The best(?) films and series about OUR favorite sport.
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Charlie's Angels (2000)
The Three Angels are tasked with investigating the kidnapping of Eric Knox. Suspicion immediately falls on his rival, Roger Corwin. He wants to gain control of Knox's computer system so he can trace every telephone conversation in the world. With the help of Bosley, the liaison between Charlie and the Angels, they free Knox. To find evidence of Knox's kidnapping, the Three Angels break into Corwin's company's server room and search the server for Knox's software.
However, appearances are deceptive, as Knox turns out to be the real culprit, having deceived the Angels to gain access to Corwin's company's tracking systems. Knox intends to use these, in conjunction with his own voice identification software, to locate and kill Charlie. Knox believes that his father and Charlie were comrades in the Vietnam War, but that Charlie betrayed his father, leading to his death. Knox now wants revenge.
The Angels are able to escape the traps Knox set for them. They discover the location from which Knox intends to locate Charlie. They arrive too late. Although they manage to free Bosley, Knox already knows Charlie's location and is on his way to Charlie's location in a helicopter armed with a missile. However, the Angels manage to reprogram the missile so that it hits Knox in his own helicopter.
However, when the angels arrive at Charlie's house, he has already disappeared....
300 (2006)
300 is told from the perspective of Dilios, a soldier from Sparta. The Spartans are portrayed as a people of merciless warriors who kill deformed and weak infants immediately after birth and raise their sons with extreme harshness after the agoge. The narrator recounts the legend of a 15-year-old boy who is sent alone into the wilderness as part of an initiation ritual and there he faces off against a ferocious wolf.
Thirty years later, this boy is King Leonidas I of Sparta, when Great King Xerxes of Persia marches into Greece with a massive army. He sends a messenger to Sparta to offer Leonidas a quiet annexation of Sparta. The latter takes the offer as an insult and throws the negotiator and his entourage into a well. Before Leonidas goes to war to defend Sparta, he consults the oracle about his war plan, according to ancient law. However, the ephors, the guardians of the oracle, have been bribed by Xerxes and refuse to bless him under the pretext of the Carnea Festival, which prohibits all fighting for nine days.
In the council, Leonidas is heavily criticized for his war plans because of the oracle's prophecy, but especially for the hopelessness of a fight against the numerically superior Persian forces. Nevertheless, Leonidas sets out "on a journey" with 300 hand-picked Spartans, each of whom has already sired a male heir. His goal is to stop the Persians at a narrow pass between the sea and the mountains, Thermopylae, where the enemy's numerical superiority is less significant.
On the way there, a group of Arcadians joins the Spartans...
300 | 2 (2014)
The Spartan Queen Gorgo is on a ship of the Spartan fleet, recounting to her soldiers the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) ten years earlier, in which the Persian King Darius was severely wounded by an arrow from the Athenian warlord Themistocles when he and his men launched a surprise attack on the Persians just as they were landing in the Bay of Marathon. As he lay dying, Darius implored his son Xerxes I to end the war, for, as he said, "only the gods can defeat these Greeks." Artemisia, a close confidante and advisor of Greek descent to the Persian ruler, interpreted the last words to mean that Xerxes was to accomplish what only a god could do: destroy Greece.
Xerxes left the royal court wrapped in a mystical shroud, bathed in a supernatural liquid, and returned as a hairless god-king, over two meters tall. Artemisia then killed all of the god-king Xerxes' advisors, teachers, warlords, and all other confidants, fueling Xerxes's desire to subjugate Athens.
Alexander (2004)
The old Ptolemy, who fought at Alexander's side in his youth, tells his story.
We learn that in his childhood, Alexander was considered by his mother Olympias to be a god-like creature destined for greatness, while his father, the Macedonian King Philip II, saw him, at least for a time, as a weakling.
After Philip's assassination, in which Olympias appears to have played a decisive role, Alexander, just 20 years old, is proclaimed King of Macedonia and begins a campaign of conquest. He expands his empire to Persia, Egypt, and India, dreaming of uniting the peoples. But Alexander's men do not share his fascination with the "barbarian peoples" and long for their homeland, Macedonia. Alexander's marriage to the Asian woman Roxane, which initially remains childless, is not tolerated. Alexander becomes increasingly lonely and increasingly addicted to wine. In an argument, he kills Cleitus, one of his most loyal companions.
Alexander then invaded India. After being severely wounded in battle, he returned to Persia with his army and spent his last days in Babylon.
Alpha (2018)
20,000 years before our time. Young Keda is allowed to accompany the men of his tribe, led by his father, on a hunt for the first time. They drive a herd of buffalo into a precipice, where one of the animals attacks Keda, knocking him down as well.
Keda remains lifeless on a rocky outcrop, where the others cannot reach him. The men of his tribe give him up for lost, a fact his father also realizes the next morning. They build a stone grave and return to their village.
Just a week earlier, Keda had crafted a usable spearhead, earning him the right to hunt with the other men. His father had told him about the stars and how they always show him the way home.
Using the example of wolves, he had explained to him that a leader must look after his own people, but also runs the risk of being doubted by them if they show weakness.
Apocalypto (2006)
The hunter Jaguar Paw lives with his heavily pregnant wife Seven, his son Swift Turtle, and his father Flashing Sky in a village in the Mesoamerican tropical rainforest.
When human hunters led by Alpha Wolf attack the settlement one morning, Jaguar Paw manages to bring his wife and young son to safety in a smaller, deeper cenote that is currently not water-filled. After the battle, he and other members of his tribe are taken prisoner and witness his father being killed. On the way to the enemy city, they encounter a sick young girl sitting next to the corpse of her mother in an environment destroyed by labor slaves, amidst barren fields.
When a slave driver repeatedly tries to keep the girl at a distance with the help of a stick to prevent infection, the girl calls out to them that when "day turns to night", the man who brings the jaguar will lead them, "the abominations", to the one who will wipe out earth and sky and her and her world.
From the Jungle to the Jungle (1997)
New York City-based broker Michael Cromwell wants to remarry. To do so, he needs a divorce from his first wife, Patricia, who left him years ago and moved to the Amazon region. Cromwell travels to South America, where he learns that he has a thirteen-year-old son, Mimi-Siku.
Cromwell brings Mimi-Siku to New York. Before leaving, the boy promises the tribal chief that he will bring back the fire from the Statue of Liberty's flame, but upon arrival, he discovers that no fire is burning. Mimi-Siku falls in love with Karen, the daughter of Richard Kempster, Cromwell's business partner. Richard Kempster becomes enraged when Mimi-Siku eats his favorite fish from the aquarium and Karen falls asleep next to the boy shortly thereafter. Although she insists that no sexual activity took place, she is to be sent to a girls-only summer camp.
Cromwell and Kempster get involved in business with Russian mafiosi. The disgruntled gangsters raid the Kempsters' house, tie up Richard, and threaten to cut off his fingers. Mimi-Siku helps overpower the criminals.
Mimi-Siku returns to his homeland, and his father gives him a lighter in the shape of the Statue of Liberty and a satellite phone as a farewell gift.
Avatar: The Journey to Pandora (2009)
In the year 2154, Earth's natural resources are exhausted. The Resources Development Administration corporation is mining the coveted raw material unobtainium on the Earth-like, distant moon Pandora in the Alpha Centauri system, and in doing so, it comes into conflict with a humanoid species called the Na'vi, who are defending themselves against the destruction of their environment. Pandora is populated by Earth-like lifeforms (green plants and animals resembling Earth mammals), but has an atmosphere unsuitable for human breathing, so humans must wear oxygen masks.
Former US Marine Jake Sully, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since a combat mission, is sent to Pandora to replace his deceased twin brother on a diplomatic mission: With the help of artificially created Na'vi bodies, so-called avatars, which can be controlled through consciousness transfer, he is to establish contact with the indigenous people and convince them to abandon their homeland and their resistance to the mining of the raw material.
While the team in charge, led by Dr. Grace Augustine, is primarily pursuing scientific goals and seeking mediation, the base's military commander, Colonel Miles Quaritch, wants Sully to provide him with information regarding the Na'vi's defense strategies and vulnerabilities. Quaritch promises him that the Navy will cover the costs of a spinal surgery for his covert mission, and Sully agrees.
During an expedition in his avatar, Sully is separated from the group and left alone in the dense jungle of Pandora...
Avengers 2 - Age of Ultron (2014)
In the (fictional) Eastern European city of Sokovia, the Avengers fight through Baron von Strucker's army to retrieve Loki's Scepter, which fell into Hydra's hands after the dissolution of SHIELD . Von Strucker is captured by the Avengers . In the basement of his fortress, Tony Stark discovers a hidden robot factory. The twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, both endowed with superpowers by von Strucker, are also in the building. Wanda unnoticed manages to unleash her psychic powers on Stark, whereupon he helplessly witnesses the deaths of his teammates and the destruction of Earth by alien invaders in a vision.
After the Avengers recover the scepter, Stark and Bruce Banner analyze the artifact and, to their surprise, discover the presence of an artificial intelligence inside. Seduced by his vision, Stark comes up with the idea of ​​using this intelligence to perfect a computer system he has developed called Ultron, which is intended to protect humanity. He persuades Banner to help him implement the artificial intelligence into his Ultron program and conceals the dangerous experiment from the others. Stark has JARVIS monitor the transfer in his absence, but a mistake occurs: Ultron awakens to full consciousness in a support robot created by Stark, overpowers JARVIS, and reveals himself to the Avengers , revealing his plan to bring about "peace for our time." The Avengers attack him and destroy his robot body, but Ultron's consciousness transfers to the internet and thus escapes destruction; and the support drones he controls also manage to steal the scepter.
Avengers 3 - Infinity War (2018)
The Aesir spaceship, carrying Thor, his brother Loki, Bruce Banner, and Heimdall, was attacked. The Titan Thanos killed half of the Aesir and allowed the other half to escape. He now tortures Thor and threatens to kill him if Loki does not hand over the Space Stone. Loki submits and gives him the Tesseract, which contains the stone. Thor and Hulk are unable to stop Thanos from escaping with the stone. Thanos then kills both Heimdall, who is able to teleport Hulk to Earth using the Bifröst, and Loki, who had previously tried in vain to outsmart him. The Space Stone is the second Infinity Stone that the Titan can obtain. He has already stolen the first, the Power Stone, from the Xandarian Nova Corps, killing half of the Xandarians in the process. He sends his four foster children, Cull Obsidian, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight, to search for two more stones on Earth. He then destroys the spaceship on which Thor is still imprisoned.
On Earth, Hulk, or Bruce Banner, crashes through the ceiling of the New York temple of the magicians Dr. Strange and Wong. Strange seeks out Tony Stark and asks him for help. The three tell Stark about the six Infinity Stones: elemental pieces of crystal that were created after the Big Bang and together represent an invincible force that Thanos wants to possess at any cost. The stones have been hurled into various corners of the universe: the Space Stone and the Power Stone, which Thanos already has, but also the Mind Stone, which is in Vision's forehead, the Reality Stone, the Time Stone, which Strange possesses, and the Soul Stone. To track down Vision, Stark needs the help of Steve Rogers, even though the Avengers had previously fallen out. Strange protects the Time Stone.
When it comes to dying, everyone is the first (1972)
Ed Gentry, Lewis Medlock, Bobby Trippe, and Drew Ballinger, all from Atlanta, embark on a canoe trip on the fictional, remote, and wild Cahulawassee River in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. The valley is about to be flooded due to the construction of a dam.
From the beginning of their journey, it's clear that they're strangers in a strange world. The locals' behavior toward them ranges from uninterested to dismissive. While they're looking for drivers to take their cars to their destination, Drew manages to establish contact with a disabled boy by challenging him on the guitar, to which the boy responds on his banjo, ultimately leading to the two playing against each other as if in a musical duel. When Drew tries to congratulate the boy on his victory afterward, the boy refuses to shake his hand.
After a hostile conversation with an aggressive hillbilly, Ed doesn't have a good feeling and suggests heading back to town, but Lewis refuses. The four men split up into two canoes, and Lewis, the dominant figure who also carries a hunting bow, quickly takes command of the trip, leading to tensions within the group. On the second day, Bobby and Ed reach shore early, where they encounter two armed rednecks. Ed is tied to a tree and Bobby is raped. Before Ed can also be sexually assaulted, Lewis arrives and kills one of the attackers with an arrow. The other manages to escape into the wilderness.
Big Game (2014)
Oskari, a shy 13-year-old boy living in Finland, has to spend an entire night alone in the forest due to a tradition in his village.
There, he's supposed to prove he's a real man by killing a wild animal with only a bow and arrow. At the same time, the U.S. President's Air Force One is attacked by terrorists and crashed. President William Alan Moore narrowly escapes the plane and is brought to safety. He is eventually found by chance by Oskari in an escape pod in the middle of the forest.
For the next few hours, the two are left to fend for themselves, and a fight for survival begins that they can only overcome together. But it soon becomes clear that the forest isn't the only danger; the assassins have also found their trail and are hot on their heels.
After a long search to find the American Special Forces team, Oskari must finally prove his strength by saving the president, and thus both are able to escape the assassins led by Morris, a Secret Service agent, and Hazar, his client...
Blade: Trinity (2004)
At the beginning of the film, a heavily armed group of vampires invades a rock tomb in Syria and frees an initially unidentified monster from its grave. One vampire is killed in the process. The survivors take the monster with them.
Meanwhile, in the USA, half-vampire Blade, also known as "Daywalker," kills a human disguised as a vampire while hunting. This is filmed by the vampire Danica Talos, as it was an ambush planned by the vampires. From then on, Blade must contend not only with vampires, but also with humans. When his hideout is discovered and raided by the FBI, Whistler destroys all the secret data stored on the PCs and kills himself. After giving Blade the opportunity to escape, and after being shot several times, he has no chance of escape. Outside, Blade is captured and taken to the police station, where Familiars, servants of the vampires, interrogate him, and Danica's troops attempt to transport him away. At the last moment, he is freed by Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler. They belong to the underground organization "Nightstalker" and fight against vampires. He initially works with them reluctantly, but ultimately they are the last people he has left to support him after Whistler's death.
From them, he learns that the vampires have awakened Drake, alias Dracula. At their first meeting, Drake claims that the vampires awakened him because they believed he could turn them into daywalkers. However, Drake, who despises the weakened vampires, seems to feel almost affection for Blade. He even admits that Blade is different and better than a typical vampire. In reality, the vampires want Drake to destroy Blade.
Braveheart (1995)
At the end of the 13th century, King Edward I of England, known as "Edward the Longshanks," claimed the throne of Scotland and lured several Scottish negotiators into an ambush, where he had all the envoys killed, despite the flag of truce. In the ensuing fighting, William's father and brother were killed. After the funeral, William, an eight-year-old orphan, was taken in by his uncle Argyle, who lived in Ireland, and received a proper education from him.
In the following years, Scotland suffered under Edward's harsh laws. Wallace returned to his village as a grown man to marry his childhood sweetheart Murron. The two wed in secret, as the English Sheriff, following Edward's decree, invoked the ius primae noctis, the "right of the first night." When an English soldier attempted to rape Murron, a fight broke out in which Wallace escaped, but Murron was captured and publicly executed by the Sheriff. Wallace returned to seek revenge, stormed the garrison with his clan friends, and killed the Sheriff with his own hand. He then led his clan and a growing band of volunteers on a campaign of revenge against the English garrisons in the surrounding area.
Centurion (2010)
In 117 AD, the Roman centurion Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender) and his legion are stationed on the border of the Pictish lands. During the night, the soldiers are ambushed by the Celtic tribe, and all but Dias are killed. He is tortured and brought before the Pictish king Gorlacon (Ulrich Thomsen).
Although Dias manages to escape captivity, he is pursued by the Picts, who now want to kill him. Just before they succeed, the tribe is attacked by a group of Roman soldiers led by General Titus Flavius ​​Virilus (Dominic West), and Quintus Dias regains his freedom. Virilus tells him that he has received orders from Agricola (Paul Freeman) to use the so-called Ninth Legion to capture the leader of the Picts and bring him to him. Quintus Dias decides to join the troop. But the legion is led by Etain (Olga Kurylenko), who is actually a Pict. Still angry because she was kidnapped and tortured by Roman soldiers, she sets a trap for the legion.
Many men are killed and Virilus is captured. Quintus Dias wants to free him and lead the rest of the legion home.
Conquest (1983)
The evil Ocron wants to subjugate her world with the help of the wolf people she created. Young Ilias, who received a magical bow from his father, opposes this. In Ocron's land, he meets Mace, who lives in harmony with nature and wants to overthrow Ocron. Ilias supports him.
After Ocron, whose clairvoyant powers had indicated the danger, uses the God of Evil to unleash all sorts of zombies on the two, Ilias returns to his homeland, but then changes his mind and is killed in a demon ambush. Mace burns the corpse, scatters the ashes over himself, and, with the aid of his bow, engages Ocron in battle.
He kills her; and from her corpse leaps a she-wolf, who flees into the forest…
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Fellowship of the Ring begins by telling the story of the so-called One Ring, forged by the Dark Lord Sauron. The ring possesses magical powers and grants Sauron great power. Despite this, the free peoples of Middle-earth managed to defeat Sauron. Isildur took the One Ring but was killed in an Orc raid. 2,500 years later, when the ring had almost been forgotten, Smeagol, a halfling, found it and became Gollum through the use of the ring. The ring cursed the creature's life for five hundred years until it set out in search of a new bearer and thus fell into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
The actual action now begins – 60 years later – in the Shire. On his 111th birthday, Bilbo decides to leave the Shire and leave the Ring to his nephew Frodo Baggins. By studying ancient records, the wizard Gandalf discovers that it is the ring of the dark lord Sauron. Sauron, who has returned to his ancient kingdom of Mordor, has his servants, the Nazgûl, search for the ring that would restore him to his former strength. Frodo is forced to flee his homeland. His friends Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took join him one after the other.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The film begins with a flashback to the fight between Gandalf and the Balrog on the bridge of Khazad-dûm. Both fall into the depths, and Gandalf continues to fight the Balrog as he falls, eventually killing it. He himself survives, gravely injured. At this time, Sam and Frodo are being pursued by Gollum. When Gollum attacks the two hobbits, they capture him. Frodo takes pity on him and believes Gollum can lead them to their destination, Mordor.
Sam, however, is less than enthusiastic about this suggestion and watches Gollum warily and suspiciously. After a while, Sam can barely hide his dislike for Gollum, while Frodo increasingly shows sympathy for him, as he, as the Ring-bearer, can empathize with Gollum's situation, having possessed the Ring for so long. Meanwhile, the hobbits Merry and Pippin manage to free themselves from the clutches of the Uruk-hai in Rohan. During their escape, they enter Fangorn Forest and encounter an Ent (tree herder) named Treebeard.
Merry and Pippin try to explain the impending war between the races to Treebeard. It is decided to call a meeting of all Ents, an "Entthing." The Ents take a long time to deliberate, and so Merry and Pippin become increasingly impatient.
After some time, the Ents decide to stay out of the matter...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
In the final part of the trilogy, we first learn in a flashback how Sméagol became the creature Gollum: Two hobbit-like figures are seen in a boat. They turn out to be Déagol and Sméagol, who belong to the so-called River Folk. Déagol is pulled into the lake by a large fish. Underwater, he spots something glittering and grabs it. On land, he realizes it is a golden ring. Sméagol takes notice of it and wants the ring desperately. When Déagol refuses, a fight breaks out between the two, during which Sméagol strangles Déagol. He then retreats to a cave where, under the influence of the ring, he transforms into Gollum over the centuries, which is depicted in a kind of "time-lapse."
In Rohan, people are recovering from the attacks of the Uruk-hai army. King Théoden wonders whether he should support the realm of Gondor, which has failed to help his realm. Aragorn makes it clear to him that there is no other way to withstand the impending new attacks. After Pippin illicitly peers into the palantir in Gandalf's possession – the palantir provides a treacherous link to Mordor – Gandalf recognizes from Pippin's tales Sauron's next target: the capital of Gondor, Minas Tirith. The Fellowship of the Ring's efforts are thus directed towards defending this city. Gandalf rides with Pippin to Minas Tirith to meet Denethor, the father of Boromir and Faramir and also Steward of Gondor. Once there, Denethor tells them that he knows of Boromir's death. Gandalf wanted to conceal his son's death from Denethor, knowing that Boromir's death would depress Denethor. Denethor doesn't want to ask Rohan for help, fearing that Aragorn (the rightful heir to the throne) would deprive him of his power. Meanwhile, Pippin, feeling guilty toward Boromir, puts himself at Denethor's service.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The aging hobbit Bilbo Baggins begins writing his memoirs in Hobbiton in the Shire shortly before his 111th birthday, in which he finally intends to recount all his adventures to his nephew Frodo. In the foreword, he tells of the dwarven kingdom of Erebor beneath the Lonely Mountain, above the human city of Dale, where the dwarves, under the leadership of King ThrĂłr, stored immeasurable treasures, including the Arkenstone. One day, lured by the gold, the fire dragon Smaug appeared, destroyed Dale, defeated the dwarves, and settled in the mountain amidst the treasure. The elves under Thranduil, who were observing the event, did not intervene. The dwarves, led by ThrĂłr's grandson Thorin Oakenshield, were scattered across Middle-earth. A hobbit hole in the Shire
While Frodo sets off into the woods to meet Gandalf, who has announced his arrival, Bilbo continues to remember his adventures as a youth: One morning 60 years ago, the wizard Gandalf the Grey visited Bilbo's hobbit hole and proposed an adventure, but Bilbo had no interest in leaving his tranquil and secure life. Gandalf then unnoticed marked Bilbo's door with a rune, and one evening Bilbo received a surprise visit from Thorin Oakenshield and 12 other (hungry) dwarves, who, after plundering his larder, conferred with Gandalf. Thorin Oakenshield planned to go to the Lonely Mountain with the 12 dwarves (Balin, Dwalin, Oin, GlĂłin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur, but without the support of his cousin Dain), enter the mountain through a secret door, and drive Smaug from his kingdom.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The film's plot begins in flashback form a year before the events of An Unexpected Journey . Thorin Oakenshield, searching for his missing father Thráin, meets the wizard Gandalf at the Prancing Pony Inn in the village of Bree, who encourages him in his old resolve to reconquer his former home, Erebor. However, Gandalf admits, this is not done for altruistic reasons: fearing that the forces of evil might win over the dragon Smaug, who once drove the dwarves from Erebor, to their own ends, he is keen to see the dragon killed so that at least the eastern realms remain safe. Encouraged by Gandalf's support, Thorin agrees to an expedition to the Lonely Mountain.
Twelve months later: Despite being rescued by the Great Eagles, Thorin's company, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, continues to be hunted by Azog and his Orcs. On the edge of the Misty Mountains, they enter the territory of Beorn, a skin-changer who can assume the form of a giant bear. After an initial, mild encounter with his wild animal form, they are entertained by Beorn, as the Orcs are responsible for the death of his kin. He also equips them with new ponies with which they can reach Mirkwood. Beorn's presence deters Azog's Orcs from a direct attack on the Dwarves. Shortly afterwards, Azog is recalled by the sinister power stirring in the ruined fortress of Dol Guldur, leaving the hunt to his son Bolg.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
After Bilbo, Thorin Oakenshield, and the other twelve dwarves reach the Lonely Mountain, where the dragon Smaug awakens from his sleep. Smaug flies toward the lake-town of Esgaroth to wreak revenge on the people living there for their support of the dwarves. The people of the lake-town see the approaching monster and desperately try to evacuate the town, but the dragon reaches the town and transforms the place into a flaming inferno. Bard, who had previously been imprisoned, escapes from his cell and attempts to attack Smaug with a bow and arrow, but the beast proves invulnerable to these weapons. Only with the help of his son Bain and a final black arrow from his ancestor, the lord of the destroyed town of Dale, is he able to deliver a fatal blow to Smaug. The dragon's massive body plunges into the Long Lake, striking the mayor's boat and killing him.
As the people of Esgaroth gather on the shores of the lake the next morning, they proclaim Bard their hero and seek his guidance and support. Bard organizes a trek for the survivors to the ruined city of Dale at the foot of the Lonely Mountain to seek shelter for the approaching winter and to ask Thorin and his companions for help. Kili, Fili, Oin, and Bofur leave for Erebor, which means a difficult farewell to Tauriel for Kili. Immediately afterwards, the elf, who was banished from the Elven realm by King Thranduil for her disloyalty and her sympathy for Kili, and her companion Legolas set out for the ancient fortress of Gundabad in the fallen kingdom of Angmar, following a trail that Legolas found while pursuing Bolg from Esgaroth.
The Mongol (2008)
In the summer of 1173, nine-year-old Temujin is traveling with his father Yesugai to the Merkites. Yesugai is the leader of a Mongolian clan. He wants to find a bride for Temujin among the Merkites and thus reconcile the warring tribes. Yesugai himself initiated the enmity between the tribes when he kidnapped the bride of the Merkite leader. On the way to the Merkites, Yesugai stops off with a friendly tribe. There, Temujin meets ten-year-old Börte, who boldly offers herself as a suitable bride. After some hesitation, Yesugai finally allows his son to choose Börte as his future bride. The wedding is to be celebrated in five years.
On the way back to his tribe, enemies poison his father, who believes in Mongolian customs that no blood is to be shed at a rest stop (which the poisoning ensures remains the same). The young warrior Targutai seizes the opportunity and appoints himself the new leader. He lets Temujin live, but with the promise to kill Temujin the following winter, once he has grown older. The following winter, Temujin sets out for the sacred mountain to ask his god Tengri for help. At some point, after breaking through the ice of a frozen body of water, he lies exhausted in the snow. There, the young Jamukha finds him and saves him from freezing to death. Temujin and Jamukha become blood brothers, and Temujin spends some time with Jamukha's clan. After some time, Targutai appears with some warriors.
The Magic Bow (1981)
The land of Malveel, a region inhabited by warring nomadic clans, is in danger of being conquered by the rising Draikian Empire—commonly known as the Dynasty. King Brakus, ruler of the Falcon Clan, succeeds after a long time in peacefully uniting several warring tribes and attempts to enlist them in the fight against the common enemy. However, he is threatened by betrayal from within his own ranks: Sandros and Riis, his nephews, in their hunger for power, have contacted the Dynasty, and their supreme warlord, Gar, and his serpent men, are ordering them to eliminate Brakus.
Meanwhile, Brakus' son Toran has a hostile encounter with the beautiful Estra, a sorceress whose mother, Naestra, was once murdered by Brakus' father under the orders of his master, the sorcerer Lazar-Sa. She gives him a cryptic prophecy, promising him a hopeless quest.
That same night, Brakus is murdered by Gar with Toran's dagger, which Sandros had secretly stolen. As he lay dying, Brakus extracts a promise from his son to seek out Lazar-Sa, so that his work will not have been in vain. Toran is found with his father's corpse and imprisoned as a murderer. However, his old master, Mak, the master of a magic bow, frees him, and together the two set out to find the sorcerer, pursued by Gar and his snake men, who are determined to prevent a renewed alliance between the Malveel clans under the Falcons, which is why Gar also has Sandros and Riis murdered.
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
During World War II, the Pevensie children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—are forced to leave their home in London. They are to live with Professor Digory Kirke for the duration of the war to avoid German bombing raids. While playing hide-and-seek, the youngest, Lucy, discovers a strange wardrobe in the professor's vast, winding mansion, with its many rooms and doors. This wardrobe opens a portal to another world.
There, at a lamppost, she meets the faun Tumnus, who invites her into his home. After they've eaten, she falls asleep. After a long sleep, Mr. Tumnus reveals who he really is: a spy for the White Witch, who claims to be Queen of Narnia. She has ordered all humans found in Narnia to be handed over to her. Lucy persuades him not to betray her and immediately runs back to the lamppost with Mr. Tumnus, where she finds her way back to the wardrobe on her own.
When she tells the others, no one believes her story. The other siblings also try to enter the magical world via the wardrobe, but only Edmund succeeds when he sneaks after Lucy. When she returns to Mr. Tumnus, Edmund meets the White Witch, Jadis, and tells her everything he's heard from Lucy, as she seems friendly. She also promises him that if he returns with his siblings, he will become King of Narnia. Shortly afterward, he meets Lucy, who tells him who the White Witch is, unaware of Edmund's encounter. Returning from Narnia, she tells the others that Narnia really exists and that Edmund can testify to it...
The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian (2008)
In the middle of the night, a child is born in a castle in Narnia. He is the son of Regent Miraz, who rules over the Telmarine people while Crown Prince Caspian is still young. Miraz immediately sends some soldiers to Prince Caspian to have him killed and secure the throne for himself and his family. However, the young man is warned by his teacher, Doctor Cornelius, and sent away. Fleeing into the forest, he meets some Narnians whom the Telmarines actually believe to be extinct or mythical creatures. But Miraz's soldiers are hot on Caspian's heels and attack him. In his distress, Caspian blows his horn, which Cornelius gave him shortly before his departure, and which summons help. According to legend, it once belonged to Queen Susan (Susan Pevensie) in the golden age of Narnia.
At the same time in England in 1941: A year has passed since the Pevensie siblings' first adventure came to an involuntary end. The children are in the midst of their everyday lives, only Peter is fed up with his life in England, as the young High King is now treated like a child again. On their way to school, in a subway station, they are suddenly caught by a magical wind. The gray world around them dissolves, and they find themselves on a beach in Narnia. The siblings' joy is short-lived, however, when they discover the ruins of a nearby castle: the remains of Cair Paravel make the children realize how much time must have passed in Narnia (approximately 1,300 years).
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Three Narnian years after their last adventure, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie, along with their spoiled cousin Eustace Knilch, find themselves in the kingdom of Narnia through a painting of a ship in their uncle's house. They land on that very ship, the Dawn Treader , under the command of King Caspian X.
He has set out to bring back seven lords who were once banished from the royal court to the Lone Islands by his uncle Miraz. Queen Lucy and King Edmund are now supposed to help him – but Eustace, who doesn't believe in magic, is nagging and wants nothing to do with the others.
Arriving on the Lone Islands , they must first fend off unscrupulous slave traders. There they meet Lord Bern. He explains that the slave traders are randomly abducting the islands' populations to deliver them to the mysterious green mist. This mist emerges from the sea, and the people in the boats it envelops disappear without a trace. After the Narnians have defeated the slave traders, they set out with Rhince, whose wife Alane has been abducted by the mist, and his daughter Gael to search for the islanders who have disappeared in the mist—in addition to their original mission. As a farewell, Lord Bern gives his sword to Caspian, who in turn passes it on to Edmund.
The Legend of Tomiris - Battle against Persia (2020)
The young chieftain's daughter, Tomiris (Almira Tursyn), has a painful past: Her family was murdered in cold blood by traitors. She was subsequently taken in by fierce female warriors who turned her into a brave and strong fighter. She then seeks revenge on her family's murderers. Tomiris and her husband become queen and king of the steppe, bringing peace to the empire. But the Persian king Cyrus the Great (Ghassan Massoud) lures Tomiris' husband and son into an ambush. The decisive battle is at hand: Tomiris must fight against a Persian army far superior to her warriors...
The Last Legion (2007)
In 460 AD, twelve-year-old Romulus Augustulus (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) is to be proclaimed the new emperor of Rome. The day before, Odoacer (Peter Mullan), the commander of the Goths, demands that Romulus' father, Orestes (Iain Glen), grant him a third of Italy.
When Orestes refuses, Odoacer threatens repercussions for the Roman Empire. After Romulus is crowned, the army leader sends his lieutenant Wulfila (Kevin McKidd) to Rome, who kills Orestes and his wife and abducts the young emperor, along with his mentor Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley), to Capri.
The Battle of Tai'an (2021)
In 1161, Wanyan Liang, emperor of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, planned an invasion of the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to the Jin's harsh recruitment policy and cruelty, life was difficult for the people of the Central Plains.
21-year-old Xin Qiji (Xie Miao) rises up with the villagers to fight against the Jin army and then joins a more influential volunteer army led by Geng Jing, which wins one victory after another.
With the goal of expelling the invaders, reclaiming the lost lands, and achieving reunification, Xin Qiji went to the south in 1162 to persuade the Song emperor to expel the Jurchen from the north. Xin Qiji successfully completed his mission, only to discover that the commander, Geng Jing, had been killed by a traitor and the army had lost morale.
What path will Xin Qiji and his 50 loyal subordinates take in the face of Wanyan Basu's 50,000-strong army?
The Hunger Games (2012)
The film is set in the future in the dictatorial state of Panem, located on the territory of present-day USA. It consists of twelve districts and the Capitol as the seat of government. While the citizens of the luxurious Capitol live in prosperity, the people in the outermost districts struggle for daily survival. Most of them starve because food is scarce and they are not allowed to leave the district to search for food in the surrounding forests.
To demonstrate the Capitol's power over the citizens of Panem, the so-called Hunger Games are held every year. These are a kind of modern-day gladiatorial combat in which the mostly unwilling participants must fight each other to the death until only one remains victorious.
For this purpose, so-called tributes—one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18—are drawn by lot in each district and placed in an arena at the Capitol. The Hunger Games are broadcast nationwide on television, and all citizens are obligated to watch them live. The winner of the Games receives a lifetime supply from the Capitol, and the residents of their district are provided with sufficient essential food for a year...
The Hunger Games : Catching Fire (2013)
The film's action begins several months after the 74th Hunger Games. Ever since Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the Games together, against the Capitol's rules, they have been the constant focus of the still-enraged President Snow.
The staged story of the "tragic lovers" alone serves as life insurance for the two and protection against the Capitol's revenge. At the beginning of the film, Katniss meets with her hunting companion Gale in the forest, where they discuss how to escape the Capitol. It becomes clear that Katniss is severely traumatized by the Hunger Games.
Instead of a turkey, she sees a tribute she shot, causing her to collapse. At home, Katniss receives an unexpected visit from President Snow, who informs her of raging unrest and rebellions in other districts, for which he blames Katniss. These were sparked by her unruly behavior in the Hunger Games.
Snow threatens Katniss with revenge on her family if she fails to pacify the rebels during the upcoming "Tour of Victors" through the districts...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)
After her rescue from the arena of the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen finds herself in the underground District 13, as District 12 was destroyed by firebombs from the Capitol. District 13, which formerly manufactured nuclear weapons, is officially considered destroyed and no longer exists. Several districts are in revolt against the Capitol.
Katniss visits her devastated home, District 12. The place where she spent her childhood has been almost completely destroyed by the Capitol. In the house that Katniss received from the Capitol after the 74th Hunger Games, she finds a white rose, which is unmistakably a warning from President Snow. District 13, like the Capitol, possessed nuclear weapons after the first war. Therefore, an agreement was concluded between the district and the Capitol, officially destroying the district. The district's residents live in an underground bunker system, and their coexistence is strictly regulated.
During one of the meetings, a television broadcast takes place in which Peeta calls for a ceasefire between the two warring parties, which would, however, be disadvantageous for the rebels. The leadership of the rebellion therefore considers Peeta a collaborator. Gale subsequently convinces Katniss to assume the role of Mockingjay for the rebels. Katniss sets several conditions, including the pardon of the tributes, including Peeta...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2 (2015)
After being attacked by Peeta, who was subjected to psychological torture in the Capitol before being freed by the rebels, Katniss has to have her throat treated and is only able to fully use her voice after some time. Under Plutarch Heavensbee's guidance, Peeta is also treated.
Katniss's sister, Prim, is sent to him for a first approach, but Peeta throws a fit. Distraught, Katniss requests that President Coin send her to the Capitol, wanting revenge on Snow. But the President instead sends her to the strategically important District 2, because the fighting there is still ongoing and she is supposed to give the rebels hope. Gale, still jealous of Peeta, accompanies her. When Gale and the engineer Beetee discuss plans for a new booby trap that would trigger another shortly after the first explosion to also hit any potential helpers, Katniss is horrified by the unscrupulous war tactics.
In District 2, leader Lyme explains the planned attack on "The Nut," a Capitol fortress built deep into a mountain range and its most strategically important military base. Bombardments will trigger avalanches of debris, blocking the entrances and trapping the fortress's inhabitants within the mountain. Only one escape route remains open for civilians and surrendering soldiers. This could, in fact, force the enemy to surrender.
However, when Katniss is supposed to give a speech to the refugees for propaganda purposes, she is injured in a shootout...
A Man They Called Horse (1970)
The English aristocrat Lord John Morgan is captured by the Lakota Sioux. Initially, he is treated as a lowly slave, like a pet, belonging to Buffalo Cow Head, the mother of Chief Yellow Hand. The Indians name him "Horse."
Batise, another prisoner, teaches Morgan the language and customs of the Native Americans. He had attempted to escape and was mutilated by the Native Americans as a result. Now he is the Native Americans' "court jester." Morgan also attempts to escape at one point, but then sees his only chance in adapting to the tribe's customs. Over the course of the film, he increasingly identifies with the Native Americans and begins to understand their customs, which initially seem "barbaric" to him. In battles with another tribe, he kills two warriors, after which he himself rises to warrior status.
In a painful initiation ceremony, the Sun Dance, he is accepted into the tribe and marries the chief's sister, "Running Deer." Attacking Shoshone kill Chief Yellow Hand and Running Deer, who is pregnant with a horse.
After Horse repulses the attack, he takes Buffalo Cow Head as his mother to protect her from exile. After her death, Horse returns to England...
A Man They Called Horse 2 (1976)
Five years have passed since Lord John Morgan returned to his lavish country estate in England. While hunting in the American wilderness, he was first captured by the Yellow Hands Sioux subtribe and later respected as a member of their community. However, a brutal Shoshone raid killed his Native American wife and many of his friends, so he ultimately opted for civilization. Despite his obvious wealth and fiancée Jill, life at home causes him much distress: He misses "the power of the great spirit" and declares to his butler that he will cross the Atlantic once more.
Meanwhile, the Yellow Hands are in dire straits; a group of white trappers, with the support of the Rickaree, has established a trading post resembling a fort in their territory and is chasing, killing, or enslaving the relatively incapable Yellow Hands. The leader of this evil gang is a certain Zenas Morro, and his second-in-command is a rogue named Gryce, fluent in the Lakota language. When Morgan arrives in the familiar woods, he finds them deserted, and his search leads him to the fort in question. Morro suspects the both foppish and resolute stranger of being a Hudson's Bay Company snoop and, after he has left, orders his assassination. However, Gryce is overpowered by the battle-hardened Englishman in the wooded terrain and shortly thereafter killed in self-defense; however, Morgan was unable to discover the whereabouts of his Yellow Hands.
Eragon: Legacy of the Dragon Riders (2006)
Seventeen-year-old orphan Eragon from the small village of Carvahall finds a strange stone in a mountain range, the Hump, which later turns out to be a dragon egg, from which the blue dragon Saphira hatches. Through Saphira, as well as Brom, the storyteller of Carvahall, Eragon learns that he is now a dragon rider and that he must fear for his life. For King Galbatorix, himself a dragon rider who cruelly oppresses the kingdom of Alagaësia, has his sights set on the other dragon riders and wants to force each one under his rule. Anyone who does not submit to him will be killed. Eragon experiences this when the Ra'zac, creatures of Galbatorix, attack Carvahall, destroy his court, and kill his uncle Garrow.
Eragon, along with Saphira and Brom, sets out to find the Varden, a group of rebels who refuse to submit to Galbatorix. On the way, they pass through Teirm, where Eragon receives a fortune-telling from the witch Angela. Shortly thereafter, he discovers his magical powers during an attack by the Urgals, a race of warlike, human-like beings and allies of Galbatorix.
Gladiator (2000)
The film focuses on the successful Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who comes from the Iberian Peninsula and is a loyal follower of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (referred to in the film by his Latin name Marcus Aurelius).
Although the Germanic tribes, who were enemies of the Romans, are almost defeated, they still refuse to give up. After a fiery speech, Maximus leads his troops into battle against the enemy. The battle is heavy on both sides, but the Roman Legion emerges victorious. Although he praises Maximus for the victories he has achieved, Marcus Aurelius is plagued by pangs of conscience because of the wars he has fought and the lands he has conquered, as well as the corrupt politics in Rome.
He sees his end approaching and wants to give Rome back to the people, that is, abolish the empire and restore the republic.
He wants to entrust this task to Maximus, who is highly esteemed as a general of the northern provinces.
Hercules (2014)
Despite his divine lineage and extraordinary strength, Hercules (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) leads a life of deprivation. After being enslaved for a forbidden love and forced to fulfill twelve tasks, the demigod has grown weary of the world. With five of his most loyal comrades, he travels the land—and into battle as a mercenary for the best pay. Eventually, Hercules receives a mission that will change his life on earth forever: Together with his mercenaries and the army of King Cotys (John Hurt), he fights in the Battle of Thrace. The empire is to be liberated from the tyrant Rhesus (Tobias Santelmann), who has plunged it into civil war. But the rightful heir to the throne, Cotys, has other plans, and Hercules has no idea that his greatest battle is yet to come...
Hero (2002)
China, over 2,000 years ago: King Qin (Daoming Chen) seeks to assert his claim to rule over all of China against his rivals and become emperor. Plans to assassinate him have long been in the works.
Three opponents in particular are trying to kill him: Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Sky (Donnie Yen).
After ten years of failing to defeat the three, Nameless visits the palace and tells an extraordinary story.
Ironclad (2011)
The film is set in medieval England. The tyrannical King John is defeated by his own rebellious nobility and forced to sign the Magna Carta. This treaty guarantees fundamental political freedoms for the nobility vis-Ă -vis the English king. Shortly after the agreement, however, the monarch begins preparations to force the rebellious nobles back into submission. He forms a brutal military force from his own subordinates and summoned Danish mercenaries. He then gradually attacks and murders the leaders of the movement.
A traveling abbot and his three companions, experienced Templar knights, accidentally witness these excesses of violence. They confront King John, although their intervention seems pointless due to his superior numbers. As expected, the crusaders are overpowered and killed—except for the Templar Marshal, who manages to escape. He then turns to Archbishop Langton, King John's archrival. A plan is hatched to capture the strategically important Rochester Castle to prevent the tyrant from advancing further toward London with his army. Under the leadership of Baron de Albany, a group of daring fighters—including Marshal—finally occupies the fortress, despite the vehement protests of the castle's lord, Cornhill.
Killing Season (2013)
Benjamin Ford was a US officer serving in the Bosnian War as part of a NATO mission. There, his unit arrested members of a Serbian special unit who had committed war crimes.
When the Serbs were not punished but released after a few days, Ford and his comrades executed them. 18 years later, Ford lives as a hermit in the American wilderness. One day, Emil Kovac appears there. He was a member of the special unit and, despite being seriously injured, the only one to survive the execution. Now he wants revenge on Ford. A murderous hunt begins, during which the roles of hunter and hunted alternate several times.
In the end, both men realize that the death of the other would not free them from the guilt they had incurred through their actions during the war, and they part ways...
King Art hur (2004)
452 AD: On the southern Russian steppe, a young Sarmatian named Lancelot is taken away by Roman soldiers for his 15-year military service, to which the men of his people are obliged after their subjugation by the Roman Empire. He is stationed along the 120 km long Hadrian's Wall to protect the Roman province of Britannia from Celtic raids from the north. His commander is the Roman Artorius Castus, or Arthur . The son of a Roman officer and a British woman, he was raised by his Christian mentor Pelagius to believe in freedom and equality.
Fifteen years later, the last six remaining Sarmatian horsemen—Lancelot, Galahad, Gawain, Tristan, Bors, and Dagonet—are ending their military service on Hadrian's Wall. They await Roman charters for their months-long return journey to their people's homeland on the Black Sea.
Bishop Germanius, a former general, arriving from Rome, brings these papers with him – but also one last mission for the small troop under its commander Artorius: The Roman Bishop (Pope) himself has commissioned them to bring his godson and possible heir Alecto from enemy territory in the north back behind Hadrian's Wall.
King Arthur (2017)
In the 5th century. The magician Mordred attacks Camelot with fireballs, giant war elephants, and an army. King Uther defeats the attackers with the magical sword Excalibur, but is then betrayed by his brother Vortigern. While the king attempts to let his wife and son escape by boat, Vortigern kills Uther's wife with a spear. Many years later. Arthur, raised by three prostitutes, has become a cunning man and a seasoned survivor, while Vortigern consolidates his reign of terror. Arthur remembers nothing of his past, but one day when he pulls the sword Excalibur from a stone, he learns of his royal lineage and, in the weeks that follow, has visions of the night his mother died. Arthur fainted while drawing the sword and is now in the hands of Vortigern. Vortigern wants to force him to be behead himself without resistance in front of the people as a demonstration of his power.
A young sorceress and some rebels help Arthur escape. In order to overthrow the oppressor, Arthur initially reluctantly joins the rebellion, which also includes the mysterious sorceress Mage. She notices that Arthur resists the sword, which is why he faints when using it. To ensure that Arthur accepts the sword and his origins, the sorceress pushes him to his limits in the Darklands with the help of visions. Arthur finally learns what happened to his parents: After murdering his mother, Vortigern, empowered by dark magic, killed the king. The sword Excalibur remained stuck in the king's body, who turned into stone and sank to the bottom of the lake or river. Arthur learns from the sorceress that Vortigern formed an alliance with Mordred at the time because he envied his brother's throne. Mordred betrayed the sorceress allied with Uther and unleashed dark magic, which he used to attack Uther.
Kingdom - Ashin of the north (2021 )
The Korean Empire in the late 16th century. While the south of the country is preparing for a Japanese invasion and therefore most of its troops are stationed there, the north is facing completely different problems.
Tribes from the north are attacking the empire's northern border. The empire's soldiers fear that the Jurchen, as they call the tribes themselves, could unite into a large army under one banner and sweep across Korea with 10,000 men.
But the commander (Park Byung-eun) isn't supposed to intervene—the stakes are too high. Then he receives news that 15 bodies have been found in the border area, apparently killed by a member of the powerful Haewon Cho clan and his men.
This news would immediately trigger a war.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
In the 12th century, a religious war rages over the holy city of Jerusalem. European crusaders attempt to defend the city, where Jesus was crucified, from the troops of Saladin (Ghassan Massoud).
At this time, the young blacksmith Balian (Orlando Bloom) sets out from the French countryside on the long journey to the Holy Land. His father, Godfrey (Liam Neeson), is a highly respected crusader, but he dies after a battle on their journey. Balian reaches Jerusalem and finds himself embroiled in a tangle of intrigues by the Templar Knight Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas), which leads to a bitter defeat for the knights at the hands of the Muslim forces...
Confucius (2010)
In the kingdom of Lu, power is divided between the three noble families of Jishi, Shushi, and Mengshi. The King of Lu decides to appoint the talented mayor Kong Qiu as the new Minister of Justice.
As a close advisor to the king, he succeeds in abolishing the ritual of living burial goods. He also secures the return of three cities to the Kingdom of Qi without a fight. He rises to the position of Minister of the Interior. However, some members of the three noble families are suspicious of Kong Qiu, forcing him to leave the Kingdom of Lu and his family.
Accompanied by his students, he travels through various kingdoms in China, teaching his philosophies. When Lu is attacked by Qi, Lu's chancellor asks Kong Qiu for permission to appoint his student Ran You as general. Kong Qiu allows him to go.
After Lu wins the battle, the chancellor decides to allow Kong Qiu to return to his homeland. He dies in the capital, Qufu.
Legacy: Deadly Hunt (2020)
On a hunting trip, Frank and his son become the target of a hitman who is supposed to kill witnesses for the unscrupulous drug lord Boranovic.
FBI agent Gray (Luke Goss) is on his heels and intervenes.
But the cold-blooded killer doesn't give up so easily and a bloody game of cat and mouse is unleashed in which only one can win.
Legend (1985)
The Lord of Darkness, banished to a shadowy existence, seeks to become the sole ruler of the world. But he can only do this by killing the last remaining unicorns, whose magical powers protect good in the world. Only when the horn of the last unicorn breaks will the world be ravaged by darkness and cold; then the Lord of Darkness can take over.
He therefore dispatches his goblin helpers with the task of destroying the shy white creatures hiding in the unfathomable, mysterious fairy-tale forest. To do so, he intends to harness the innocence that resides in the pure hearts of young people.
The goblins soon find such a candidate: the young Princess Lily, who often comes to the forest to visit her lover, the ranger Jack.
Little Indian (1994)
To expedite his divorce, Parisian stockbroker Stéphane (Thierry Lhermitte) travels to visit his wife Patricia (Miou-Miou), who emigrated to the Amazon jungle 13 years ago. There, he learns that he has a son:
Mimi Siku (Ludwig Briand) grew up in the jungle, is a confident blowgun shooter and kills poisonous snakes with a targeted bite.
Impressed, Stéphane promises his son that he will take him to France one day—once he has become a man. When Mimi Siku is ritually ordained a man the very next day, his father keeps his word.
Stéphane returns to Paris not only with his wife's signature on the divorce papers, but also with his son.
He is amazed at the strange life in civilization.
Meet the Spartans (2008)
The film begins with the inspection of a Shrek-looking baby, who, after failing the Spartans' rigorous criteria, is kicked off a hill. Baby Leonidas, on the other hand, with his muscular body and beard, is already considered a proper Spartan, and must then undergo the rigorous training of a Spartan. In addition to fighting his grandmother and undergoing James Bond-style torture, he must face a giant penguin in the wilderness of an icy landscape.
While returning from his coronation, Leonidas meets Margo, whom he immediately falls for and asks for her hand in marriage. In response, she tells him the combination to her chastity belt. The action then quickly returns to the beginning of the story, showing Leonidas training his son until Captain Leonidas reports the arrival of a Persian messenger bearing the demands of his king, Xerxes I. Leonidas greets the messenger in true Spartan fashion: high fives for the women and French kisses for the men. The Persian demands the submission of Sparta, but did not anticipate Leonidas' anger. He kicks the messenger into the "death pit," along with his bodyguards and other characters who annoy him, from Britney Spears to the American Idol judges.
However, Leonidas now finds himself facing the overwhelming power of the Persians. To find a solution, Leonidas seeks out the oracle to propose an erotic-sounding strategy, attempting to convince the oracle with personal care products.
Merida - Legend of the Highlands (2012)
Merida is the impetuous daughter of Queen Elinor and King Fergus and a talented archer. Determined to forge her own path in life, Merida defies ancient sacred customs. In doing so, she inadvertently unleashes chaos and fury throughout the realm.
Merida particularly suffers from her mother's strictness, which demands that she behave in a manner befitting a princess. On her "day off," Merida enjoys riding her horse Angus through the woods, climbing, and practicing archery. When she is told that she is to marry one of the sons of three allied clans, she is horrified by the impending loss of her freedom. Merida is allowed to choose in which discipline the firstborns will compete for her hand and chooses archery.
Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014)
A group of Vikings led by Asbjörn (Tom Hopper) is on its way to the island of Lindisfarne in northeastern England. The Norsemen are driven by the knowledge that gold treasures lie there. On their way to the island and to new riches, they are surprised by a violent storm. They are stranded in enemy territory off the coast of Scotland. The nearest base, the Danelaw, is far away, and the route there is anything but safe, as Scottish mercenaries are already hunting the Vikings. They were dispatched by Dunchaid (Danny Keogh), the King of Scots, who wants to protect his enormous riches.
The Vikings receive support from the mysterious monk Conrall (Ryan Kwanten), who grants them shelter but conceals his true motives. From then on, the brave warriors engage in a bloody life-and-death struggle in the Highlands, forests, and marshes of Scotland.
Operation Little Brother (1967)
A crime syndicate wants to take over the entire earth's gold reserves.
Since Britain's best secret agent is currently unavailable, the British government entrusts his younger brother Neil Connery with the fight against the criminals.
Although he initially has no desire to hunt criminals, he eventually sets out to track down the criminals and their leader, Beta...
Orcs! (2010)
In Balancing Rock National Park, ranger Cal is assigned volunteer ranger Hobart Moss by his superior, Marge, with whom he is in constant conflict. Cal likes his job, but has always wanted to be a ranger in a national park in Hawaii. There isn't much going on in Balancing Rock, so Cal contents himself with confiscating marijuana from teenagers camping there. He suspects that the teenagers had tipped over the trash cans in front of the reception the night before. Hobart has his doubts, as the cans themselves are badly dented. He suspects a bear attack or even an appearance of the legendary Bigfoot. Meanwhile, two canoeists are killed on the national park's river. Shortly afterwards, Cal and Hobart find their colleague Edward dead while cleaning the toilet. He seems to have fled into the outhouse to escape something and died.
After taking the marijuana, Cal lied to Hobart, saying he would have to test the marijuana himself to be sure of the substance. Hobart relayed this information to Marge, who then ordered an unannounced drug test. Cal knew he would be fired once the results were announced. He wanted to use the time to restore order. After being awakened in the night by distant drumming and unable to fall asleep again, he went to the campsite of the teenagers the next day, suspecting they were behind the noise.
However, the course is devastated. He and Hobart search the surrounding area and find the impaled head of a teenage girl. As they flee to the car, both men are shot with arrows. The national park is evacuated. Hobart forgets to evacuate the golf course, and they both later find it deserted. The scene, however, indicates a fight, and Hobart finds a strange tooth embedded in a golf ball. Shortly afterwards, both discover the mutilated corpse of the receptionist, Marvin. In the next room, they surprise a creature that turns out to be an orc.
Path of the Warrior (2018)
Around the year 700, Northern Europe was divided into two worlds. On the one hand, the ancient Frisians, the Saxons, and the Danes; on the other, the Franks, who wanted to achieve what even the Romans had failed to do: to dominate all of Europe. Their new weapon to subjugate the pagans was Christianity. Europe's most important trading center, Dorestad, was ruled by the Frisian King Aldgisl. His son, Radbod, had little regard for his people's pagan rituals. He quarreled with his father when his friend Fenne was chosen to be sacrificed to the gods.
During the sacrificial ritual, the Franks attack Dorestad. The Frisians lose the city and flee to Wijnaldum. Radbod's uncle Eibert seizes power. He blames Radbod not only for the defeat, but also for the death of his father, the previous king. Bound to a raft, Radbod is left to die at sea. Radbod, however, survives and reaches Denmark, where he is gradually accepted by the Vikings. He learns about the strength of his own culture, and after fighting alongside the Vikings against their rivals, the Swears, he marries Frea, the daughter of King Wiglek, who bears Radbod a son.
Rambo: The Assignment (1985)
After devastating parts of a small US town and committing other crimes, John Rambo is now serving a ten-year prison sentence in a quarry.
After five years in prison, he is visited by his only confidant, Colonel Trautman, who trained him for his deployment in the Vietnam War. Rambo had escaped from a POW camp in Vietnam. He had been identified from a military database as one of the three most capable soldiers for a special mission in Vietnam. Trautman now seeks him out with a proposal: Rambo should assist the US government in a mission in the jungles of Vietnam. In return, he is offered the possibility of a pardon. If he is captured or killed, the government will deny any involvement. Rambo agrees.
He later learns that his mission is to take photographs of U.S. soldiers who may still be prisoners of war, but not to rescue them. While parachuting over the Vietnamese target area, he loses much of his equipment, including his photography gear.
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
John Rambo lives on his deceased parents' farm and earns his living as a horse breeder. He employs Maria, his parents' housekeeper, and maintains a fatherly relationship with their granddaughter, Gabrielle. Since Gabrielle's mother died of cancer, she desperately wants to meet her real father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was still a child.
Through a friend, she learns that he lives in Mexico. Against the advice of her grandmother and Rambo, Gabrielle travels to Mexico and visits her father, who, however, wants nothing to do with her. In an apparent attempt to comfort her, Gabrielle's friend takes her to a bar, where she is kidnapped by human traffickers who sell young girls into forced prostitution.
When Gabrielle doesn't return, Rambo also travels to Mexico to search for her. Gabrielle's friend tells him that she sold Gabrielle to the human trafficking ring of the brothers Victor and Hugo Martinez. When Rambo tries to confront the brothers, he is beaten and seriously injured by their thugs. Journalist Carmen Delgado, who had already observed Rambo in the bar, finds him and nurses him back to health. She tells Rambo what probably happened to Gabrielle and where she is being held captive. Rambo finds and frees Gabrielle, but she has been abused, drugged, and seriously injured.
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Circa 1360 in England: Young William Thatcher dreams of becoming a knight one day. His father, a poor London roofer, places him in the care of Sir Hector, a tournament fighter, to become a squire. He advises him to always believe that one man can change his destiny.
Sir Hector lives off the winnings from jousting competitions. Only the nobility is allowed to participate in these knightly tournaments. Twelve years after William hired Hector, he dies during a tournament in France. William decides, despite his humble origins, to take on the role of knight and, using Hector's horse and armor, finish the tournament in his name. William wins the tournament, and with this success, he is able to convince Hector's other assistants—Wat and Roland—to continue participating in future tournaments.
William only manages to register as a participant in further tournaments with the help of the penniless, still-unknown writer and poet Geoffrey Chaucer, whom William, Wat, and Roland meet on the way to the tournament in Rouen and who is able to forge the necessary letters of nobility. William assumes the identity of "Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein" from Gelderland. Geoffrey assumes the role of a herald, announcing his lord Ulrich to the audience before the competitions. Wat and Roland appear as Sir Ulrich's squires.
Knight Prince Jaroslaw (2011)
In 1010, the young knight-prince Yaroslav was sent by his father to Rostov. Here, in the northeast of the empire, the tribes were repeatedly attacked, robbed, and taken into slavery by barbarian hordes.
Yaroslav enters the battle with his knights and the Viking mercenary troops led by the warrior Harald. To pacify the territories, the prince develops a daring plan: to build a fortress on the Volga. For this, he needs the help of the Bear Clan and the beautiful pagan Princess Raida.
But Yaroslav is captured, and war threatens. The negotiations are sabotaged by traitors within his own ranks.
Robin Hood (1973)
As thieves of gold and jewels, Robin Hood and his friend Little John repeatedly clash with the royal guard. Although they narrowly escape each time, they also have their sights set on the passing treasury, which is traveling through the country with Prince John, who is only in power because the actual ruler, King Richard, is on crusade. The two thieves disguise themselves as gypsies and intend to tell the prince some of his future. Despite the misgivings of his advisor, Sir Hiss, the prince allows his future to be painted in the most beautiful colors and is thus robbed of everything.
As usual, Robin and Little John distribute the gold to the poor, but the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham, acting as a tax collector, mercilessly steals every last penny from the people. Even little Skippy is relieved of his birthday present, a penny the family had painstakingly saved. As consolation, Robin Hood gives the little boy a bow, and Skippy, overjoyed, goes to try it out with his friends. Full of vigor, he shoots the arrow all the way into the royal garden, where Maid Marian and her maid, Lady Kluck, are playing badminton. Determined to defend his only gift this time, Skippy sneaks into the garden and befriends Marian.
Robin Hood (2010)
Robin Longstride is an experienced soldier who fought alongside King Richard the Lionheart in the Third Crusade and is now on his way back to England from the Holy Land with the king's soldiers. All that remains is to plunder a French castle, whose inhabitants are desperately resisting the siege, and then cross over to England. Because Robin denounces the Crusade, and in particular the Massacre of Acre, in the presence of the king, he and three of his men—Little John, Alan A'Dayle, and Will Scarlett—are put in the pillory and thus are not there when King Richard's men attempt to take the castle again. However, the king is fatally shot in the neck by a crossbow bolt fired by a French cook, leaving the English army without a leader. In the ensuing confusion, a young soldier frees the four from the block. Robin decides to leave the army and go his own way; the other three follow him.
Meanwhile, a secret meeting takes place between Godfrey, a general of the English King Richard the Lionheart, and Philip, King of France. Both agree to kill Richard the Lionheart. The assassination is to take place on a road to the coast; neither man yet knows that Richard is already dead. Godfrey is then to gain the trust of Richard's brother and successor, Prince John, while simultaneously inciting the English people to civil war to enable the French King Philip to invade England.
Robin Hood (2018)
The young Lord Robin of Loxley meets and falls in love with the beautiful Marian when she tries to steal a horse from his stables to help a penniless farmer. Marian reciprocates his feelings, and the two spend a carefree time together until Robin is drafted into the English army to fight for his faith in the Crusades. Marian promises that she will wait for him.
Four years later, Robin is still fighting in Arabia and is completely disgusted by the numerous cruelties of the war on both sides. When Arab prisoners of war are being executed in series in the Christian camp, he intervenes to save a man's son, but fails; only the father manages to escape. Only through his noble lineage does Robin escape death and is sent back to England. There, he discovers that his lands have been confiscated.
He turns to Friar Tuck, who tells him that he was declared dead two years ago by the Sheriff of Nottingham, and that Marian, after Robin's farm was confiscated, had been forced to go to the mines of Nottingham. Robin hurries there, where he sees Marian, but with another man, the man whose son was murdered. He has followed him to take revenge for his son's death with Robin, because he is the only one to have performed such a deed during the entire war. After some suspicion, Robin decides to trust the man calling himself John, who presents him with a plan to deprive the Sheriff of the financial means to maintain his power. In return, the one-armed John teaches Robin numerous tricks and provides him with suitable weapons and clothing.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
The plot of Robin Hood: Men in Tights is based on the medieval legend of the English hero Robin Hood, but even more so on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves .
Robin of Loxley is fighting alongside King Richard in the Crusades when he is captured. With the help of El Niesreiz, an oriental prince, he escapes from prison and promises to look after his son, Hatschi, who is spending some time in England as an exchange student. During the absence of his brother, King Richard, Prince John has become the sole ruler of England and, supported by the Sheriff of Nuttingham, is oppressing the people.
When Robin returns home, his castle is being repossessed. From Blinker, the blind family servant, he learns that his entire family has died during his absence. In the woods of the former family estate, he encounters Little John and Will, who live there as outlaws. Together with Sneeze, whom Robin rescues from the prince's henchmen , they decide to fight back against Prince John and his henchmen. To this end, they search throughout England for willing villagers whom they intend to form into a powerful force.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Jerusalem during the Crusades.
In 1194, the young English nobleman Robin of Locksley escaped from captivity – together with the Moor Azeem, who was also sentenced to death.
Azeem feels indebted to Robin and joins him as his bodyguard and advisor.
Together they manage to escape to Britain, but Robin's friend Peter is killed. As he dies, he gives Robin his ring and makes him swear to take care of his sister Marian.
Back home, instead of peace, a nasty surprise awaits them both...
Robin Hood: Prince of the Vagabonds (1938)
In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart was captured by Leopold of Austria on his way back from the Crusade. In England, Richard's power-hungry brother, Prince John, saw his opportunity and, with the help of other Norman nobles, seized control of the country. He increased taxes on the Anglo-Saxons, ostensibly to raise the extra money for Richard's ransom, but in reality, he used it to line his own coffers.
Due to the high taxes, the Saxon population becomes impoverished, and anyone who fails to pay taxes or criticizes Prince John is tormented in all sorts of ways by his henchmen. When the Saxon Much, out of hunger, shoots a stag in the royal forest, even though doing so carries the death penalty, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, Prince John's influential advisor, seizes him and tries to have him killed. But the Saxon nobleman Robin of Locksley, also known as Robin Hood, appears and is able to chase Gisbourne away. Rescued, Much joins Robin out of gratitude.
In the evening, Guy of Gisbourne hosts a banquet with Prince John and other noblemen as guests, where Robin Hood is also a topic. He enters the hall and boldly accuses Prince John of treason against King Richard.
Snow White & The Huntsman (2012)
In a flashback, the hunter, Eric, "the Huntsman," tells of a time in the depths of winter when the queen of the realm saw a rose in her garden that bloomed despite the cold. When she reached out to touch the rose, she pricked herself, and three drops of blood fell into the white snow. The queen then wished for a child with lips red as blood, skin white as snow, hair black as raven's wings, and with the same strong will as the rose, which wanted to bloom despite the winter. Her wish came true, and the queen gave birth to a daughter whom she named Snow White.
Years later, Snow White grows up as the daughter of King Magnus and Queen Eleanor and is friends with Duke Hammond's son, William. When Eleanor dies, the king is deeply saddened, and shortly thereafter, taking advantage of his weakness, a dark army invades the land. The king gathers his troops, defeats the strange glass warriors, and frees their supposed prisoner, Ravenna. He is captivated by her beauty, and the very next day Magnus marries Ravenna, who is crowned queen. However, she turns out to be a powerful sorceress and mistress of the dark army, and on their wedding night, Ravenna kills the king and seizes power in the kingdom. When Ravenna's troops take the castle, Duke Hammond, loyal to the king, attempts to bring the king's daughter and William to safety, but Snow White is captured by Ravenna's brother and closest confidant, Finn. The princess is imprisoned, while Hammond and several survivors escape. Ravenna asks her magic mirror who is the fairest of all the land and, as always, receives the answer she desires. Over the following years, the kingdom decays under Ravenna's influence, and all life languishes.
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet is the second of five sisters in 19th-century England. Since her family has no male heir, the Longbourn estate is threatened with passing to their father's cousin, Mr. Collins, after their father's death. Their mother is therefore eager to get her daughters married as quickly as possible. The arrival of the wealthy Charles Bingley, his sister Caroline, and his best friend, the even wealthier Mr. Darcy, at the nearby Netherfield estate causes great excitement, as both Bingley and Darcy are still unmarried.
At a ball, Bingley is immediately enchanted by Lizzy's older sister, Jane, whose beauty and gentle nature are widely known. While she is also attracted to the carefree and friendly Bingley, Lizzy and Darcy are anything but attracted to each other. Lizzy considers Darcy arrogant and overly proud when he makes disparaging remarks about the middle class and refuses to dance with one of the ladies present. Her negative impression of Darcy is reinforced when George Wickham, who has known Darcy since his youth, tells her that Darcy once cheated him out of a prestigious position and a large sum of money.
Sword of Vengeance (2015)
11th century, England: Shadow Walker (Stanley Weber) is a Norman prince who has been held captive for years.
When he is released and returns to his homeland, he is horrified to find that no stone has been left unturned. Even worse, his people and his family have been ruthlessly murdered.
All Shadow feels now is hatred and a thirst for revenge. Can his hateful soul ever find peace?
The Great Wall (2019)
During the Song Dynasty, Irishman William Garin, along with his Spanish companion Pero Tovar and other mercenaries, intend to travel to Imperial China to search for the legendary gunpowder. At the beginning of the film, the last survivors of the group are hunted by Mongolian Khitan and ultimately killed by an unknown monster, except for Garin and Tovar. Garin and Tovar manage to cut off one of the creature's claws.
The next day, the two arrive at the Great Wall of China, manned by highly trained, selfless soldiers of the "Nameless Order." The Europeans are captured and interrogated. Their severed claw causes a stir: it came from a Taotie, a man-eating four-legged monster. Since a meteor strike 2,000 years ago, the Taotie have attacked inhabited regions by the thousands every sixty years and must be stopped at the wall at great cost. This is the gods' way of punishing the greed of the Chinese emperors. The Nameless Order has been training for generations for the coming attack and is equipped with a variety of war machines, including explosive projectiles. If the wall doesn't hold, it will mean the end of the world. The Europeans' trophy proves that the time has come again.
During the initial attack, Garin and Tovar support the Chinese soldiers and earn the respect of General Shao and the suspicious young officer Lin Mae. They are now free to move within the wall.
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
James Parker is a big game hunter. He travels through Africa in search of the legendary elephant graveyard. His daughter Jane accompanies him with her fiancé, Harry Holt.
The expedition is disrupted by a white ape-man. Tarzan has lived in the jungle among apes since childhood. He abducts the beautiful Jane to his home high in the trees. The girl is initially frightened, but then gains confidence in Tarzan. She discovers that he doesn't speak a word of English and teaches him his first words: "I'm Tarzan, you're Jane."
Tarzan eventually returns Jane to her father and fiancé, but Jane's thoughts remain with Tarzan. When Jane, her father, and Harry Holt are kidnapped by pygmies, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
With his elephants, he frees the English. Jane, who has fallen in love with Tarzan, decides to live with him in the wilderness, far from civilization...
The Archer (2017)
Lauren (Bailey Noble) is a model student. After winning her high school's archery championship, she gets drunk with her good friend Emily.
When Emily's violent boyfriend suddenly interrupts the small party, Lauren loses control and beats him bloody. A juvenile court judge eventually sentences her to a stint in a boot camp for female offenders.
Once there, she quickly realizes that the camp's corrupt leaders are shamelessly exploiting the girls and keeping them like prisoners in a penal camp. She and Rebecca (Jeanine Mason) flee.
On the run in the wilderness, the two girls begin a dangerous fight for survival.
The Book of Eli (2010)
Thirty years after the "Great War," which devastated the Earth and tore a hole in the ozone layer, Eli is traveling alone on foot. He demonstrates uncanny hunting skills and defeats a band of robbers ambushing him. His destination is the Western United States, and he is carrying a mysterious book. It turns out, as the story progresses, is a Bible, almost all copies of which were destroyed after the war because they were considered dangerous.
For this very reason, the despot Carnegie, who rules a small, half-ruined desert town with a gang of thugs, is desperate to acquire a Bible. Carnegie believes that with the help of religion, people can be better controlled, which would suit his expansion plans. Therefore, he repeatedly dispatches his motorcycle gangs into the wasteland to locate a copy, indiscriminately murdering and desecrating people. Eli witnesses one such attack but fails to intervene, believing he must not deviate from his path.
On his journey, Eli finally reaches Carnegie's town to run errands before traveling further west. In Carnegie's bar, a gang member starts an argument with him. A fight ensues, during which Eli kills several of Carnegie's men with his machete. Carnegie realizes that Eli must be a special man and has him locked up overnight so that he will join him. To make him more compliant, Eli is given food and water and eventually receives a visit from Solara, the daughter of Carnegie's blind companion Claudia, who is supposed to do his bidding. Eli refuses, but after Solara pleads with him, he allows him to stay overnight; she fears reprisals against her mother if she leaves. Eli offers Solara some of his food and prays with her first.
The Huntsman And The Ice Queen (2016)
The Huntsman & The Ice Queen begins before the events of Snow White and the Huntsman: When Princess Freya (Emily Blunt) has her heart broken, she flees the kingdom of her sister, Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron).
In a distant winter palace, she not only cultivates her magical ability to turn enemies into ice, but also trains a legion of fighters to serve her: the Huntsmen.
However, two of the children she trained to be hunters go against Freya's most important rule: Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sarah (Jessica Chastain) cannot close their hearts to their love for each other, and this has consequences.
The Lost Bladesman (2011)
During the War of the Three Kingdoms, chaos reigns in China. To win the war, General Cao Cao attempts to secure the services of Guan, the greatest warrior of the Chinese Empire.
But he is a sympathizer of Liu Bei, Cao's greatest enemy. To change Guan's mind, Cao has his lover Qi Lan kidnapped and threatens to kill her if he doesn't join him.
Guan has no choice and helps Cao's troops to victory. But as soon as Qi Lan is free again, Guan reignites the war and rushes to his old friend's aid...
The Northman (2022)
In 895 AD, the Viking king Aurvandil returns from battle to his island kingdom of Hrafnsey in the North Atlantic. Severely wounded by an enemy in battle, he feels his strength waning and intends to transfer power to his ten-year-old son Amleth before departing for the realm of the dead. Fjölnir, Aurvandil's half-brother, however, has other plans. He kills the king in an ambush and ascends the throne himself. Amleth escapes, but his mother, Queen Gudrún, is captured. The prince vows to one day avenge his father, save his mother, and kill Fjölnir. Because one of his henchmen assures him that the rightful heir to the throne drowned at sea, Fjölnir forgets his nephew and marries his mother. Many years later, Amleth has grown into a strong and brutal warrior. Together with a marauding band, he plunders the land of the Rus' as a berserker . During a raid on a village, a seer who recognizes him as a prince reminds him of his old oath, which he had almost forgotten. When Amleth learns that Fjölnir has been expelled from his father's kingdom, which he had once seized, by Harald Fairhair and has fled to Iceland, he boards a slave ship that is supposed to bring new workers to his uncle. On board is the Slavic slave Olga of the Birchwood. Once in the north, she helps him put his plan into action, also to regain his own freedom.
The Rising Hawk (2020)
The Rising Hawk is set in the year 1241. The Mongols, led by Khan Burunda, are steadily advancing westward, destroying cities and villages along the way.
At the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, the army takes a rest and does not expect that the two hunter brothers Tugar and Zahkar (Tommy Flanagan and Robert Patrick) will free all the prisoners unnoticed during the night.
Furious, the Kahn destroys the Carpathian villages and learns from a traitor that his enemies are on a secret path in the mountains.
A small group, led by Zakhar Berkut, stands in the way of the Mongol horde with the goal of finally destroying them...
The Walk (2015)
As a teenager, Philippe Petit developed a passion for tightrope walking when a circus visited his town. He sneaked into the tent at night to walk on the tightrope. He was caught by his father, Rudy, the head of the tightrope-walking troupe. He recognized his talent and taught him, but eventually threw the rebellious boy out. When his parents also kicked him out, Philippe went to Paris to seek his fortune. He met the street musician Annie, with whom he began a romance.
By chance, Philippe comes across a newspaper article reporting on the construction of the World Trade Center in New York. From then on, Philippe is determined to stretch his rope between the Twin Towers and walk across. He meets the photographer Albert, whom he wins over to his plans. Papa Rudy initiates him into the secrets of tightrope walking. He also advises Philippe to install a safety rope, which Philippe indignantly refuses. When the Twin Towers are almost finished, they travel to New York to put their plan into action. They find further accomplices in Jean-Pierre (called JP) and Barry Greenhouse, and Jean-Louis, who is afraid of heights, is also on board. JP speaks good English, while Barry works in the North Tower and is thus able to gain access to the platform.
Timeline (2003)
A group of archaeologists led by Professor E.A. Johnston is conducting excavations in France at the medieval fortress of La Roque and the nearby abbey ruins. His son Chris visits him there, although he has no real interest in history. However, he harbors feelings for Kate Ericson, one of his father's assistants, who, however, does not reciprocate them, although she considers him a friend.
While Kate works on a staircase in the monastery, André Marek excavates a sarcophagus depicting a one-eared knight with his lady. Shortly after Chris's arrival, Professor Johnston travels to the USA to question his financier, Robert Doniger, because he is providing unusually precise information about La Roque. Three days later, after a ceiling collapses in a previously sealed monastery vault, Kate and André find a 600-year-old parchment on which the professor pleads for help in a marginal note.
It turns out that the company ITC, which is funding the work, is conducting experiments in time travel. ITC CEO Robert Doniger reports that the professor traveled to the year 1357 and disappeared there. Chris, Kate, and André, accompanied by ITC security chief Frank Gordon, two other ITC employees, Gomez and Baretto, and François, a friend of Kate and André's who is supposed to act as an interpreter, travel back in time on a rescue mission.
Tomb Raider (2018)
The young Lara Croft works as a bicycle courier in London. She leads an independent life and refuses to take over the Croft Holdings company of her father, Richard Croft, who has been missing for seven years. Lara refuses to accept that he is supposedly dead. After she is arrested following a bicycle race and an accident with a police car, Richard Croft's business partner, Ana Miller, urges her again to sign the papers and follow in her father's footsteps, as otherwise his inheritance will be forfeited. Lara reluctantly agrees and thus gains access to Richard's personal heirlooms, including a key that gives her access to his private room, but still fails to sign the inheritance papers.
In the secret room, Lara learns from a video message previously recorded by her father that, in addition to his business life, he had intensively studied the myths of the Japanese Queen Himiko, ruler of the Yamatai Empire, before his disappearance. She learns that, according to legend, Himiko possessed the ability to determine life and death through her touch alone, which is why she was supposedly imprisoned in a secret tomb. Lara also discovers where her father presumably last looked for this tomb and, despite her father's explicit instructions to destroy all records of Himiko, sets out to find him. To raise money, she pawns the valuable amulet her father left as a parting gift.
Lara travels to Hong Kong, where she meets Lu Ren, the captain of a small ship and son of the man who once brought Lara's father to the island, which was probably once Yamatai. They also travel there together, but are shipwrecked by a violent storm.
Troy (2004)
King Agamemnon of Mycenae has gradually subjugated the Greeks and united them into a loose confederation. When he and his army confront Triopas' army, they agree that each should send their best warrior, so that this duel, rather than a battle, would decide victory or defeat. Triopas sends the giant Boagrius, and Agamemnon sends Achilles, the strongest warrior of his time. Achilles and Agamemnon hate each other, and Achilles submits to the king only reluctantly. He defeats Boagrius easily, and Triopas submits to Agamemnon. From now on, Thessaly also belongs to Agamemnon's sphere of influence.
The Trojan prince Achilles, longing for immortal glory, joins the army, even though his mother Thetis prophesies that he will not return from Troy.
There, the elderly King Priam has now taken Helen into his family. Against Hector's advice, he intends to accept the impending war with the Greeks because he considers Troy strong enough and trusts in the protection of the gods...
War of the Arrows (2011)
The children Nam-yi and Ja-in are on the run after the king labels their father a traitor. Their father barely manages to save them from King Injo's troops. He gives Nam-yi his bow and tells him to flee to Kaesong. While on the run, the children are forced to watch from afar as their father is killed. In Kaesong, the children are raised by Kim Mu-seon and his wife.
Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is an excellent archer. Kim Mu-seon's son Seo-gun asks him for permission to marry his sister. He is initially reluctant but eventually agrees. He wants to see his sister one last time before the wedding and goes hunting straight after. There, Qing troops suddenly appear. Nam-yi quickly runs back to the village, but he arrives too late. His sister and Seo-gun have been kidnapped, and Kim Mu-seon has been killed. Seo-gun and Ja-in are to be taken to Manchuria with other prisoners. But an incident occurs on the Yalu River. Seo-gun confronts the soldiers and is able to kill some of them. When things get critical for him, Nam-yi suddenly appears with his bow and is able to defeat the Qing soldiers.
But Jain has already been taken to the other side. However, Nam-yi and Seo-gun, with their companions Gang-du and Gap-yong, manage to locate the Manchurian camp. Jain is there too. Nam-yi plans to take the prince hostage and exchange him for Jain's freedom. They succeed. Nam-yi pours oil on the prince and threatens to set him on fire. Seo-gun is able to escape with Jain. Nam-yi tries to buy time, but when the fire threatens to go out, he sets him on fire. He is able to join Gap-yong and Gang-du and escape with them. But the Manchurian general and the prince's uncle, Jiusinta, is on their trail. He just arrives and sees the prince's body. They are able to catch up with them in a forest.
Gap-yong and Gang-du die while trying to escape. Nam-yi manages to take down some with his arrow...
Who is Hanna? (2011)
Sixteen-year-old Hanna Heller lives with her father Erik in a forest in Finland near the Arctic Circle. In the film's opening scene, Hanna hunts a deer with a bow and arrow in winter, but fails to kill it. She finally gives the dying animal the coup de grâce with her pistol, saying, "I missed your heart."
During their time together in Finland, Erik taught his daughter all sorts of techniques, from armed and unarmed combat to various languages, as well as a general knowledge of the world and its diverse cultures. All with the goal of avenging the death of her mother—and Erik's wife—at the hands of CIA agent Marissa Wiegler. Hanna has never had contact with the modern outside world and therefore knows no electricity, no music, and is also unfamiliar with how to behave outside her previously known world. For her later mission, she has memorized and internalized a false identity. Later, Erik gives her a radio transmitter; she is to decide for herself whether she is willing to use it to reveal her whereabouts. Once this has happened, the course of events can only end with Hanna's death or that of CIA agent Marissa Wiegler. After some hesitation, Hanna uses the transmitter; it transmits a signal that is picked up by the CIA.
Wiegler sends a team to capture Erik. At the briefing, she tells the others that Erik is a deserting CIA agent whose fingerprints were found on a weapon next to the murdered Johanna Zadeck. He knows something that must be kept secret, so the case cannot be left to Interpol.
Winnetou 1 (196 3)
The young Apache warrior Black Eagle is sent to retrieve some gold pieces from Nugget-tsil Mountain for his tribe. He falls into the hands of the bandit Santer and his men, who have him tortured to discover where the gold came from. Because Black Eagle remains silent and defiant, one of Santer's comrades shoots the Indian.
Chief Winnetou, the son of the chief, observes that, contrary to all agreements, a railway line is being built through Apache territory. A German surveyor, nicknamed Old Shatterhand because of his quick, hard fist, had surveyed the relevant section of the line for the Great Western Railway so that it runs in a semicircle around Apache territory. Therefore, Chief Engineer Winter commissioned him in Chicago to monitor compliance with the general plan.
Old Shatterhand travels to the railroad encampment with a supply train from El Paso. Scouts Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone, and Will Parker join him along the way. The Kiowas, who are in league with Santer, attack the wagon train but are driven off. At the railroad encampment, Old Shatterhand uncovers the fraudulent schemes of contractor Bancroft. He and his partner Santer plan to save several hundred thousand dollars on construction costs by straightening the line, and secretly pocket the profits. Old Shatterhand confronts surveyor Bill Jones, who, in good faith, is staking out the railroad according to Bancroft's forged plan, even though it illegally runs through Apache territory.
Winnetou 2 (1964)
During a ride to the Assiniboin tribe, Winnetou manages to save the chief's daughter, Ribanna, from a bear at the last moment. In gratitude, her father, at Winnetou's request, releases three previously captured soldiers from the stake. Among the soldiers is Lieutenant Merril, the son of the commander of Fort Niobrara. He wants to ensure that the Indians and whites can meet at the fort for peace talks. In the Assiniboin Indian camp, Winnetou and Ribanna grow closer and fall in love.
Old Shatterhand learns from Lieutenant Merril that the bandit Bud Forrester's gang has attacked a Ponca Indian camp because there are oil deposits on their land. Shatterhand travels with the adventure-seeking Lord Castlepool to New Venango, the bandit Forrester's headquarters. When Shatterhand and the workers there try to put an end to the bandits' activities, the oil depot in New Venango is set on fire by the surviving Ponca chief. Forrester uses the burning oil against the workers, but Shatterhand and Lord Castlepool manage to escape at the last minute.
Winnetou and the Half-Breed Apanatschi (1966)
Winnetou saves little Happy's life when he climbs into an eagle's nest to get an eagle feather for his sister Apanatschi's birthday and is attacked by the eagle. Apanatschi is the daughter of farmer Mac Haller and the Apache Indian Mine-yota; she is half-breed. However, this is no obstacle for the impetuous young Jeff Brown; he wants to marry her.
Mac Haller leads Winnetou and Apanatschi to a gold vein and gives it to her as a birthday present. Apanatschi, however, isn't particularly enthusiastic, because she knows the gold only brings bad luck. And indeed, the two fur trappers Pinky and Sloan learn of the gold source and murder Mac Haller when he refuses to reveal its location. Apanatschi and Happy only escape because Old Shatterhand intervenes in time. The two are taken to the Trans Continental Rail Road (TCRR) railroad camp for their safety, and Old Shatterhand rides on to Rocky Town, where a band of bandits led by Curly-Bill is causing trouble.
Curly-Bill has learned from Pinky and Sloan that Apanatschi knows the location of the gold, and has his bandits raid the railroad camp. They kidnap Apanatschi and Happy and take them to their refuge, a run-down saloon. Jeff manages to sneak in as a "magician" and briefly gain the bandits' trust. Through a trick, he obtains the key to the room where Apanatschi and Happy are trapped, and with the help of the landlady, Bessy, they escape through an underground passage.
Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead (1968)
Winnetou arrives too late to save Major Kingsley from Murdock's bandits; he dies in his arms. Winnetou assures him that he has forwarded a letter from him and will keep quiet about the army's gold until the right moment. Major Kingsley had managed to secure the army's war chest in a secret location during a bandit raid on Fort Dawson. In court, the major is accused of robbing the army's treasury and fleeing to Mexico. The trial is adjourned until Kingsley's daughter, Mabel, arrives with the potentially exculpatory letter.
The villain Murdock was present at the trial and thus learned of the letter. His men ambush the stagecoach carrying Mabel to steal the letter, but the arrival of Old Shatterhand prevents the robbery. Shatterhand asks Mabel not to show the letter to the court so that its contents do not fall into the wrong hands. Mabel does so and demands 60 days from the court to find evidence of her father's innocence.
Murdock enters Mabel's room to retrieve the letter again, but is once again surprised and incapacitated by Old Shatterhand. Shatterhand delivers Murdock to the sheriff, who, however, is secretly collaborating with the bandits and lets him escape at the earliest opportunity.
Winnetou sets out with Old Shatterhand and Mabel to show her her father's grave as proof of his death and innocence. They are accompanied by Lieutenant Cummings, who is tasked with preventing Mabel's escape and witnessing the major's death.
Among Vultures (1964)
In the American desert region known as the Llano Estacado, the farm of the settler Baumann is attacked by the so-called "Vulture Gang," in which Baumann's wife is killed. Winnetou, Baumann, and his son Martin arrive too late to intervene. The "Vultures" have made it look as if Native Americans had attacked the farm. Baumann is beside himself with pain and promptly accuses the neighboring Shoshone tribe, under their chief Wokadeh, of the attack. The "Vulture" bandit, Weller, arrives at the farm that evening, disguised as a Mormon preacher, and claims to have witnessed the events. While Martin remains suspicious of him, his father trusts the stranger, who also names the Native Americans as the perpetrators.
A short time later, visitors arrive at the destroyed farm: Annie, who wants to deliver a package of diamonds to her father, as well as the famous Westman Old Surehand and his bumbling companion Old Wabble. An officer also arrives and announces that he and his men are to protect a settler convoy and put an end to the vultures. Shortly afterwards, Annie witnesses him and Weller exchanging a letter and, confiding in Martin, exposes him as a liar. When Old Surehand intervenes, the fake officer is killed in self-defense. Weller narrowly escapes back to his gang and tells them about Annie's diamonds. Preston, the leader of the gang, sends him to the settler convoy to lure them into an ambush.
The next day, Old Surehand, Old Wabble, Baumann, and two helpers set out to warn the settlers. In a brief unobserved moment, Annie is kidnapped by the Vulture Gang. Alarmed by her cries for help, Martin manages to follow them unnoticed. He follows them to their hideout and even gains recognition from the leader when Annie's kidnappers appear and reveal his true identity.
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Greedy businessmen, led by the unscrupulous Vermeulen, have venal rogues slaughter bison on Indian territory to provoke a conflict with the Mescalero Apaches. But their chief, Winnetou, remains calm. White Buffalo, leader of the Jicarilla Apaches, is persuaded by alcohol and weapons deliveries to reclaim land already ceded to settlers from the government. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand report this to the governor in Santa Fe, who promises White Buffalo more land and immunity from prosecution if he cooperates with the government.
The blood brothers want to tell him this. But an informant in the governor's office informs Vermeulen, who has one of his henchmen blast rocks at the quarry just as the blood brothers ride past. But their horses have sensed the attack, and the two lie down motionless in the rubble, pretending to be motionless. While Winnetou rides on, Old Shatterhand pursues the assassin, who leads him to Vermeulen. The exposed mastermind sends a cable to the town of Clinton, which lies on Winnetou's route. There, the bandit leader Rollins receives the message to stop Winnetou. Old Shatterhand arrests Vermeulen's henchman: He confesses to Vermeulen's plan, and Old Shatterhand rides after Winnetou.
Thanks to his horse Iltschi, he manages to escape both the first ambush by Rollins and, with difficulty and help from Old Shatterhand, the second. Immediately afterwards, the blood brothers are surrounded by the Jicarillas and warn them in their camp not to allow themselves to be incited by the profiteers to fight for their ceded land. White Buffalo wants to hear his son, Swift Panther, but Rollins brings him in dead, having stabbed him with the knife he had left behind during the fight against the bandits.
Old Shatterhand (196 5)
After white bandits, along with some drunken Comanches, raid the Kampendijk farm of the Dutch settlers, they leave two murdered Apache warriors behind. This appears to violate the truce with the Indians. An initially unknown man wants to prevent the Fort Grant army from concluding a peace treaty with the Indians.
Upon his return to the West, Old Shatterhand is able to free Winnetou's adopted son Tujunga from the bandits. Afterwards, he seeks out Paloma Nakama, a half-Indian woman, at a mission station on the Foaming Waters. She has taken in little Tom, who witnessed the attack on his parents' farm and therefore knows that it was not the Apaches who carried out the attack. Shatterhand wants to put Paloma and Tom in the town of Golden Hill for safety. However, a certain Dixon and his men are currently staying in this town, and he is responsible for the attack on the farm. Dixon receives orders from the stranger to ambush and rob an army convoy that is about to arrive. On their way to Golden Hill, Old Shatterhand and his companions encounter this convoy, led by Captain Bradley and Corporal Bush. Old Shatterhand's old friend Sam Hawkens and two of his friends are at their side as scouts.
The Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
A robbed stagecoach arrives in the small western town of Tulsa . Inside lies Fred Engel's murdered father. Fred's father had a piece of a treasure map leading to the mysterious Silver Lake, which was stolen by the bandit Cornel Brinkley. Fred Engel sets out to find his father's murderers and, along with Sam Hawkens and the rhyming Gunstick Uncle, encounters Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, who have also discovered the crime based on clues.
Old Shatterhand learns from Fred Engel that the second half of the treasure map is in the hands of Engel's partner, Mr. Patterson, on Mrs. Butler's fortified farm. However, since a Brinkley spy also overheard this conversation, a bandit attack on the farm is expected. The heroes arrive just in time to repel the first bandit attack on the farm.
However, Brinkley's men manage to capture Mr. Patterson and his daughter Ellen, who are just returning from a horseback ride, and are only willing to release them in exchange for the second piece of the treasure map that Patterson had left behind on the farm. Old Shatterhand and Fred Engel are able to leave the farm through a hidden escape tunnel, freeing Patterson and his daughter and bringing them back to the farm. Enraged, the bandits launch another attack on the farm. At the last second, Winnetou arrives with Native Americans from the Osage tribe.
Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand (1966)
When Winnetou and his sister Nscho-tschi, along with Apache warriors, round up wild mustangs, they are ambushed by the bandit Silers and his cronies and forced to flee. The Indians receive help from the fur trapper Jason Waade , known as Old Firehand, and his friends Tom, Caleb, and Moses.
When Winnetou tries to request help against Silers in the small town of Miramonte, he and Old Firehand become embroiled in further disputes with Silers. His brother Billy-Bob is in the local prison, and the Sargento Mendozza is being pressured by the residents to release him to avoid Silers' revenge. Firehand is persuaded to defend the town, not least because he has met his old love there , Michèle , who has a son by him, Jace , who doesn't know that Old Firehand is his father. Although Michèle is being courted by the eccentric English gentleman Ravenhurst , she has not yet succumbed to his advances.
After Billy-Bob Silers is killed during an escape attempt, Silers, in revenge, massacres a covered wagon train of fleeing locals, loads the wagons with dynamite, and sends them back to Miramonte. They explode in the middle of town. Winnetou tries to get help from the army, but encounters Captain Quilvera and his Mexican bandits on the way. They push the Indian into a ravine, where he lies unconscious. Only after a while does he regain consciousness. Quilvera and Silers join forces and attack the town. A priest who confronts them with a raised cross is shot by Silers, despite Quilvera's protests.
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A gang of bandits led by the "General" robs a Union Bank Railway-Insurance (UBRI) Ltd. train carrying wages. A short time later, some members of the gang, fleeing from Indians whose buffalo they had shot, kill the son of farmer Mac Hara, making it look as if the Indians were responsible for his death.
Old Surehand had just rescued the passengers trapped on the train by the bandits just before the train was blown up and is now continuing his search. On the way to Mason City, Surehand meets the old gold digger Ben and takes him into town, where Ben meets his niece Judith and her fiancé Toby, who works as a lawyer for Judge Edwards. Judge Edwards informs Surehand that he still has no new information about the man who killed his brother.
Tou-Wan, the son of the Comanche chief Maki-moteh, who wants to demand justice against the bandits' attacks in Mason City, is murdered by them in the middle of town. Gold digger Ben, who had been somewhat too inexperienced in handling his gold find, is also murdered. The general is behind the murders; he wants to use the killing of the buffalo and the murder of the chief's son to incite the Indians to go to war against the whites so he can sell them weapons.
The Oil Prince (1965)
The bandit "Oil Prince" wants to sell the banker Duncan a fake oil well. However, his path is blocked by a convoy of settlers who want to settle in the area. The Oil Prince has the settlers' scout replaced with a member of the Finders gang. Old Surehand and Winnetou track him down and are able to warn the convoy. Winnetou convinces the Navajo chief Nitsas-ini of the settlers' peaceful nature, and he allows them to travel unhindered through his territory with Old Wabble as their guide, to a stopover on the Chinla River.
On the way to the Utahs, Old Surehand is lured into a trap by the Finders bandits, from which Winnetou is able to rescue him. At the Chinla River, the settlers, including the widow Ebersbach, the cantor Hampel, the card-sharp Richard Forsythe, and the shady businessman Bergmann, are preparing to spend the night when the Finders bandits attack. Winnetou and Old Surehand arrive in time to repel the attack.
After the robbery fails, the Oil Prince comes up with something new. He murders Chief Mokaschi's son and blames the settlers for the crime. The Indians surround the settlers at the river, but are persuaded to wait with their attack if Old Surehand hands over the real murderer within a day. Winnetou wants to bring the women and children to safety on a raft down the rushing river. However, they fall into the water and are only rescued by the arrival of Old Surehand. He sets out to pursue the Oil Prince, who has meanwhile extorted the money for the fake oil well from the banker Duncan and trapped him in the oil cave with an avalanche of rubble.
Series
Arrow
(2012-2020, 8 seasons, 170 episodes)
After a shipping accident in which his father died, playboy Oliver Queen was stranded on the deserted island of Lian Yu . He was officially presumed dead and later deemed the only survivor. At the beginning of the series, Oliver is found on the island where he has spent the last five years, seemingly alone. Before his death, Oliver's father gave him a list of names of people exploiting their hometown of Starling City. Wracked with guilt, he told his son that he was not the person Oliver thought he knew. Oliver must survive at all costs to make amends for his father's mistakes and bring the bad guys to justice.
The plot unfolds on two levels: the bulk of the story depicts Oliver's life after returning to his hometown. He builds a secret identity as a crime fighter armed with a bow and arrow and fulfills his father's dying wish by attempting to bring those on the list to justice. Parallel scenes from the protagonist's past are shown, first on the island of Lian Yu , later in Hong Kong. The flashbacks are thematically connected to current events.
The Wheel of Time
(2021, 1 season, 8 episodes)
When the world was created, the so-called Wheel of Time was also created. Each of its seven spokes represents an era, which follows one another in constant alternation.
This world was brought to the brink of destruction long ago by the Dark King Shai'tan, and his followers continue to wreak havoc on the world even millennia after their master's imprisonment.
The shepherd Rand al'Thor (Josha Stradowski) and his childhood friends Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford) and Matrim Cauthon (Barney Harris) are born into this.
After an attack on her home village by the evil Trollocs, minions of the Dark One, she embarks on an adventure with Moraine (Rosamund Pike), a sorceress or Aes Sedai, in which she will play a far more important role in the fate of the world and in the battle of good against evil than she ever could have imagined...
game of Thrones
(2011-2019, 8 seasons, 73 episodes)
The series begins at a time when a new power struggle threatens to break out. The key players are the powerful noble families Stark, Lannister, and Baratheon. King Robert Baratheon asks his old friend Eddard Stark if he will serve him as Hand of the King, since his last Hand, Jon Arryn, has died. Eddard accepts the invitation with his daughters Sansa, who is to marry Robert's son Joffrey, and Arya. He rightly suspects that his predecessor, who was like a surrogate father to him and Robert, has been murdered. It turns out that House Lannister, from which Robert's wife Cersei comes, has its own agenda regarding the Iron Throne.
The conflict between these families and the other influential noble houses (such as the Greyjoys, Tullys, Arryns, and Tyrells) ultimately leads to Robert's murder, Eddard's execution, and war. At the same time, in the North, beyond the mighty Ice Wall that shields the Seven Kingdoms there, an ancient and dangerous power awakens, one that hardly anyone notices during the struggles for the throne in the South.
Green Arrow
(2012-2020, 3 seasons, 62 episodes)
Green Arrow dresses like Robin Hood and sees it as his goal to help the poor. His specialty is fighting with a bow and arrow. As a member of the Justice League, his area of ​​operations is the fictional Star City. Originally, the archer was little more than a more positive version of Batman. He even had an Arrow car , an Arrow plane , and an Arrow signal . Like Bruce Wayne, he is a human being without superpowers, relying only on his superior skills and technological aids.
Another parallel to Wayne is Green Arrow's origins: He grew up under the name Oliver Queen, the son of a wealthy family. Green Arrow had a long-term relationship with Dinah Lance, aka Black Canary , and he has two sons: the adopted Roy Harper (his old companion Speedy) and his biological Connor Hawke, who had followed in his father's footsteps (Green Arrow II).
Hawkeye
(2021, 1 season, 6 episodes)
During the Battle of New York in 2012, Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, unknowingly saves the life of young Kate Bishop, while her father dies as a civilian casualty. Emulating her new idol, Kate learns to fight with a bow and arrow, but also trains herself in fencing and hand-to-hand combat.
Over ten years later, Kate, now 22, reluctantly works for her mother Eleanor's security company. While accompanying her mother to a New York high-society charity event, she meets Armand Duquesne III, who turns out to be the uncle of Jack, her mother's new boyfriend, whom Kate despises.
Not only does Kate learn from Armand that her mother is engaged to Jack, but she also witnesses her mother being threatened by Armand.
When she discreetly follows the man into the building's basement for a black market auction, Jack is also present. Both men are bidding fiercely for the sword and suit of Clint's former alter ego, Ronin, which were found in the destroyed Avengers headquarters.
Kingdom
(2019+, 2 seasons+, 12 episodes)
In medieval Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, the king appears to be suffering from smallpox. However, there are doubts. Rumors are circulating that the king is dead. Hardly anyone has seen him. The queen refuses to allow the worried Crown Prince Chang into the palace.
Furthermore, the soldiers seem to be listening to Cho Hak-ju, the leader of the Haewon-cho clan. One day, Crown Prince Chang sneaks into the palace and notices a foul odor in the secluded area reserved for the king, as well as a creature making animal-like noises.
However, he can't identify it exactly. The king is nowhere to be found. In response to his inquiry, the Crown Prince is told that he has briefly left the palace.
Through Muyeong, Chang learns that the doctor Lee Seong-hui from Dongnae treated the king. He decides to visit him to get to the bottom of the matter. However, the town has been hit by a plague.
Robin Hood – The Rascal of Sherwood
(2014-2020, 2 seasons, 104 episodes)
The French-German 3D animation series tells the story of the youth of the world-famous fighter against injustice and the arbitrariness of the rich and powerful.
With bow and arrow and with the help of his friends Marian, Friar Tuck, Little John and the cheeky girl Scarlett, ten-year-old Robin Hood repeatedly outwits the equally youthful king's son, Prince John, and his nasty gang, who oppress the people around Sherwood Forest with cruelty.
The Last Kingdom
(2015-2020, 4+ seasons, 36 episodes)
In the second half of the 9th century, Vikings invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. Uhtred was kidnapped by Vikings as a child and grew up as one of their own.
As a young adult, however, his foster father Ragnar is betrayed and murdered by his own men. Uhtred escapes. He claims his right to be Ealdorman of Bebbanburg. To this end, he joins forces with Alfred, the King of Wessex, with both looking out for their own interests.
Uhtred supports Alfred in repelling the Vikings, including former friends and acquaintances of his.
Spartacus
(2010-2013, 3 seasons, 33 episodes)
The gladiator master Batiatus, who secretly aspires to higher social honors, becomes aware of him through the fight and acquires Spartacus to train him at his gladiator school in Capua. After initial difficulties, he becomes the darling of the people and dethrones the Gaul Crixus, Capua's best gladiator to date.
From now on, Spartacus must fight for his survival as a gladiator in the arena, while Batiatus promises to help him find his missing wife, Sura. However, Batiatus betrays Spartacus by having his wife, Sura, killed to force him to continue fighting in the arena, thus setting off the gladiator revolt, which Spartacus initiates in revenge.
Vikings
(2013-2020, 6 seasons, 89 episodes)
The story is set at the beginning of the Viking Age in the early Middle Ages, but without claiming historical accuracy. It centers on the story of the Viking Ragnar Lothbrok (in the German version, Ragnar Lodbrok ), whose character is based on Ragnar Lodbrok, a heroic figure in Norse sagas. Another main character is the shieldmaiden Lagertha, modeled on the warrior Lathgertha from Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, Ragnar's first wife in both versions.
The series covers, among other things, the first Viking voyages and the subsequent military conflicts in England, various customs and traditions (e.g., human sacrifice, North Germanic religion, Norse mythology), and political power struggles. The series also explores the Vikings' encounter with Christianity and the effects of the Christianization of Scandinavia.
Vikings Valhalla
(2021-xxx, 1 season, 8 episodes)
Leif Erikson, the first known European to cross the North Atlantic and set foot in North America around the year 1000, is loyal to his family but has trouble with his father, Erik the Red. FreydĂs EirĂksdĂłttir is his half-sister. As a leader of North Germanic religious groups against the rising Christianity in Scandinavia, she is seeking a new home for her people. However, she is in love with Torsen, a Christian Viking from a royal family. Torsen is part of a battalion formed by King Harald Hardrada to avenge a massacre. The Norman King William the Conqueror also claims power.
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