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historical film
In 1919, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, 14-year-old Faisal is sent by his father, Emir Abdulaziz, on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to London to secure the formation of what was to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Young…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, historical film
In 1789, Rachel Donelson Robards meets Tennessee's attorney general, Andrew Jackson, for the first time when he seeks room and board at her mother's farm near Nashville. John Overton, Andrew's law partner and Rachel's cousin, had recommend…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical drama, thriller film
Historical drama, drama film, historical film
Polish Jews and Sonderkommando workers Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik plot an escape from their Nazi captors in Occupied Poland. After being forced to dig a mass grave in the Polish wilderness, Solomon, Michael, and another Jewish …
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Documentation, documentary film, drama film, historical film
drama film, historical film
The story is based on the real life story of Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie who were accused by their pupil Jane Cumming of lesbianism in Scotland in the early 19th Century.
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Crime, drama film
The film is a fictional narrative set in the nine hours in the life of Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) that led up to his assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (J.S. Casshyap). As he prepares for the shooting at Gandhi's residence, f…
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1610 in Italy, Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, is considered a brilliant artist. He opposes church dogma, which dictates how religious subjects should be depicted in art. When Pope Paul V learns that Caravaggio uses pro…
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Historical drama, drama film
German countess Nina von Halder is a student in veterinary medicine in Berlin, Germany on the eve of World War II. Ostracised by her family due to her liberal views and opposition to the Nazi government, she lives alone, independent and st…
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historical film
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film
drama film, historical film, independent film
The film is a story of an ill-fated romance between a young and beautiful Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Twenty-year-old Anna Christi…
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historical film
Crown Prince Rudolf is a sensitive and intelligent young man who recognises and supports the need for changes and innovation for the Habsburg monarchy on the threshold of the twentieth century. However, neither his father, Emperor Franz Jo…
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drama film
In the 1930s, Teresa (Buday) is a naive young woman dealing with the oppressive attitudes of society and her father's austere ways. She has a fling with university Latin professor Jonathan Crow (Weaving). It takes her some time to realize …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, spy film
In 1939, Alex Schottland, a colonel in charge of supplies in the German Army, is a long-entrenched British agent planted toward the end of the First World War. He is growing weary of being a spy, but is urged to continue by his friend and …
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Historical drama, drama film
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex structures of class bind a man and a woman. Miss Julie, the inexperienced but imperious daughter of the manor, deigns to dance at the servants' party.
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historical drama
War Film, historical drama film, sport film
biographical film, family film, historical film
In Israel, then known as Judea (Roman province) of the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ of Nazareth travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls. As prophesied in the Old Testament …
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, biographical film, historical film, romance film
Peter Abelard is a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, and a champion of reason. At a time when academics are required to observe chastity, he falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, a …
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Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard flees Germany on the last train out and leaves Europe during World War II. He attempts to convince the military in England that a nuclear bomb can be built and that the Germans are already working on it. His…
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Drama, drama film, historical film
A group of Union volunteers, young men mostly, arrive in the desolate and harsh Western territories during the Civil War in 1862. They are not hardened soldiers, but rather a collection of individuals with varying backgrounds and motivatio…
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Drama, Forensic, historical drama, trial film
crime film, drama film, historical film, neo-noir
In the film, Karl Hulten (Kiefer Sutherland) is an American GI who is stalking the black market of London after stealing an army truck and going AWOL. There he meets up with Betty Jones (Emily Lloyd), a stripper with a deluded fantasy worl…
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