Joseph Sargent — Director (15)
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Vola sciusciù (2000) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vola sciusciù
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Lino Banfi / Mario Adorf …
other title: The Savior of San Nicola / Der Held aus Apulien
In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves to guide them to safety. He brings them to his trusted friend Annamaria’s farmhouse, persuading her to hide and protect the fugitives.
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Passion Flower (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Passion Flower
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Bruce Boxleitner / Barbara Hershey …
other title: 慾海情迷 / 欲海情迷
The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father.
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Choices of the Heart (1983) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Choices of the Heart
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Melissa Gilbert / Peter Horton …
other title: 愛的殉道 / Elecciones del corazón
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
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Tribes (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tribes
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Darren McGavin / Earl Holliman …
other title: La forja de un marine
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
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Hustling (1975) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hustling
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Lee Remick / Jill Clayburgh …
other title: Racolage / Unterm Strich
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
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World War II: When Lions Roared (1994) [TV] IMDb TMDB
World War II: When Lions Roared
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Ed Begley Jr. / Jan Tříska …
other title: Les Géants de guerre / II Guerra Mundial: Cuando los leones rugieron …
A 1994 war television miniseries which portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, and concluding with the Tehran Conference.
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Spy in the Green Hat
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Robert Vaughn / David McCallum …
other title: Der Mann im grünen Hut / L'Espion au chapeau vert …
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
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Day One (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Day One
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Brian Dennehy / David Strathairn …
other title: 那一天 / デイワン／最終兵器の覚醒 …
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb