In this action-packed adventure, a Russian soldier finds himself in Turkmenistan after the Russian Civil War. He must adapt to the cultural differences, navigate the desert, and survive various challenges. Along the way, he encounters harem girls, smugglers, and experiences homesickness. The film explores themes of freedom, justice, and the clash of different customs.
Que Viva Mexico! is a documentary film that depicts the social differences, love, animal abuse, uprising, and other aspects of the Mexican Revolution. The film explores themes of exploitation, socialism, matriarchy, and the struggles faced by the Mexican people. It showcases various cultural elements such as bullfighting, fiestas, and religious practices. The film remains unfinished but provides a glimpse into the complexities of Mexican society.
In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.
The Round-Up is a powerful drama set in Austria-Hungary during a time of war and political oppression. The story follows a group of revolutionaries who are captured and imprisoned in a brutal detention camp. They endure psychological torment, torture, and even death as they fight for their freedom against the oppressive regime.
A collection of short films depicting the lives of businessmen in the Wild West. The stories include themes of wealth, hope, and cowboy culture, all intertwined in an anthology format. The film also explores the relationships between businessmen and their old friends, as well as the kidnapping incidents that occur in this era. With an episodic structure, the movie showcases the development of the businessmen's lives throughout the late 19th century.
Sung Shao Chong (Billy Chong) traverses the Arizona desert, helping those in need on the way to meet his old friend Kum (Lam Hak-Ming) in a small western town. Once there, he runs into a group of men who terrorize the town and extort the local businesses. Meanwhile, a trio of three bank robbers need a place to hide until the heat dies down from a recent heist. They pick the home of a black farming family and subsequently kill them, leaving only the severly injured eldest son Tommy (Carl Scott) to escape. Tommy is found by Chong and Kum and is brought to the home of Doctor Ko (Leung Siu-Chung), who heals his injuries. Eventually Tommy learns kung fu from Ko, and sets out for payback. Luckily for Tommy, Chong is also bent on revenge after the bandits hire the local troublemakers and some Japanese samurai to kill him.
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.
At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where they have been illegally pumping oil from Native American territory. One of the company's greedy agents, Mike Allison, kicks out both his white partners and the Native Americans. He has his some of his associates secretly murdered and blames it on the Native Americans, who are then killed when they get in the way of his plans. Five chiefs with lifelong shares in the Oil Company die mysteriously as a result. The young chief Shave Head asks his a half-blooded brother Chris Howard for help.
Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.
The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel through the territory. His people have become inured to the treacherous ways of the white man, however, and are now reliant on them for booze, 'relief flour' and beef steak.
In this hilarious western spoof, a group of Transylvanians stumble upon a hidden treasure and must outsmart a ruthless villain to keep it.
In Mirage, a man living on a farm becomes entangled in a dangerous web of violence and deception as he tries to leave his troubled past behind. With elements of action, drama, and thriller, Mirage is an intense and gripping film that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements.
The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...
Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When they are attacked by the outlaw Bashan, Falcon strikes out for the town of Tanglewood to take on Bashan's boss, mining magnate Harrington.
The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.