C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) Film-Streaming

A sometimes incisive, sometimes amateurish look at race in America, the things we do and tolerate as a nation that are really no different from an America ruled by unrepentant slave-holders.. Given its aggressiveness in all cinematic matters, My Way manages to color in the personal stakes with enough clarity to keep you caring about the players set loose on its massive canvas.. They should have spent more on the screenplay.. A brilliant and irresistible counterfactual overview of American histor...

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Code - Unbekannt (2000) Voll Streaming

Though it has some lovely moments, Code refuses to be cracked.. It's a mainstream, sentimental drama because it needs to be. It announces in a clear voice that this happened.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The movie succeeds in generating only mild outrage, tempered by impeccable tastefulness and the safe distance of time.. A well-meaning but inexpertly dramatized account of the roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jews in the...

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Von Löwen und Lämmern (2007) Streaming-

A Very Long Engagement is certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey.. . Nothing can redeem this film's deep immorality.. . At the end we have a film that attacks its central issue from all sides and has a collision in the middle.. . This sometimes heavy-handed sermon about political apathy among the young, the stakes of media collusion with gove...

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Merry Christmas (2005) Streaming-

Joyeux Noel has its share of bloodshed, but the movie is about a respite from carnage.. A poignant and rousing carol for peace.. Some might castigate its unabashed sentimentality, but I found myself moved, especially when I recalled that this was supposedly the war to end all wars.. The story's factual weight compensates for the film's schmaltzy telling. We might grimace at some of the movie's machinations, but it's hard not to be moved by the humanity it depicts.. It's hard not to admire the fi...

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K-19 - Showdown in der Tiefe (2002) Film Abspielen

If you're going to make a movie about the bloodiest battle in human history, perhaps there's no place for subtlety. "Stalingrad" goes for big explosions and bigger theatrics, and it works.. It's no Das Boot, Crimson Tide or The Enemy Below. But it's no embarrassment, either.. At first, the idea seems ingenious, but inevitably, complexity is sacrificed: The Russians are either jokey-brave or sincere-brave, while a vicious German colonel, usually seen eating or yelling, is your typical pig.. Thoug...

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Die Tochter des Spartacus (2003) Voll Streaming

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. This is the single best movie I have ever seen.Thanks for your movie info.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. A masterpiece of genre fil...

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The Great Raid - Tag der Befreiung (2005) Online-Streaming-

This smart, unhurried drama plays out like a retro version of Saving Private Ryan.. Dahl's approach may be somewhat pedestrian, but he tells his story clearly and with few unnecessary detours.. Just about any golden age Hollywood hack could have made a zestier drama about one of the greatest rescue missions in U.S. military history.. The story line is telegraphed from word one and the meticulous unfolding plot plods ahead inexorably without the slightest bit of suspense.. . While one might have ...

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