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Christmas film, Drama, Family Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In 1183 in the Angevin Empire, 50-year-old Henry II of England seeks to name a successor and summons his family for Christmas at his castle in Chinon, Touraine. Henry wants his youngest son, John, to inherit his throne. His estranged wife,…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1977, Lee Miller tells her life story to an interviewer, and it is depicted in a series of flashbacks. In 1937, Lee is a former New York City fashion model and aspiring photographer living a bohemian lifestyle in France when she meets a…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1849 Maryland, a slave state, Araminta "Minty" Ross is newly married to freedman John Tubman. Minty is a slave on the Brodess plantation, along with her mother and sister. Reverend Green finishes his sermon advising obedience and to fol…
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Drama, Musical, coming-of-age film, drama film, historical film, musical film
In 1909 Georgia, teenager Celie Harris lives with her sister Nettie and abusive father Alfonso. After her mother dies, he starts raping Celie, causing her to become pregnant twice. Alfonso takes away each of the babies, first Olivia and th…
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Adventure, Historie, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical drama film, romance film
In 1607, Pocahontas, the adventurous daughter of Chief Powhatan, and others from her tribe witness the arrival of three ships sent by English royal charter to found a colony in the New World. Aboard one ship is Captain John Smith, sentence…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
When 29-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in 1938, just weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed, he encounters families in Prague who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria. They are livin…
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Drama, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, historical drama, historical film, romance film
Circus owner Charlie O'Brien encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski, who is separated from his nursing home group. Jacob reveals he once had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus di…
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historical drama film
Benjamin Franklin, at the time of the Constitutional Convention, reminisces about his life and his long friendship with George Whitefield. The two had met when Whitefield preached in Philadelphia, and Franklin was astonished how far Whitef…
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Action, Historie, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
At a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1863, a slave named "Peter" is praying with his family when his owner, John Lyons, and a group of white men drag him out of his home at gunpoint. As the wagon carrying him pulls away, Peter cries out to …
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Drama, Historie, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, historical drama
On July 23, 1967, the Detroit Police Department stage a raid on an unlicensed club during a celebration for some African American veterans returning from the Vietnam War. While suspects are being arrested, a mob forms and begins throwing r…
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Cartoon, buddy film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
After the King of England, Uther Pendragon, dies, leaving no heir to the throne, a sword appears inside an anvil atop a stone, with an inscription proclaiming that whoever removes will be the future king. None succeed in removing the sword…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, political film
Moscow, today, Russian politician Andrei Novikov arrives at the home of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, and questions why the Soviet Union fell. Petrovich, who was assigned to surveil U.S. politician Ronald Reagan, discusses the Soviet …
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Drama, Musical, children's film, historical drama, musical film
In 1899, 17-year-old Jack "Cowboy" Kelly lives with other struggling newspaper hawkers ("newsies") in New York City, selling copies of the New York World on the Manhattan streets ("Carrying the Banner"). When David Jacobs and his younger b…
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Action, Historie, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In 1304, outside the besieged Stirling Castle, John Comyn, Robert Bruce, and their allies, surrender to Edward I of England and pay him their homage. Afterwards, Bruce spars with the king's son, Edward, Prince of Wales, whom he had known a…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to the Vatican after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a prominent German prelate, is elected Pope Benedict X…
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Biographical picture, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Romance Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Before his championship debut against the heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay Jr. taunts Liston then dominates the early rounds of the match. Between rounds, Liston asks his corner to apply a substance to his gloves.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, war drama, war film
upright|thumb|At the beginning of the film the two-year-old boy (Tenzin Yeshi Paichang) is visited at his rural birthplace in Amdo by the searching lamas and undertakes a test to confirm his identity as the "Bodhisattva". The film has a li…
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Historie, Political Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film
On October 25, 1958, at a gathering entitled 'A Salute to Edward R Murrow', Ed Murrow delivers a speech where he mentions Senator McCarthy among others. The film then reverts to October 14, 1953, in the CBS Studios, with on-screen titles e…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, romance film
In 1941, on the island of Guernsey, four friends are stopped by soldiers for breaching curfew during German occupation. To avoid arrest, they say they were returning from a meeting of their book club, hastily named "The Guernsey Literary a…
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Justice Drama, drama film
In 1958, the questions and answers to be used for the latest broadcast of NBC's popular quiz show Twenty-One are transported from a secure bank vault to the studio. The evening's main attraction is Queens resident Herb Stempel, the reignin…
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Biographical picture, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film
As Emily Brontë is ill and near death, her older sister Charlotte asks her what inspired her to write her novel Wuthering Heights. Sometime in the past Charlotte, nearly graduated from school, returns home for a visit. Emily tries to talk …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 2005, Japanese archaeologists find something buried during an exploration of tunnels on Iwo Jima. In 1944 Iwo Jima, Private First Class Saigo, a conscripted baker who misses his family, is digging beach defence trenches with his platoon…
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Drama, drama film
In August 1904, Sabina Spielrein arrives at the Burghölzli, the pre-eminent psychiatric hospital in Zürich, suffering from hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor Carl Jung. He uses word association and dr…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In December 1941, German occupation in Europe has neared its height. Two agents from the Czechoslovak exile government, a Slovak soldier, Jozef Gabčík and a Czech, Jan Kubiš are parachuted into their occupied country. Jozef is injured when…
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