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Drama, Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, medieval film, war film
The film begins with Muhammad sending an invitation to accept Islam to the surrounding rulers: Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor; Muqawqis, the Patriarch of Alexandria; Kisra, the Sasanian Emperor. Earlier, Muhammad is visited by the angel …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, medieval film, war film
Act I The film starts with the Macbeths grieving at their child's funeral. Then, Macbeth leads King Duncan's troops into a civil war battle. He emerges victorious, despite losses, including boy soldiers.
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Biographical picture, Psychodrama, biographical film, drama film
In 1972, Bobby Fischer tears apart his hotel room in a paranoid delusional state, believing he is being spied upon by the Soviet KGB. Two decades earlier, in 1951 Brooklyn, Fischer's mother, a Soviet Jewish immigrant, explains to 8-year-ol…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Frank Martin has relocated from southern France to Miami, Florida, where, as a favor to a friend, he becomes the temporary chauffeur for wealthy Audrey and Jefferson Billings. Frank bonds with their son Jack, picking him up from elementary…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film
During World War II, Wehrmacht Captain Brandt takes command of the bodyguard of deposed German Emperor Wilhelm II at Huis Doorn, near Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Germans are concerned that an Allied spy may be planning to assassinate him…
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Komödie, Parodie, Secret Agent, buddy film, comedy film, spy film
Austin Millbarge is a code breaker dwelling in the dark basement at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Emmett Fitz-Hume, a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy, takes the foreign se…
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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, medieval film, period drama film, war film
The film begins with Chorus, in this case a person in modern dress, introducing the subject of the play. He is walking through an empty film studio and ends his monologue by opening the doors to begin the main action. Chorus reappears seve…
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Western, Western film, action film, drama film, thriller film
In 1868, within the Ruby Mountains, Gideon roasts hare over an open fire. Gunshots ring out and he is shot in the left arm. He grabs what he can and races down the mountain.
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Leyna is a 16-year-old girl fighting to survive in Nazi Germany during World War II. Living with her white mother, Kerstin, and her younger half-brother, Koen, her mother is constantly targeted for having been with an African man, and Leyn…
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War Film, Western, Western film, drama film, historical film, war film
At a party in 1835, while trying to persuade people to migrate to Texas, Sam Houston encounters David Crockett, recently defeated in his bid for re-election to Congress. In San Felipe, the Texas provisional government is meeting to discuss…
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Anti-War Film, Christmas film, War Film, comedy film, drama film, war film
Stalag 17 is a German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube" during World War II. One of its compounds holds 630 American airmen (all of whom are sergeants) and is overseen by camp warden Oberst von Scherbach. In December 1944, the…
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Drama, Thriller, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, thriller film
thumb|Original release trailer of the film Key Largo (1948) Army veteran Frank McCloud arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, visiting the family of George Temple, a friend who served under him and was killed in the Italian camp…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film
During the London Blitz, nightclub singer Vera Phillips runs into her first love, charismatic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Although Dylan is now married to Caitlin Macnamara, with whom he has a son, he and Vera rekindle feelings for one anothe…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, gives birth to their fifth child and first son, Alexei. Despite pleas from Grand Duke Nicholas and Count Sergei Witte, Nicholas refuses to end the Russo-Japanese War or acce…
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Action, Military Film, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Colonel James Braddock is a US military officer who spent years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp which he escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that travels to Ho Chi Minh City …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Political Thriller, detective film, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height, cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a bla…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, spy film
The West Berlin office of MI6, under station chief Alec Leamas, has suffered from reduced effectiveness. He is recalled to London shortly after the death of one of his operatives and is seemingly drummed out of the agency. In reality, a ca…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film, war film
Jarrod and his girlfriend Elaine arrive in Los Angeles, California, for Jarrod's best friend Terry's birthday party. They celebrate with Terry's girlfriend, Candice, and his assistant, Denise. During a private argument about whether or not…
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Political Documentary
The film is a meditation on catastrophe, contextualized through the literary modes of religion and science fiction. It begins with a quotation, attributed to Blaise Pascal: "The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation –…
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Exorcism Film, horror film, thriller film
In the age of the Byzantine Empire, an injured priest wanders through the aftermath of a bloody and desolate battlefield. He comes across an impaled priest in his death throes holding a Pazuzu head pendant. The priest looks around him and …
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action film, adventure film, comedy film, thriller film, war film
In France in 1944, American soldiers Berle, a deserter; Nick Colasanti, a petty thief; Fred, nicknamed "Assassin"; Tony, a mutineer; and Lieutenant Yeager (arrested for refusing to comply with orders to kill, among others, women and childr…
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Adventure, Musical, adventure film, drama film, musical film
Mr. Kite (George Burns), elderly mayor of the small town of Heartland, recounts the history of Heartland's celebrated marching band. Sgt.
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Adventure, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, War Film, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
The Roman Empire has been unable to fully conquer Britain, reaching a harsh stalemate in the North. The Picts engage in guerrilla warfare against the Romans along the Glenblocker forts and the Gask Ridge at the southern border of the Scott…
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Komödie, romantic comedy film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|Full film: The General (1926) After arriving in Marietta, Georgia, Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray visits Annabelle Lee, one of the two loves of his life, the other being his locomotive, The G…
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