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Action, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, action film, classical antiquity film, drama film, epic film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan army, narrates the story of a Spartan king named Leonidas I from childhood to kingship through the Spartan child-rearing system and the Battle of Thermopylae. A Persian herald enters Sparta one day, urging …
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Gothic film, Gothic romance film, Mysterie, Romance Film, Vampirfilm, drama film, fantasy film, gothic horror film, historical drama film, horror film, period drama film, romance film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A Romanian Orthodox priest tells him that his wi…
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Action, Sci-Fi, War Film, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera, war film
Research scientist Galen Erso and his family are in hiding on the planet Lah'mu when Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a superweapon capable of destroying planets. Galen's wife Ly…
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Drama, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
Jake Hoyt, a young, ambitious LAPD officer, is assigned to work with Detective Alonzo Harris, a highly decorated narcotics officer for a one-day evaluation to determine if Jake will be invited to join his narcotics squad. Alonzo immediatel…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, medieval film
After a battle with the Scots, King Henry IV meets with those who fought. Hotspur is angry and insulting towards the king. England's Prince Henry ("Hal") spends his days drinking, whoring, and jesting with his companion Falstaff in Eastche…
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Historical drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, war film
In 1743, after the death of his father Augustine Washington, George Washington meets his older half-brother Lawrence. Because of his father's death, Washington is not given a formal education. Lawrence tutors his half-brother in land surve…
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Aliens, Fantasy, Military Film, Political Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, dystopian film, military science fiction, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, Earth is governed by the United Citizen Federation, a stratocratic regime founded generations earlier by "veterans" after democracy and social scientists brought civilization to the brink of ruin. Citizenship is exclusively …
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Anti-War Film, anti-war film, drama film, epic film, war drama, war film
Three Russian-American friends in Clairton, Pennsylvania—Mike, Steven, and Nick—work in a steel mill and hunt deer with co-workers Stan and Axel, and bartender friend John. Mike, Steven, and Nick have enlisted for the Vietnam War. Steven i…
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Anti-War Film, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1928, Alan Turing, constantly bullied at boarding school, befriends Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography. Turing develops romantic feelings, but Christopher dies of bovine tuberculosis before he can confess. When …
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Action, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The Trade Federation blockades the planet Naboo in secret preparation for a full-scale invasion, disrupting order in the Galactic Republic. The Republic's leader, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and hi…
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Dark Comedy, Satire On War, black comedy film, comedy film, war film
United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (an exchange officer from the Royal Air Force), to put the base on alert (cond…
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Action, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
A man in Los Angeles (billed as "The Driver") works as a mechanic, stunt double, and criminal-for-hire getaway driver. His jobs are all managed by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish-American mobster Bernie Rose and his half-Ital…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, War Film, dystopian film, military science fiction, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2015, an alien race known as "Mimics" lands in Germany and swiftly conquers much of continental Europe, killing millions. By 2020, humanity has formed a global military alliance, the United Defense Force (UDF), to combat the Mimics. How…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Zombiefilm, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
Former United Nations investigator Gerald "Gerry" Lane, his wife, Karin, and their two daughters, Rachel and Connie, are caught in traffic in downtown Philadelphia when a zombie outbreak hits. Escaping the ensuing chaos, they travel to New…
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Historie, adventure film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, war drama, war film
Part I: "By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired the Style and Title of Barry Lyndon" In 1750, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Redmond Barry's father is killed in a duel. Barry, of a genteel but impoverished Irish Protestant family, becomes infatu…
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Military Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, submarine film, thriller film, war film
In November 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is given command of Red October, a new Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine with a "caterpillar drive", rendering it nearly undetectable to passive sonar. At sea, Ramius secretly…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film
The planet Cybertron was ravaged by a civil war between two Transformer factions — the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron. Both search for a lost artifact called the AllSpark, the source of all Cybertronia…
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Political Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Maya is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In 2003, she is stationed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan.
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Adventure, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Monumental Film, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader, dispatches probe droids across the galaxy in search of the Rebel Alliance. One probe locates the Rebel base on the ice planet Hoth. A wampa captur…
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Adventure, Political Drama, War Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
In the winter of 1941, amid Japan's invasion of China during World War II, Jamie Graham is a British upper class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the Shanghai International Settlement. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan begins …
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Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, thriller film
In 1913 Houston, eight-year-old Howard Hughes's mother gives him a bath and teaches him to spell "quarantine", warning him about the recent cholera outbreak. Fourteen years later, in 1927, he begins to direct his film Hell's Angels, and hi…
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Adventure, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, Mohican Chingachgook, his son, Uncas, and his white, adopted son, "Hawkeye," are travelling through the upstate New York wilderness. Stopping at the farm of a friend, they learn of the British Arm…
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Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, drama film, historical film, silent film
Part 1: Civil War of United States left|thumb|The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron Phil, the elder son of the Stonemans (a Northern family), falls in love with Margaret Cameron (the daughter of a Southern fam…
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