Subgenre Sampler
War: 954 Films to Buy & Rent
Counterfeiters, The (Die Fälscher) (2007)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow
- An Oscar–winner for Best Foreign Language film, this taut German thriller reconstructs the story of a Jewish fraudster forced to assist the…
Eichmann (2007)
- Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franke Potente…
- Middling account of Adolf Eichmann's confessions as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. German Kretschmann is strong in the title…
Gallipoli: Brothers In Arms (2007)
- Dir. Andrew Denton
- Andrew Denton filmed this as part of his ENOUGH ROPE series to find out what draws so many Australians to the shores of Gallipoli each year, painting…
Hunting Party, The (2007)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, James Brolin…
- Action–packed serio–comic political thriller in the spirit of THREE KINGS centres on the shaggy dog story of an intrepid trio of…
I Have Never Forgotten You (The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal) (2007)
- Dir. Richard Trank
- Confronting documentary tracing the life of Jewish man Simon Wiesenthal who embarked on a personal crusade to track down Nazi war criminals and…
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon…
- Calculated military mystery from the director of CRASH, concerning an out–of–touch dad (Jones) searching for his missing son who has gone…
Joy Division (2007)
- Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen…
- Ed Stoppard, son of Sir Tom, stars as a young German boy who becomes a KGB agent in this ambitious wartime saga that sweeps from WWII to swinging,…
Katyn (2007)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Żmijewski, Pawel Malaszynski
- Andrzej Wajda cements himself as Poland’s greatest director with this late–career triumph, a war story addressing the eradication of some…
Kite Runner, The (2007)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Shaun Toub…
- The ravages of Afghanistan and its effect on an American 'refugee' forms the basis of Khaled Hosseini's best–selling book, here given due…
Last Legion, The (2007)
- Dir. Doug Lefler
Feat. Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai
- CGI fantasy dramatising the plight of Rome's last emperor, the child Romulus Augustus, and his protectors – Firth, Kingsley, and Bollywood star…