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drama film, historical film, war film
thumb|250px|left|Mahmoud, Hassiba, Little Omar, and Ali La Pointe in the hideout The Battle of Algiers opens in 1957 in the capital city of French Algeria. After being tortured, one of Ali la Pointe's (Brahim Hadjadj) compatriots reveals A…
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, found footage film, hood film
Los Angeles Police Department officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are close friends and partners in the LAPD's Newton Division, assigned to patrol a high crime area of South Central Los Angeles. Taylor, a United States Marine Corps veter…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1973, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg arrives in Phnom Penh to cover the civil war between the Cambodian national army and the communist Khmer Rouge. Schanberg is joined by photographer Al Rockoff and Dith Pran, a Cambodian jou…
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Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In January 1879, following the defeat of 1,300 British soldiers at Isandlwana, Zulu warriors scavenge the battlefield. At a mass Zulu marriage ceremony witnessed by missionary Otto Witt and his daughter Margareta, Zulu King Cetshwayo is in…
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Family Drama, Road Movie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, road movie
In Laurens, Iowa, elderly Alvin Straight is found lying on his kitchen floor after a fall. His daughter, Rose, takes him to see a doctor, who admonishes him to give up tobacco, improve his diet, and use a walker, all of which he rejects. W…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, flashback film, political thriller film, spy film
In 1991, the United States and China are close to a major trade agreement, with the President due to visit China to seal the deal. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learns that its asset Tom Bishop has been arrested at a People's Liber…
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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
thumb|upright=1.3|Cliffs of 'Navarone', showing how the openings to gun positions were portrayed in the film by marble quarries on the island of Palmaria, off the west coast of Italy In 1943, the Axis powers plan an assault on the island o…
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Action, Knights Tale, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, medieval film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the 5th century AD, the declining Roman Empire is withdrawing from Britannia, where the native Woads, led by Merlin, stage an insurgency. A group of Sarmatian knights and their half-British Roman commander Artorius Castus, known as "Art…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, biographical film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
Around 285 BC, Ptolemy I Soter, basileus and pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, narrates the life of Alexander. Alexander grows up with his mother Olympias and his tutor Aristotle, where he finds interest in love, honor, music, exploration, poetr…
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crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, romance film, spy film, war film
Hong Kong, 1938 During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy and inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong to begin studying at Lingnan University. Male student Kuang Yumin invites her to join his pa…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller film
In November 1989, days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin kills MI6 agent James Gascoigne and steals his watch, which contains a microfilm document with a list of the names of every intelligence agent active in …
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historie, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, thriller film
Ahmed ibn Fahdlan is a court poet of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir of Baghdad until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an "ambassador" to the Volga Bulgars. Traveling with his father's old frien…
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Action, Military Film, action film, thriller film, war film
In upstate California, former United States Army Special Forces colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that unknown mercenaries have killed all the other members of his former unit. The assassin…
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Romantic Drama, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, romance film, thriller film, war film
In 1942, during World War II, Wing Commander Max Vatan, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot with intelligence duties, travels to Casablanca in Morocco to assassinate a German ambassador. To pose as a married couple, he is partnered with a Fre…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film
In the 1750s, Jesuit priest Father Gabriel enters the eastern Paraguayan jungle to convert the Guaraní to Christianity. He sends another priest to make contact with them, but the man is thrown to his death from Iguazu Falls. Father Gabriel…
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War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
Shot in a docudrama style (with captions identifying the different participants), the film opens in the days leading up to D-Day, depicting events on both sides of the English Channel. Disagreement existed within the German High Command as…
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Late Western, Western film, vigilante film
During the American Civil War, the wife and son of Missouri farmer Josey Wales are murdered by pro-Union paramilitaries led by the brutal Captain Terrill. With his farm burned down and nothing else to live for, a hardened Wales joins a gro…
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Dark Comedy, Political Satire, Satire On Media, comedy drama, satirical film
The President of the United States is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office less than two weeks before the election. Conrad Brean, a top spin doctor, is brought in by presidential aide Winifred Ames to take the …
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Political Satire, anti-war film, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy of error, drama film, parody film, political satire, slapstick, war film
On the Western Front, a Jewish soldier fighting for the Central Powers nation of Tomainia valiantly saves the life of a wounded pilot, Commander Schultz, who carries valuable documents that could secure a Tomainian victory. However, after …
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Action, Crime, High School Comedy Film, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, techno-thriller, teen film, thriller film
In 1988, 11-year-old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy is banned from owning or operating computers and telephones until his 18th birthday, after his family is fined for his crashing of 1,507 computer systems, causing a seven-point drop in the New Y…
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Anti-War Film, Psychodrama, anti-war film, trial film, war film
In 1916, during World War I in Northern France, French Major General Georges Broulard orders his subordinate, Brigadier General Paul Mireau, to take "the Anthill", a well-defended German position. Mireau initially refuses, citing the impos…
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Action, Fantasy, Monster Film, War Film, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
On the eve of D-Day in an alternate 1940s where Executive Order 9981 is signed in 1944, a paratrooper squad, most of them in an integrated unit, is sent to destroy a German radio-jamming tower in an old church. Their plane is shot down and…
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Action, Mafia Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|The film's 1979 trailer In 1920s Chicago, an Italian immigrant and ambitious low-level thug, Tony "Scarface" Camonte, works as a bodyguard for crime lord "Big" Louis Costillo. Tony guns down his boss with Costillo's disgruntled lieut…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1915, married journalist and suffragist Louise Bryant encounters the radical journalist John Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and is intrigued with his idealism. After meeting him for an interview on internation…
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