Stories by @rwhite18
7,306 stories
Cape Fear (1972)
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
The Guns of Navarone (2001)
During World War II, British forces launch an attack designed to take out the massive Nazi cannons that guard a critical sea channel.
The Warriors (1969)
A turf battle between New York City street gangs that rages from Coney Island to the Bronx. The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge and they must make their way across the city to their own turf.
Hard Times (1985)
An aging, bare-knuckle street fighter in 1930's New Orleans makes his living in illegal brawls with opponents fooled into thinking they can take him.
Cool Hand Luke (1957)
A gutsy prison inmate refuses to yield to authority.
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.