The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
Tag: 1980s
Othello, the Black Commando involves an international Red Cross column wiped out as it proceeds to Tubesti, Africa, a remote region where both war and a viral epidemic have broken out. Dr. Desdemona Ferguson, the daughter of an influential United States Senator, tries to pull all her strings to Washington in order to obtain help and protection for her stranded group.
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
Two boys live harmoniously with their parents in Toronto, when the equilibrium of their lives is upset by the advent of an aunt, who has just left psychiatric hospital.
When a scientific experiment to create an oversize nutria goes awry, a mutant creature is born. Now the Nutria-man, half water-loving animal, half murderous human, is running wild in Louisiana’s Copsaw swamp. As Nutria-man is killing the locals, a group of hunters is on his trail determined to kill him.
Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger Moth. Orville becomes obsessed with the notion that the Tiger might fly once more and the adventure begins when he and Harry set out to achieve that goal.
In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has some strange habits, one of which is keeping a vigil for a lover of many years ago who went out to sea one day and never returned.