Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Runtime

2h 49m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whos...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Brad Pitt, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, David Thewlis

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission t...

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Marc Rothemund

Cast

Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Max Färberböck

Cast

Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek