At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Casts Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner
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Who Am I?
My Best Friend's Wedding
The River Wild
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Baya's Mountain
The Forgotten Hill
Machaho
Tunes of Glory
Houdini
Ulysses
Street of Shame
Friendly Persuasion
Twenty-Four Eyes
Beneath Hill 60
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Particular Friend
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2023
When Father Matthew discovers an intimacy between two of the other priests at a remote conversion-therapy centre in Northern Ireland, his attempt to do the right thing leads to a crisis of faith and feeling.I'm for the Hippopotamus
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1979
In Africa, Slim and Tom don't like it when a German tyrant starts selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian zoos. Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson by beating the hell out of him and his gang.Menashe
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2017
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.Journey to the Beginning of Time
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1955
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.Johnny Mad Dog
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2008
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.Nickels
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2026
A successful entrepreneur and family man is involved in a bike accident involving his neighbor's son, triggering memories of his older brother's tragic death 30 years earlier.Who Am I?
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 1998
A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.My Best Friend's Wedding
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1997
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.The River Wild
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1994
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.Five Weeks in a Balloon
IMDB 5.3 | Aug , 1962
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.Baya's Mountain
IMDB 10 | Dec , 1997
Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.The Forgotten Hill
IMDB 8.5 | May , 1996
At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian village of Tagsa. While waiting to be drafted into the French Army they have time to woo. Mokrane falls for beautiful Aazi and soon marries her only to find out that she can bear no child. Menach, on his part, is stongly attracted to Davda, but the latter is already married to a rich merchant...Happiness does not seem to be in store for the two former students...Machaho
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1995
In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, buried under the snow. He takes him in and nurses him until he's recovered. The host seduces Arezki's daughter. She is pregnant. This is an unsupportable shame to the father of the female sinner. Arezki claims vengeance. He leaves his house and takes the oath not to come back before having killed Larbi who betrayed him under his own roof.Tunes of Glory
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1960
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.Houdini
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1953
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.Ulysses
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1954
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.Street of Shame
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 1956
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.Friendly Persuasion
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1956
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?Twenty-Four Eyes
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1954
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.Beneath Hill 60
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 2010
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.