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Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film
Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Danny Winters, a gay boy from Indiana, is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend. His father is upset, and while his mot…
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Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film, thriller film
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov, defects to the West. During debriefing, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom learns that Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads will be placed in Cuba. Needing physical e…
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Romance Film, drama film, historical drama, romance film
thumb|upright=1.15|Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, a plain and shy young woman, who constantly disappoints her father with her lack of social graces. thumb|upright=1.15|At a ball, Catherine meets Morris Townsend, a handsome and ch…
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Western, Western film, drama film, war film
In 1877 Colorado Territory, a young woman, Cresta Lee, and young Colorado Private Honus Gant are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gant is devoted to his country an…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, war film
In 1929, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 10-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"—the rebirth of a Roman …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy film, historical drama
William Burke and William Hare, immigrants from Ulster, attempt to sell cheese mould as a patent medicine. When their fraud is discovered, they flee to an inn owned by Hare's wife, Lucky. One of her lodgers has died and she wants Burke and…
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LGBTQ-related film, historical drama
Set in the late 19th century, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey is a flamboyant peer whose behaviour and extravagance has modern echoes.
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Drama, Historical drama
The film follows 18-year-old Vera Brandes as she defies her conservative parents to organize a 1975 concert by Keith Jarrett in Cologne. Despite near failure, the impromptu performance's recording becomes the iconic Köln Concert, a landmar…
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Historie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, historical film, war film
The film opens in 1938, in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Nazi Brown Shirts invade the home of a young Jewish girl, Elsbeth, and kill her parents. In Strasbourg, France, 1939, a young Marcel Marceau works unfulfilled in his father's butcher shop.
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Biographical picture, Historie, historical film
In 1934, Winston Churchill is deep in his wilderness years, and struggling to complete his biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, which he hopes will revive his fortunes. Winston is chided by his wife Clemmie for their lack of …
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Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the West Indies, which eventually leads to the European discovery of the America…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, period drama film
Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, Mary, Queen of Scots returns to her native land. Though fearless, unselfish, and very beautiful, the young queen faces many challenges. As in neighbouring England, the Protes…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1792, the work of Francisco Goya, the Official Court Painter to Spain's royalty, disturbs the Spanish Inquisition. Brother Lorenzo Casamares hires Goya to paint his portrait. Lorenzo eventually is given power to intensify the Inquisitio…
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Komödie, comedy film, historical drama, period drama film, romantic comedy film
Before the turn of the 20th century, at a fashionable park outing, malicious Lady Markby reintroduces Mrs. Laura Cheveley to Lady Gertrude Chiltern, who knew each other at school. Laura fishes for an invitation to meet Gertrude’s husband, …
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Drama, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, independent film
The film is set in 1902 and centers around the Peazant family, Gullah islanders living at Ibo Landing on Dataw Island (St. Simons Island), off the coast of Georgia. Their ancestors were brought to the island as enslaved people centuries ag…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, drama film
Set in New France in 1634 (during the period of conflicts known as the Beaver Wars), the film begins in the settlement that will one day become Quebec City. Jesuit missionaries are trying to encourage the local Algonquin people to embrace …
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drama film, historical film
In 1809, Sergeant Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles saves Sir Arthur Wellesley, the commander of the British army fighting the French in Portugal, from three French cavalrymen. Wellesley instantly rewards Sharpe with a field commission to …
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Historical drama
Empress Elisabeth of Austria is semi-estranged from her philandering husband Emperor Franz Joseph, with whom she unhappily celebrates her 40th birthday. Frustrated with her loneliness and fading beauty, Elisabeth tries to reassert agency b…
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Gothic film, Horror, Thriller, gothic horror film, historical film, horror film
In 1547 Spain, Englishman Francis Barnard visits the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his sister, Elizabeth. Nicholas and his younger sister, Catherine, offer a vague explanation…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, war film
In October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, a small group of a Sonderkommando—prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of the dead—are plotting an insurrection that they hope will destroy at least one of the camp's fo…
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Drama, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, romance film
The Hubbards, a wealthy but corrupt family, are entertaining a dinner guest, William Marshall, a prominent Chicago businessman with whom they hope to partner in an enterprise to build a cotton mill in their sleepy Alabama town, called Palt…
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War Film, anti-war film, drama film, historical film, war film
In the summer of 1916, Lance Corporal Dell shows his collection of nude photos to the men of his platoon. Private Billy MacFarlane remarks to his brother Eddie that one of the girls looks familiar to him. The platoon commander, Lieutenant …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical drama, romance film
In 1928 in New York State, aspiring author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings advises her husband that her last book was rejected by a publisher, she has bought an orange grove in Cross Creek, Florida, and she is leaving him to go there. She drives …
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, historical film
In the 1990s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera with her everywhere she went. David Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Brian Austin Green, Stephen Dorff, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Danny Boy O'Connor and Heather McComb appear in the film, while Ha…
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