The Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), a highly secret military organization, is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization operates from a secret location beneath the Harlington-Straker film studio in London. S.H.A.D.O. also has a base on the moon with Interceptors as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs (called S.I.D.), and operate a fleet of submarines. General James Henderson and commander Ed Straker have a team of highly trained and well equipped females and males to battle the regularly incoming hostile UFOs.

The Wind and the Lion

1975

English

6.8

♡ 23

63%

political negotiations

John Milius Director

Roy Jenson as Admiral Chadwick

Sean Connery as Raisuli

Vladek Sheybal as The Bashaw

Brian Keith as Theodore Roosevelt

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

The Apple

1980

English

4.3

♡ 6

27%

personification of satan

Sci-Fi

Menahem Golan Director

Catherine Mary Stewart as Bibi

Vladek Sheybal as Boogalow

Finola Hughes as Dancer

Miriam Margolyes as Landlady

In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation.

Mosquito Squadron

1969

English

5.7

♡ 5

25%

Boris Sagal Director

Suzanne Neve as Beth Scott

Vladek Sheybal as Lieutenant Schack

David Buck as Sqn. Ldr. David 'Scotty' Scott

Bryan Marshall as Sqn. Ldr. Neale

England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the disappearance of a brother-in-arms.

Puppet on a Chain

1971

English

6.0

♡ 2

Geoffrey Reeve Director

Alexander Knox as Colonel De Graaf

Arnold Diamond as Coroner

Barbara Parkins as Maggie

Vladek Sheybal as Meegeren

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.

Deadfall

1968

English

5.7

♡ 3

36%

Action

based on novel or book

Bryan Forbes Director

Vladek Sheybal as Dr. Delgado

Michael Caine as Henry

John Barry as Orchestra Conductor

David Buck as Salinas

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967

English

7.0

♡ 27

73%

Roman Polanski Director

Vladek Sheybal as Herbert

Sharon Tate as Sarah Shagal

Alfie Bass as Shagal, the Inn-Keeper

Ronald Lacey as Village Idiot

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Shogun

1980

English

7.8

♡ 22

87%

Jerry London Director

Masumi Okada as Brother Michael

Vladek Sheybal as Captain Ferriera

Yôko Shimada as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

Toshirô Mifune as Lord Yoshi Toranaga

In the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship sails the Pacific from the Americas in order to escape the Spanish. Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain) is the pilot of the ship and the first to realize the possibilities of Japan. Japan is a feudal society which has a strong presence of the Portugese. A struggle is in the final stages for who will be the Shogun, the leader who, under the Emperor, governs the land. Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Toshirô Mifune) sees in Blackthorn things he can use to at least survive the struggle to come, and if both play their hands correctly, become Shogun.

Women in Love

1969

English

7.1

♡ 11

83%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Ken Russell Director

Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwen

Vladek Sheybal as Loerke

Michael Graham Cox as Palmer

Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Avalanche Express

1979

English

4.9

♡ 4

20%

16%

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

Monte Hellman Director

Maximilian Schell as Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Cyril Shaps as Sedov

Lee Marvin as Wargrave

Vladek Sheybal as Zannbin

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

Return from the Ashes

1965

English

7.0

♡ 1

75%

J. Lee Thompson Director

André Maranne as 2nd Detective

Vernon Dobtcheff as Man breaking up nightclub fight

Vladek Sheybal as Paul, Chess Club Manager

Maximilian Schell as Stanislaus Pilgrin

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.

Kanal

1957

Polish

7.9

♡ 13

traveling through a sewer

War

warsaw uprising

Andrzej Wajda Director

Roman Polanski as Crawling Insurgent

Ewa Wisniewska as Girl giving water

Vladek Sheybal as Michal 'Ogromny', the composer

Wladyslaw Kowalski as Polish Soldier

In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.

The Jigsaw Man

1983

English

5.1

♡ 7

cold war

Thriller

Terence Young Director

John Franklyn-Robbins as English doctor

Vladek Sheybal as Gen. Zorin

Jennifer Jayne as Nurse

Michael Caine as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

1969

English

6.3

♡ 15

40%

Robert Parrish Director

Philip Madoc as Dr. Pontini

Anthony Chinn as Mongolian Rescue Crew Member

Vladek Sheybal as Psychiatrist

Lynn Loring as Sharon Ross

A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.

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