Namenlose Helden

An Honorable Cad(en)

1919-09-02

WWI spirit raiser about the title character who enlists and comes back a new man. Final film of stage star Shelly Hull before his death in the Spanish flu epidemic.

1919-09-02

46%

Appointment in Bray(fr)

1971-12-22

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.

1971-12-22

The Legend of Bagger Vance(en)

2000-11-02

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

2000-11-02

Finders Keepers

100%

Finders Keepers(en)

1921-01-01

Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself only able to get cabaret gigs. She then becomes entangled in a situation involving stolen diamonds, and is saved by the "good guy" whom she later marries.

1921-01-01

Rex Benny - Blind Flight

60%

Rex Benny - Blind Flight(de)

1997-10-17

A short film about a boy experiencing immersion and fascination for war as he looks through the old photo album of his grandfather who was a Nazi soldier during WWII.

1997-10-17

80%

The Riddle: Woman(en)

1920-10-03

Lilla Gravert falls into the clutches of a master blackmailer, Eric Helsingor.

1920-10-03

The Devil's Toy(en)

1916-03-06

The Devil's Toy is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Adele Blood, Edwin Stevens and Montagu Love.

1916-03-06

Do It Now

Do It Now(en)

1924-02-01

At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in the east and goes west to settle a dispute over oil lands owned by Rosemary's father. This man evicts the wrong party and later must return west in order to set things right, protecting the honor of a girl from the advances of the crooked foreman.

1924-02-01

On the Stroke of Three(en)

1924-10-30

Lafayette Jordan (Davis), financier, plans to inundate Caribou Canyon and turn it into a reservoir, but the villagers will not sell him their land. Among the resentful villagers is Judson Forrest (Harlan), who wants to be an inventor. Mary Jordan (Bellamy), daughter of the financier, is hurt and spends a night at his home. Learning of his attitude toward her father, she poses as a domestic at the Jordan home. Later, in New York, Judson looks her up. He is trying to sell his invention and, to get funds, he mortgages his home. The village banker, in league with Jordan, sells the financier the mortgage, and a foreclosure threatens when Jordan's business agent Henry Mogridge (Miljan) double-crosses Judson. The youth thinks Mary working against him. Friends come to Judson's aid and he pays off the mortgage in the nick of time. He learns that Jordan knew nothing of the methods employed by his agent and that Mary loves him.

1924-10-30

The Geranium

The Geranium(en)

1911-07-15

One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking. Mrs. Tunison is obliged to provide for her crippled daughter Ethel, her son, who does what he can to help her and her older daughter, who aids in every way possible. Daniel Briton, a young peddler, notices Ethel as he passes by, and gives her one of his wares, a geranium, for which she is very thankful. On successive days as the young peddler passes she waves her hand to him. One day he brings with him a doctor, who takes her to the hospital where she will get good care and attention. After a few weeks, Ethel is carried home in the arms of her generous friend, entirely restored to health. Everybody is made happy, and more so with Daniel, who marries one of Ethel's sisters.

1911-07-15

50%

Mit deinen Augen(de)

2004-01-01

Despite her blindness, the famous singer Sophie Martell, who lives in Venice, has remained a cheerful, optimistic woman. However, she does not look forward to much, as her agent David hired journalist Eike Blohm to write Sophie's biography. But soon the idiosyncratic woman falls in love with her sensitive biographers. David, however, is not at all thrilled with Sophie's love affair: he fears that this could expose his scams and embezzlement of Sophie's private assets.

2004-01-01

90%

A Girl of the Limberlost(en)

1924-04-28

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Girl of the Limberlost is a 1924 American silent film, produced by Gene Stratton-Porter and directed by James Leo Meehan. It stars Gloria Grey, Emily Fitzroy, and Arthur Currier, and was released on April 28, 1924. The first adaptation of Stratton-Porter's famous novel, this silent film is considered lost.

1924-04-28

The Fugitive

90%

The Fugitive(en)

1917-01-26

Unbeknownst to Jim Donovan, his friend and business partner Dan Morgan admired his wife, and one day, when he heard that Jim was in the office, he visited his grandmother and told her that he loved her. She was shocked. Disgusted by her rejection, he planned cunningly. On his way from his home, he sent a fake telegram to Jim, pretending to be from his uncle Frank Foster and asking him to come immediately, as he was seriously ill.

1917-01-26

Recommendations Movies

75%

Johnny Got His Gun(en)

1971-08-04

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

1971-08-04

My Boy Jack(en)

2007-11-11

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

2007-11-11

The Great War(en)

2019-12-13

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.

2019-12-13

61%

Johnny Mad Dog(en)

2008-05-20

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

2008-05-20

67%

Men in War(en)

1957-05-03

In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.

1957-05-03

67%

The War Below(en)

2021-09-10

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

2021-09-10

69%

Hope and Glory(en)

1987-09-03

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

1987-09-03

The One That Got Away(en)

1957-11-22

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

1957-11-22

77%

All Quiet on the Western Front(de)

2022-10-07

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

2022-10-07

The Search(en)

1948-03-26

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

1948-03-26

The Water Diviner(en)

2014-12-25

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

2014-12-25

Westfront 1918(de)

1930-05-23

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

1930-05-23

Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog(en)

2020-02-22

Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.

2020-02-22

The Last Rifleman(en)

2023-12-07

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

2023-12-07

60%

The Yellow Birds(en)

2018-05-24

Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.

2018-05-24

The Scarlet and the Black(en)

1983-02-02

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

1983-02-02