Plot summary :
The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination…

Movie info :
User rating : 8.2/10
Director : Clint Eastwood
Awards : Won Oscar. Another 12 wins & 13 nominations

Cast overview :
Ken Watanabe
Kazunari Ninomiya
Tsuyoshi Ihara
IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/

Read more »

Popularity: 24% [?]

Plot summary :
Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us…

Movie info :
User rating : 8.8/10
Director : Steven Spielberg
Awards : Won 7 Oscars. Another 62 wins & 21 nominations

Cast overview :
Liam Neeson … Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley … Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes … Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall … Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagalle … Poldek Pfefferberg

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/

Read more »

Popularity: 31% [?]

Plot summary :
A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism…

Movie info :
User rating: 8.0/10
Director: David Lean
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 10 nominations

Cast overview :
Omar Sharif…Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie…Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin…Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger…Viktor Komarovsky
Alec Guinness…Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/

Read more »

Popularity: 20% [?]

Plot summary :
In Korea in 1952, a US Army patrol is ambushed by Communist soldiers. A year later the squad, having escaped, returns to the US, where Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw is to receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly saving the lives of the squad. Shaw is the son of Elanor Iselin, wife of US Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and Mrs. Iselin turns the return of Raymond into a political rally that brings out building hostility between son and mother over the ambitions of Johnny Iselin. But there is more involved, for the actions of Raymond Shaw are not what everyone believes they are, and the nightmares of a US Army officer, Bennett Marco, leads to investigation of Raymond that unlocks a stunning political conspiracy that sweeps up Johnny and Elanor Iselin, and which only Bennett Marco can possibly stop…

Movie info :
User rating: 8.3/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations

Cast overview :
Frank Sinatra
Laurence Harvey
Janet Leigh
Angela Lansbury
Henry Silva

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/

Read more »

Popularity: 18% [?]

Plot summary :
It’s the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler’s personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Der Fuhrer’s bunker. Facing inevitable defeat, Hilter’s moods range from defiance to fight or flee, remain loyal or opt for self-preservation. Eva Braun parties while Magda Goebbels kills her children. The movie goes on to show how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours in the Bunker…

Movie info :
User rating: 8.5/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 14 wins & 13 nominations

Cast overview :
Bruno Ganz
Alexandra Maria Lara
Corinna Harfouch
Ulrich Matthes
Juliane Köhler

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/

Read more »

Popularity: 21% [?]