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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 40.
Vampirfilm, action film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, vampire film, war film
Agent Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II with the French resistance, encountering Commander Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose goal is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into an…
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drama film, war film
Shortly after the failed attempt to assassinate him in 1944, Adolf Hitler appoints General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris, believing he'll obey his order to destroy Paris if the Allies are ever …
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sergey, a young private in the Soviet Air Force, has only a few weeks remaining in his military service. He and his friends bristle under the tight control of the military commanders. He appears to have a budding romance with Luisa, the se…
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War Film, drama film, war film
During the Pacific Theater of World War II, a platoon of seventeen Japanese soldiers is stationed on an island in the Solomon Archipelago. After American forces bypass their position and a storm destroys their radio, the platoon is strande…
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Drama, Forensic, Justice Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film
In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS Avenger presses into service a crewman "according to the Rights of War" from the merchant ship The Rights of Man. The new crewman, Billy Budd, is considered naive by his shipmates, and they at…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In 1992, Linda Voss is interviewed by a BBC documentary team about her experiences during World War II. Growing up in New York City as a woman of mixed Irish/German Jewish parentage, she dreamed of visiting family members in Berlin. In 194…
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Drama, Political Satire, Satire, Satire On Media, comedy drama
In a future United States, immigration has rapidly increased, resulting in a fractured multicultural society. The Mayor of Los Angeles speaks only in Spanish, Rhode Island is populated mostly by Chinese Americans, and Alabama has a Sikh co…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, war film
Lana Borst, the eldest daughter of a wealthy colonial family, marries Gilbert Martin. Together, they leave her family's luxurious home to embark on a frontier life on Gil's small Deerfield farm situated in the Mohawk Valley of Central New …
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Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, war film
In late 1941, General František Moravec commands three Czech partisans, Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík, and Karel Čurda, who were trained by the British, to undertake a crucial military operation described as being the most important of the war. …
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, war film
thumb|right|Errol Flynn in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) In 1854, Captain Geoffrey Vickers and his brother, Captain Perry Vickers, are stationed in India, with the 27th Lancers of the British Army. It is during the period of East …
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crime film, drama film, historical film
The film begins shortly after the end of the Second World War with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and …
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Psychodrama, action film, drama film, war film
After learning their unit will soon return home, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. William Marsh, Sergeant Vanessa Price, Specialists Tommy Yates and Jamal Aiken, and Private Jordan Owens participate in a final mission, to convoy medical supplies to …
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Horror, Nazi exploitation, Thriller, War Film, exploitation film
Two officers from the American Women's Army Corps volunteer to go undercover in a Nazi concentration camp to gather information and potentially rescue Martha Grossman, a Jewish scientist. The female inmates serve as sex slaves for German o…
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Adventure, drama film, war film
During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous siege cannon, belonging to the Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to find it.
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Drama, drama film
During the height of the Cold War, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, Soviet Union, is unexpectedly set free after 20 years in a Siberian labour camp by his former gaoler Piotr Ilyich Kamenev, now the Premier of t…
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Anti-War Film, drama film
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in France and Spain in the 1920s.
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War Film, historical film, war film
During the Korean War, the is tasked with staging a diversionary mission at Jangsari Beach in South Korea, in order to deceive the North Korean forces into thinking the opposition forces would launch a decisive invasion there. In doing so,…
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and whose clan was defeated in a criminal war with a rival family. Surviving clan members have few options: either to join the winners, reconciling…
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Military Film, Romance Film, action film, drama film, romance film
A Soviet Air Force jet lands on a U.S. Air Force air base in Alaska. The Air Force base commander, Colonel Jim Shannon, is surprised to discover that the pilot is a woman, Lieutenant Anna Marladovna, who asks for asylum, but refuses to dis…
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Drama, comedy film, drama film
Having completed his latest tour of duty, middle-aged SSG Fred Cheaver has retired from military service and is returning home to his wife and son in suburban St. Louis. PFC Colee Dunn and SSG T.K.
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Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Hungarian immigrant Michael J. Laszlo faces a trial and having his U.S. citizenship revoked after being accused of war crimes during the Second World War.
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Crime, Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, war film
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big-game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat. With Hitler in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifl…
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War Film, war film
In September 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps is only 90 miles (144 km) from the Suez Canal, but running dangerously low on fuel. The British approve a plan to destroy German fuel bunkers at Tobruk in an attempt to cripple Rommel's attack. The …
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Drama, Social Drama, drama film
thumb|left|This former Boston streetcar was restored to its 1915 Boston Elevated Railway livery for scenes in the film. The film is shown as a series of memory flashbacks during a formal ceremony where the protagonist is instituted as a ca…
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