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Action, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, epic film, fantasy film, historical film
For twenty years, Ithaca has been without its king, Odysseus, unreturned from the Trojan War. Several suitors, including nobleman Antinous, aggressively court Odysseus's wife Penelope to claim the throne from Odysseus and Penelope's son Te…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, period drama film
A written prologue states that in Stratford, England, "Hamnet" and "Hamlet" were considered the same name. Agnes is in a forest near a mysterious cave, where she summons a hawk with her falconry glove and gathers herbs. William Shakespeare…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, thriller film
A 1959 Senate committee questions ex-AEC Chairman, Lewis Strauss, over his actions during Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 security hearing before the Gray Board, which revoked Oppenheimer's Q clearance and ended his government advisory role. Str…
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Family Saga, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In the mid-1940s, Michael Corleone is a World War II veteran and the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone. Vito is head of the Corleone mafia family and runs it with his eldest son Santino Sonny and adopted son Tom Hagen, a lawyer who is the …
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Action, Historie, Monumental Film, Romance Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In 1184 BC, King Agamemnon unites the Greek kingdoms. Achilles, a mighty warrior, fights for Agamemnon but is sickened by his brutal leadership. Meanwhile, Prince Hector of Troy and his brother Paris forge a peace treaty with Menelaus, Kin…
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Crime, Historical drama, crime film, drama film, epic film
Amidst the Birmingham Blitz in November 1940, Nazi Germany initiates a plot to economically subdue the United Kingdom by introducing copious amounts of counterfeit British currency – manufactured by the inmates of the regime's concentratio…
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Drama, Historical drama, Historie
In 1996, aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore the wreck of RMS Titanic, hoping to find a necklace known as the Heart of the Ocean. Instead, they recover a safe containing a…
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Satire On War, War Film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, parody film, period drama film, political satire, suspense film, thriller film, war drama, war film
In 1941, Austrian SS- Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. He boasts his nickname, "The Jew Hunter", then offers LaPadite amnesty if he will give up the Dreyfuses. LaPa…
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Drama, Western film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, independent film, period drama film, revisionist Western, thriller film
In 1898, Daniel Plainview finds silver while prospecting in New Mexico but breaks his leg. Dragging himself from the pit, he takes a sample to an assay office and receives a silver and gold claim. In 1902, he discovers oil in California.
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Action, Drama, Historie, Knights Tale, Monumental Film, action film, drama fiction, drama film, epic film, historical film, war film
In Medieval France, Crusaders visit the village of Balian, a blacksmith haunted by his wife's recent suicide after a miscarriage. Their leader introduces himself as Balian's father, Baron Godfrey, and asks him to return with him to the Hol…
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Action, Historie, Justice Drama, Swords and Sandals, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, melodrama, sword-and-sandal film
In 180 AD, the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius intends to return home after he leads the Roman army to victory against Germanic tribes near Vindobona. Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rul…
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Historie, Social Drama, anti-war film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, psychological drama film, war drama, war film
In German-occupied Kraków during World War II, the Nazis forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. He brib…
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Biographical picture, Musical, drama film, historical film, musical film
Ann Lee is born in Manchester in 1736 ("The Testament of Ann Lee"). During childhood, she and her younger brother William work at a cotton factory. One night, she witnesses her parents having sex and associates the act with sin; during a m…
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Action, Historical drama, Swords and Sandals, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
Sixteen years after Marcus Aurelius's death, Rome is ruled by the twin emperors Caracalla and Geta. In the North African kingdom of Numidia, Hanno lives with his wife, Arishat. The Roman army led by General Justus Acacius invades and conqu…
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Historical drama
In 1930 London, Lord and Lady Grantham, and their daughter and son-in-law, Edith and Bertie Pelham (aka Lord and Lady Hexham), attend a play starring Guy Dexter and Noël Coward, who is also the playwright. Backstage, they meet Dexter, Cowa…
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Family Saga, Melodrama, Monumental Film, Romance Film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents, her sisters Suellen and Carreen, and their black slaves. Scarlett is deeply attracted to Ashley Wilk…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Family Saga, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Marital Tragedy, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
Vito In 1901, nine-year-old Vito Andolini escapes from Corleone, Sicily, in the Kingdom of Italy to New York City after mafia chieftain Don Ciccio kills the rest of his family. An immigration officer registers him as Vito Corleone. By 1917…
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War Film, drama film, historical film, war film
While the film is shown in a nonlinear narrative, including the action of one week on the beach, one day in the rescue flotilla, and one hour of the air battle, the following is the chronological order of events that happen in the film. In…
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Drama, drama film, historical film
Overture Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor and Bauhaus-trained architect László Tóth immigrates to the United States after being forcibly separated from his wife, Erzsébet, and orphaned niece, Zsófia. As his ship enters New York Harbor, …
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1955, teenager Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in East New York, a working class Italian American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his …
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Coming Of Age, Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, historical drama
In 1973 San Fernando Valley, 15-year-old actor Gary Valentine meets 25-year-old Alana Kane, a photographer's assistant, at his school picture day. She is put off by his invitation to dinner, but shows up anyway. When Gary's mother cannot c…
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Italo-Western, Western film, action film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, revisionist Western
In 1858 Texas, several male African American slaves are being "driven" by the Speck Brothers, Ace and Dicky. Among the shackled slaves is Django, sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda. The Speck Brothers are stopped by Dr.
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Gangster Film, Political Drama, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In a nursing home, elderly Irish American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran narrates his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some …
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Biographical picture, Monumental Film, War Film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, war film
T. E. Lawrence dies in a motorcycle accident in 1935.
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