While Shosanna works at the movie theatre owned by her protector, a Nazi propaganda movie is scheduled to be screened at the cinema, with several Nazi crowned heads attending to the premiere. Shosanna thinks of getting her revenge but her plans intersect those of a secret American guerrilla-like squad, also planning to sabotage the screenplay.

The squad is called the Basterds and its purpose is to hunt down German soldiers, brutally slaughter them and leave some alive, after carving a swastika on their foreheads. They want to bring terror into the Nazi’s lines, give them a taste of their own medicine.

Release Date: August 21^st, 2009

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Cast: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent

Director: Quentin Tarantino

He starts off as a simple clerk in a hotel, and during World War II he manages to become head waiter, but the respect and the money still don’t show up.

That may be because he has granted several favors to the invaders and he is hated by all the Czechs and barely tolerated by Germans.

He falls in love with a young Nazi woman and manages to convince her to marry him, despite her reluctance. This marriage will eventually bring him the money he needs to buy the hotel.

His life seems to be on the right track, but after the purchase a series of events will threaten his dream and even his life.

Release Date: 29 August 2008

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War

Cast: Ivan Barnev (Jan Dítě, joven), Oldřich Kaiser (Jan Dítě, viejo), Julia Jentsch (Lisa), Martin Huba (Skřivánek), Marián Labuda (Walden), Milan Lasica (profesor), Josef Abrhám (Brandejs), Jiří Lábus (director del hotel), Jaromír Dul

Director: Jirí Menzel

The perspective of the movie is a unique one. Everything is seen through the eyes of Anthony.

This is a movie about military life and modern war. The war with no heros, no brave actions, no complicated plot and no…gun shots.

Release Date: 2005

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Cast:

Jake Gyllenhaal (Anthony Swofford)

Scott MacDonald

Lo Ming

Director: Sam Mendes

He is determined to join the Flying Pigeons Service of the Great Britain Air Forces, during World War II.Through an irony of fate, he manages to join the army and even become a great hero by delivering very important information about the enemy camps.

The voice of the tiny pigeon belong to Ewan McGregor and along with him, we will also be able to hear Sir Ben Kingsley, Rupert Everett, and Olivia Williams.

Release Date: 19 August 2005

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, War

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Everett, Hugh Laurie, John Hurt, Ricky Gervais, John Cleese, Tim Curry, Olivia Williams

Director: Gary Chapman

In France, during World War II, the Germans kill tens of American war prisoners. By doing this, they are breaching the Convention of Geneva.

During the massacre, some of the prisoners manage to escape. Later on, four of them meet again.

The four of them, meet a RAF British pilot, who owns some crucial information about the German attack. They risk their freedom, in order to send the information to the allied armies.

Release Date: March 25, 2005

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, War

Cast:

Corbin Allred

Alexander Polinsky

Kirby Heyborne

Director: Ryan Little

Pan

Winner of three Oscars, ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ presents Spain, in the year of 1944. Spain is no longer a safe place for anybody , especially for Carmen, a single woman who already has a child named Ofelia, and is expecting another baby.

After Franco’s victory, Carmen goes in the North of the country, with her new husband Vidal, an extremely cruel captain from Franco’s army.

Ofelia, aged 13, discovers one night the ruins of a labyrinth. Here she meets a fairy that tells her that she is the princess long awaited. Ofelia escapes in a captivating fantasy world.

In order to get back to her magic kingdom, Ofelia has to pass three critical challenges, in an adventure in which reality and magic go together.

Release Date: December 29, 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War

Cast:

Ariadna Gil (Carmen)

Ivana Baquero (Ofelia)

Sergi Lopez (Vidal)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

The Quiet American

The action of the movie ‘The Quiet American’ takes place in Saigon, in 1952.

Thomas Fowler is a British journalist who writes for the London Times about the war in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, Fowler spends most of his time with a beautiful Vietnamese woman, named Phuong. Here, in Vietnam, Fowler befriends Alden Pyle, an American who has come to Saigon with a medical crew.

Alden meets the beautiful Phuong and falls in love with her. Phuong rejects him. Fowler finds out that Alden is actually a CIA agent, who wants to organize an attack against the Ho Chi Min forces. Fowler tries to stop him.

Release Date: November 22, 2002

Genre: Romance, Thriller, Drama, War

Cast:

Michael Caine (Thomas Fowler)

Do Thi Hai Yen (Phuong)

Director: Phillip Noyce

9 Scene

When a doll made of rags realizes it is alive and capable to think for herself, it sees that it is the prisoner of a post-apocalypse parallel world.

All the people have disappeared and everything ever created by man is in danger of being destroyed by some scary machines.

Luckily, 9 (the doll) meets a small community of dolls just like it, who seek refuge from the destroying robots.

9 thus meets a dominating war veteran, an old inventor, a strong mechanic, a visionary artist and a brave warrior; he soon manages to convince them to stop running and to fight back, as it seems that this is the only way to save the future of civilization.

Release Date: 9 September 2009 (USA)

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War

Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau

Director: Shane Acker

Based on the novel of the American writer James McBride, the movie ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ is a war drama, whose action takes place in Italy in 1944, during Second World War.

Four black American soldiers positioned in Toscana, Italy, experience both the defeat and the victory of the war.

They risk their lives fighting for a native country, whose people treat them with less respect than their own enemies.

They discover what it means to be a human being, to be warm and hospitable in a small village in Toscana, called St. Anna di Stazzema. The inhabitants of this village offer them shelter and consolation.

One of them turns into a hero when he saves a little deaf Italian boy from dieing.

Release Date: September 26, 2008

Genre: War, Thriller, Drama, Action

Cast:

Derek Luke

Michael Ealy

Laz Alonso

Director: Spike Lee

Fahrenheit 9/11 Poster

This film is the vision of Michael Moore on George W. Bush and on his war against terrorism.

Moore thinks Bush is a failure of a business man, with strong connections to the Saudi Arabian royalty and to the bin Laden family. He came to be president under strange circumstances and he continued to mess things up, ignoring all the people who warned him that his partners will betray him.

In relation to the 9/11 events, Moore states Bush did not protect his country, he selfishly used it to serve his own purposes.

Through facts, images and interviews, Moore illustrates his point of view and how Bush got America into the big trouble it is in now and also suggests what attitude should the American people take.

Release Date: 25 June 2004

Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama, History, War

Cast: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush,  Ricky Martin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Osama Bin Laden

Director: Michael Moore

Che

The biographic movie, “Che”, about the Marxist revolutionary leader Che Guevara, who fought along with Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution, will be presented this month in Cuba.

The announcement was made by Ivan Giroud, the director of New Latino-Americano Movies Festival which will take place in Havana.

He also said that the movie will have a special presentation and will not compete for any of the awards at the event.

In July this year, Alfredo Guevara, the president of the Festival, said that the movie won’t be played in Cuba if it contains attacks towards Fidel Castro, the one who lead the country for 49 years and entrusted to his brother, Raul Castro, the function of president of Cuba in February 2008.

This sequel, directed by Steven Soderbergh and with Benicio del Toro as the leading actor, centers on the journey of “Che” to New York, when he made a speech at United Nations headquarters in 1964, being celebrated by the social circles.

Benicio Del Toro won the prize for the best actor, in May 2008, at the Cannes Film Festival, where the “Che” production had the official premiere.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Biography, Drama

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

The movie ’300′ is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. The action of the movie takes place in 480 BC, when the ambitious King Xerxes of Persia invades Greece with his huge army to extend his vast slave empire.

The Brave Kind Leonidas brings his small army of only 300 warriors to defend the passage of Thermopylae. This passage was the only way to reach Greece by land.

King Leonidas and his 300 brave warriors, with great battle skills, manage to defend Thermopylae until a disfigured Greek betrays Leonidas. He shows King Xerxes a secret goat passage that leads to the back of Leonida’s army.

At home, Leonida’s wife, Queen Gorgo of Sparta, tries to convince the council to send the Spartan army to fight against the Persians.

Release Date: March 9, 2007

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War

Cast:

Gerard Butler (King Leonidas)

Lena Headey (Queen Gorgo)

Rodrigo Santoro (King Xerxes)

Director: Zack Snyder

Defiance

Directed by Edward Zwick, ‘Defiance’ is a new film about the WWII, marked by the concepts of ‘hope’ and ‘solidarity’.

We are looking at a story that takes place in 1941, in Belarus, but it is not your typical American-Nazi war. Based on the book by Nechama, the film tells us about the three Bielski brothers who help a group of Jews get away from Nazi troops.

They form a Russian Resistance Army in order to be able to build a camp in the middle of the forest which is to host 1200 Jews. It is a cruel history which talks once more about the war crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jews refugees, but it is worth seeing.

Release Date: 16 January 2009

Genre: Drama, War

Cast: Daniel Craig (Tuvia Bielski), Live Schreiber (Zus Bielski), Jamie Bell (Asael Bielski)

Director: Edward Zwick

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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari, about a nightmare that he has repeatedly, in which he is chased by 26 ferocious dogs. Every night the same nightmare with the same number of dogs.

Ari and his friend realize  that there is a connection between the nightmare and their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War in the 80s.

That night the director Ari has a vision that reminds him of the masacre in Beirut. But nothing is real. This terrible mission caused Folman a memory loss.

Images long forgotten start to reappear as the director decides to talk to some old friends and comrades. Ari needs to discover the truth about that period and about himself.

Release Date: August 29, 2008

Genre: War, Drama, Biography, Animation, Documentary

Cast:

Ron Ben-Yisai (Himself)
Ronny Dayag (Himself)
Ari Folman (Himself)

Director: Ari Folman

We have long waited, but we will soon be rewarded with his most recent work, called ‘The Reader’.

The movie is based on the best seller

with the same name written by Bernhard Schlink. The action takes place a few years after World War II, and centers on a love story between Michael, a 15 year old young man, and a woman 20 years older than him.

The main roles are played by Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes.

The movie was filmed in Germany and Poland on a budget of approximately 40 million dollars, and is one of the films the Weinstein brothers hope to win the Oscars with.

Release Date: 9 January 2009

Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War

Cast: Kate Winslet (Hanna Schmitz), Ralph Fiennes (Older Michael), David Kross (Young Michael)

Director: Stephen Daldry

This time she is accompanied by Hugh Jackman, and they will live their story in the Northern region of Australia, some time after

the Second World War.

‘Australia’ tells the story of an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a farm in Australia, the size of Maryland.

Soon after, a group of English barons try to take over her lands and she unites her forces with a young man’s (Hugh Jackman), who must help her transport all the 2,000 head of cattle across the most dangerous Australian territory, all the way to Darwin, a city assaulted by Japanese forces.

The movie had a 120 million dollars budget and we are all looking forward to seeing whether it will pay off.

Release Date: 26 November 2008

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman

Director: Baz Luhrman

Valkyrie

Directed by Bryan Singer, ‘Valkyrie’ is based on a real event: Hitler’s assassination. The plot is simple: German officers plan to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of World War II.

The goal of the German officers is to obtain the power of the military command and end the war. The place of action is during World War II in 1944. The plan to assassinate Hitler fails due to various conspirators.

‘Valkyrie’ is written by Christopher McQuarrie and the cast includes Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson and Eddie Izzard. The movie can be considered a thriller and a drama based on real historical facts and Adolph Hitler’s biography.

Release date: 25 December 2008

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War

Cast: Tom Cruise – Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Director: Bryan Singer

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Together with soon to be wife Kate Brewster (Bryce Dallas Howard), they try to create a resistance organization with the remaining survivors in order to fight the machines. But, one survivor happens to be a traitor in disguise, and has a secret that nobody would ever come to suspect. John must decide whether the stranger (Marcus) has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. The two men embark on an adventure that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible destruction of the human race.