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Drama, Historie, action film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film
In the 1846 slum of the Five Points, two rival gangs, the Anglo-Protestant Confederation of American Natives, led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, and the immigrant Irish Catholic Dead Rabbits, led by "Priest" Vallon, engage in their…
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Adventure, Historie, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, epic film, historical film, medieval film, thriller film
In AD 895, in the North Atlantic, King Aurvandill "War-Raven" returns to the island of Hrafnsey, reuniting with his wife, Queen Gudrún, and his heir, Prince Amleth. To prepare Amleth for his eventual accession to the throne, the father and…
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Military Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1992, a famine in southern Somalia induced by the civil war leads the United Nations Security Council to authorize a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. Conflict ensues between UNOSOM II and the Mogadishu-based militia loyal…
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Historie, drama film, historical drama, period drama film
In 1926 Bel Air, Mexican immigrant Manuel "Manny" Torres helps transport an elephant to a bacchanal at the mansion of his employer, Kinoscope Studios boss Don Wallach. Amidst the libertine event, Manny becomes infatuated with Nellie LaRoy,…
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drama film, historical drama, historical film, war film
In 1943, Rudolf Höss, commandant of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp, lives with his wife Hedwig and their five children in an idyllic home next to the camp. Höss takes the children out to swim and fish, and Hedwig spends time …
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Political Drama, Political Thriller, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film, thriller film
On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamists storm the United States Embassy in Tehran in retaliation for the right of asylum granted by President Jimmy Carter to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose Western-supported monarchy was overthrown by the…
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Gothic film, Gothic romance film, Mysterie, Romance Film, Vampirfilm, drama film, fantasy film, gothic horror film, historical drama film, horror film, period drama film, romance film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A Romanian Orthodox priest tells him that his wi…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film
thumb|upright|Rodrigues visualizes the face of Christ in the Veil of Veronica form painted by El Greco. thumb|upright|A fumi-e bearing an image of Christ, similar to the one portrayed in the film. In 1633, in Japan, Jesuit priest Cristóvão…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, medieval film
After a battle with the Scots, King Henry IV meets with those who fought. Hotspur is angry and insulting towards the king. England's Prince Henry ("Hal") spends his days drinking, whoring, and jesting with his companion Falstaff in Eastche…
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Historical drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, war film
In 1743, after the death of his father Augustine Washington, George Washington meets his older half-brother Lawrence. Because of his father's death, Washington is not given a formal education. Lawrence tutors his half-brother in land surve…
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Anti-War Film, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1928, Alan Turing, constantly bullied at boarding school, befriends Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography. Turing develops romantic feelings, but Christopher dies of bovine tuberculosis before he can confess. When …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
On Tuesday, February 8, 1977, in Indianapolis, Tony Kiritsis arrives for an appointment with wealthy mortgage broker M.L. Hall at the Meridian Mortgage company. Tony is instead met by M.L.'s son Richard, who reveals that M.L.
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Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Historical drama, drama film, historical film
Twenty years after setting off to fight in the Trojan War and surviving many trials, Odysseus washes up naked on the shores of his home island Ithaca. He is found and tended to by the slaves Eumaeus and Yias. Odysseus is dispirited and tra…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, knight film, medieval film
While the plot of the film is portrayed in three separate chapters, each telling the same story from the perspective of the three main characters, the following description summarizes all three presentations into a single narrative: After …
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Historie, adventure film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, war drama, war film
Part I: "By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired the Style and Title of Barry Lyndon" In 1750, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Redmond Barry's father is killed in a duel. Barry, of a genteel but impoverished Irish Protestant family, becomes infatu…
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Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, thriller film
In 1913 Houston, eight-year-old Howard Hughes's mother gives him a bath and teaches him to spell "quarantine", warning him about the recent cholera outbreak. Fourteen years later, in 1927, he begins to direct his film Hell's Angels, and hi…
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Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, drama film, historical film, silent film
Part 1: Civil War of United States left|thumb|The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron Phil, the elder son of the Stonemans (a Northern family), falls in love with Margaret Cameron (the daughter of a Southern fam…
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Action, Historie, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Martin, a French and Indian War veteran and a widower with seven children, is called to Charles Town (Charleston, South Carolina) to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a …
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Action, Historie, action film, historical drama, historical drama film
Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a rebellion against the tyranny of Richard II of England. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.
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Drama, Psychodrama, Romance Film, drama film, historical film, romance film
In December 1929, alcoholic World War I veteran Nick Carraway, undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, tells his doctor about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he ever met. The doctor suggests Nick tap into his passion and write dow…
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Destiny, LGBTQ-related film, Sex Film, Swords and Sandals, biographical film, drama film, erotic film, exploitation film, pornographic film
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius. After a blackbird flies into his room, interpreted by Caligula as a bad omen, a head of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro, tells Caligula that Tiberi…
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Bible Film, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, adventure film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer who would free the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on …
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