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Drama, drama film, historical film
The Time That Remains (2009) is a semi-biographical film that follows Palestinian life from 1948 to the present day through the story of director Elia Suleiman's family. The plot is divided into four episodes that depict the filmmaker's fa…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1937, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a student who has just passed the entrance exams for Kiev State University; to celebrate, she goes to a shooting range with her friends including a female classmate named Masha. In a twist of events, her al…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, drama film, epic film, historical film
King Edward IV of England (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) has been placed on the throne with the help of his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Sir Laurence Olivier). After Edward's coronation in the Great Hall, with his brothers George and Rich…
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Family Drama, Justice Drama, Super Hero, Swashbuckler, action film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
The young d'Artagnan witnesses the murder of his parents at the hands of Febre, a cruel swordsman in the employ of Cardinal Richelieu. D'Artagnan is nearly killed after using his dead father's sword to attack Febre, who is then left with a…
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Drama, Western, Western film
Near the end of the Civil War, Paul Cable returns home to Texas after being away from his family for years while fighting for the Confederacy. His wife, Martha, is a strong-willed frontier woman whose independence makes her a force in and …
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In the 17th century, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and elsewhere in eastern Europe are divided into small sections and principalities that fight each other or against one enemy: in this case, the Ottoman Empire. A battle rages between the Turks…
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Monster Film, historical drama, horror film, science fiction film
After his brother William dies in an accident, newly trained doctor Victor Frankenstein renounces God and starts wishing to be able to revive him. Victor starts studying in London and meets Henry Clerval, who discovered how to restore dead…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film
Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, orphaned at an early age, is determined to reclaim her noble title and the home taken from her family when she was a child. When she is rebuffed by Marie Antoinette and fails to achieve her goal through legal c…
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Drama, drama film, historical film, prison film, romance film
Kate Soffel is married to a Pittsburgh prison warden in 1901. They have four children. After several months of being sick in bed for no discernible reason, she suddenly regains her strength.
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historical television series
Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film
After the Battle of Waterloo, Joseph returns home from service in the Duke of Wellington's army to Manchester and his close-knit working class family headed by parents Joshua and Nellie. Joshua, son Robert, daughter Mary, and daughter-in-l…
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Gothic film, Horror, fantasy film, gothic horror film, historical film, horror film, supernatural horror film
In 1765, the inhabitants of Arkham, Massachusetts, are suspicious of the strange phenomena surrounding the grand "palace" that overlooks the town. They suspect the palace's owner, Joseph Curwen, is a warlock. A young girl wanders up to the…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama
In spring 1939, Sara, the mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, asks his sixth cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley to visit the ill President at their country estate in Hyde Park, New York. Although Daisy and Roosevelt have not seen each other for …
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Melodrama, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film
In 1831, Sydney is a frontier town, full of rough ex-convicts from the British Isles. The new Governor, Sir Richard, arrives with his charming and cheery but indolent second cousin, the Honourable Charles Adare. Charles, who is hoping to m…
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crime film, drama film, historical film
The film begins shortly after the end of the Second World War with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
thumb|260px|left|King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) and Anne of Cleves (Elsa Lanchester) on their wedding night in The Private Life of Henry VIII The film begins 20 years into King Henry VIII's reign and covers the last 11 years of his mar…
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Adventure, drama film, war film
During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous siege cannon, belonging to the Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to find it.
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War Film, historical film, war film
During the Korean War, the is tasked with staging a diversionary mission at Jangsari Beach in South Korea, in order to deceive the North Korean forces into thinking the opposition forces would launch a decisive invasion there. In doing so,…
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Action, Sport, historical film
During the 1983 World Rally Championship, intense rivalry develops between the team Audi Sport GmbH led by Roland Gumpert, with their AWD Audi Quattro, and the team Lancia Abarth under the leadership of Cesare Fiorio with their two-wheel d…
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Religious drama, historical drama, medieval film
Laith, an Iraqi child in the middle of a war-torn country at the hands of ISIS, after losing his mother, finds himself a new home with an elderly woman who tells him the story of Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, from the Shia perspective,…
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Historical drama
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1991, the remains of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family (except for Alexei and Maria) are discovered. The voice of Nicholas' young son, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, narrates the remainder of the story. In 1883 Western Siberia, a y…
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Adventure, Monumental Film, drama film
Pharaoh Khufu, an all-powerful ruler of ancient Egypt, amasses a great treasure by conquering other lands. He wants to be entombed with it when he dies (so he can enjoy it in the "second life"), free from the threat of grave robbers. Dissa…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical drama, political drama
The film opens on April 5, 1961, and focuses on Bob Zellner, who is the son of a Methodist minister, a senior attending all-White Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Seeking information with which to write research papers on race re…
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