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Mstislav Chernov (director, cameraman and producer) and Alex Babenko (cameraman and co-producer) follow a platoon of Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade on a mission to liberate Russian-occupied Andriivka in 2023, during the seco…
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Drama, War Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, is sent to Belfast in 1971 during the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed without protective gear to a vol…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film, thriller film
In Salamanca, Spain, an assassination attempt on U.S. President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) unfolds from several different vantage points. GNN producer Rex Brooks directs news coverage from a mobile television studio as the president arriv…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Alice Bowman moves to the (fictional) South American country of Tecala because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman, has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. While driving one morning through the city, Peter is cau…
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Drama, Historie, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
The film loosely follows the events leading up to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. A respected healer, Geronimo and his fellow Apache reluctantly agree to settle on a reservation established by the American government in accordance with …
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War Film, drama film
Le Ly is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when communist insurgents show up in the village to defend against the forces of France and then the United States. During the American involvement, Le Ly is captured and…
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Classical Western, War Film, Western film, drama film, war film
Sam Houston leads the forces of Texas against Mexico and needs time to build an army. The opposing Mexican forces, led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna are numerically stronger as well as better-armed and trained. Nevertheless, the T…
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Adventure, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romantic comedy
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are English Methodist missionaries in German East Africa in August 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steamboat named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic C…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Lexington, Missouri when the Civil War breaks out. Chiles' family are wealthy planters, and Jake's father, a German immigrant, warns him of anti-German suspicion from other Southerners. Jayha…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
Moscow militsiya officer Arkady Renko is called to a clearing near the Gorky Park ice rink, where three mutilated bodies – two men and one woman – have been discovered. All were shot in the chest and their faces and finger tips removed; th…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Gangster Film, action comedy film
A contract killer on the verge of retirement due to arthritis is given a new chance at fieldwork training Wihlborg, a prodigy assassin with an attitude. The subsequent mission to Northern Ireland is complicated by concerns that Wihlborg is…
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Fantasy, Military Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film
In the eleven years of "The Second Bug War", the Mobile Infantry has improved their weapons and tactics. However, the Arachnids have countered these developments with new and tougher variants. The United Citizen Federation, now finding its…
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Drama, Political Drama, War Film, historical film, romance film, war drama
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army overruns China's capital city, Nanjing, in December and carries out the Nanjing massacre. As the Japanese overrun the Chinese army, desperate …
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Action, Adventure, Historie, Romantic Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, erotic film, war film
In 1501, a city in Italy was taken by a coup d'état while its rightful ruler, Arnolfini, was away. Arnolfini promises some mercenaries 24 hours of looting if they succeed in retaking the city, and they do so, raping and killing those who s…
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action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film, war drama, war film
Secret Agent, War Film, action film, spy film, thriller film
thumb|left|MiG-31 Firefox, the film's fictional aircraft A joint British–American plan is devised to steal the MiG-31 "Firefox", a highly advanced Soviet fighter jet. Capable of Mach 6 hypersonic flight, the Firefox is invisible to radar a…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy is a senior commander in the British Home Guard during World War II. Before a training exercise, he is "captured" in a Victorian Turkish bath by British Army troops led by Lieutenant "Spud" Wilson, who has s…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, war film
Turkey sends a brigade to South Korea as a result of the call for help made by the United Nations when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. Sergeant Süleyman, one of the soldiers in the brigade, finds a little girl whose mother and fat…
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Action, Crime, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
A mob informant under FBI protection in a remote wood cabin is ambushed by a hit squad, who slaughter him and his bodyguards. One of the agents killed is Blair Shannon, the son of a senior FBI agent Harry Shannon, who vows to exact revenge…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, Komödie, comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, horror film, zombie comedy
Famed author Roger Cobb's son Jimmy vanishes while they visit his aunt Elizabeth Hooper's home, leading to the collapse of his marriage to movie star Sandy Sinclair. When asked, the seemingly senile Elizabeth claims that Jimmy was taken by…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Based on historic events, this dramatic film concerns the 1939 voyage of the German-flagged , which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism…
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film
The story is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) in which French forces fought the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love…
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Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, residents of an apartment block rush downstairs to escape from the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions. Only eight of the residents – Eva and her boyfriend Sam, Jo…
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Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Greece's Ionian Islands are occupied by the Italian Army when it brings a large garrison along with a few Germans to the tranquil island of Cephalonia, whose inhabitants surrender immediately. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer of the Ita…
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