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Adventure, Melodrama, children's film
In 1897, during the British Raj, Sergeant Donald MacDuff escorts Joyce Williams, an impoverished young widow, and her daughter, Priscilla, to a military outpost on the northern frontier of British occupied India to live with her stern fath…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Jim Gordon leads the Flying Tigers, a squadron of volunteer American pilots who fly Curtiss P-40C fighters against Japanese aircraft in the skies over China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The pilots are a mixed bunch, motivated by mo…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, partisan film, propaganda film, romance film
In the wintry Russian countryside of the early 1940s, Vladimir leads a squad of partisans operating behind German lines. The group's routine is disrupted when Nina, a ballerina, is brought to their hideout after becoming separated from her…
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Western, Western film
Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia. After a 3-month cattle drive, he is 10 days late in delivering the herd, and Major Albert Stedman informs Kelly that he must now take the cattle…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on 15 August 1962.
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Secret Agent, Sexploitation Film, biographical film, erotic film, romance film, thriller film, war film
The film's convoluted plot is anchored by a fictitious love triangle between Mata Hari and two military intelligence officers, the French Georges Ladoux (Oliver Tobias) and the German Karl von Bayerling (Christopher Cazenove). Ladoux and B…
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War Film, war film
On 6 September 1950, an isolated and exhausted platoon of the 24th Infantry Division is cut off. In addition to losing radio contact, the platoon is harassed by unseen North Korean infiltrators who silently kill the Americans and take thei…
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Adventure, Komödie, Melodrama, comedy drama, war film
Lance Corporal Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after a female Asian elephant named Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo director decides that the zoo is uns…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
thumb|Law in a publicity still thumb|Don Stroud at Lynn Garrison's aviation facility in Ireland. Manfred von Richthofen is an average pilot in a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke. Richthofen, who believes in a gentlem…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
On December 6, 1941, the crew of Mary-Ann, a U.S. Army Air Corps B-17D, is ordered to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii with eight other Flying Fortress bombers. Master Sergeant Robbie White, the crew chief, is a long-time veteran whose son…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film
In Burma during the Pacific Theatre of World War II in 1945, a group of wounded Allied soldiers is at a makeshift British military hospital in the jungle. As they have all been there for some time, they have formed a strong bond. They incl…
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comedy film
The Red Baron returns in a toy plane to kill the former World War I flying ace that shot him down.
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Historie, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1682, 16-year-old Sophia Dorothea of Celle has an arranged marriage to Prince George Louis of Hanover, and she and the prince are both unhappy with the alliance. She seeks solace from the dashing Count Philip Konigsmark when her husband…
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Adventure, drama film
1945: As the Japanese occupiers in Malaya during World War II surrender, three friends who fought in the Resistance emerge from the jungle. Ferris is an American who fought alongside the Malayans. Dhana is a half-French, half-Vietnamese wo…
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Drama, drama film
The film is built around two main parallel stories, each containing almost identical dialogues. One story line involves Linda Sykes (Gyllenhaal), an American woman detained in the People's Republic of China, being interrogated by a militar…
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War Film, biographical film, drama film
Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr.
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Action, Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an illegal diamond mining operation awakens a giant prehistoric crocodile of 1,500 feet (460m). Meanwhile, on the Atlantic Ocean, the US Navy warship USS Gibson is attacked and sunk by the mega…
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Drama, Erotic Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller
In 1940s Nazi Germany, a young Jewish woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her own life by seducing the young doctor who performs medical experiments on prisoners. Decades later in the year 1993, that same woman (Jacqueline Bisset) is …
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Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy, war film
In the kingdom of Fortunia, a narrative unfolds, blending elements of fairy tale and adventure. Following the tragic loss of his beloved queen during childbirth, the noble king remarries, uniting with a beautiful yet malevolent queen who h…
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Action, War Film, thriller film, war film
While on an unsanctioned covert mission in Africa, a small team of Navy SEALs uncovers intelligence pointing to the imminent sale of a massive quantity of weapons grade uranium. Now, with no mission prep and zero support, they have less th…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
A small-town soldier, Joe Allen, on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry in crowded Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes. Although it is Sunday, Joe gets a shoe-repair shop owner to op…
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Komödie, comedy film
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith is a small town boy whose father, "Hinky Dinky" Truesmith, was a Marine who died a hero in World War I. Woodrow has been discharged from the Marine Corps after only a month owing to his chronic hay feve…
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Drama, drama film, war film
American-born Agnes Keith and her British husband Harry Keith live a comfortable colonial life in North Borneo with their young son George in the 1930s. Keith is the only American in Sandakan. Borneo was strategically important to Japan as…
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Documentation, documentary film, war film