That Man from Rio

Action/Adventure/Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1964, France

Director: Philippe de Broca

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Air Force pilot, Adrien (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is looking forward to his upcoming leave so he can finally see his girlfriend, Agnes (Françoise Dorléac), in Paris. Unfortunately, dreams of his idyllic t...

The Reader

Drama/War/Romance

Release Date and Country: 2008, United States, Germany

Director: Stephen Daldry

Cast: Kate Winslet, David Kross, Ralph Fiennes...

Movie or TV Series Plot: When student Michael gets sick in post-war Berlin, thirty-something Hanna helps him. The young man then seeks her out and a brief passionate relationship develops between them. They meet again eight y...

The Tourist

Drama/Action/Thriller/...

Release Date and Country: 2010, United States, France

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Rufus Sewell...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Elise is a charming woman, who no one can resist. But she is also a former agent betrayed MI5 for a love for the financial fraudster. Her love, however, fled with the money, and now, after some time, ...

The Two Popes

Biography/Drama

Release Date and Country: 2019, United Kingdom, Argentina, United States,...

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín...

Movie or TV Series Plot: A historical film describings the period after the deceased Pope John Paul II. ...

The Holdovers

Comedy/Drama

Release Date and Country: 2023, United States

Director: Alexander Payne

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Christmas break is coming and students at a private boys' school are getting ready to go home. Except for those who cannot return home for various reasons. These boys are in the charge of Professor Pa...

The Seventh Company Outdoors

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1977, France

Director: Robert Lamoureux

Cast: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Patricia Karim...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Třetí poslední z filmu o trojici přátel ze sedmé roty. Výrazem „za úplňku“ bylo v okupované Francii myšleno pracovat v odboji. Tassin, Pitivier a velitel Chaudard jsou tentokrát v civilu a do akcí pro...

The Fugitive

Drama/Action/Thriller

Release Date and Country: 1993, United States

Director: Andrew Davis

Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano...

Movie or TV Series Plot: He was as happy as few. A successful surgeon with a high income, a luxury car and a comfortable villa. Popular with his friends, respected by his colleagues. All that changed drastically one night. Dr...

The Equalizer

Thriller/Action/Crime

Release Date and Country: 2014, United States

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Cast: Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas...

Movie or TV Series Plot: A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Drama/Action

Release Date and Country: 2009, Sweden, Denmark, Germany,...

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre...

Movie or TV Series Plot: It’s been decades since Harriet Vanger’s disappearance, but her uncle Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), is still intent on finding out what happened to her. She disappeared on Hedeby Island where nea...

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 Gendarme Gets Married

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1968, France

Director: Jean Girault

Cast: Louis de Funes, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru...

Movie or TV Series Plot: This time, the small, nervous gendarme does not get caught in the snares of international crime, but in a much more treacherous snare, the snare of love. It all begins on the first day of the holidays...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi

Release Date and Country: 2023, United States

Director: Francis Lawrence

Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Coriolanus Snow is waiting for an opportunity to make a name for himself after graduating school. Instead of being rewarded for his achievements, he is assigned as a tutor to a girl from the famed Twe...

The Da Vinci Code

Drama/Thriller/Action

Release Date and Country: 2006, United States

Director: Ron Howard

Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno...

Movie or TV Series Plot: One of Louvre’s curators is found dead at the museum, and no one knows who is responsible. The body is found carved with mysterious symbols and expert cryptographer, Sophie (Audrey Tautou) is brought ...

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 Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb

War/Drama/Historical

Release Date and Country: 2015, Norway, Czechia

Director: Per-Olav Sørensen

Cast: Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Marc Ben Puch...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The three-part miniseries deals with one of the lesser-known events of World War II. It did not take place on the battlefield, but it is considered one of the essential small operations that helped to...

The Gentlemen

Action/Crime/Comedy

Release Date and Country: 2024, United Kingdom

Director: Guy Ritchie

Cast: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Vinnie Jones...