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Animation, Anti-War Film, Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Political Satire, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, technofantasy
Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors – trolls, fair…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, musical film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Hell's Angels (1930)|left Roy and Monte Rutledge are very different British brothers. Straitlaced Roy loves and idealizes the supposedly demure Helen, but Monte is a womanizer. Their German friend and fellow University of…
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Crime Comedy, Silly Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, stoner film
Dale Denton, a process server and marijuana enthusiast, visits his drug dealer Saul Silver. Dale and Saul smoke the rare "Pineapple Express" strain together before Dale leaves to resume working. He arrives at the home of local drug lord, T…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
A coup d'état led by exiled General Mustafa Yakubu overthrows the President of Nigeria, Samuel Azuka, sending Nigeria into chaos and causing an ethnic conflict between Yakubu's tribe, the Fulani Muslims, and Azuka's Christian Igbo. Samuel …
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
After training at Camp Tarawa in Hawaii, the 28th Marine Regiment 5th Marine Division sails to invade Iwo Jima. The Navy bombards suspected Japanese positions for three days. On February 19, 1945, the Marines' amphibious landings secure a …
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, trial film
Senior barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is nearing retirement after a heart attack. He agrees to defend Leonard Vole, despite Nurse Plimsoll's objections and Sir Wilfrid's doctor having warned against taking stressful criminal cases. Leonard …
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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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War Film, action film, war film
After an attack on a British merchant ship in May 1942, during the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer. With all of her engineers and machinists killed in a fl…
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Thriller, War Film, drama film, spy film, war film
Following the success of the Gran Sasso raid, German intelligence officer Max Radl is ordered to study the feasibility of capturing Winston Churchill in a similar raid. Radl learns that Churchill is due to visit the quiet Norfolk village o…
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Drama, Fantasy, adventure film, family film, fantasy film
In 1919 Sarasota, Florida, equestrian performer Holt Farrier returns after World War I to his previous employer, the Medici Brothers' Circus. The circus has run into financial troubles; Ringmaster Medici reveals he was forced to sell his h…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, prison film, thriller film
Steel mill worker Russell Baze lives with his brother, Rodney, a United States Army veteran who served four tours in the Iraq War, in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. Russell finds Rodney at a horse racing simulcast. Rodney reveals that the m…
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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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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
During the Vietnam War, a squad of black US Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, Paul, Otis, Eddie, Melvin, and their squad leader Norman, who dub themselves the "Bloods," secure the site of a Central Intelligence Agency airplane cr…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film, war film
In August 1940, during the Blitz, three orphans named Charles, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are evacuated from London to Pepperinge Eye near the Dorset coast, where they are placed in the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price, who is secretly…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, fantasy film, musical film
In the prologue, set in 1945, a montage displays the honeymoon of Group Captain Walker and his wife, Nora ("Prologue - 1945"). After his leave ends, Walker goes off to fight in World War II as a bomber pilot, but is shot down during a miss…
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Parodie, Romantic Comedy, parody film, war film
The film begins at Flemner Air Base 20 years in the past. A pilot named Leland "Buzz" Harley loses control of his plane and ejects, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnham to crash. Although Mailman survives, he is mistaken for a de…
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Drama, Film Noir, Heist, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, thriller film, war drama, war film
Johnny Clay, a career criminal recently released from prison, plans a heist at a thoroughbred racetrack, with an estimated take of two million dollars (equivalent to twenty-four million in 2025). His associate Marvin Unger provides financi…
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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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Psychodrama, drama film, romance film, war film
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery is on leave from the Iraq War. He has received commendation for his heroic actions during the war, but is dealing with PTSD and has a chronic condition in his left eye as a result of being wounded i…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film
Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Tohichi Hikita perfect the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows an object to pass through solid matter. Banzai tests it by driving his Jet Car through a mountain.
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Anti-War Film, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1943, the Allies are successfully pushing back the Axis powers in Italy. Frank Stokes convinces President Roosevelt that victory will be meaningless if the artistic treasures of Western civilization are lost and is directed to assemble …
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Action, Time Travel, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
U.S. Army pilot Captain Colter Stevens wakes up on a Metra commuter train going into Chicago. He is disoriented, as his last memory was of flying a mission in Afghanistan.
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