The Fearless Four (
1997) | IMDb:
5.8
Four aging animals, a dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster escape from their former homes because they weren't as productive and useful for their owners as they used to be. To avoid death, they all move out on a musical journey to Bremen to find a better life.
Starring:
Oleta Adams
,
Bernd Schramm
,
Mario Adorf
,
Dagmar Altrichter
,
Sandra Calderon
,
Peer Augustinski
Smilla's Sense of Snow (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Richard Harris
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Robert Loggia
Francesco (
1989) | IMDb:
6.3
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.
Starring:
Mickey Rourke
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Andréa Ferréol
,
Nikolaus Dutsch
,
Peter Berling
,
Hanns Zischler
The Tin Drum (
1979) | IMDb:
7.5
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Starring:
Mario Adorf
,
Angela Winkler
,
David Bennent
,
Katharina Thalbach
,
Daniel Olbrychski
,
Tina Engel
Directed by:
Volker Schlöndorff
Fedora (
1978) | IMDb:
6.8
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Starring:
William Holden
,
Marthe Keller
,
Hildegard Knef
,
José Ferrer
,
Frances Sternhagen
,
Mario Adorf
Directed by:
Billy Wilder
The Red Tent (
1969) | IMDb:
6.9
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Starring:
Peter Finch
,
Sean Connery
,
Claudia Cardinale
,
Hardy Krüger
,
Eduard Martsevich
,
Grigori Gaj
Major Dundee (
1965) | IMDb:
6.7
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Starring:
Charlton Heston
,
Richard Harris
,
Jim Hutton
,
James Coburn
,
Michael Anderson Jr.
,
Senta Berger
Produced by:
Jerry Bresler
Apache Gold (
1963) | IMDb:
6.8
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.