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Psychological Thriller, thriller film, war film
In North Africa, US Marine sniper Mike Stevens and his spotter Tommy Madison are on a secret mission to assassinate a dangerous terrorist leader attending a Bedouin wedding. Mike botches the assassination attempt, hesitating when the targe…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
In small town Alaska 1988, Adam Carlson, a news reporter, recruits his ex-girlfriend Rachel – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save three gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Adam names the father Fred,…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, war film
On the last day of 1899, Jane and Robert Marryot, an upper-class couple, return to their townhouse in a fashionable area of London before midnight, so they can keep their tradition of celebrating the new year with a midnight toast. Jane wo…
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War Film, war film
The Royal Air Force (RAF) begins attacking German V-1 flying bomb installations in early summer of 1944. When the de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber of Squadron Leader David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bom…
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Political Thriller
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of …
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Drama, Western, Western film
Near the end of the Civil War, Paul Cable returns home to Texas after being away from his family for years while fighting for the Confederacy. His wife, Martha, is a strong-willed frontier woman whose independence makes her a force in and …
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Drama, Fantasy
Part I: Igraine and Uther The film begins with a battered, dirty, and injured Morgaine riding in a small boat through a misty river. Most of the film is a reflection through her eyes, with Morgaine as narrator. Morgaine (aged 8) is living …
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
thumb|Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Jeffrey Lynn thumb|Lobby card with James Cagney Eddie Bartlett, George Hally, and Lloyd Hart meet each other in a foxhole during the final days of World War I. Following the war's end, Lloyd starts h…
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Drama, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, war film
In early 1944 Poland, a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym is summoned to the German headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the commander, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast speak…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Corporal King is an anomaly in the Japanese prison camp. One of only a handful of Americans amongst the British and Australian inmates, he thrives through his conniving and black market enterprises, while others, like upper class British R…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In the 17th century, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and elsewhere in eastern Europe are divided into small sections and principalities that fight each other or against one enemy: in this case, the Ottoman Empire. A battle rages between the Turks…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
"This is a story of the Unconquerable Fortress: the American Home...1943" In January 1943, Anne Hilton is an upper-middle-class housewife living in a Midwestern town near a military base with her two teenage daughters, Jane and Bridget ("B…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, parody film, war film
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond is Queen Victoria's Governor in the Indian province of Kalabar near the Khyber Pass. The province is defended by the feared 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment, who are said to not wear anything under their kilts. When a so…
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Satire On War, Silly Movie, comedy film, war film
On a summer day in 1942, a lost RAF bomber strays over Paris and is shot down by German flak. After agreeing to rendezvous in the hammam at the Grand Mosque of Paris, the crew parachute out, but only three evade capture. Sir Reginald lands…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 15th-century France, the young peasant Joan, at the age of thirteen, begins to hear voices that she believes are sent by God. The voices instruct her to help save France from English occupation and to ensure that the Dauphin, Charles, i…
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Action, action film, drama film, war film
Colonel James Braddock, Vietnam War veteran, had believed his Asian wife Lin Tan Cang to be dead since the war ended in 1975, but he hears from a missionary, Reverend Polanski, that Lin is not only alive, but that she and Braddock have a 1…
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Action, Adventure, action film, thriller film
A joint U.S.–South American task force is formed to counter a powerful drug cartel smuggling narcotics to the United States. However, a U.S. Army air assault on the cartel's fortified mountain compound is repelled by Eric Stoller (Bert Rhi…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Fegele Abramovich, a Russian Jew is separated from her father as a child in 1927. Her father has travelled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother. Before leaving, he sings "Je Crois Entendre Encore"…
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Adventure, Justice Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film
In 1895, the Royal North Surrey Regiment is called to active service to join the army of Sir Herbert Kitchener in the Mahdist War against the forces of the Khalifa. Forced into an army career by family tradition and fearful he might prove …
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war film
In 1950, just a few months after North Korean forces have overrun most of South Korea, an American-led UN coalition is deployed to Korea to aid the struggling South Koreans. General Douglas MacArthur devises a secret plan to attack behind …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|230px|left|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (edited version) Madariaga "The Centaur" (Pomeroy Cannon), a harsh but popular Argentine landowner, has a German son-in-law, Karl von Hartrott, whom he dislikes and a French one, Marcelo…
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Drama, drama film
In 1940 Alice Lamb, who is working on her typewriter, lives in a cottage by the seaside in Kent. She has lived in the village since before the start of WWII, during which time she tolerated the harassment by local children who thought she …
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War Film, action film
Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's protagonist Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own. While working with the UN Forces in the Democra…
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