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Drama, Historie, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
In 1929, Chiyo Sakamoto and her older sister Satsu are sold by their poor father and taken to Gion, Kyoto. Chiyo is taken in by Kayoko Nitta, or "Mother", a local owner; while Satsu, deemed unattractive, is sent to a brothel instead. Chiyo…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Satire, Satire On War, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
In the early 1980s, Ukrainian-American restaurant employee Yuri Orlov, whose family assumed Jewish identities to emigrate from the Soviet Union, witnesses a gunfight amongst the Russian mafia in his neighborhood of Brighton Beach. The inci…
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Historie, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film
In the New Mexico Territory in 1892, settler Rosalee Quaid and her family are attacked by a Comanche war party, who kill her husband and three children. Rosalee escapes by hiding under a rock outcrop. At Fort Berringer, soon-to-retire U.S.
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Action, Drama, War Film, war film
In February 1942, Allied convoy HX-25, consisting of 37 merchant and troop ships en route for Liverpool, enters the "Black Pit", the Mid-Atlantic gap, where they will be out of range of protective air cover. The convoy's escort consists of…
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Action Comedy, action film, thriller film, war film
The Expendables are sent to Libya to prevent mercenary Suarto Rahmat from stealing nuclear warheads for a mysterious terrorist named Ocelot. The team is led by Barney Ross and formed of members Lee Christmas, Toll Road, and Gunner Jensen, …
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Action, Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, war film
In 1793, amid the French Revolution, young army officer Napoleon Bonaparte watches Marie Antoinette beheaded by the guillotine. Later that year, Revolutionary leader Paul Barras has Napoleon manage the Siege of Toulon; he storms the enemy …
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, War Film, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film, war film
On October 6, 1971, American infantryman Jacob Singer is with the 1st Air Cavalry Division, deployed in a village in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, when his unit comes under attack. As many of Jacob's comrades are killed or wounded, others exhibi…
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner are college students from different backgrounds. Katie is Jewish, with strong political opinions which she freely shares, most striking of which is her support of communism. Hubbell is from a reserved, tr…
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Action, Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1999, Sierra Leone is ravaged by civil war. The Revolutionary United Front terrorizes the countryside and enslaves many locals to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman fr…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 sends James Bond into the field to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his mission, Royal Navy Rear Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile …
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, war film
After being attacked by a brainwashed Peeta Mellark, Katniss Everdeen recovers from her injuries in District 13. President of District 13, Alma Coin, refuses to let Katniss go to the Capitol until they secure District 2, the last district …
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who revea…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, Road Movie, autobiography, buddy film, comedy drama, phantasmagoria
In 1971, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo speed across the Mojave Desert. Duke, under the influence of mescaline, complains of a swarm of giant bats, and inventories their drug stash.
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
thumb|Guadalcanal cemetery, 1945 In November 1942, United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit to live among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. He is found and imprisoned on a troopship by First Sergeant Wels…
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Adventure, Animation, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, fantasy film
In Medieval Scotland, a young Princess Merida of Clan DunBroch celebrates her birthday and is given a bow and arrow by her father, King Fergus, dismaying his wife Queen Elinor. In the forest, Merida encounters a will-o'-the-wisp and follow…
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Crime, Komödie, Political Drama, Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film, independent film
Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his sister Jade. He has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a pizzeria owned by Italian-American Salvatore "Sal"…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Fairy-Tale Film, Family Drama, Low Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, werewolf film
At William Bloom's wedding party, his father Edward recalls the day Will was born, claiming he caught an enormous catfish using his wedding ring as bait. Will has heard his father's fanciful tales many times, and believes they are lies. Fe…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, war film
In the twenty years after the War of 1996, the United Nations has founded the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense program using reverse-engineered alien technology and serves as Earth's defense force against extraterrestrial threat…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Komödie, crime film, drama film, historical film
In 1918, a man named Burt Berendsen is sent by his estranged wife's parents to fight in World War I. While stationed in France, Burt befriends African-American soldier Harold Woodman. After sustaining injuries in battle, Burt and Harold ar…
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Christmas film, High Fantasy, action film, fantasy film
In September 1940, after surviving the Blitz during World War II, the Pevensie children – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy – are evacuated from London, England to the country home of Professor Kirke. During a game of hide-and-seek, Lucy disc…
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Historie, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
In May 1940, the opposition Labour Party in Parliament demands the resignation of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain for being too weak in the face of the Nazi onslaught. Conservative Party colleagues want Lord Halifax as his succe…
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Biographical picture, Swords and Sandals, action film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, romance film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the first century BC, the Roman Republic has slid into corruption, its menial work done by slaves. One slave, a Thracian named Spartacus, is so uncooperative in his position in a mining pit that he is sentenced to death by starvation. B…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, disaster film, drama fiction, post-apocalyptic film
thumb|left|Soviet troop movements into Iran as shown in a clipping from The Observer early in the film (with occupied Afghanistan in red)In the English city of Sheffield, Ruth Beckett and Jimmy Kemp, who are young adults, plan to marry aft…
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