Cop or Hood

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1979, France

Director: Georges Lautner

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Julie Jézéquel, Michel Galabru...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The story begins by the murder of a police commissioner. His colleague, commissioner Grimaud calls the inspector Stanislas Borowitz to lead the investigation. The latter quickly understand that the ca...

The Bridge at Remagen

War/Action/Drama

Release Date and Country: 1969, United States

Director: John Guillermin

Cast: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Filming locations This movie was mostly filmed in Czechoslovakia. In town of Davle (not far from Prag) there is a bridge very similar to real bridge at Remagen. Filming crue just added two towers on ...

The long weekend

Comedy/Thriller

Release Date and Country: 2005, Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Director: Pat Holden

Cast: Brendan Fehr, Chris Klein, Chandra West...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Playboy Cooper and Shy Ed are brothers, despite their complete dissimilarity. Ed has one weekend to save his career, but Cooper has other ideas about the ideal weekend. He wants to break the record fo...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Fantasy/Adventure

Release Date and Country: 2002, United States, New Zealand, Germany

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The second part of the film saga about a dangerous journey to destroy the cursed Ring of Power. The story begins where the first left off. With the death of Boromir and the disintegration of the Fello...

Van Helsing

Action/Horror

Release Date and Country: 2004, United States

Director: Stephen Sommers

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Dana Morávková...

Movie or TV Series Plot: "Van Helsing" starts off in 1887 Transylvania where Doctor Frankenstein creates his monster with the aid of Count Dracula, who reveals that he plans to use the monster for his own plans. Just as he pl...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Fantasy/Adventure

Release Date and Country: 2001, United States, New Zealand

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The young hobbit, Frodo, must go on a voyage to destroy the evil One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron in a fires of Cracks of Doom. So he gathers his best friends, Merry, Pippin and Samwise to accomplish ...

Three Days of the Condor

Crime

Release Date and Country: 1975, United States

Director: Sydney Pollack

Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The movie is a suspense drama set in contemporary New York City, and is considered an exposition of the moral ambiguity of the actions of the United States government following the Vietnam War and Wat...

Closely Watched Trains

Comedy/Drama

Release Date and Country: 1966, Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Menzel

Cast: Václav Neckář, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský...

Movie or TV Series Plot: It’s the 1940’s, the Nazi’s occupy Czechoslovakia, and Milos Hrma (Václav Neckář) is looking for a job. His father worked for the railway company, and Milos sets out to do the same. As of yet, Milos h...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Adventure/Family/Fantasy

Release Date and Country: 2005, United States

Director: Andrew Adamson

Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley...

Movie or TV Series Plot: During World War II, four brothers and sisters--Lucy (Georgia Henley), Peter (William Moseley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Susan (Anna Popplewell)--are sent to live with a professor in his old hous...

Dirty Dancing

Romance

Release Date and Country: 1987, United States

Director: Emile Ardolino

Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach...

Movie or TV Series Plot: In the 1960s, an affluent family takes a vacation at a resort where the intelligent and go-getter daughter, Baby (Jennifer Grey) is fascinated by the resort’s dance crew. She is particularly intereste...

Winnetou - 3. Teil

Western/Adventure

Release Date and Country: 1965, Italy, Yugoslavia, Germany

Director: Harald Reinl

Cast: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The great economic boom in the Americas caused the shrinking of Indian territories. Vinnetou meets with other tribes and tries to unite them in the hope of negotiating new areas for settlement. He als...

Turistas

Adventure/Drama/Horror/...

Release Date and Country: 2006, United States

Director: John Stockwell

Cast: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Desmond Askew...

Movie or TV Series Plot: A group of adventurers are left stranded in a Brazilian town near the beach after a horrific bus accident. While they wait for help to arrive, they decide to go to a local bar and at least have a part...

The Quest

Action/Adventure

Release Date and Country: 1996, United States

Director: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The main character of this action-adventure story is a young New York man, Christopher Dubois, who, with his friends, robs a local mobster and accidentally ends up aboard a gun-running ship while on t...

Riders

Action/Crime

Release Date and Country: 2002, Canada, France, United Kingdom

Director: Gérard Pirès

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natasha Henstridge, Bruce Payne...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Friends Slim (Stephen Dorff), Otis (Clé Bennett) and Frank (Steven McCarthy) and their friend Alex (Karen Cliche) have one passion in life: speed. On snowboards and skates, they become a gang that tak...

Stormbreaker

Action/Adventure

Release Date and Country: 2006, United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Geoffrey Sax

Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Based on the first volume of the popular book series by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote the screenplay. Stormbreaker is a sophisticated computer game that turned one ordinary boy's life upside down. ...

Prison Break

Action/Drama

Release Date and Country: 2005, United States

Director: Bobby Roth, Kevin Hooks, Dwight H. Little,...

Cast: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies...