Guy Ritchie

In late 1941, Germany controls the Atlantic with their U-Boats which inflict heavy damages on any merchant ships passing from US to UK. The movie starts in 1942 with Gus and Anders on a sailboat, boarded by a German naval party. The German captain (Tim Seyfi) is offended by Gus and Anders drunk playboys act and orders that the sailboat be set on fire with kerosene. The German sailors discover armed men hiding in the bowels of the boat, who open fire. Anders slashes the throat of the German captain, and the boarding party is massacred. The German crew came from a destroyer nearby. Freddy is a diver, who had set explosives to the hull of the destroyer. As the destroyer starts firing on the sailboat, the explosives go off and the destroyer sinks. During World War II the United Kingdom is struggling to halt Nazi Germany's attempts to take over Europe, with London regularly suffering bombing runs at the hands of the Luftwaffe. Their supply and aid ships are constantly sunk by German submarines in the Atlantic. As a result, the UK is starved of munitions, supplies and even men to fight the war. The UK needs 3 million tons of supplies every month and currently they are losing half of that to U-Boats. Till the U-Boats rule the Atlantic, it will be impossible for US troops to come to Europe. The British commander in chiefs recommend Churchill to surrender as they believe they cannot stop an invasion from Germany. Italian supply ship Duchessa D'Aosta and two tugboats (Bibundi and Likomba) attached to it are stationed on the Spanish-controlled island Fernando Po. The supply ship and the tugboats take care of the entire servicing, rearming and repairing of Hitler's Atlantic U-Boat fleet. The island cannot be bombed as Fernando Po (an Island on the West Coast of Africa), is neutral territory. If the Allied forces attack the island, the rest of neutral Europe will join Hitler in the war. Brigadier Colin Gubbins (Cary Elwes), with the indirect backing of Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear), prepares to initiate Operation Postmaster, an off the books black-ops sabotage mission intended to disrupt the Nazis' U-boat resupply operation on Fernando Po. If the operatives are captured by the British, they will be thrown in jail, if captured by the Nazis it will be torture and death. While SOE agents Marjorie Stewart (Eiza Gonzalez) and Richard Heron (Babs Olusanmokun) depart by train, Gubbins enlists Gus March-Phillips (Henry Cavill) to assemble a ground team to destroy the supply ship and the tugboats. Heron lives undercover on the Island, runs an illegal gambling business and most high-ranking Nazis are his clients. Marjorie will be posing as gold trader from New York. Her mission is to seduce and distract the German CO Luhr. In 44 days, the Nazis will move their operation away from Fernando Po. Marjorie and Heron's job will be to ensure that the Duchessa is filled with supplied, so it is worth blowing up in the first place. Using the neutral Swedish fishing trawler Maid of Honor, Gus and his allies, Graham Hayes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) an expert sailor, Freddy Alvarez (Henry Golding) explosives expert, and Danish naval officer Anders Lassen (Alan Ritchson) a killer (the only non-British and or commonwealth subject to be awarded the Victoria Cross), begin the slow sail down the West Coast of Africa to Fernando Po. The sailboat is packed with explosives to destroy the Duchessa. Upon discovering that SOE saboteur Geoffrey Appleyard (Alex Pettyfer), whom Gubbins had sent ahead on the assumption that Gus would show interest in wanting him on the team, was captured by Gestapo agents, they divert course to a Nazi-controlled section of the Canary Islands (La Palma) for a rescue mission. Gus believes that Appleyard has crucial information needed for the success of the mission. When Gus and his crew sink the destroyer, they are still 18 days away from Fernando Po. Gus and his crew reach La Palma and find that the Gestapo is already there. Gus knows that if Appleyard is taken away, they will never see him again. Gus decides to launch the offensive in broad daylight. The crew is very calm, composed, and unhurried as they take an entire German military camp armed to the brim. Anders finds Appleyard in the command room, which he attacks all by himself. Marjorie and Heron steal the suitcase of a German military officer on the train and find the Duchessa's cargo manifest including 400 B grade torpedoes, 5000 tons of diesel, 10,000 CO2 filters. The suitcase is returned before it is discovered as missing. Meanwhile, arriving early on Fernando Po, Marjorie and Heron use the latter's 'illegal' gambling hall to recruit backup for Gus' team while Marjorie seduces Heinrich Luhr (Til Schweiger), the SS commander in charge. Marjorie poses as the buyer for gold that Luhr is selling. Heron plans to throw a party at his club and at the docks to distract the Germans when Gus and his sailboat arrives in harbor. Heron is friends with the Spanish Captain Binea (Henrique Zaga), who bristles at the Germans who are in control of his town. Gus and his crew are 15 days away from Fernando Po, as they take a longer route to avoid German U Boats closer to the African coast. Binea tells Heron that the Duchessa intends to depart three days ahead of schedule. As the radio messages reaches Gus, he has his crew sail through a British naval blockade of Nazi-occupied West Africa (as this was the only way to cut 3 days off their schedule) despite knowing they will be arrested should their unauthorized mission be discovered. A mole in Gubbins' staff reveals the mission to senior command. Germany starts the aerial bombing of London. A British destroyer acting on the command of the naval high command intercepts the sailboat, but Gus gets lucky when a U-Boat attacks and chases away the destroyer. Heron and Marjorie meet local Prince Kambili Kalu (Danny Sapani) to get a tugboat to rendezvous with Gus's men outside the harbor. Kambili also provides men to Gus to take over the harbor in case of any resistance from the Germans. On the night of the intended raid, Heron had 2 parties happening simultaneously, one for officers and one for sailors. There were enough prostitutes at each party to cover every sailor and officer with company. Marjorie and Heron learn that Luhr has had the Duchessa's hull reinforced despite Italian Captain Umberto's (Luca Marrocco) reservations. As such, the Duchessa is unsinkable now. Barely warned of this in time, Gus and Appleyard decide that their best course of action is to hijack the ships and sail them out of the harbor and hand them over to the British Navy. Appleyard & Anders leads the raid on the Duchessa to capture it, while Gus and Freddy place explosives on the fuel reserves at the harbor to prevent the Germans from following them. Gus and Hayes then take command of the tugboats, which are used to tow the Duchessa out to sea. Freddy set up explosives to blow up the Duchessa's anchor, so the tugboats would be able to tow her out. The fuel dump blows up before the Duchessa is out of the harbor. The sailors leave their party to come out and attack the tugboats with everything they have. Gus's crew combined with Kambili's men fight back and manage to get the Duchessa out to sea. Although Luhr eventually catches on when Marjorie's act begins to 'slip', the raid is ultimately successful, and Marjorie shoots Luhr in the head. Heron and Marjorie take the last remaining patrol boat in harbor to meet Duchessa at sea. Delivering the boats to a British fleet outside Lagos, the team is nonetheless arrested. While waiting to be court-martialed, they are saved and recruited by Churchill as part of his 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare', as their actions have not only severely damaged the Nazis' naval strength, but also have allowed the United States, which recently entered the war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the European theatre. A montage of details before the end credits reveal the post operation activities of several protagonists: Gus became a war hero and would helm several similar raids during the war before marrying Marjorie at the start of her acting career. Appleyard would receive several commendations for his role in the mission, much to the king's amusement. Hayes would go on to become a highly accomplished spy notable for surviving a year of Nazi torture without breaking. Lassen would go on to take part in raids outside the group until his death in 1945. Ian Fleming, who had been part of Gubbins' inner circle during this time, would use Operation Postmaster as the inspirational basis for his James Bond novels.

MI6 agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.

US troops were deployed to Afghanistan in Oct 2001, after the 9/11 attacks. Initially only 1300 troops were assigned, but by December 2011 this had increased to 98,000 troops. 50,000 Afghans were employed as interpreters under the agreement that they would be eligible for Special Immigration Visas and relocation to America. The interpreters are regarded as traitors by the locals and the Taliban for collaborating with the enemy. In March 2018, in the middle of the War in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his unit are ambushed by a truck bomb attack orchestrated by the Taliban during a routine vehicle inspection at Lashkargah, which claims the life of his interpreter. In need of a replacement, he is introduced to Ahmed Abdullah (Dar Salim), a steadfast yet disliked interpreter, who claims he pursues the job only for money. During an undercover capture mission, Kinley learns that Ahmed was previously affiliated with the Taliban through the opium trade but had defected when the organization murdered his son. Kinley's unit is tasked with searching of all potential locations with suspected Taliban personnel or IED factories. Ahmed is very well connected locally and tells Kinley that he is searching the wrong locations as US intel is not very good. Kinley feels that he is putting his team in danger everyday for no output. He speaks to his CO colonel Vokes, who informally asks Kinley to go after targets not fully investigated, a list of whom is supplied by Sgt. Declan O'Brady (Alexander Ludwig). Ahmed later saves Kinley's team from being ambushed by a Taliban unit aided by a compromised Afghan National Army soldier, earning Kinley's respect. Ahmed smelled the ambush when the Afghan solider led them on a particular road, and Ahmed got Kinley to stop the convoy. Satellite pictures reveal a ambush lined up 8 Kilometers down the road. Kinley's team includes Charlie "Jizzy" Crow (Sean Sagar), Joshua "JJ" Jung (Jason Wong), Tom 'Tom Cat' Hancock (Rhys Yates), Eduardo "Chow Chow" Lopez (Christian Ochoa), Steve Kersher (Bobby Schofield) and Jack "Jack Jack" Jackson (James Nelson-Joyce). Ahmed is shown to be married to Basira (Fariba Sheikhan) with a kid on the way. During another raid to check for a possible insurgent arms cache about 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Bagram Air Base, Kinley's unit is attacked by Taliban reinforcements, who kill everyone except for him and Ahmed. Kinley's unit has requested air support when they discovered arms, but air cover was 15 minutes out when they were attacked. The duo manages to escape on a Taliban truck, killing several Taliban fighters in the process. The truck gets a flat, and Kinley cannot contact his base as the radio is out of range. Kinley and Ahmed are forced to abandon the truck and escape on foot, killing their pursuers in the process. The helicopters from base reach the original location and find 40 Taliban bodies and the bodies of the dead US soldiers minus Ahmed and Kinley. Whilst attempting to return to the airbase by navigating through the mountainous Afghan terrain, they are once again ambushed by insurgents, who manage to wound Kinley, before clubbing him with a rifle butt, incapacitating him. Ahmed manages to kill the Taliban and resolves to take Kinley back to the air base. Receiving help from some sympathetic Afghans, Ahmed evades the Taliban hunting them, carrying Kinley over the country's treacherous mountain topography. Several days later Ahmed and Kinley are near Bagram but are attacked by Taliban fighters; Ahmed kills the fighters but is shortly thereafter apprehended by U.S. troops. Three weeks later, Kinley, having been repatriated to his home in Santa Clarita, California, is completely unaware of how he was saved, but understands Ahmed's role in it. Kinley married to his wife Caroline (Emily Beecham) and has 2 kids. Upon learning that Ahmed and his family were forced to move underground owing to the duo's escapade having become local folklore (The Taliban have put a heavy price on Ahmed's head and is on their top 10 most wanted list), Kinley attempts to procure U.S. visas for them for over a month, but in vain. Emotionally tormented and rendered near sleepless by his inability to repay his indebtedness towards Ahmed, Kinley finally resolves to save him himself, enlisting the assistance of his superior, Lieutenant Colonel Vokes (Jonny Lee Miller), to procure the visas. Returning to Afghanistan under the alias of Ron Kay, Kinley meets with Parker (Antony Starr), a private military contractor, who promises to provide support on the condition that the former locates Ahmed first. But Kinley has to find Ahmed alone. Meanwhile Ahmed is being actively hunted by the Taliban, and he has to move frequently with his family to survive. Kinley meets Ahmed's brother Ali, a Taliban supplier who manages to smuggle Kinley across their territory; in the process, he kills two insurgents after nearly being caught at a road checkpoint, which alerts the Taliban with the sound of gunfire that echoes through the mountains. Vokes informs Kinley that the visas have been processed and are with Parker. Finally arriving at Ahmed's hideout, Kinley persuades him and his family to accompany him to the U.S. Meanwhile, Parker deduces Kinley's true identity; realizing the danger that the duo is in due to their value to the Taliban, he arranges for an AC-130 gunship and an Apache attack helicopter to provide air support. Concurrently, the Taliban mount an attack on Kinley, who manages to escape with Ahmed's family to the nearby Darunta Dam which is the extraction point designated by Parker. Cornered by approaching Taliban units, the duo engages them in a protracted gunfight, which ends when they run out of ammunition. However, the AC-130 and Apache helicopter arrive and wipe out the attackers. Parker arrives from the other end of the dam with a relief column of anti-Taliban technical personnel. He tells Kinley he would have supported his mission gratis had he known upfront it was him. Escorted back to Bagram, the group boards an Airbus A400M leaving Afghanistan. The film's ending title states that in the aftermath of the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan, over 300 Afghan interpreters affiliated with the U.S. military were murdered by the organization, with thousands more still in hiding.

Csonka, Yvette, Eszter and Noemi are middle-aged women who transform themselves into a sculpted mass of muscle. Their physique is both a temple and a tool - outer and inner strength manifested as one. Unlike previous documentaries about individuals who pump iron, Nemes avoids a kitsch portrait of a subculture. Instead, she is fascinated by these women's lives out of the spotlight and beyond the gym, exploring the reasons that made them choose this singular and often punishing lifestyle. What emerges is a determination to face down stereotyping and ridicule as each dedicates themselves to achieving their dream.

CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin are forced to team up to stop a criminal organization from destabilizing the fragile balance of power and creating a worldwide catastrophe.

Sherlock Holmes matches wits with his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, a criminal genius conspiring to make a fortune by manufacturing the next generation of wartime weaponry.

Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla bears traces of Snatch (2000). When a real estate deal in London, involving millions of pounds gets underway, criminals and a presumably dead popstar surface for their pie in the sky. The transfer of money is intercepted and a lucky painting is stolen. What ensues is fisticuffs, bloody fights, and a mad scramble to get the deal sealed. Featuring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton and Tom Wilkinson, RocknRolla is not your average thriller.

A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor. Amber is 40, beautiful, rich, spoiled, and arrogant beyond measure. Nothing makes this woman happy, including her wealthy but passive husband Tony, a pharmaceutical kingpin. When he takes her on a private cruise from Greece to Italy, she is unimpressed at this impromptu no-frills vacation, and takes out her anger on the ship's first mate, Giuseppe. When a storm leaves the two shipwrecked on a deserted island, however, the tables suddenly turn. —Anonymous