Cesar Troncoso and Teo Gutierrez Romero) back to Argentina from Cuba to take part in the guerilla movement trying to topple the government.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

While this is certainly a message that few would find fault with, with better films about the experience of combat vets returning home, setting the film up in the Iraq War and then delivering manipulative and mawkish drama where realistic portrayals should be isn't the way to go about it.

(In English, Mandarin and Japanese with subtitles) In the Land of Blood and Honey (R for sexuality, nudity, violence, rape, ethnic cleansing and profanity) Angelina Jolie directed this romance drama set during the War in Bosnia and revolving around a Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) who reencounters a Muslim ex-girlfriend (Zana Marjanovic) now being held captive in a POW camp.

This World War II drama about a famous code - breaker has just recently won the highly - coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is set to be the opening gala at the London Film Festival.

Opening the festival on Thursday night is Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» a drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan.

Mohawk (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Dark Sky Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» camp.

Radegund makrs his second World War Two - set drama, following 1998's The Thin Red Line, and centres on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and a conscientious objector to the Nazi regime during the War.

It's billed as the hangout - flick master's first proper road movie, a 2003 - set drama about three Vietnam veterans who reunite after 30 years after one of them loses a son in the Iraq War.

More importantly, as Captain America: Civil War proves, they can balance a full - to - bursting line - up of superheroes and what is essentially three different movies — an extension of Winter Soldier's espionage vibe, an Avengers movie in everything but name, and a PTSD psychological drama — while still delivering something coherent, character - driven and more satisfying than the a series of things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces.

Actor Michael Pena is joining Chris Hemsworth in a real - life drama set during the War in Afghanistan.

Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and bombast of much costlier historical dramas.

And she is set to co-star opposite Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones, a Civil War action - drama written and directed by Gary Ross which be released next May.

The Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress is set for a «major» role in the drama, and a bunch of new plot details have just been revealed to go along with that casting announcement.

The strong results paved the way for Cimino to direct his Vietnam War drama, which was so well - received as to set him up for high - stakes failure on his notorious follow - up, Heaven's Gate.

Though not as refined or focused as Star Wars and its kin, the film aspires to a similar kind of tone, aiming to be a human drama that happens to be set in outer space where things are different.

The war drama is setting box office records, pulling in an estimated $ 200.1 million in the U.S. and Canada since its limited release on Christmas Day.

Similar to Paul Greengrass's underrated Green Zone, ’71 is a thrilling action / war drama that also provides sophisticated insights into the nature of the conflict it is set during.

Now, however, Niccol teams up once again with Ethan Hawke to direct his first non-sci-fi movie, a war / family drama set in Las Vegas, Good Kill.

The Tony winner behind last year's Holocaust drama «Indecent» returns to the New York stage this month with «Time and the Conways,» the post — Great War, Yorkshire - set classic from J.B. Priestley.

The action - adventure drama is set in 1946, as Peggy (Hayley Atwell) works in New York for Strategic Scientific Reserve, doing clerical tasks considered women's work instead of hunting down bad guys, after the men return from World War II.

But this is not an epic war drama: it's a character piece in a domestic setting.

For those who don't know anything about Fury, it's a World War II set action - drama that depicts a 24 hour period during the final days of the wWar II set action - drama that depicts a 24 hour period during the final days of the warwar.

Additionally, Alcon is co-financing and executive producing the contemporary war drama 12 Strong, along with producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Black Label Media, set for release on January 19, 2018.

7 «Call Me By Your Name»: The obsessive, tug - of - war of desire is sensually rendered in Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous coming - out, coming - of - age drama set in Italy.

For a movie plagued for months by stories of its troubled production — its original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, getting the boot in favor of industry stalwart Ron Howard; the overhauling re-shoots that ensued; and the rumored acting coach hired to assist the movie's struggling and potentially miscast star, Alden Ehrenreich, to recount just three fleshy bits of on - set drama — Solo: A Star Wars Story is a surprisingly smooth ride.

Streaming TV: Bloodline: Season 3 brings the Netflix original dark family drama with Kyle Chandler and Linda Cardellini to a close (13 episodes) and from Germany comes The Same Sky (Germany), an espionage mini-series set final years of the Cold War from Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

IN COUNTRY - A drama about the aftermath of the Vietnam war, set in a Kentucky town that would like to forget all about the conflict.

Bleecker Street has set World War II drama «Anthropoid,» starring Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy, for an Aug. 12 release in the U.S.

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

Back in September 2016, it was announced that Tom Hanks is set for a World War II return in Greyhound, a drama which he has scripted himself, and now comes word on three additions to the supporting cast.

Sarah's Key (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Holocaust drama, set in present - day Paris, about an investigative journalist's (Kristin Scott Thomas) research the story of how the family of a 10 year - old girl (Melusine Mayance) was torn asunder by the roundup of Jews in occupied France during World War II.