Shooting Dogs (2005) Streaming-

By dodging cultural and political specifics in favor of a thriller-lite framework Beyond the Gates ends up serving largely as a tribute to the virtues of hindsight.. Trumps Hotel Rwanda in its you-are-there immediacy and unflinching gaze.. . A difficult sell because of the way it clutches its privileged white perspective. But from any perspective, the story it tells is so dramatic, so riveting, that it's impossible to maintain any judgmental distance.. I think Beyond the Gates is an important fi...

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Nazi Invasion - Team Europe (2010) Beobachten Film

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. 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 !!. I really like this movie. thank you. The excellent performances by the cast are also what rai...

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In Darkness (2011) Beobachten Film

More than half of In Darkness takes place underground, shrouded in rank, oppressive shadows. But the movie also glows bright with life and hope.. It's the stuff of real life, and of high drama, but Dean Wright's directorial debut translates little of that latter quality to the screen.. Ultimately a stodgy, overblown and repetitive slog.. With the exception of the group's leader, movie-star handsome Mundek Margulies (German-born, internationally recognized Benno Furmann), the characters are flat ...

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Brothers – Zwischen Brüdern (2004) Voll Streaming

. Feels like an amalgam of newsreel and stage drama, but with the most potent aspects of both art forms.. . Psychologically complex and never less than riveting.. At its core, Susanne Bier's wrenching portrayal of the shifting dynamics within a Danish family is really about survival, about how we cope in the face of shattering grief and what we'll do -- anything, really -- to save ourselves.. A powerful, brutal, funny, tragic, vibrant, very human movie.. This is the kind of movie that doesn't so...

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Rescue Dawn (2006) Download Voll

Green Zone has an attitude -- it persuades in almost documentary style that the war was sold on false pretences but no one's motives in this tangled affair can be completely trusted.. The film serves as reminder and educator for those who've forgotten or never knew about the situation in Rwanda.. This is a movie that recognizes there's no straight line to the truth, which is part of what makes it vaguely unsatisfying -- though it's also what keeps it honest.. All we can do is hope that films suc...

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The Flowers of War (2011) Download Film

Human suffering reduced to visual showmanship.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. All Zhang's splendor does is foster cognitive dissonance in an audience.. A strange hybrid of "City of Life and Death" and "Father Goose" that nevertheless, in the hands of Zhang Yimou, musters a few striking moments.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. "The Flowers of War" seems like a pretty good film until you begin to think about it.. Affecting a...

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Stein der Geduld (2012) Beobachten Film

Some movies prove both immediately transformative - altering how we view the world as soon as we leave the theater - and long-lasting, demanding days or weeks of reflection.. Most impressive, however, is Farahani's lead performance. Though often pitiable, the heroine never registers as a martyr or a victim, but a relatable, multifaceted human being.. From beginning to end, it's a very human story.. A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh...

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