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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film
An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South…
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Horror, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, comedy horror, horror film, mockbuster, thriller film, zombie comedy
After his mother Nancy Lincoln turns into a zombie, 10-year-old Abraham Lincoln sees his father Thomas Lincoln commit suicide at her bedside. Taking up a scythe, the distraught young Abe beheads her. He then joins others in his community i…
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War Film, drama film, war film
During the Korean War in 1951, a small force of British soldiers is in danger of being cut off by the advancing Chinese army. The plot emphasizes the plight of the National Servicemen who, as they say, were "old enough to fight, but too yo…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Jeremy Collier is a returning Vietnam War hero whose experiences leave him unable to adjust to the quiet realities of small-town life. Bob Collier, Jeremy's father, expects his son to go back to his life as it was, without understanding th…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
The film is told in a flashback format with Gage, now living in the United States, returning to his native Greece to solve the mystery of his mother's death when he was a child. The film looks back to the effect of the 1940s Greek Civil Wa…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Captain Douglas is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, overseeing incoming fuel supplies for the British Eighth Army. Colonel Masters commands a special raiding unit comp…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Dawn Patrol (1930)|left During World War I, the pilots of an RFC squadron deal with the stress of combat primarily through nightly bouts of heavy drinking. The two aces of the squadron's "A Flight", Courtney and Scot…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1945 US Army Rangers raid the Cabanatuan Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, rescuing its POWs. The film flashes back to March 1942, and the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. As U.S.
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Musical, musical film, romance film, war film
In the heyday of vaudeville, on the verge of America's entrance into World War I, two talented performers, Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly), set their sights on playing the Palace Theatre on Broadway, the epitome of v…
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Drama, drama film
Pierre Peders (Buscemi) is a tough political correspondent infuriated by his editor's insistence he cover a tabloid-level story about the paparazzi favorite Katya (Miller). Pierre's chagrin increases given the news of a searing White House…
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Adventure, Romance Film, War Film, adventure film, docudrama, drama film, war film
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a young British journalist from Hertfordshire. In 1938, a year after the Japanese invasion of northern China and occupation of central coastal areas, he sneaks into Nanjing, China, by pretending to be …
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Drama, drama film
The film takes place in New Zealand in 1868 during Tītokowaru's War phase of the New Zealand Wars between the Māori and New Zealand colonial forces. Sarah O'Brien (Samantha Morton) has grown up among soldiers in a frontier garrison on Te A…
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Drama, Film Noir, film noir, spy film
In wartime Britain during the Blitz, Stephen Neale is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He is urged to go to the palm reader's te…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
A few hours before D-Day, Special Force Six, a joint American-British-Canadian commando unit, embarks to destroy an especially well-defended German coastal gun emplacement on the Normandy coast. As the landing ship steams towards it, its c…
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War Film, drama film, war film
As an American infantry battalion aboard a troopship prepares to land on Guadalcanal, Charlie Company's First Sergeant Welsh tells Private Doll he had not provided him with reports that Doll insisted that he gave to Welsh. They are overhea…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film
Michael Cannon returns to London after the Second World War and places adverts in the personal columns of newspapers in an effort to re-unite with "Sea Wife", a lost acquaintance. Cannon publishes under the name "Biscuit." In time, he rece…
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Drama, drama film
In Los Angeles, 26-year-old architect George Matthews is floundering. He is unemployed and in debt, his live-in girlfriend, aspiring actress Gloria, is tired of him, and his car is about to be repossessed. Going round to friends to scroung…
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action film, kung fu film, war film
Lieutenant Colonel Lam is a Hong Kong-American army officer given a top-secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them. Co…
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Drama, drama film, musical film, war film
In Berlin at the end of World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård) is conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony when yet another Allied air raid stops the performance. A minister in the Nazi government comes to Furtwängler's dressing …
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Thriller, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps capture Tobruk in June 1942 and pursue the British into Egypt. He stumbles across the North African desert into the town of Sidi Half…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Major Dan Kirby arrives at VMF-247 (the "Wildcats") as the new commander, although the unit was expecting Captain Carl "Grif" Griffin to take command. Kirby is strict from the beginning. Assigned to the Cactus Air Force during the Guadalca…
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children's film
Sarah Crewe, a beautiful little girl who was born in India, is sent to a boarding school in England, leaving her life in India and her father, Captain Crewe. Life is rather hard for Sarah, so he bought her a doll named Emily. Sarah quickly…
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Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, drama film, war film
During World War II, Kurt Gerstein, a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designs programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradica…
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War Film, docudrama, documentary film
The story begins on April 16, 1746 at Culloden Moor in Scotland. The Jacobite Army, numbering fewer than 5,000 men under Charles Edward Stuart, awaits a government army of 9,000 troops under William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Many of th…
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