Call Sign "Banderas"

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast

Grażyna Szapołowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Runtime

2h 58m

Director

Mel Gibson

Cast

Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Michael Curtiz

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Liev Schreiber

Cast

Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Lyoskin

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Runtime

3h 27m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba