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The series captures the rivalry between Mountbatten and the American generals, the suffering of German troops on the Eastern front, the maltreatment of Japanese prisoners of war by American troops.
It is set in Baltimore and deals with the issues of sibling rivalry, the unbreakable bond of twins, child abuse and good always winning out over evil.
Excellent documentary, ostensibly about the friendship and subsequent rivalry between two West Coast retro rock'n'roll bands: The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Both have a thing for Myrna Loy, but the expected rivalry for which this plot would seem to be tailor made never comes.
It also explored the subject of telekinesis (moving objects with the mind), but he stretched it over a broader, international canvas and threw a terrorism subplot, a fractured love story, an Argento-inspired school for cute, gifted girls, telekinetic rivalry, and John Cassavetes as an evil puppetmaster of troubled psychic warriors into the brew.
One is a music producer who's rahter shallow, one is an actor who gets caught up in rivalry with the music producer, and the other is a nice quiet guy.
Jolly good mystery set in pea soup London, mix in a bit of Boarding School rivalry, a mad professor, a tragic love interest and a big dollop of Egyptian spectacle.
This is exactly what I'd do if my gang's territory was being threatened by conspiracy and rivalry in the criminal underworld - hide out on a nice beach playing fantastic-looking firework and sumo games with me mates and some random passing woman, listening to crazy old men singing in incredible voices, watching out for assassins in fishing gear and generally building myself up for a massive showdown.
In 1975, Navajo Indian Calvin Duggai (Sonny Landham) deliberately abandoned five men to die in the desert because of an argument involving tribal rivalry and the powers of Indian witchcraft.
In this movie you spend the time cheering for the bad guys and thrill their rivalry with the police and each other.
It reminded me of a contemporary redneck version of the Montague/Capulet rivalry.
This is a very nice Chinesse movie about two sexy sisters who work as assassins.After an exciting hit in the first scene,they become a target for an army of criminals.In the same time,a police woman starts suspecting them.There is a plot twist in the middle, so your attention will be hold until the end.The action sequences are well-made and sometime pretty bloody.The three leading ladies are good and their relationship is interesting and original(something between rivalry, friendship and sexual attraction).A very enjoyable ride, "So close" definitely worth a view,both from the fans of traditional Assian movies or from those who like western productions.
The vindictive Julie uses the rivalry and hostility between North and South to make Amy uncomfortable and the situation provokes a fatal duel between her former boyfriend Buck Cantrell (George Brent) and his friend Ted (Richard Cromwell).
Or it could have been something to do with a rivalry that started after many death threats between the two stars.
And the sibling rivalry as well as the bond of love between them is grippingly enacted.
Anyway, tabloid blah blah blah and girl rivalry and itching powder... Geez, can you get any more lame.
Two damsels in distress keep the Falcon off balance but their rivalry is just not credible.
Our story takes place in the present of the whites and reds, when their rivalry is still alive.
What erupts is a blood feud where many tragic casualties, innocents whose blood are shed, lie in the wake of Ricco and Vito's rivalry.
Buck "connects" with a gal in the enemy clan, and, eventually, they learn that a THIRD group is benefitting from the rivalry.
The humor some people pointed out distracted from the film rather than added to it, it was needless for a film of this nature, Gangs Of New York is meant to be about rivalry, revenge and drama, and although there were a couple of places where the dark humor really worked there were too many instances where the humor felt like tacted-on Hollywood cheese.
This leads to peer rivalry and of course, endless daylight shooting on Mumbai streets.
Japan’s isolation also increases its dependency on its only ally, the United States, and undermines the fragile chance of developing a framework in Asia to address future regional crises in a spirit of cooperation rather than confrontation and rivalry.
Given their diverse interests, rivalry may cause them to splinter.
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources, waves of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
When Kim Jong-il started living with his second wife, Kim Kyong-hui sought to incite trouble, driven by a sense of rivalry.
This inter-state rivalry – at times bordering on acrimony – is what makes the politics of European integration difficult.
But if Trump sticks to his protectionist promises, we will no longer have to worry about US-Brazil rivalry within the same trade agreement.
If Franco-German rivalry shaped the era between 1870 and 1920, it was the conflict with Russia that defined the next 70 years.
Indeed, while the greatest threats to peace once came from power politics and economic rivalry, they now increasingly derive from the regional and global repercussions of the political and social disintegration of stable countries, a decline of their normative and institutional systems, and new totalitarian ideologies.
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