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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
In the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1864, during the Civil War, family patriarch Charlie Anderson and his six sons Jacob, John, James, Nathan, Henry, and Boy (who is 16) run the family farm, while his daughter Jennie and daughter-in-law Ann…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2003 in southern Sudan, the LRA attacks a village and forces a young boy to kill his mother. A few years earlier, Sam Childers, an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania, is released from prison and finds that his wife, Lynn, has …
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser , commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30, …
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Komödie, Parodie, Road Movie, Teen Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
In 1998, Eric Bottler reunites with his old high school buddies Linus, Hutch, Windows, and Zoe at a Halloween party. Now a car salesman at his father's dealership, Bottler finds that his friends have not matured since high school, though t…
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Adventure, drama film, romance film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
The film retells the story of the Trojan War in 1100 B.C., albeit with some major changes from the Iliad's storyline; Paris of Troy sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful city-states. His ship is forced to return…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, historical film, horror film
In 1645, during the English Civil War, Matthew Hopkins, an opportunistic witch hunter, takes advantage of the breakdown in social order to impose a reign of terror in East Anglia. Hopkins and his assistant, John Stearne, visit various vill…
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American football film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1925, Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly is captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a struggling professional American football team. With pro football on the brink of collapse, Dodge convinces Princeton University's football star, Carter "the Bullet" Ruth…
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Political Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Award-winning documentary from 2003. Director Errol Morris interviews former US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara about America and the key events of the 20th century.
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Action, Adventure, Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, war film
In Honolulu, Hawaii, a DC-4 airliner prepares to take off for San Francisco, California with 17 passengers and a crew of 5. Former captain Dan Roman, the flight's veteran first officer, known for his habit of whistling, is haunted by an ai…
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Ghost-Movie, War Film, supernatural horror film, war film
As the Allied armies advance through France in 1944, five soldiers of the United States' 82nd Airborne Division are assigned to guard a chateau. En route to the chateau they ambush German soldiers operating a captured American jeep and lea…
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Anti-War Film, War Film, drama film, war film
In September 1971, the United States is losing the Vietnam War. Roland Bozz, a draftee opposed to the war, is an unruly soldier who disrespects authority. He befriends another Army recruit, Jim Paxton, an aspiring writer who records his ex…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operati…
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Classical Western, Western film, war film
A stagecoach races across the Southwestern desert, carrying widower Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday and his daughter, Philadelphia, to his new posting at Fort Apache, an isolated U.S. cavalry post on the Arizona frontier. Thursday is impa…
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Coming Of Age, Heimatfilm, Political Drama, Social Drama, boxing film, drama film
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in the Union of South Africa, young Peter Philip Kennith Keith (nicknamed "PK") is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of South Africa by a Zulu nanny, w…
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Documentation
One February morning in 1961, singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach protested at the UN Security Council after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the newly independent Congo. Sixty yelling protesters throw punches, slam …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film
William Tell is a gambler who taught himself how to count cards during an eight-year stint in military prison. Seeking to avoid attention—either from fame or from casino bouncers—Tell's gambling philosophy is to bet small and win modestly.…
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Historie, Western, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1853, soldier-of-fortune William Walker flees Mexico, after a failed attempt to incite an armed insurrection. He is placed on trial by US official for breaking the Neutrality Act, but wins an acquittal after giving a rousing speech to t…
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Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, war film
In 1936, in Italy, the Fascist government kidnaps child prodigy Tadzio De Santis and uses him in a project to create a supersoldier. The procedure's inventor, Dr. Maria Vaselli, objects and defects to the United States.
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Drama, Military Film, Police Film, Political Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, war film
On November 1, 2004, Hank Deerfield, a gravel trucker and retired military police sergeant living in Monroe, Tennessee with his wife Joan, is notified that his son Mike, a soldier recently returned from Iraq, has gone missing. Hank drives …
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film
In the seaside town of O'Hare, California, an 8-year-old boy who is small for his age, Pepper Flynt Busbee, has a very close relationship with James, his loving father, which begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles h…
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Anti-War Film, Christmas film, Drama, drama film, historical film, war film
The story centres mainly upon six characters: Gordon (a Lieutenant of the Royal Scots Fusiliers); Audebert (a French Lieutenant in the 26th Infantry and reluctant son of a general); Horstmayer (a Jewish German Lieutenant of the 93rd Infant…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
When a new trainload of Polish Jews arrives for processing at Sobibor, the German Commandant assures them the place is a work camp. SS officers select a small number of prisoners with trade skills (such as goldsmiths, seamstresses, shoemak…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, girls with guns, science fiction film
In 2017, during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor, "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the war. She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter. Chief of Police Willis …
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Satire On War, action film, buddy film, comedy film
In late 1969, helicopter pilot Billy Covington has his pilot's license suspended for breaking safety regulations. His skills, bravery and disregard for the law are noticed by a government agent, who offers him a job in Laos working for the…
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