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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film begins with a continuing series of flashbacks into the childhood of Daniel Balint, a young Jewish yeshiva student. Brilliant but troubled, he often challenged his teachers with unorthodox interpretations of scripture. During a deb…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
After the Second World War, Katherine "Kitty" Fremont, a widowed American nurse, is sightseeing in Cyprus following a tour of duty for the U.S. Public Health Service in Greece. Her guide mentions the Karaolos internment camp on Cyprus, whe…
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drama fiction, epic film, historical film, war film
Wu Qianli, commander of the People's Liberation Army's 7th Company, returns home after the Chinese Civil War. He informs his family that his brother, Wu Baili, was killed in action. Having been granted land for his service, he promises his…
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Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western, buddy film, war film
In revolution-torn 1913 Mexico, outlaw Juan Miranda leads a family of bandits, robs a coach of wealthy people, and rapes a female passenger who slandered Mexicans in front of him. Passing by on a motorcycle is John H. Mallory, an Irish Rep…
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Drama, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, drama film, war film
Max, a Belgian Malinois military dog used to help U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, is handled by Kyle Wincott (Marine MWD). Kyle is questioned when weapons seized by his squad go missing.
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Action, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical drama, war film
In the aftermath of the 1814 campaign, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is forced to abdicate at the demand of his marshals. Exiled to Elba with 1,000 men, Napoleon makes his return to France after 10 months and in his march towards Paris…
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Komödie, comedy film, war film
In Niagara Falls, New York, military businessman R. J. Hacker closes down his weapons manufacturing plant Hacker Dynamics.
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Action, Drama, Sport, association football film, drama film, prison film, war film
A team of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), coached and led by English Captain John Colby, a professional footballer for West Ham United before the war, agree to play an exhibition match against a German team, only to find themselves involve…
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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Having just crushed an uprising by his half-brother Don John, Don Pedro of Aragon and his noblemen visit their friend Leonato in Messina. Accompanying Don Pedro is the witty Benedick, former acquaintance of Leonato's equally sharp-tongued …
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Action, Drama, War Film, war film
In September 1940, following a severe trade embargo imposed on a belligerent Japan by the United States a year prior, influential Japanese army figures and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and Italy, despite opposition fro…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
Al-Qaeda terrorists in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, detonate an explosive at an American oil company housing compound, killing both American and Saudi citizens. Before this, terrorists disguised as Saudi State Police had shot the inhabitants in t…
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Satire On War, black comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film, satirical film, war film
thumb|262x262px|Photo of plane crash from the film taken by a person on the set Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, is stationed on the Mediterranean base on Pianosa during World War II. Along with his squadron m…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In the Mississippi Delta, white brothers Henry and Jamie McAllan dig a grave during a rainstorm and struggle to lower their deceased father's coffin into it. When the Jacksons, a black tenant farmer family pass by in a wagon, Henry asks th…
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Biographical picture, War Film, drama film, war film
After a harrowing 15-month combat tour in Iraq, the much-decorated Adam Schumann returns home to Kansas and a loving wife, Saskia. Adam and Saskia have two young children, a daughter and an infant son born while Adam was still overseas. Ad…
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Anti-War Film, Destiny, Political Drama, drama film, war film
Two students at a West Coast university, Arian and Ernest, at the urging of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, attempt to do something important with their lives. They make the bold decision to enlist in the army to fight in Afghanist…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Gangster Film, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1968, Anthony Curtis, a soon-to-be high school graduate in The Bronx, chooses to enlist in the United States Marine Corps rather than go to college. He deploys to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, his girlfriend Juanita, …
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Action, Adventure, Christmas film, Fantasy, Space Opera, adventure film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
On Life Day, Chewbacca, accompanied by Han Solo, is headed home to see his family. Along the way, the duo is chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace. Meanwhile, on Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's family is preparing for his re…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, historical film, war film
In Western Australia, May 1915, Archy Hamilton, an 18-year-old stockman and prize-winning sprinter, longs to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He is trained by his uncle Jack and idolises Harry Lasalles, the world champion ove…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, biographical film, sword-and-sandal film
During the 12th century, Mongol chief Temujin (later to be known as Genghis Khan) and his "blood brother" Jamuga stop a traveling caravan escorting Bortai, the daughter of the Tartars' leader Kumlek. Temujin leaves and tells Jamuga he inte…
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In 1966, George W. Bush endures an initiation by his fellow Yale University students as a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. During the hazing, Bush successfully recalls the names and nicknames of many of the fraternity members, and states that h…
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Aliens, Military Film, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
On August 12, 2011, hostile alien spacecraft make landings off the coasts of large cities. Los Angeles is evacuated while Marines from Camp Pendleton arrive, including Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz, an Iraq War veteran. Nantz, who was to be…
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Action, Dark Comedy, Thriller, action comedy film, thriller film, vigilante film
thumb|Kim Fupz Aakeson, writer of the book After being awarded Citizen of the Year by the ski resort of Kehoe, Colorado, snowplow driver Nels Coxman's life is disrupted when his son dies from a forced heroin overdose, murdered by a Denver …
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Drama, Melodrama, drama film, romance film, war film
In December 1918, Tom Sherbourne – a traumatised and withdrawn hero of World War I – is hired as a lightkeeper at Janus Rock, a lighthouse off the coast of Australia. He falls in love with a local girl, Isabel Graysmark, and they marry. Is…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1926, Joe Coughlin, an Irish-American World War I veteran and the prodigal son of Boston police captain Thomas Coughlin, falls in love with Emma Gould, the mistress of notorious gangster Albert White, the boss of the Irish Gang of Bosto…
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