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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 46.
Drama, drama film, war film
In 1938, Madariaga is the 80-year-old patriarch of a cattle ranch in Argentina. His two grandsons are Julio, whose father Marcelo is French, and Heinrich, whose father Karl is German. When Heinrich returns home from studying in Germany to …
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Drama, Historie, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
A German mercenary named "The Captain" leads his company who fight for whoever will pay them, regardless of religion. His soldiers pillage the countryside, raping and looting when not fighting. During their campaigns, they encounter Vogel,…
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Action, War Film, war film
With the beginning of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War/World War II (1937–45) at the Battle of Shanghai and Nanjing, the story develops around the Chinese Air Force's resistance against the Japanese invasion and occupation of China;…
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LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film, spy film
In late 1969, U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Charles Rone is contacted by "The Highwayman", a veteran spy and member of a freelance espionage ring that sells information to the highest bidder. The Highwayman recruits Rone for an intellige…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film
In 1759, Langdon Towne, son of a ropemaker and ship rigger, returns to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after his expulsion from Harvard University. Although disappointed, his family greets him with love, as does Elizabeth Browne. Elizabeth's fa…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
A small northern town soon finds out that a large U.S. Army base is being established for the build-up to the Normandy landings. Soon thousands of rambunctious American troops, or "Yanks" as they are known to the British, descend upon the …
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art film, drama film, war film
1st Episode During the Allied invasion of Sicily, an American patrol makes its way to a village at night. Only one of the Americans speaks Italian. Local girl Carmela, who wants to find the whereabouts of her brother and father, agrees to …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
The series begins in 82 BC when Julius Caesar is 18 years old. He is out in the town with his daughter Julia when news comes that Sulla is outside Rome with his army. The guards sent with the news post death lists on the Senate door.
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In rural Michigan in 1991, Marie Harris delivers the eulogy at the funeral of her father Chuck, a U.S. Army Air Force veteran who had fought in World War II. The church is full of veterans who knew and loved him.
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War Film, war film
During the Korean War, Major Cleve "Iceman" Saville, a veteran World War II ace, returns to combat, eager to fly the F-86 Sabre jet fighter. His commanding officer, Colonel "Dutch" Imil, assigns him command of a flight. Among his pilots is…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The tale is of a young man named Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who tells the story in account format from the past to the present day events of his experiences. His eldest brother, "Big Joe", has learning difficulties due to brain damage at bir…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, drama television series, war film, war television series
Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, war film
Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
During World War II, U.S. Army lieutenant Ken Wilocek is shot in the back by a sniper, injuring his spinal cord. In the years that follow, he faces a series of ongoing struggles in accepting his condition, in rehabilitation and in reenteri…
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action film, drama film, war film
During World War II, American deserter Learoyd escapes a Japanese firing squad. Hiding in the wilds of Borneo, Learoyd is adopted by a head-hunting tribe of Dayaks, who consider him divine because of his blue eyes. Before long, Learoyd is …
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Drama, drama film
The film is the story of a family that moves from their rural home in Appalachia to Detroit, Michigan, where the father intends to find work in a factory. Gertie is hesitant to leave their home; her husband Clovis believes that it will bri…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Robert Miller, a veteran paratrooper, is returning from the war in Afghanistan to his home in a violent decaying South London Heygate Estate, overrun by gun-toting youth gangs. The gangs are led by a drug lord gangster Jones who is interes…
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Drama, drama film, prison film, romance film, war film
In the early 1950s, Lily Kawamura tells her pre-adolescent daughter Mini about her father and the life that she barely remembers, as the two of them are walking to a rural train station. In 1936, Jack McGurn is a motion picture projectioni…
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Drama, drama film
After his aircraft company's ground-breaking work on jet engine technology in the Second World War, Sir John Ridgefield, its wealthy owner, employs test pilot Squadron Leader Tony Garthwaite, a successful wartime fighter pilot, to fly new …
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Melodrama, lesbian-related film, romance film, spy film
The film weaves together two stories set 30 years apart: one set in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, and one from post-Soviet Russia in the early 1990s. A young Soviet woman, Katya, lost her parents during the Great Purge. Though she prete…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, war film
Irish-American Kerry O'Shea is studying at the College of Surgeons in 1921 Dublin, Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence. Apolitical and sick of killing after fighting in World War I, he is drawn into the struggle between the outla…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1964, Major Asa Barker, a weary veteran of World War II and the Korean War, is given command of a poorly-manned US Army advisor outpost overlooking three villages in South Vietnam. He is ordered to reoccupy a nearby deserted hamlet name…
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Drama, War Film
Early in the Korean War in 1950, as the North is rolling through South Korea, South Korean army privates Kang Eun-pyo (Shin Ha-kyun) and Kim Soo-hyeok (Go Soo) are captured in a battle and brought to Korean People's Army captain Jung-yoon.…
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action film, drama film
Ryker, a former mercenary, comes out of retirement to take part in the overthrow of an African dictator. He travels to London to meet former war comrade Jesse Jones, and his associates Freddy Bradshaw and Temple Smith. After helping fellow…
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