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Action, action film, romance film
Eddie Lomax rides an Indian motorcycle in a salt flat. When his bike breaks down, he begins drinking and passes out. When he awakes, he sees his old friend from the Army, Johnny Sixtos.
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War Film, action film, war film
In the summer of 1942, American Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Frederick, a War Department staff officer with no prior combat or command experience, is summoned to Britain where he is selected by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten to raise a com…
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Drama, drama film
A fictional meeting occurs between C. S. Lewis, nicknamed "Jack", and Sigmund Freud, two days after the start of World War II.
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Drama, Historie, War Film, drama fiction, drama film
In September 1943, the German army occupies Rome following Italy's surrender to the Allies. When Pope Pius XII meets SS-General Max Helm and SS Head of Police for Rome SS-Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler, the General explains that German…
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Drama, War Film
On 15 August 2021, as U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan and Kabul is captured by the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans gather at the gates of the French Embassy in Afghanistan trying to escape alongside NATO forces. Martinon, the French amb…
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Action, Drama, Historie
The 12th Man tells the dramatic story of Jan Baalsrud's escape from the Nazis during the Second World War. In Shetland, 12 Norwegian resistance fighters board a fishing boat with eight tons of TNT and cross the North Sea as part of Operati…
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Drama, Military Film, drama film, thriller film
It is 1963, at the height of the Cold War. The United States Navy destroyer USS Bedford is steaming in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. It is under the strict command of controversial Captain Eric Finlander, an imperious m…
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Adventure, Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, comedy film, political thriller film, war film
The film begins with a disclaimer: Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true. After years of covering one armed conflict after another, American journalist Simon Hunt is in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1994 reporting on the …
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Biographical picture, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film
In a 1936 chance encounter, Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn meet for the first time in a Key West bar in Florida. They encounter one another a year later in Spain, where both are covering the Spanish Civil War, and staying in the same…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In the South Pacific in 1944, U.S. Marine Corporal Allison and his reconnaissance party are disembarking from a U.S. Navy submarine when they are discovered and fired upon by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
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Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, war film
With World War I looming, young U.S. Army doughboy Robert Conroy has his life forever changed when a Boston Terrier puppy with a stubby tail wanders into camp, as the men of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division train on the …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, flashback film, war film
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship". In 1941 HMS Torrin engages German transports in a night-time action during the Battle of Crete, but at dawn, the destroyer comes under attack from German bombers. A critical…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
It is the eve of the Cuban Revolution's culmination. On Christmas Eve, 1958, aboard the boat from Miami to Havana, Roberta Duran enlists the aid of Jack Weil in smuggling radios for the revolutionaries in the hills. Weil agrees only becaus…
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Anti-War Film, Coming Of Age, Thriller
During World War II, a group of students in Leiden, the Netherlands—Erik Lanshof, Guus LeJeune, Jan Weinberg, Alex, Erik's friend Robby Froost and his girlfriend Esther—collaborate, while others join the Dutch resistance. A newsreel plays …
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Anti-War Film, War Film, war film
In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The British Royal Navy responds with hunting groups whose mission is to stop these attacks. In time, the German …
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, psychological thriller
"Danny Parker" is a Los Angeles speed freak (meth addict) who hangs out with junkie friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan and Al Garcetti. Danny is trying to set up a large me…
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Historie, Parodie, Political Satire, comedy film
C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is…
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Biographical picture, Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film
Marie Colvin is an American journalist for The Sunday Times, visiting the most dangerous countries and documenting their civil wars. In 2001, while trekking with the Tamil Tigers, Colvin and her crew are ambushed by the Sri Lanka Army. Des…
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Drama, Political Drama, Thriller, action film, action thriller, disaster film, thriller film
In 1991, dissident officials in the Soviet Union launch a nuclear missile at Donetsk from a site in NATO member Turkey. Soviet automated defense systems, believing that a NATO attack is in progress, execute a measured launch of intercontin…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Not long after the Pearl Harbor attack, United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle assembles two dozen North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers with volunteer crews at Eglin Field, Florida, for a secret mission. Am…
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Drama, Thriller, art film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Just after the end of World War II, a young American of German descent, Leopold Kessler, comes to the U.S.-occupied zone of Germany and gets a job with his uncle as a sleeping car conductor for the railway company Zentropa. Fresh faced and…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
When NYPD Detective Eddie Santos surprises drug dealer Tino Zapatti on a Brooklyn street corner, Tino opens fire; the two men gun each other down, and a stray bullet from Zapatti kills a 6-year-old boy. As Mayor John Pappas responds to the…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Young Audie Murphy grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Northeast Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age for hi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Sergeant First Class Clell Hazard is a hardened veteran of Korea and Vietnam who would rather be an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning to train soldiers for Vietnam but instead is a…
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