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Adventure, Drama, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In London during World War II, Lieutenant David Halloran, a United States Army Air Forces B-25 bomber pilot with the Eighth Air Force, and Margaret Sellinger, an English nurse, meet on Hanover Street in a chance encounter. The following da…
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Historie, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film opens in July 1945, with American correspondent James O'Donnell (James Naughton) gaining entry to the now dark and flooded Führerbunker by bribing a Soviet sentry with a packet of cigarettes. The film then tells the story of the o…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
D.D. is in a Las Vegas bar waiting on her milquetoast date, Osgood. Shortly before Osgood arrives, a tough-looking drunk flirts with her, then turns mean.
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Adventure, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, war film
While the Royal Australian Navy evacuates Salamaua, Papua New Guinea, in February 1942 ahead of a Japanese invasion, Commander Frank Houghton coerces an old friend, American beachcomber Walter Eckland, into becoming a coast watcher for the…
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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle arrives in Washington, D.C., as an adviser on the housing shortage, two days early and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. There are no other rooms available at the hotel, nor …
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drama film, war film
A Danish army officer, Michael, is sent to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days e…
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Action, Military Film, action thriller, war film
In 2008, a combined task group of People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces and Chinese police raid a drug smuggling operation in an abandoned chemical facility in southern China. The leader of the smuggling operation, Wu Ji, hold…
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Drama, Historie
Following the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of Denmark from German occupation in May 1945, the Wehrmacht and SS occupiers became prisoners of war. A group of young German prisoners are sent to the west coast where they a…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romance film, trial film
Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the Washington state coast in 1950, the plot revolves around the murder case of Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American accused of killing Carl Heine, a white fisherm…
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Classical Western, Western film, buddy film
During the Franco-Mexican War, ex-Confederate soldier Ben Trane travels to Mexico seeking a job as a mercenary. He falls in with Joe Erin, a younger gunslinger who heads a gang of cutthroats. They are recruited by Marquis Henri de Laborder…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film
In 1939 Poland, Robert and Rachel are musical performers (an opera singer and a Jewish violin virtuoso, respectively) who dream of, one day, performing at Carnegie Hall. They are attracted to each other, but their differing faiths hinder i…
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Drama, drama film
In the spring of 1946, Ivan, an American soldier, returns home psychologically scarred after spending some time in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Once back in his small Pennsylvania town, Ivan settles in, trying to put his lif…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson travels to Sarajevo, the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ongoing war. There, he meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn on the chase for the most exciting stories and pictur…
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drama film, historical film, war film
Part I La Révolution française: les Années lumière (The French Revolution: Years of Hope), directed by Robert Enrico The first part focuses on the events of the early days of the French Revolution. The Estates General of 1789 quickly falls…
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Action, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film
In 2017, Royal Air Force pilots Captain Kate Sinclair and WSO Terry Johnson are shot down over Afghanistan. They are attacked by insurgents and Johnson is killed. Unable to call for help, Sinclair stumbles upon an abandoned Soviet bunker, …
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit. His job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Tung Fung Benevolent Association tong and the Fukienese Dragons street gang. The problem is…
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Action, action film, adventure film
In the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, second-year civil engineering graduate student Lucy and her boyfriend Jose exit a subway train into an empty station, when a man runs in on fire. Jose tries to investigate but is killed in an explo…
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Adventure, drama film, war film
French Foreign Legionnaires approach an isolated fort in the desert. The French flag is flying, but a closer inspection reveals only dead men propped up behind the parapets. However, a pair of shots is fired from inside, so the bugler volu…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, war film
Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, a hard-drinking Irish-American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hea…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
A voice-over by Lieutenant-Commander George Ericson, a British Merchant Navy officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, declares: In late 1939, just as war breaks out, Ericson is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of HMS Compass Rose, a…
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Romance Film, Western, Western film
At the end of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Dal Traven (Sam Elliott) is about to be lynched when he is rescued by his brother Mac (Tom Selleck) who served as a Union officer. Despite serving on different sides, the brothers bear no il…
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Drama, War Film, association football film, comedy drama, war film
In August 1967, a group of young men arrive for recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. They include a draft-dodging hippie from Washington state, Dave Bisbee, who is delivered in handcuffs by FBI agents; a hardened drug-…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
The story begins with Gladys Aylward being rejected as a potential missionary to China because of her lack of education. Dr. Robinson, the senior missionary, feels sorry for her and secures her a position in the home of Sir Francis Jamison…
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Historie
Its a period movie based on the true life event of the Maharaja of Jamnagar saving 1000 polish kids during the world war II, Love story woven with lot of action and drama.
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