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Historical drama, drama film, historical film, war film
The film is based on the true story of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, two prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon…
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Drama, drama film
The film tells the story of a medical study with covert goals organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, conducted on poor African American men in the years 1932–1972 at Tuskegee University, designed to study the effect…
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drama film, historical film
It is 1814. There is peace in Europe as a defeated Napoleon is sent into exile on the island of Elba. Major Sharpe is assigned to head the Scarsdale Yeomanry in his native Yorkshire, depriving him of a chance to settle the score with his a…
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historical film
The film starts with a quotation from Lawrence's 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom which is used to provide the title of the film: T. E. Lawrence is received before representatives of the British delegation, and urges them to back the clai…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film
Princess Sophia Frederica is the daughter of a minor East Prussian prince. Count Alexei brings her to Russia at the behest of Empress Elizabeth to marry her nephew Grand Duke Peter. Elizabeth renames her Catherine and demands that the new …
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Adventure, Drama, Historical drama, adventure film, drama film
In Rome, Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during a disastrous expedition and its aftermath. He imagines a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen – including Captain Zappi, his navig…
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Drama, Historie, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The Earl of Essex returns in triumph to London after having dealt the Spanish a crushing naval defeat at Cádiz. In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and …
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action film, adventure film, detective film, drama film, historical film
The action takes place six months after the surrender of Germany, when the trial of Nazi criminals begins. Soviet scout-translator Captain Igor Volgin receives letters from his artist brother Nikolai, who had been missing since 1942. The l…
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drama film, historical film
It is 1813. The First Battalion of the South Essex Regiment has suffered terrible losses in the fighting in Spain and the entire regiment is in danger of being disbanded as a result. Major Sharpe and Sergeant Major Harper are sent back to …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Historical drama, disaster film, drama film
In 1984, a few months before the Bhopal disaster, Dilip, a rickshaw driver, loses his income when his rickshaw breaks down while transporting an employee to the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal. Dilip lives in the slums near the pla…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Fantasy, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film
The film is based on the story of Erzsébet Bathory, a Hungarian countess in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her story takes place in a part of the Kingdom of Hungary that is now Slovakia. In this retelling, the Countess is a healer who conduc…
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drama film, historical film
It is summer 1813. Lord Wellington is preparing to invade France from Spain after winning the campaign on the Iberian peninsula. Meanwhile, Major Richard Sharpe gets into serious trouble when he threatens Cavalry Staff Corps Lieutenant Ayr…
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
Emperor Claudius banishes Seneca to Corsica and then marries young Agrippina. Later, she requests to Claudius that Seneca becomes tutor to their 12-year-old son Nero. Seneca returns and stands by Nero for several years, exerting a great in…
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Biographical picture, drama film
The movie opens in 1923 with studio executive Frank N. Thayer receiving a letter in the mail, alongside a medallion of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Thayer then flashes back to the height of the Mexican Revolution.
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Historical drama, Romance Film, drama film
Reverend Smith has arrived in Starkfield from Boston. He notices that Ethan Frome is isolated. Smith encourages his parishioners to be charitable.
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Drama, Historie, historical drama film
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, after six years in exile on the isle of Saint Helena, has a plan to escape. Switching places with lowly French deckhand Eugene Lenormand, Napoleon will make his way to Paris, at which time Eugene will announce …
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Adventure, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Romance Film, Swashbuckler, drama film, romance film
General Jarjayes' wife dies while giving birth to a baby girl. Frustrated by this and refusing to believe his wife would die without giving him a male heir, the General names the girl Oscar François de Jarjayes and decides to raise her as …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
thumb|Lionel Barrymore (center) as Rasputin The highly fictionalized story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Reform-minded Prince Paul has long been concerne…
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Romance Film, drama film, historical film, horror film, melodrama, romance film
The film opens in Paris in the year 1480 with a prologue establishing a world where the Catholic Church holds absolute power and suppresses modern ideas like the printing press. On the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral, Dom Claude Frollo (play…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, adventure film, drama film
Set in the early 17th century, a Patuxet tribesman named Squanto (Adam Beach) is kidnapped by English sailors. He is then taken to England, along with Epenow (Eric Schweig), a Nauset from Martha's Vineyard who was also captured by the sail…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, period drama film, romance film
31 March 1889 – Gustave Eiffel sits in his office, atop the newly completed thousand-foot (300 metre) iron tower he has designed and constructed – the Eiffel Tower. September 1886 – Eiffel receives an award for his groundbreaking design fo…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
During the 1977 El Salvadoran presidential election, public unrest is at an all-time high over fears of election fraud. In the midst of a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla insurgency by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the anti-comm…
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Biographical picture, Military Film, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, partisan film
After fighting the Soviets as a volunteer during the Winter War in Finland, Max Manus, haunted by his experiences, returns to Norway, finding it occupied by the Nazis. He joins with the Norwegian resistance movement in their fight against …
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