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Justice Drama, drama film, historical film, prison film
In 1981, a new IRA inmate, Davey Gillen, is admitted to the Maze Prison and is categorised as a "non-conforming prisoner" for his refusal to wear the prison uniform outfit. He is sent to his cell naked except for a blanket. His cellmate, G…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1931, two sisters14-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Daisyand their 10-year-old cousin Gracie are living in the Western Australian town of Jigalong. The town lies along the northern part of one of the original No. 1 Fencepart of Australia'…
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Action, Historical drama, thriller film
In Scotland in the 1790s, a young Japanese woman named Tornado flees from a gang of brigands led by the ruthless Sugarman. Tornado stumbles upon a remote mansion and slips inside to hide. Shortly after, the gang arrives and occupies the ma…
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Historical drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Poet Paul Verlaine meets Arthur Rimbaud's sister Isabelle in a café in Paris. Isabelle and her mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of the deceased Rimbaud's poems so they can be burned. The film then shifts to an…
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Animation, Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film, historical film
One year after Vincent van Gogh's suicide, postman Joseph Roulin asks his son Armand to deliver Van Gogh's last letter to his brother, Theo. Roulin finds the death suspicious, as merely weeks earlier Van Gogh claimed through letters that h…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film follows the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance. He had love affairs with several men during the 1920s, married, had a s…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical fiction, romance film
Mary Godwin is the daughter of the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband, the publisher William Godwin. Mary Wollstonecraft had died shortly after giving birth, and when the film opens 16 years later Mary Godwin is…
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Drama, Political Drama, War Film, historical film, romance film, war drama
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army overruns China's capital city, Nanjing, in December and carries out the Nanjing massacre. As the Japanese overrun the Chinese army, desperate …
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Historical drama, Horror, drama film, historical film
Catherine Parr (Vikander), the sixth wife of King Henry VIII (Law), is named regent while the king leads his army in France. Catherine looks after Henry's children, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward. Catherine takes risks to meet up with an old …
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, war film
Turkey sends a brigade to South Korea as a result of the call for help made by the United Nations when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. Sergeant Süleyman, one of the soldiers in the brigade, finds a little girl whose mother and fat…
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Romantic Drama, drama film, historical drama, romance film
The film intercuts the stories of two romantic affairs. One is within a Victorian period drama involving a gentleman palaeontologist, Charles Smithson, and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman". …
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Documentation, anti-war film, documentary film, historical film, war film
Cartoon, adventure film, biographical film, historical drama
In London, 1610, three years later, John Smith is ambushed by a group of soldiers with a warrant for his arrest and presumed dead in the ensuing confrontation; Governor Ratcliffe being a personal friend to King James, lied and framed Smith…
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Action, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
Commander Raiden is surprised when aging nobleman Bartok makes him heir to his kingdom, a vassal to a corrupt empire. When minister Geza Mott beats Bartok for failing to provide an adequate bribe, Bartok retaliates and is put to trial wher…
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Adventure, Historical drama, adventure film, fantasy film
Men of the dark-haired Rock Tribe, led by chief Akhoba, who is accompanied by his rivalrous sons, Tumak and Sakana, capture and kill a warthog and return to share it with the rest of the tribe. Tumak and Akhoba fight over the meat, and Akh…
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Action, Historie, action film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In the 14th century, Wenceslaus IV from the House of Luxembourg is the king of Bohemia, King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at the same time. Wenceslaus has received the throne after his father Charles IV, but his reign is…
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drama film, historical film, romance film
The film is set in 11th-century England. King Edward the Confessor wants the Saxon Lord Leofric, who rules Coventry, to marry a Norman woman, Yolanda. When he refuses, he is sentenced to jail, where he meets Godiva, the sheriff's sister.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1889 New York City, Italian immigrant Paolo is unable to obtain medical help for his dying mother because he speaks no English. After her death, he is taken in by Enzo, an older homeless boy living in the sewers. Mother Frances Xavier C…
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Action, Drama, Historie, Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, martial arts film
In 1910, Chinese martial artist Huo Yuanjia defeats three foreign challengers at an international tournament in Shanghai. As he awaits a fourth match, he reflects on his life. As a child, Huo secretly learns martial arts despite his father…
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Historical drama, Romance Film
The beautiful Julia Thistlewaite attends the opera with the most eligible bachelor of the season, Mr. Jeremy Malcolm. After she fails to impress him, she is widely mocked in a caricature.
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Historical drama, Religious drama, historical drama film
In 1914, eight-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer is playing a game of hide-and-seek with his older brother Walter, at their home in Breslau, Germany. Walter announces his decision to enlist in the army to his family and leaves for service to fi…
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Drama, Monumental Film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the winter of 180 AD, the ailing Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius fights to keep Germanic tribes from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier. His deputies are the Greek ex-slave Timonides and the stern and honest general …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, period drama film, war film
Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former Member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Romish" rituals…
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Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In 1805, most of Europe is torn apart by Napoleon Bonaparte's drive to conquer more and more territory. In Moscow, many young men have joined the army, including Nicholas Rostov, the son of Count Ilya Rostov and his wife Nataly, and the br…
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