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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 21.
Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror film, splatter film
College students Anderson, Nelson, and Cory become lost while heading to Daytona Beach for spring break, and follow a 'Detour' sign that leads them to the southern town of Pleasant Valley, led by eccentric mayor Buckman. Three other travel…
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Musical, Romance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film, war film
During World War II, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines are preparing a counteroffensive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the islands of the South Pacific.
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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film
In 1997, Rachel Singer is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah's book, based on the account Rachel, Stefan, and David gave of the events in 1965. Concurrently, David is escorted from his apartment by …
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Military Film, Psychodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, flashback film, mystery film, thriller film, war film
While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the fri…
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Action, Family Saga, action film, adventure film, drama film, medieval film, romance film, war film
Set in the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, Lord Marke of Cornwall plans to unite the tribes of Britain – Celts, Picts, Angles, Saxons and Jutes – against Irish domination. Lord Aragon of Tantallon Castle leads the treaty nego…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
Wealthy planter John "Jack" Robert Sommersby left his farm to fight as a Confederate officer in the early days of the American Civil War and is presumed dead after six years. Despite the hardship of working their farm in Vine Hill, Tenness…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1926 China during its Warlord Era, Navy Machinist's Mate First Class Jake Holman transfers to the Yangtze River Patrol gunboat USS San Pablo as their new engineer. Almost immediately, he upsets the crew when he will not accept the cooli…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, satanic film
In the Summer of 1948 in Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft and needs money to pay his mortgage. Easy's bartender friend Joppy introduces him to DeWitt Albright, a white private investigator l…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
An unnamed U.S. military operative, known as "the Mother," brokers an arms smuggling deal between ex-SAS Captain Adrian Lovell and arms dealer Hector Álvarez. Romantically involved with them both, she ends up becoming pregnant.
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Arranged Documentary, Conspiracy Thriller, thriller film
The film opens with President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. In 1967, ambitious CIA agents Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andy Apelle, and Jared Raab convince their superiors to let them infiltrate NASA—disguise…
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Action, Modern Yakuza Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
During a shootout against Japanese yakuza at a San Francisco dock warehouse, FBI agents John Crawford and Tom Lone stumble across the notorious assassin Rogue, a former CIA assassin who now works for the yakuza. Rogue ambushes Crawford and…
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Political Drama, Thriller, political thriller film, thriller film
United States Air Force Brigadier General Warren Black flies to Washington, D.C. to attend a Pentagon conference led by Dr. Groeteschele, a political advisor renowned for his expertise on nuclear strategy and fervent anti-communism.
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
A narrated prologue shows the weapons of modern warfare from World War I and World War II, then warns of the upcoming "War of the Worlds" fought with "the terrible weapons of super-science menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth".…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Nikki is an ex-soldier who left her violent life behind to raise her daughter Chloe. Eventually, Nikki wakes up in an abandoned factory and learns that Chloe has been kidnapped, and sets off in a race against time to comb through the crimi…
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LGBTQ-related film, Late Western, Satire, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, flashback film, historical film, revisionist Western, war film
The film is framed with narration by 121-year-old Jack Crabb, who is telling his life story to a historian. In 1859, ten-year-old Jack and his sister Caroline survive the massacre of their parents by the Pawnee, and are rescued by Shadow, …
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Anti-War Film, Dance Film, Musical, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
Claude Hooper Bukowski sets off from Oklahoma to New York City, where he is being drafted into the Army. Before his draft board appointment, Claude explores New York, where he encounters a close-knit "tribe" of hippies led by George Berger…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Tin Soldier is an action-thriller film about a former soldier who infiltrates a dangerous cult led by a charismatic leader (Foxx) to rescue his wife and confront his past. The film follows Eastwood’s character, Nash Cavanaugh, as he teams …
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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
On April 18, 1942, a daring and unexpected bomb raid on Tokyo stuns the Japanese. The commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, uses the threat posed to the Japanese home islands by the American Pacific Fleet to have his p…
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Action, Adventure, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, period drama film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
Castlegard, a village near La Roque Castle in Dordogne, France, is the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole. Her martyrdom led France to win the Hundred Years War against the English. While excavating a near…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Aaron Hallam, a special forces operator, successfully assassinates a Serbian military leader in the Kosovo war, receiving a Silver Star but suffering from mental trauma due to the death and destruction he witnessed. In Oregon's Silver Fall…
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Film Noir, Romance Film, Thriller, adventure film, drama film, film noir, romance film, war film
thumb|left|Bacall, Dalio and Bogart together in Bogart's hotel room In the summer of 1940, world-weary Harry Morgan operates a sport-fishing boat, the Queen Conch, in Fort-de-France, on the French colony of Martinique. It is not long since…
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War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In September 1944, Teuntje Visser works in the office of a collaborationist mayor in German-occupied Zeeland as the Allies approach from Belgium. While she and her father, a doctor, choose to be neutral, her younger brother Dirk is a membe…
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Action, Drama, Historie, War Film, action film, historical drama film
In the year 1307, Switzerland is a province under the rule of the Austrian royal house of Habsburg. The Swiss people are resenting this foreign occupation, and rebellion is brewing, especially since the Habsburg soldiers brutalize the popu…
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Biographical picture, Drama, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Reinhard Heydrich is serving as an officer in the German Navy. After beginning a relationship with Lina, he is court-martialled for breaking his word to another woman he had been having sex with. He marries Lina and follows her in joining …
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