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Crime, Drama, action thriller
Three years after his second killing spree at WK7 TV station in Washington D.C. (following which he was presumed dead in a massive explosion), Bill Williamson returns from hiding and, using a sniper rifle, assassinates the President of the…
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Drama, Fugitive Drama, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In Sarajevo, 1992, Ajla Ekmečić is an ethnic Bosniak artist and lives with her sister, Lejla, who is a single mother of a baby boy. One evening, she meets her boyfriend, ethnic Serb police officer Danijel Vukojević, at a club. They enjoy t…
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Western, Western film, drama film, war film
A Union cavalry brigade led by Colonel John Marlowe — a railroad construction engineer in civilian life — is sent on a raid behind Confederate Army lines to destroy railroad track and the Confederate supply depot for Vicksburg at Newton St…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, association football film, drama film
In 1945, German paratrooper Bert Trautmann is captured while fighting in the forests near Kleve. Transferred to a British POW camp in Lancashire, he and his comrades are kept under strict conditions and made to work to repair the damage th…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
A World War II US Navy submarine officer, Commander P.J. Richardson, is determined to get revenge on the Japanese destroyer Akikaze and its captain, nicknamed "Bungo Pete," who has sunk four U.S. submarines in the Bungo Straits, including …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Moe Berg, a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. In 1936, Berg is playing for the Boston Red Sox 3 years before the end of a long and undistinguished pro c…
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Drama, Historie, Komödie, Romantic Drama, comedy drama, drama film
In London in 1940, Catrin Cole is hired by the Ministry of Information to help write scripts for propaganda films. Her male colleagues need her to craft realistic dialogue for female characters, but they pay her less than a man's wage and …
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action fiction, epic film, war film
thumb|Historical photo of the Funchilin Pass, with a close-up of the blown bridge After fighting at Sinhung-ni, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army 7th Company arrives at a location 12km from Hagaru-ri where it meets elements of the 20th C…
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Christmas film, Destiny, War Film, drama film, war film
In the early phase of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, a small US Army intelligence and reconnaissance squad (selected for their high IQs) is sent to occupy a deserted chateau near the German lines to gather information on the ene…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, War Film, drama film, ghost film, horror film
In 1917, soldiers of the British 5th Battalion's Y Company under Cpt. Jennings charge a German trench as part of a larger assault. The young Pvt.
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Military Film, War Film, action film, propaganda film, thriller film
Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovitch Rachenko, a Soviet Spetsnaz operative from Ukraine, is sent to an African country in which Soviet and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the missi…
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, war film
Richie Lanz, a has-been rock manager, takes his last remaining client Ronnie Smiler on a USO tour of Afghanistan. When Richie finds himself in Kabul, abandoned, penniless and without his U.S. passport, he discovers a young Afghan girl name…
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Historie, Political Thriller, drama film, war film
Brigadier General Bonner Fellers is sent to Japan as a part of the Allied occupation force after World War II, tasked with arresting Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He's also seeking his former Japanese…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film
Kristin, a writer and sales expert for a cosmetics company, is in the throes of a midlife crisis: her only son has just left for college, she catches her husband having sex with a younger woman in their home, and her bosses at the company …
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Drama, comedy film, drama film
The primary characters are earnest aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancée, Nina Blount. When Adam's novel Bright Young Things, commissioned by tabloid newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, is confiscated by HM customs officers at …
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Action, Political Satire, action film, war film
In a bar in Nunavut, hitman Brand Hauser shoots and kills three men. He takes pictures of the men with his phone, sends the pictures, and then throws the phone into a burning garbage can. Hauser is then seen on a plane getting directions a…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film
thumb|Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Ten years after the end of World War II Tom Rath is living in suburban Connecticut with his wife Betsy and three children. He is having difficulty supporting his fam…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In the city, the police are investigating a series of robberies along the old 51 bus route in the area of the city known as Wilson Heights. Captain Thaddeus Harris and Lt. Carl Proctor stake out a jewellery store, but the Wilson Heights ga…
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Drama, Komödie, War Film, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy, war film
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison is a cynical and highly efficient adjutant or "dog robber" to Rear Admiral William Jessup in London during World War II. Charlie keeps his boss supplied with everything that he might desire, i…
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Cartoon, Documentation, documentary film, live-action/animated film, propaganda film, war film
Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film, war film
Major Thomas Egan is an officer with the U.S. Air Force stationed at an Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a former F-16 Falcon pilot, married, with two children who live with him in a suburban house off-base.
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Documentation, documentary film
An examination of the intended consequences of the Iraqi war with a focus on events at Abu Ghraib prison which began to appear in global media in 2004. The prison quickly became notorious for the photos of the abuse of terror suspects, the…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, war film
In October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, a small group of a Sonderkommando—prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of the dead—are plotting an insurrection that they hope will destroy at least one of the camp's fo…
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Action, War Film
While on duty and touring through the waters of the Red Sea, the Chinese Navy patrol fleet receives a distress call that Somali pirates are boarding a cargo ship called the Guangdong and endangering Chinese passengers and seamen on board. …
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