Movie: War Stories

Top 5 Billed Cast

Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum

Ben Dansmore

Lake Bell
Lake Bell

Nora Stone

Louise Lombard
Louise Lombard

Gayle Phelan

Ed Begley Jr.
Ed Begley Jr.

Ed O'Brian

Noam Jenkins
Noam Jenkins

Rainy Tamarov

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    A feature-length pilot film for a proposed NBC series, War Stories is set in a battle-torn Middle Eastern country that is obviously Uzbekistan (but not identified as such). Cynical, hard-as-nails American war correspondent Ben Dansmore (Jeff Goldblum) balks at being assigned a new photographer/partner so soon after the newcomer's predecessor (who happened to be Ben's best friend) was literally blown to bits while covering a hot story. "There's no such thing as truth; that's why they call them stories." That is Ben's philosophy, one that he hopes to impart to idealistic young Nora Stone (Lake Bell). But Nora, whose sister died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, refuses to be as cold and dispassionate as Ben. It takes a series of near-death experiences dodging bullets and fanatical rebels for Ben and Nora to find the common ground so necessary to their future teamwork.

  • Release Date

    2003-01-29

  • Average

    4.8

  • Rating:

    2.4 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

Recommendations Movies

The Three Friends
61%

The Three Friends(ar)

1966-06-16

Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiver of his workshop but he wants to get it back.

Kill Shot
92%

Kill Shot(en)

2023-08-15

Posing as hunters, a group of terrorists are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan.

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya
67%

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya(ja)

2014-04-02

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.

The Queen of Sheba
58%

The Queen of Sheba(it)

1952-11-06

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

Continental, a Film Without Guns
65%

Continental, a Film Without Guns(fr)

2007-11-09

The mysterious disappearance of a man affects the lives of four different people, all living in loneliness in the suburbs of Quebec: the wife of the missing person, an aging ex-gambler, a young receptionist who want to share her life with somebody, and a father looking to help his family.

The Westland Case
60%

The Westland Case(en)

1937-10-30

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

Bad Bear
83%

Bad Bear(en)

2024-08-02

Noah Holiday lives his life being constantly reminded of a tragic event that occurred while he was a baby in 2004. During his rough times alone, Noah rediscovers his long lost childhood teddy bear; however, what once brought him great joy now has a mind of his own and has sinister plans in store for him.

Asa
64%

Asa(ja)

2013-01-01

A short animation by Haruka Suzuki based on the poem "Asa" by Ikuko Shirakuma

Flow
80%

Flow(en)

1996-01-01

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

The Great Van Robbery
40%

The Great Van Robbery(en)

1959-01-16

Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.

Sour Grapes
56%

Sour Grapes(en)

1998-04-17

The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.

Kill a Dragon
38%

Kill a Dragon(en)

1967-12-06

Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.

The Secret Six
58%

The Secret Six(en)

1931-04-18

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

Under the Paris Sky
71%

Under the Paris Sky(fr)

1951-03-28

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

People from Cecchetto
0%

People from Cecchetto(it)

2023-12-20

Possible Lives
58%

Possible Lives(es)

2008-02-07

The beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.

History of Oklahoma Football, Part 2
80%

History of Oklahoma Football, Part 2(en)

2013-04-02

Oklahoma Sooners History of Oklahoma Football: Part 2 - Legacy of Winning 1947-1963 DVD

Flow
87%

Flow(xx)

2019-12-05

A turbulent day in a life, painted by air.

The Phantoms
70%

The Phantoms(en)

2012-11-18

The Phantoms is a television movie inspired by the heart-warming, real-life events surrounding the 2009 New Brunswick provincial championship victory by the Bathurst High School (BHS Phantoms) boys varsity basketball team, a year after a terrible road accident takes the lives of seven players and the coach’s wife. In the following school year, as tragedy hangs over the community, the BHS Phantoms are reconstituted. The ragtag bunch of players gels as a team, and manages to lift community spirit on the long road to the provincial basketball finals.

Similar Movies

Jesus' Son
63%

Jesus' Son(en)

2000-06-16

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

My First Mister
66%

My First Mister(en)

2001-10-12

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.

Ping Pong
71%

Ping Pong(ja)

2002-07-20

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.

The Local
40%

The Local(en)

2008-01-01

A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.

Horse Riders
0%

Horse Riders(mk)

2017-05-05

Story that follows the life of handicapped homeless boy and his friends.

Raising Victor Vargas
69%

Raising Victor Vargas(en)

2002-05-16

Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.

Barstool Cowboy
20%

Barstool Cowboy(en)

2009-06-26

An unemployed Cowboy who can't find love vows to stay on a barstool for three months. Shortly thereafter, he meets a young female art student and quickly forgets his misery. The pair begin to transform each other's worlds while spending time drinking, dancing and examining the mysteries of life. Will the Cowboy finally find love or should he have just stayed on his barstool?

The King Is Alive
60%

The King Is Alive(en)

2000-05-11

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.

Hamlet
58%

Hamlet(en)

2000-05-12

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

Transamerica
70%

Transamerica(en)

2005-02-14

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Wartime
53%

Wartime(en)

1988-01-01

While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?

Red Rock West
67%

Red Rock West(en)

1993-05-14

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

C.R.A.Z.Y.
75%

C.R.A.Z.Y.(fr)

2005-05-27

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

The Silence
75%

The Silence(sv)

1963-09-23

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Guest
0%

The Guest(en)

2012-05-16

A servant boy's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a guest.

Hazel's People
60%

Hazel's People(en)

1973-01-21

An NYU student visits a Mennonite friend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a fellow Mennonite is killed while protesting the Vietnam War.

Independence Day
0%

Independence Day(en)

1976-11-10

In this drama that was a UCLA student thesis expanded to feature length, two African-Americans come from Tennessee to Los Angeles. The man will not marry the woman as he has just been released from prison and cannot commit himself. He ends up working in a factory, while she gets a job as a maid. The two split up after he gets involved in a strike. She goes to school but ends up laid off from a good paying job. Later the two meet again. Both are surprised by the great changes in their lives since they have been apart.

Three Times
70%

Three Times(zh)

2005-05-20

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Class of 1984
64%

Class of 1984(en)

1982-08-20

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

The Alchemistic Suitcase
42%

The Alchemistic Suitcase(en)

2009-01-01

A nervous and unsettling young boy takes a mysterious old suitcase across London... to a twisted and surreal conclusion.