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drama film, historical film
In 1813, the war turns in favour of the British. Lord Wellington is poised to invade southern France after triumphing in Spain. The Comte de Maquerre, a French nobleman, offers to raise a rebellion in Bordeaux against Napoleon.
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Justice Drama, Political Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film
In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist bombing. Afrikaner police officer Nic Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack against the Secunda…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, historical film, romance film, thriller film
In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist and escapologist Harry Houdini has begun debunking mystics, psychics, and others who claim to have paranormal powers. He offers $10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying word…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, crime film
In 1998, Sam Gold is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father Mendel's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hop…
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Documentation, documentary film, historical film
The film focuses on the life of Jeannie, an educated woman from the upper-middle class of society, and her story of adapting to life in the outback of Australia. Following her marriage to Aeneas Gunn who has just been made manager of a 5,3…
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Historical drama, drama film
In 1949 Naples, ten-year-old Celestina Scognamiglio loses her home and her aunt Amelia in an accidental explosion. Left orphaned, Celestina's only surviving relative is her sister Agnese, who years earlier emigrated to New York City. Her c…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, silent film
In Imperial Russia, Tsar Paul I rules through fear, paranoia, and erratic cruelty. A tyrant haunted by dread, Paul lives in constant suspicion of everyone around him, believing that he, like some of his ancestors, is doomed to be assassina…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration. Trotsky has not escaped the attent…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
thumb|Law in a publicity still thumb|Don Stroud at Lynn Garrison's aviation facility in Ireland. Manfred von Richthofen is an average pilot in a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke. Richthofen, who believes in a gentlem…
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Historie, Social Drama, drama film, historical film
The plot follows the general outline of the novel of the same name, omitting many details and some entire episodes. The narrative is strictly chronological and avoids the digressions required to mirror the novel's structure. Many of the no…
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Historie, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1682, 16-year-old Sophia Dorothea of Celle has an arranged marriage to Prince George Louis of Hanover, and she and the prince are both unhappy with the alliance. She seeks solace from the dashing Count Philip Konigsmark when her husband…
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Historie, Komödie, historical film
Lurcio becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero. The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus, who mista…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, Western, Western film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, the main body of the church are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska. They then travel by wagon train to the Great Basin.
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Historical drama, drama film
Adventure, biographical film
A United States Navy officer recounts the life of John Paul Jones to new midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. In 1759, a young John Paul undergoes an apprenticeship on board a merchantman, serving on several ships and becoming th…
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Komödie, comedy film, historical film, parody film
The film opens with a passage, which states: This film is based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler, which reveals that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originat…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
Shortly after the death of Charlemagne a girl called Johanna is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen). He also rules his wife (Jördis Triebel) and family with a rod of iron, though his Saxon wife s…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 16th century France, Diane de Poitiers' estranged husband, the Count de Brézé, is arrested for conspiring with his cousin the Duke of Bourbon against King Francis I. Diane arrives in Francis' palace to plead for her husband's life. Fran…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1823 Washington D.C., Major O'Neal and his daughter Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal run an inn that is frequented by politicians. Peggy is outspoken for a woman of her time, and when Tennessee senator Andrew Jackson visits, she affectionately r…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1863, in the midst of the American Civil War, British troops are stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, carefully checking European passengers disembarking from foreign ships. Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, ma…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Shortly after his marriage to Anastasia, Ivan Sanchin, who works as a projectionist at the headquarters of the state security service (called, anachronistically, KGB in the film), is summoned urgently to the Kremlin. Having proved his skil…
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, medieval film, romance film
The film takes many of its elements and main characters from the Third Crusade, which was prompted by the Saracen capture of Jerusalem and the crusader states in the Holy Land in A.D. 1187. The character of King Richard the Lionheart is a …
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