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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 48.
Adventure, action film, adventure film
Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is taken prisoner after Chinese Communist seize his ship. After two years in prison, unknown accomplices help Wilder escape using bribery and disguising him as a Soviet army officer. Wilder…
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Action, Crime, crime film
The film begins by exploring stories involving a number of different characters who live in and around London, all of whom have experiences which lead them to believe that justice in the country is not being handed out fairly. These charac…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, slasher film, vampire film, zombie film
In 1972 Vietnam, American soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper and falls to the ground. As he dies, he hears his mother Christine's voice calling out, "Andy, you'll come back. You've got to.
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Anti-War Film, Western, Western film
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go…
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Anti-War Film, drama film, war film
In the closing days of World War II, Irish crewman Murphy is the sole survivor of the crew of merchant ship Mount Kyle, which had been sunk by a Nazi German U-boat and the survivors machine-gunned in the water. Murphy reaches the shore and…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the near future, an atomic disaster has reduced the world to poverty. Instead of a government, America is run by an organization called the Merchants, who exploit the degenerate remains of society. In order to keep control of the popula…
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War Film, drama film, thriller film, war film
The film begins with off-screen narration over black-and-white historical footage of the World War II Burma campaign, including mention of all nationalities of Allied forces who participated. The film then segues into color as Lt. Stockton…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy film, horror film, propaganda film, science fiction film, spy film, war film
Frank Griffin Jr, the grandson of the original Invisible Man, runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond (Jon Hall). One evening, he is confronted in his shop by four armed men who reveal that they are foreign a…
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War Film, war film
Robert Crain is a wealthy German engineer and pacifist who fled to India under a fabricated Swiss identity after being conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. He is blackmailed by Colonel Statter of British Army Intell…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, satanic film
Drama, War Film, war film
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz von Werra is shot down during the Battle of Britain and captured. At the 'London Cage', the military intelligence POW reception centre, he wagers with his RAF interrogator that he will escape within six months…
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Thriller, thriller film, war film
War Film, war film
During World War II, Lieutenant Hearn is an aide to General Cummings, who treats Hearn as a son and a friend. The general believes that commanding officers should induce fear in their subordinates in order to enforce discipline. Hearn expr…
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Action, Drama, Military Film, Mysterie, action film, drama film, mystery film, war film
William "Spooky" MacPherson is a disabled special operations Marine wounded during combat operations in Iraq. When MacPherson decides to visit a friend on a ranch in the Southwestern United States, he discovers that his friend has disappea…
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drama film, war film
After repeated defeats during the American Revolutionary War's campaign of 1776, the Continental Army retreats across New Jersey. In the prior six months, they have lost New York City and been chased through New Jersey by the British, and …
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Historical drama, drama film, historical film, war film
The film is based on the true story of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, two prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon…
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, thriller film
A team of trained operatives are sent to a prison facility to investigate the disappearance of another covert operations unit. Shortly after arriving, they discover the bodies of the previous team, and then find themselves trapped in a loc…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Before the credits, an off-screen voice-over narrates: Renowned French scientist Professor Montel (Victor Francen) goes missing; authorities believe that he and four other Western scientists have defected behind the Iron Curtain. Former U.…
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War Film, war film
During World War II, a Marine battalion prepares to land on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific. Lieutenant Colonel Gilfillan orders the men to take prisoners in order to gain information about Japanese fortifications. Below deck, vetera…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In Paris in the year 1924, a young 14-year-old Gilda Bessé, the daughter of a French aristocrat and an emotionally unstable American mother, is told by a fortune teller that the life line on her palm does not extend past the age of 34. Yea…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, spy film
Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English, and whose mother is French, living in London early in the Second World War. She meets French Army officer Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city, and they become engaged to be marrie…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
The Ottoman Lieutenant is a love story between an idealistic American nurse, Lillie, and a Turkish officer during World War I. Lillie first travels to Istanbul before being escorted by Ismail to the region around Van.
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film
thumb|upright|left|Nils Asther and Barbara Stanwyck as General Yen and Megan Davis. In the late 1920s in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, as throngs of refugees flee the rainswept city, a couple of elderly Christian missionaries welc…
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drama film, war film
Set in 1862 in a rural upstate New York community referred to as "The Corners", Abner Beech is a dairy farmer and an antiwar Democrat, sharing quarters with the Irish Hurley family. While his neighbors take up the Union cause in the ongoin…
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