War, Drama, History
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
My Life Without Me
Talk to Her
Million Dollar Baby
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
No End
Breaking the Waves
The Secret Life of Words
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Breathless
The White Sound
The Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Barton Fink
Beyond Silence
Snow Cake
Magnolia
Harold and Maude
Seven Samurai
Rain Man
Das Boot
SIMILAR MOVIES
My Life Without Me
IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 2003
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.Talk to Her
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2002
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.Million Dollar Baby
IMDB 8 | Dec , 2004
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 2003
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.No End
IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 1985
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.Breaking the Waves
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 1996
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.The Secret Life of Words
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2005
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
IMDB 7.7 | Aug , 1958
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.Breathless
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 1960
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.The White Sound
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2001
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.The Shawshank Redemption
IMDB 8.7 | Sep , 1994
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.Casablanca
IMDB 8.2 | Jan , 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.Barton Fink
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1991
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.Beyond Silence
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1996
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.Snow Cake
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2006
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.Magnolia
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1999
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.Harold and Maude
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1971
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.Seven Samurai
IMDB 8.5 | Apr , 1954
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.Rain Man
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1988
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.Das Boot
IMDB 8.1 | Sep , 1981
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.