The Hostage of Europe / 1989

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.

Fire / 20045.01 voti

Alcuni ragazzi stanno cavalcando moto da cross nelle foreste del Nord del Minnesota e uno di loro si fa male. Una guardia forestale li soccorre, ma un incendiario ha appiccato una serie di incendi boschivi e così rimangono intrappolati nella foresta senza possibilità di raggiungere alcun luogo abitato.

Heart of Fire / 1997

While fighting a petrol tanker blaze, troubled firefighter Max Tucker discovers a young girl trapped under its wheels and finds that it is up to him to save her.

Sant'Elena / 19295.01 voti

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

Only the Devil Lives Without Hope / 2020

In Uzbekistan, the government has started its own war on terror. A war that – like so many others – is waged for political reasons, which rarely have anything to do with reality. As a result, thousands of Muslims are imprisoned on false charges of conspiring to commit terrorist crimes. One of them is the human rights activist Dilya's brother Iskandar, who has been imprisoned in the notorious Jaslyk prison in a barren desert since 2002 – an inhumane place of which there are no images. Today, she lives in exile in Sweden because of the threats and harassment, but Dilya continues to fight the case of her brother and other prisoners with the help of Amnesty International.

Hostage in the Jungle / 2010

Ingrid Betancourt was the world’s most famous hostage. On February 23rd 2002, Ingrid, a presidential candidate in Columbia’s elections, was kidnapped by the left-wing FARC rebel group along with her assistant and friend Clara Rojas. She was held for over six years in the jungle. This is the first documentary account of what happened in the jungle in her words and those of fellow hostages. In a truly remarkable interview Ingrid relives stories of escape and betrayal, love and hate, terror and extraodinary courage.

Il prigioniero del re / 1954

Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.

Zajaté melodie / 1943

Police Destination Oasis / 1981

Freewheeling female friends Annie and Nadine are snatched during a night of rump-shaking discotheque shenanigans by an evil slavery ring. Drugged and gagged, the gals wake up in the "Oasis", a clandestine bordello nestled deep in the African Congo where they - and a gaggle of girl prisoners from all over the world.

La prigioniera del deserto / 19908.01 voti

A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...