A Desired Day

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Lewis Milestone

Cast

Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Terry George

Cast

Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. ...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Joe Wright

Cast

James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan

The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Hark Bohm

Cast

Marie Colbin, Michael Gwisdek, Christine Limbach