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Drama, drama film, political film
In early 2009, Senator Dianne Feinstein selects Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, who has just spent two years investigating the 2005 destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, to lead a review of six million pages of CIA materials related…
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Destiny, Forensic, Historie, War Film, action film, drama film, mystery film, trial film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. His fellow platoon leader Lieutenant Terry Childers executes a North Vietnamese prisoner to intimidate a ca…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film, parody film
A Spartan elder inspects three babies. The first, an ugly, talking baby ogre, is abandoned to die for its deformity; while Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopt the second, who is Vietnamese. The third, Leonidas, is accepted as a Spartan for …
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Action, Girls with Guns, Vampirfilm, Werewolf, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film, werewolf film
Two decades have passed since a war began between a legion of vampires and the first clan of werewolves, a breed unable to take human form. Lucian is the first werewolf born capable of taking human form and the first to be called a Lycan. …
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
In 19th-century China, Jungle Village is home to several warring clans. The village blacksmith creates deadly weapons for the clans, intending to use his payments to purchase the freedom of his lover Lady Silk, and leave the village. The r…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Drama, Social Drama, drama film
In San Francisco in 2000, Afghan-American writer Amir Qadiri and his wife Soraya watch children flying kites. Arriving home, Amir receives a call from his father's old friend and business associate, Rahim Khan, now in Peshawar, Pakistan. I…
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Drama, drama film
Will, a veteran suffering from PTSD, lives with his teenage daughter Tom in the old growth Forest Park in Portland, Oregon. They live in isolation, relying on survival skills and only entering the town occasionally for supplies. Will makes…
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Drama, Ghost-Movie, Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1941 Romania, following the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, a motorized Gebirgsjäger unit of the Wehrmacht, under the command of Captain Klaus Woermann, arrives at an uninhabited citadel known as 'the Keep', with the aim of taking…
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Action, Fantasy, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, horror film
Confederate soldier Jonah Hex refuses an order from his commanding officer Quentin Turnbull to burn down a hospital and is forced to kill Turnbull's son Jeb, his best friend, who had drawn a pistol on Hex. A vengeful Turnbull later tracks …
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, War Film, Western, Western film, comedy film, war film
Just after the American Civil War, a former Union soldier named Hogan rides up on a naked woman about to be raped by bandits. He kills the bandits, and the woman dons a habit, revealing herself as a nun. Sister Sara begs his continuing pro…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, action film, crime film
The Losers, an elite black-ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, includes team leader Clay, demo expert Roque, heavy weapon specialist Pooch, hacker Jensen, and sniper Cougar. They are sent to Bolivia on a search-and-destroy…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Political Drama
The opening is a montage of Adolf Hitler's life from 1899 to 1913, when he left Austria for Munich. His participation in the First World War on the German side is then shown in a series of episodes that includes his promotion to the rank o…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
In Nazi Germany, Liesel Meminger is sent to live with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the town of Molching during World War II. After stealing The Grave Digger’s Handbook at her brother's funeral, Liesel develops a love of re…
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Action, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1944, as the air war over Europe enters a deadly phase with increasing losses of Allied bombers, the 332d Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen), consisting of African-American USAAF fighter pilots, after enduring racism throughout their r…
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Adventure, action film, drama film, submarine film
A satellite re-enters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule, which lands approximately northwest of Station Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack. A person approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches…
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Anti-War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In 1969, a platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, receives five new recruits as replacements: Privates Joseph Beletsky, Vincent Languilli (soon called Alphabet), Johnny Washburn, Martin Bienstock and Paul Ga…
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Drama, Forensic, War Film, drama film, war film
In late 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, U.S. Army intelligence officer First Lieutenant Thomas Hart (Farrell) is captured by German forces. While interrogating Hart, the Germans coerce him to divulge intelligence by ta…
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Action, Adventure, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1916, a group of Americans go to France to serve in the French Air Service, L'Aéronautique militaire, in World War I. They are placed under the command of Captain Georges Thenault, with veteran flying ace Reed Cassidy as their mentor. P…
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Buddy Film, Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=25|Wings (1927) thumb| In 1918, Jack Powell and David Armstrong are rivals in the same small American town, both vying for the attentions of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack fails to realize that "the girl next door", Mary Pr…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, drama film, war film
Colonel Allen Faulkner, a former British Army officer turned mercenary, meets with merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson in London. Matherson proposes the rescue of President Julius Limbani, the deposed leader of a southern African nation d…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the Joint Security Area at a Northern guard house just across the Bridge of No Return. Sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok, a wounded South Korean soldier on border duties, flees back to the South and is picked u…
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Romance Film, Satire, war film
The film follows an aspiring actress working for a military role-playing facility, posing as a fictional country known as Atropia.
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film
The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women in San Francisco: Lindo Jong, Ying-Ying St. Clair, An-Mei Hsu, and Suyuan Woo. The members have mainly played mahjong and told each other stories over the years.
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Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, military science fiction, science fiction film
In the late 21st century, an interstellar war breaks out between the human Bilateral Terran Alliance (BTA) and the bipedal reptilian Dracs. During a space battle in 2092, human fighter pilot Willis E. Davidge and Drac pilot Jeriba Shigan e…
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