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Komödie, comedy film
One September morning, the Soviet Navy submarine Sprut draws too close to the New England coast when its captain wants to see North America and runs aground on a sandbar near Gloucester Island off the New England coast, with a population o…
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Drama
The film is based on the life of Japanese academic and author Hyakken Uchida (1889–1971). While playfully teaching a class as a professor of German in the period immediately before the Second World War, Uchida tearfully announces his retir…
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War Film, adventure film, war film
thumb|240px|A Caudron C.270 Luciole and a Pfalz D.III from Lynn Garrison's collection in flight over Weston Aerodrome, Ireland German Corporal Bruno Stachel leaves the fighting in the trenches of World War I to become a fighter pilot in th…
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Adventure, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
thumb|362x362px|Shanghai Express ad in The Film Daily, 1932 In 1931, China is embroiled in a civil war. Friends of British captain Donald "Doc" Harvey envy him because Shanghai Lily is traveling on the express train he is taking from Peipi…
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Drama, drama film, war film
In 1952, Robert "Dutch" Holland is a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals. A B-29 bomber pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II, Holland retains a commission as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air F…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the 1990s, youth gangs take over areas in major North American cities. Two major gangs, the Blackhearts and the Razorheads, vie for control. In 1999, while working with MegaTech head Dr.
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels by train to London to take a job in a surgery. Richard Cannerley enters her compartment, asking questions about her life and expressing interest that she is fluent in French. He gives Charlott…
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Crime, Drama, War Film, drama film, neo-noir, war film
The murder of a prostitute, who was also a German agent, in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Heer Major Grau of the Wehrmacht's Abwehr to start an investigation. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German general…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, medieval film
The action moves from a performance of the play, Henry V, in 1600, transitioning to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, then back to the play. A panorama of London in 1600 is shown and then the viewpoint travels to the Globe Theatre where the…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film, space adventure film
Dr. Who, his granddaughters Susan and Barbara, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are accidentally transported to another planet by Dr. Who's latest invention, a time and space machine called Tardis.
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Parodie, Political Satire, Satire, Satire On War
Ali Hassan works for Danka TV in Karachi, Pakistan, and dreams of migrating to the United States, but his visa applications are rejected for seven years straight in the aftermath of September 11 attacks. While covering a local event for hi…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In Italy during World War I, the US president has sent teams of Red Cross doctors and nurses to boost Italian morale and help with the wounded. Volunteers drive ambulances and work in the front line canteens. 19-year-old Ernest Hemingway b…
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
The story transpires in a non-linear fashion, following U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer in training, in battle in Afghanistan, in counseling in Afghanistan, while searching for his family after returning to a devastated United States, and in h…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1940, a working-class couple in World War II-era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis after receiving news of the death of their only son. Their growing resistance to the regime is also strengthened…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1937, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a student who has just passed the entrance exams for Kiev State University; to celebrate, she goes to a shooting range with her friends including a female classmate named Masha. In a twist of events, her al…
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Drama, drama film
On the morning of September 11, 2001, first officer LeRoy Homer Jr. gets dressed in his uniform and kisses his wife and his daughter before he leaves for work. Passengers board United Airlines Flight 93 at Newark Liberty International Airp…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, musical film
In 1968 Australia, Gail and Cynthia head into town to sing at a talent contest. Their younger sister Julie is forbidden to go, partly because of her youth and partly because she already has a child, but she bribes her neighbour to take her…
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Horror, War Film, Zombiefilm, action film, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
During the closing days of World War II, a Soviet reconnaissance team consisting of Novikov, Sergei, Vassili, Alexei, Ivan, Sacha, and Dmitri are on a mission to destroy a German sniper nest. After completing the objective, the squad recei…
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Documentation, Drama Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
On 26 September 1983, the computers in the Serpukhov-15 bunker outside Moscow, which housed the command centre of the Soviet early warning satellite system, twice reported that U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles were heading toward t…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Ten years before freeing the US POWs from a brutal general, Colonel James Braddock was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François, and tries to …
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War Film, drama film, propaganda film
In the Gulf of St Lawrence, German U-boat U-37 sinks a Canadian freighter and then evades the RCN and RCAF by sailing into Hudson Bay. While a raiding party of six is ashore in search of food and fuel, the U-boat is sunk by RCAF bombers. T…
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Action, Adventure, Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, adventure film, boxing film, drama film, war film
Alain Lefèvre is a French boxer in 1925 in Marseille, France. His brother Maxim has asked for him to throw a fight so that both can live on the money. Lucien Galgani, the mobster who forced him to do so, requests him to do it in the second…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Marcus is an Army Reserve Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, who was recently released from active duty and is now working in New York City. He is approached by a Haganah agent, Major Safir, who requests his assistance in prepa…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, drama film, epic film, historical film
King Edward IV of England (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) has been placed on the throne with the help of his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Sir Laurence Olivier). After Edward's coronation in the Great Hall, with his brothers George and Rich…
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