Stories by @rwhite18

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1967)

Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel about POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.

The Servant (Mexican Cast)

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.

Ripley's Game (2012)

A cool and conniving American expatriate lures a mild-mannered picture framer with a terminal illness into a web of theft and murder

The American Friend (1967)

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman’s terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

Rambo: First Blood (1952)

An ex-Vietnam Green Beret and POW uses his jungle warfare skills to take on a bigoted police force chasing him through the Pacific Northwest forest.

The Longest Day (2002)

In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota travels with his men onto Omaha Beach. With much effort, and lost life, they get off the beach, traveling deep into French territory. The German military, due to arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the Allied landing, with crippling results.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1977)

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma.

The Guns of Navarone (1971)

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Train (1994)

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Seven Days in May (1994)

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

The Manchurian Candidate (1992)

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

The Others (1971)

Set in 1945 in Jersey, it focuses on a woman and her two young photosensitive children who experience supernatural phenomena in their large manor after the arrival of new servants.

The Innocents (1971)

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

Johnny Guitar (1964)

After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1978)

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

For a Few Dollars More (1955)

Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.

Mandy (1978)

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (British Cast)

A vengeful crime boss forms an unlikely partnership with a detective to catch the elusive serial killer who viciously attacked him.

Licorice Pizza (1971)

In the San Fernando Valley, Alana and Gary's connection deepens as they chase dreams, tackle unpredictable encounters and experience the highs and lows of young love.

One Battle After Another (2005)

A former member of a revolutionary group seeks help from other revolutionaries to find his missing daughter.