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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 35.
Drama, Romantic Comedy, Satire On War, comedy drama
In 1989, U.S. Army Supply Specialist (SPC) Ray Elwood is a disillusioned enlisted soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany. With much spare time, he participates in black marketeering and cooking heroin for several corrupt Military Pol…
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Military Film, action film, war film
During World War II, German U-boats are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean. British intelligence, based in India, believes that information is being passed to the U-boats by a radio transmitter hidde…
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War Film, drama film, war film
After the Norwegian resistance leader Royal Norwegian Navy Lieutenant Erik Bergman travels to Great Britain to report the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's No. 633 Squadron is assigned to destroy it. The squ…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, war film
Lieutenant Harry Brubaker is a Naval Reserve aviator called back to active duty to fly F9F Panthers in the Korean War. Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch and is rescued by a Sikorsky helicopter manned by Chi…
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War Film, anti-war film, drama film, historical film, war film
In the summer of 1916, Lance Corporal Dell shows his collection of nude photos to the men of his platoon. Private Billy MacFarlane remarks to his brother Eddie that one of the girls looks familiar to him. The platoon commander, Lieutenant …
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Drama, Historie, Social Drama, docudrama, drama film, political drama, war film
The movie tells the dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972. The march ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Secret Agent, spy film
Harry Palmer, who has left MI5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki. The package contains six virus-laden eggs that have been stolen from the government of the United K…
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Drama, Sex Film
Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an ambitious Nazi SS commandant, devises a plan to select a special group of female informants in order to plant them as prostitutes in a high class brothel on the eve of World War II in order to collect intelli…
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Action, War Film, war film
Corporal Robert Dunne recounts the story of tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker. Initially he is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through.…
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Action, Drama, Komödie, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy thriller
Cameron, a Vietnam veteran wanted for attempted murder, escapes police custody. Crossing a bridge, he dodges a car that seems to be trying to run him down; when he turns around, the car has disappeared. A helicopter flies close to the brid…
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Adventure, War Film, Western, Western film, war film
During the American Civil War, Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee is relieved of his command for a tactical error at the Battle of Gettysburg and sent to head a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory. After a family of ranch…
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Anti-War Film, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
During World War II the American USS Haynes is on patrol in the South Atlantic. Lieutenant Commander Murrell, a former Third Mate in the Merchant Marine and now an active-duty officer in the Naval Reserve, has recently taken command of the…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, war film
Drama, War Film, drama fiction, drama film, war
On 27 April 1940, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 and a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua engage each other but crash near Grotli, Norway. Pilot Leutnant Horst Schopis (Florian Lukas), Feldwebel Wolfgang Strunk (Stig Henrik Hoff), and Obergefreiter …
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War Film, drama film
During the First World War, young Second Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the front lines in Northern France. He requests of General Raleigh, his uncle, that he be put under the command of Captain Stanhope of C Company, a man who was a few ye…
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Coming Out, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, drama film
Max is a promiscuous gay man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality. One evening, much to the resentment of his boyfriend, Rudy, Max brings home a handsome Sturmabteilung (SA) man.
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War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In August 1942 the American forces are fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during World War II. Fresh out of PT boat training school in Melville, Rhode Island, U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade John F.
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Action, Komödie, comedy film
During the Vietnam War, Green Beret Captain Sam Cahill has been developing good relations between the United States and the Montagnard Vietnamese villagers of Dak Nhe, which occupies ground suitable for observing the clandestine Ho Chi Min…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Canadian Army troops are encountering resistance from insurgents as they construct "Hyena Road" deep into Taliban territory. Warrant Officer Ryan Sanders, the leader of a sniper section, finds himself und…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In London, sand is put into the bearings of an electrical generator, causing a power blackout. At a cinema owned by Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), people demand their money back. Verloc enters through a back entrance to the living quarters a…
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Anti-War Film, Event Documentary, documentary film
The film examines the responses of the French people to German occupation and their reasons for tending toward resistance or collaboration, focusing on the Auvergne region and the city of Clermont-Ferrand. Events are presented in roughly c…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, prison film
In a British Army "glasshouse" (military prison) in the Libyan desert, prisoners convicted of service offences such as insubordination, being drunk while on duty, going AWOL or petty theft are subjected to repetitive drill routines as a pu…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, political thriller film, tragedy, war film
Russell Price is a photojournalist covering a military conflict in Chad, where he runs into Oates, a mercenary he knows. Russell then returns to his hotel, where he attends a "Bon Voyage" party for his friend Alex Grazier, who is giving up…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, war film
thumb|left|St George's Church tower, seen in the film after being gutted in the Baedeker raids (modern photograph) The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs, U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson, and a "Land Girl",…
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