I 1953 bliver Katherine Watson ansat som lærer ved et af USA's mest prestigefulde, men også mest konservative universiteter. De kvindelige studerende er dygtige, men i en tid, hvor det er vigtigere for en kvinde at blive gift end at få en uddannelse, er de ikke vant til at tænke selv. Katherine begynder at udfordre de unge kvinders forventninger til livet, og det skaffer hende både beundrere og fjender.
En fordrukken marineveteran har vanskeligheder med at finde sig selv igen efter Anden Verdenkrigs rædsler. Han favnes af Lancaster Dodd, en karismatisk intellektuel, og bliver hans højre hånd i en åndelig organisation kaldet The Cause, som tager hårdt fat i Amerika. Undervejs kommer han dog til at tvivle på sin mentors metoder og spirituelle troværdighed.
Da 10-årige Mary Lennox’ rige, britiske forældre pludseligt dør, bliver hun sendt fra Indien til England for at bo hos sin onkel på hans herregård. Her begynder hun at forstå mange af familiens hemmeligheder, særligt efter mødet med sin syge fætter Colin. Sammen opdager de to børn en fantastisk hemmelig have, der ligger skjult på grunden. Et magisk sted, som vil ændre deres liv for evigt.
U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) har afsluttet sin militærtjeneste og kommer hjem til USA, men det han engang kaldte hjem er ikke bedre end den krigzone, som han forlod. Sammen med hans bedste ven, Devin (Jai Courtney), leder han desperat efter sin familie, og det skal vise sig, at de skal ud på en lang og farefuld rejse.
Tidligere P.O.W. Jack Calgrove flytter Himmel og Jord for at blive genforenet med sine børn efter borgerkrigen. Efter at være vendt hjem opdager Jack, at hans kone på tragisk vis er død, og at hans børn, der formodes at være forældreløse, er på vej dybt ind i Vesten på et tog, der krydser fjendens linjer med den hensigt at blive anbragt i nye hjem. Calgrove og en anden soldat slår sig sammen med en flok indianske skarpretter og en frigivet slave, mens de forsøger at stoppe toget.
Blood: The Last Vampire fra en af producenterne bag Hero og Tiger på spring, drage i skjul er baseret på kult-animé-serien af samme navn. Jorden er blevet forpestet af dæmoner, og en enkelt kriger står mellem mørket og lyset - Saya, som er halvt menneske og halvt vampyrsamurai, og som jagter dem, der lever af menneskeblod. Saya slår sig sammen med et skyggesamfund med navnet The Council og sendes til en amerikansk militærbase, hvor en række intense sværdkampe fører hende til vampyren over alle vampyrer. Efter 400 år står Saya nu over for sin vanskeligste vampyrjagt.
”Frantz” fortæller om den unge enke Anna Hoffmeister, hvis lidenskaber genvækkes, da en ung franskmand kort efter Første Verdenskrig dukker op i hendes tyske hjemby og lægger blomster ved en tysk soldats grav.
Maj 1945. På den første dag efter afslutningen af Anden Verdenskrig får den unge modstandsmand Maciek til opgave at dræbe en ny kommunistisk distriktsleder. Han overnatter i en sønderbombet landsby, hvor han møder en smuk ung kvinde. Men snart overrumples den ellers så koldblodige Maciek af sine følelser for hende. Efter årevis med missioner i dødens tjeneste øjner han muligheden for et nyt liv, og tvivlen omkring hans forestående opgaver begynder at vokse i ham. Aske og diamanter blev det internationale gennembrud for instruktøren Andrzej Wajda og skuespilleren Zbigniew Cybulski, der blev kaldt "Polens James Dean" på grund af sin evne til at gengive den sårbare følsomhed, der gemmer sig under det hårde ydre. Ligesom James Dean døde han i en alt for tidlig alder i en ulykke.
Efter krigen vender Susanne hjem fra en kz-lejr til et Berlin i ruiner og finder sin lejlighed beboet af den alkoholiserede Hans Mertens. Langsomt spirer en forelskelse hos dem begge, og alt tegner lyst, indtil Mertens opdager, at hans gamle kaptajn, som beordrede grusomme masseeksekutioner i Polen unden krigen, lever i bedste velgående.
The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.
Outside the magical barriers lies a world overrun by fiery beasts known as Flame Demons, and the only ones who can protect humanity are the Fire Hunters. In the dark woods where the beasts roam is where Touko, a young villager, is rescued from attack by one of these skilled trackers, Koushi. But their meeting was no accident, and a new destiny begins.
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies—most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources—to air on American television. In 2002, they added an American-produced series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman to their roster.
In the crime-ridden, mafia-governed city of Ergastulum, Worick and Nicolas are two “handymen” known as “Benriya” who would take any dirty job from either police or mafia — for a good price. After an assignment from police the two met and later joined by Alex, a former prostitute who got interested in the mysterious background of the team, in particular of Nicolas’ abilities.
Just a few years prior, automata served as weapons in the great war. Now that the war has ended, these machines with human hearts search for their place in an unfamiliar, peaceful world — and their search begins at the Kuronekotei café.
Once upon a time, fairies were tools of war. The story takes place in a world where fairies possess and dwell in animals, giving them mysterious abilities. By removing the organs of a possessed animal and transplanting them into humans, fairies can be summoned as an alter ego and be used as a weapon. Such individuals who used fairies as war tools were called "Fairy Soldiers." Once the war was over and they completed their roles, the soldiers lost their purpose. Some began working for the government, some joined the mafia, and some even became terrorists, as each chose their own way to live. Nine years have passed since the war. The protagonist Mariya is a new recruit of "Dorothea," an organization which investigates and suppresses fairy-related crimes. Amidst the unstable political situation, criminals with lingering wounds from the war and past conflicts emerge and engage in terrorism as an act of revenge. This is the story of Fairy Soldiers, fighting for their own justice in a chaotic postwar world.
Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.
After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A conflict between men and women becomes a third world war. All humans die except for a number of men and women in Egypt. After the Haj and Hajja appear, a truce is called between the commander of the men's army (Sultan) and the leader of the women army (Karma), but what will happen during this truce?
With the casualties of war still haunting him, young Levius uses his prosthetic arm to take his fight into the brutal world of Mecha Boxing.
A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
Based on the debut novel by Stephen Markley, Ohio is equal parts murder mystery and social critique, and will explore a generation that’s come of age knowing only war, recession, racial hostility and partisanship.
