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War Film, action film, historical drama, war film
In 1983, Hector Negron, an aged, African-American World War II veteran, works as a post office clerk in New York City. After recognizing a customer, Negron shoots and kills the man with a German Luger pistol. Several hours later, rookie re…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1880, in the fictional central European country of Gorslava, prominent London physician Sir Robert Cargrave visits the mysterious Baron Sardonicus at the urgent request of Robert's former love, Maude, now the baron's wife. Sir Robert be…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
Doctor Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of Europe's largest, assisted by his wife, Antonina. On 1 September 1939, the bombardment of Warsaw begins. Antonina and her son Ryszard survive the German and Russian invasion of Pola…
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Drama, Forensic, Historie, biographical film, drama film, trial film
On April 14, 1865, five days after the Civil War ends with Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, and …
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Adventure, action film, drama film, epic film, medieval film, swashbuckler film
King Edwin of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by King Ragnar Lodbrok. Because Edwin died childless, his cousin Aella takes the throne. The king's widow Enid, however, is pregnant with Ragnar's child.
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Drama, historical film, romantic comedy
In the 1790s, the recently widowed and relatively young Lady Susan Vernon seeks a wealthy match for her only daughter, Frederica, and a wealthy husband for herself, to renew her fortunes. After being turned out of the Manwaring estate due …
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Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film, medieval film, war film
A prologue describes how the barons of England, aided by the Knights Templar, fought against the tyrannical King John in a war that lasted more than three years. The war ended with King John signing Magna Carta, a document granting rights …
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Komödie, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, historical film, science fiction film, war film
In July 1776, after signing the Declaration of Independence, Benedict Arnold murders all of its signatories, blows up Independence Hall, and steals the Declaration. At Ford's Theatre, George Washington and his childhood best friend, Abraha…
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographe…
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Historie, Thriller, drama film, historical film
Hannah (Weaving) is a veteran of the British army who is working as an investigator for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). While drunkenly interrogating a member of the Young Ireland movement, Hannah loses his temper over the prisoner's r…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In the late 1770s Mozart visits Paris. He is performing on stage when a man who introduces himself as Joseph Bologne requests to accompany his performance of Violin Concerto No. 5.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historical drama, Historie, Political Thriller, drama film
In modern-day New York, Derek Jacobi arrives at a theatre where he delivers a monologue questioning the lack of manuscript writings of William Shakespeare, despite the undeniable fact that he is the most performed playwright of all time. B…
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Historie, drama film, historical film
After the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, William Shakespeare, aged 49, returns home from London to Stratford-upon-Avon to rejoin his wife, Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare and Anne have a …
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Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
Told in a segmented fashion, the film opens as Caravaggio dies from lead poisoning while in exile, with only his long-time, mute companion Jerusaleme, who was given by his family to the artist as a boy, by his side. Caravaggio thinks back …
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1914, Vera Brittain wants to escape her traditional family in Buxton by attending Oxford University with her younger brother Edward and his friends at Uppingham School, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson. Despite her father's opposit…
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action film, biographical film, martial arts film
Wing Chun master Ip Man and his family move to Hong Kong in 1949 after escaping from Japanese-occupied Foshan. In 1950, Ip attempts to open a school to propagate his art, as well as make a living during the difficult times, but struggles t…
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Historie, Horror, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, horror film
In 1348, during the Black Death in Medieval England, novice monk Osmund has a secret relationship with a young woman named Averill who has taken sanctuary in his monastery. When the disease strikes the monastery, Averill departs at Osmund'…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, war film
In 1883 Sudan, an army of 10,000 poorly trained but well-armed Egyptian troops is lured into the desert. Commanding the force is former Bombay Army soldier Colonel William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown), now a private individual paid by …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, war film
Aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis is struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's Ruhr Dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as his own job at Vickers, he wo…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1863, hoping to subtly coax Queen Victoria toward resuming public life after two years of seclusion, Scottish servant John Brown is summoned to court. The plan succeeds a little too well for the liking of Victoria's Chief Secretary Sir …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In London, 1536, Henry VIII considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Nine years earlier, in 1527, Henry has a problem: he reveals his dissatisfaction with his wife, Catherine of…
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Horror, Obsession, Occult Horror, historical film, horror film
In a rural village in early 18th-century England, farmer Ralph Gower uncovers a deformed skull with one intact eye and strange fur. He insists that the local judge look at it, but it mysteriously vanishes. The judge disregards the incident…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
The film opens with the words of Professor Stanley Wolpert: A guide takes Jinnah to 1947, where, at the Cromwell Conference with Lord Mountbatten, he demands a homeland for Indian Muslims. In flashbacks, the guide recounts Jinnah's marriag…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, adventure film, drama film, epic film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
King Xerxes I of Persia leads a vast army of soldiers into Europe to defeat the small city-states of Greece, not only to fulfill the idea of “one world ruled by one master”, but also to avenge the defeat of his father Darius I at the Battl…
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