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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Citizen Gangster er baseret på den virkelige beretning om krigsveteranen Edwin Boyd, der desillusioneret efter Anden Verdenskrig forsøger at få dagligdagen til at hænge sammen, mens familiens drømme synes at glide længere og længere væk. Pengene er få, og jobbet som buschauffør hænger den rastløse Boyd ud af halsen, der i stedet drømmer om at drage til Hollywood og få sig en karriere som berømt skuespiller. Da han samtidig kan se, hvordan de rige skraber til sig, mens hans kone må knokle som vaskekone, får han nok. En dag beslutter han sig for at skaffe sig adgang til avisens forside på anden vis end via de skrå brædder: iført sin kones sminke og bevæbnet med sin tjenestepistol træder han ind i den lokale bank... En karriere som en af Canadas mest berygtede bankrøvere tager nu sin begyndelse.. Citizen Gangster er et atmosfærefyldt action-drama, hvis handling på forblændelig underbygges af imponerende skuespilpræstationer...
”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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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 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.
