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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, vigilante film
In 1980, Danny Bryce, Hunter, Davies and Meier are a group of mercenaries who arrive in Mexico to assassinate someone. Danny is shot when he becomes distracted after realising that he has killed the man in front of the target's young child…
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Military Film, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
During World War II, US Marine corporal Joe Enders returns to active duty after surviving on the Solomon Islands against the Imperial Japanese Army that killed his entire squad and wounded his left ear. Enders and Sgt. Pete "Ox" Henderson …
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Military Film, War Film, drama film, war film
During the Battle of France in June 1940, RAF pilots evacuate a small airfield just ahead of advancing German ground forces and an attack by Luftwaffe aircraft. As the deserted beaches of Dunkirk are shown following the evacuation of Allie…
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Family Comedy, Fantasy, family film, fantasy film
Isabel Green is driven to her wit's end by her hectic life while her husband, Rory, goes off to fight in the Second World War. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, run by the slightly loopy…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, Z movie, action film, comedy film
Two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 debate the number of virgins they get in heaven as a reward for carrying out the September 11 attacks. They call their leader, Osama Bin Laden, to find out, but when they learn heaven is …
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
During Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, Ministry of State Security (MGB) Agent and war hero Leo Demidov uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders. However, MGB leadership refuses to acknowledge the deaths a…
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Drama, Musical, Romantic Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
The beautiful orphan Roxanne attends the theater with the old, vain and showy Duke De Guiche, who is determined to marry her. Roxanne wishes to marry for love, even though she does not have much money and would benefit greatly from marriag…
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Event Documentary, War Film, documentary film
Overview The film is concerned chiefly with three topics: the Chełmno extermination camp, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw Ghetto, wit…
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, thriller film
Outside a church celebrating an Eastern Orthodox baptism in Pale, Bosnia, the Bosnian Serb Finance Minister, a moderate pushing for peace in the ongoing Yugoslav Wars, is murdered. At a missile base in Kartaly (Chelyabinsk Oblast), Russia,…
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Thriller, War Film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1944, Dutch Jewish singer Rachel Stein is hiding in the occupied Netherlands. When the farmhouse where she had been hiding is destroyed by an Allied bomber, she goes to see a lawyer named Smaal who had been helping her family. He arrang…
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Action, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, science fiction film, war film
In 2036, a civil war between pro-Russian insurgents and a resistance movement in Ukraine leads the U.S. to deploy peacekeeping forces after a failed U.N. intervention.
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Action, Classical Western, War Film, Western film, action film, buddy film
In 1950, attorney Charles Phalen heads to the White Sands and is contacted by elderly "Brushy Bill" Roberts, who seeks a pardon he was promised 70 years earlier by the governor of the New Mexico Territory. Dismissing Bill's claim that he i…
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Action, Drama, Monumental Film, drama film, war film
Historical background Famine in Northern China is affecting millions of peasants by the summer of 1900. Starvation will be one of the major causes of the ensuing Boxer Rebellion. The legations of various industrialized countries are trappe…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
In August 1943, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Tiger Shark patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Receiving orders to pick up survivors spotted adrift by a British PBY Catalina patrol plane, the submarine rescues three survivors – Br…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour. A scientist, Dr. Jan Benes, working behind the Iron Curtain, has figured out how to mak…
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War Film, action film, adventure film, war film
In 1943, following the destruction of a German fortress on the island of Navarone, Major Keith Mallory and Sergeant Donovan "Dusty" Miller are ordered to eliminate the German spy who betrayed the Navarone mission. The spy is believed to ha…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, erotic thriller
During the American Civil War in 1863, Amy, a 12-year-old student at the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies in rural Mississippi, discovers a seriously wounded Union soldier, John McBurney. She brings him to the school's gate…
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Animated Film, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, dark fantasy, drama film, sword and sorcery film
Geralt is hired to kill an Allamorax which is deemed responsible for the deaths of several fishermen in Bremervoord. He lets the creature go after the merman Deroua beg to have mercy on it and claim that the Allamorax is not responsible. S…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, trial film, war film
During World War II, newly commissioned Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith reports to the minesweeper USS Caine, where he meets career officer Lieutenant Stephen Maryk, the ship’s executive officer, and aspiring novelist and communication…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In 1942, 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski hides her younger brother from French police by locking him in a secret closet and telling him to stay there until she returns. She takes the key with her when she and her parents are transported to th…
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War Film, war film
U.S. Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey is a divorced son of a career chief petty officer. A Naval Academy graduate and career officer himself, Torrey is removed from command of his heavy cruiser for boldly pursuing the enemy, but then be…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, political drama, romance film, war film
In 1968 California, Sally, a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde, a captain in the United States Marine Corps, who is about to be deployed to Vietnam. As a dedicated military officer, Bob sees the deployment primar…
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Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical drama, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the year 140 AD, twenty years after the Ninth Legion of the Roman army disappeared in the north of Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, arrives in Roman Britain to serve at his first post as a garrison commander. Mar…
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Parodie, comedy film, parody film
One night, an American special forces team invades Saddam Hussein's palace and a nearby prison camp to rescue captured soldiers from Operation Desert Storm and to assassinate Saddam, but they find the Iraqis waiting for them, and the entir…
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