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Adventure, Thriller, action film, drama film
In 1959 former British Major and mercenary Robert Dapes (Sean Connery) arrives in Cuba under General Bello's (Martin Balsam) orders as part of the dictator Fulgencio Batista's forces. He is to train the Cuban army to resist Fidel Castro's …
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Documentation
Porcelain War follows Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov during the war in Ukraine. All of them join the Ukrainian defense, and Slava works as a machine gun trainer. Even as the war goes on, Slava and Anya create porcelain …
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biographical film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
Set after the Nazi invasion of Denmark, the film focuses on the Holger Danske resistance group's Bent Faurschou Hviid (known as Flammen) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citronen). In a bar, Bent flirts with a woman, who identifies hers…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, spy film, war film
In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are about to spend their honeymoon in continental Europe. They are commissioned by the British secret service to find a scientist who has…
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Komödie, comedy film, farce, romantic comedy, war film
thumb|upright 1.25|Gina Lollobrigida and Shelley Winters as Carla Campbell and Shirley Newman. During the WWII American occupation of Italy, American GIs are quartered in the homes of town residents in the village of San Forino, and recent…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, science fiction film
In a New York bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is seated alone, drinking brandy. He engages in discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including television newscaster Vince Potter, beautiful soc…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Disgraced World War II United States Army Captain Jack Wosick is given the opportunity for redemption when asked to lead a rag-tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs on a secret mission to go behind enemy lines to gather intelligence on…
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Destiny, Family Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
War photographer Paul Prior (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to his hometown in the South Island of New Zealand following the death of his father Jeff (Matthew Chamberlain). Paul reunites with his younger brother Andrew (Colin Moy), a pious loc…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, War Film, drama film, romance film
In the 1980s, middle-aged ballet dancer and choreographer Jeroen feels dissatisfied with his dancers' interpretation of an autobiographical ballet about Canada's liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. In his office, he shows his colleague …
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Crime, Film Noir, Melodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
A dead man tumbles down a flight of stairs. When the police arrive at the top-floor apartment of Joe Adams, he shoots at them through the door. The sheriff calls in reinforcements and sets up snipers on nearby rooftops.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, war film
The film tells of Che Guevara, a young Argentine doctor who proves his mettle during the Cuban guerrilla war in the late 1950s. He gains the respect of his men and becomes the leader of a patrol. Fidel Castro is impressed by Guevara's tact…
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War Film, drama film, war film
thumb|Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey in Action in the North Atlantic An American oil tanker, the SS Northern Star, commanded by Captain Steve Jarvis, is sunk in the North Atlantic by a German U-boat. Along with First Officer Joe Rossi,…
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film, drama film
On 27 November 1944, during World War II, two American fliers, Captain Hank Wilson and Sergeant Lucky Finder, have to bail out over Germany. They land in the small town of Altheim, where Wilhelm Frick reads his horoscope and it says an exc…
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Social Drama, drama film, splatter film, war film
Frankie Dunlan, an American soldier in the Vietnam War, runs alone through the jungle. As his voice narrates, he reveals that he "goes back there every night" before waking up in his rundown New York apartment, next to his wife Cathy and t…
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biographical film
The film starts just before World War II and shows the political and personal side of Benito Mussolini's fall from power and his death and the end of the war. It delves into his relationship with his son in-law, daughter, wife, mistress, a…
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Documentation, documentary film
The documentary tells the story of four characters fighting to protect Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world's last mountain gorillas, from war, poaching, and the threat of oil exploration. Following …
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Drama, drama film
The film follows the life of three students (Davis, Allen, Parker) at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in the 1960s.
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Drama, War Film, trial film, war film
Having survived two years in a Korean prisoner-of-war camp, Captain Edward W. Hall Jr. returns home to a US Army post in San Francisco.
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Drama, adventure film, drama film
Artist Thomas Hudson is an American who has left the civilized world for a simple life in the Caribbean. Schaffner tells the tale in four parts: The Island - Introduces Hudson and the people he knows. It is set in the British Bahamas, circ…
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Drama, drama film
After her sister Olga marries and leaves home, Katrin Koerber, the daughter of an Austrian medical professor, fights loneliness and dreams of a more exciting life outside Austria. Consequently, when Dr. Walter Fane, a British bacteriologis…
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Drama, drama film, war film
thumb|The full film It is 1948. American airmen based in Hawaii are flown to Germany, where their job will be to fly C-54 aircraft to provide food and other urgent supplies to those sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets have…
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Drama, War Film, comedy film
At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, newly commissioned lieutenant John W. Harkness bids farewell to his wife Ellie and reports aboard the PC-1168, unaware that his civilian background in engineering and Rutgers edu…
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Splatter Film, action film, horror film, splatter film
Boz, the leader of a psychotic gang, deals a powerful and addictive new drug called Hype. His members, dubbed Hypers, are completely hooked on his product so much he makes one of the members, Lucy, jump off a balcony to her death when he d…
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Biographical picture, War Film, drama film
The film starts with Siegfried Sassoon's open letter of July 1917, Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration, inveighing "against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed". The letter publ…
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