Blood Ties

The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances ranging from friendly to hostile to loving. Along many years and countless run-ins, the two despise each other, befriend each other, and fall in love with each other—in no particular order.

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Kunal Kohli

Cast

Rani Mukerji, Saif Ali Khan, Kirron Kher

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smug...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Roger Spottiswoode

Cast

Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively s...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Sidney J. Furie

Cast

Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin

A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast

Seiichi Tanabe, Saburo Tokito, Haruka Ayase

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Cast

Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga