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Another Time, Another Place (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Another Time, Another Place
director: Lewis Allen actor: Lana Turner / Barry Sullivan
other title: Estasi d'amore - Operazione Love / Elsket af to kvinder
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
The Strange Affair (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Strange Affair
director: David Greene actor: Michael York / Jeremy Kemp
other title: Uno sporco imbroglio / Skandal bei Scotland Yard
When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Meanwhile, seasoned Det. Pierce is out to catch mob boss Quince and soon both plots intertwine.
Eye of the Needle (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Eye of the Needle
other title: La cruna dell'ago / Nålens øje
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Meteor (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Meteor
director: Ronald Neame actor: Sean Connery / Natalie Wood
other title: Meteoro
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
The Mouse That Roared (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mouse That Roared
director: Jack Arnold actor: Peter Sellers / Jean Seberg
other title: Il ruggito del topo / Musen der brølede
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Rapture (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Rapture
director: John Guillermin actor: Melvyn Douglas / Patricia Gozzi
other title: Rapimento / Nasce Uma Mulher
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Sky Riders (1976) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sky Riders
director: Douglas Hickox actor: James Coburn / Susannah York
other title: Gli uomini falco / Auf der Fährte des Adlers
When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders.
The Collector (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Collector
director: William Wyler actor: Terence Stamp / Samantha Eggar
other title: Il collezionista / O Colecionador
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
The Naked Runner (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Naked Runner
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Frank Sinatra / Peter Vaughan
other title: Colpo su colpo / Chantage au meurtre
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
Hanna's War (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Hanna's War
director: Menahem Golan actor: Ellen Burstyn / 英格丽德·皮特
other title: La Guerre d'Hanna / Héroes inocentes
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
Conan the Destroyer (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban Skybridge
Conan the Destroyer
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Pat Roach
other title: Conan il distruttore / Conan den uovervindelige
Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.
Circle of Iron (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Circle of Iron
director: Richard Moore actor: David Carradine / Jeff Cooper
other title: Messaggi da forze sconosciute / Karate på liv og død
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.
Damien - Omen II (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Damien - Omen II
director: Don Taylor actor: William Holden / Lee Grant
other title: Omen II - La maledizione di Damien / Damien: Tegnet II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.