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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 73.
Drama, Mysterie
Joseph is a retired NYPD cop and Holocaust survivor. He travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, Anna. No sooner does Joseph …
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Action, Drama, Historie, War Film, war film
During the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, two Allied officers in Egypt are interviewed to lead a dangerous commando mission behind German lines in Benghazi. Major David Brand, a South African, is a regular army officer but lacks …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
During the Korean War in 1953, a group of Eighth U.S. Army soldiers aboard a merchant ship capture the enemy Korean People's Army Air Force pilot of a plane they have shot down. They are ordered by the Republic of Korea Army headquarters t…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film
The opening credits show huge crowds of workers going into factories. The narrator begins the film with nostalgic views of crowded beaches and remembering what it was like to eat an orange (unavailable during the war). Celia Crowson and he…
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Adventure, War Film, war film
In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George), stationed at a United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, attempts to persuade superiors that a massive, co-ordinated daylight bombing raid will hasten…
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comedy film, war film
Brendan Byers III is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own m…
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Drama, drama film
A group of flight cadets arrive at RAF Cranwell to begin a three-year training course to become RAF pilots. Amongst the group is Tony Winchester who makes a memorable entrance by landing his civilian Taylorcraft Auster aircraft with his gi…
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Political Satire, Splatstick, comedy film
Mr. Freedom is a Washington D.C. police officer who drinks Colt 45 on duty and moonlights as a government-sanctioned, vigilante superhero.
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Drama, War Film, drama film
On 3 September 1939, at the start of World War II, several East End Londoners join the London County Council Auxiliary Fire Service. Tommy Turk is a light-hearted gambler who avoids work, living with his mother who runs a local fish and ch…
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War Film, drama film
American infantrymen Carter, Ferguson and Small are returning from patrol in a bomb-ridden town when they are forced to take cover by an enemy machine gun. Coke, who was separated from the patrol, returns to the squad's basement outpost wh…
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Thriller, spy film
In 1938, Austrian refugee Peter Vadassy takes a holiday at the Hotel Reserve on the French Mediterranean coast to celebrate his completion of medical school and his impending French citizenship. When he goes to collect his photographs from…
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Adventure, Crime, Komödie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, comedy thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, spy film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film, war film
After a 16-year-old girl Candy Hull develops a crush on intelligence agent Wally Sanders in London, she helps him to uncover a communist plot against the United States.
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
This is the story of thirteen women. Only two of them—Captain Alice Marsh and Lieutenant Mary Smith—were members of the armed forces of the United States. The others were civilians—American women who, until that fateful day in December, kn…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In Rome shortly after World War II, British Col. Michael "Hooky" Nicobar is expecting a transfer home when he is instead posted to Vienna with his aides Major John "Twingo" McPhimister, Junior Commander Audrey Quail, and Private David Moon…
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Drama, drama film
In Luzhou, China, news cameraman Johnny Williams is taken into custody by the Japanese military. He is offered $20,000 to take pictures of the Burma Road, a vital link for Allied supply that had been built to support the Chinese war effort…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, documentary film
Documentation, Event Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Long Term Documentary, Political Documentary, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Adventure, Film Noir, action film, drama film, film noir, romance film, war film
In 1925 Damascus, the native Syrians are fighting a guerrilla war against the French colonial rule of Syria. Harry Smith is an American black marketeer secretly selling weapons to the guerrillas. As the situation deteriorates, French gener…
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Crime, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Jim Henry, former Korean War Marine sergeant recently discharged, is in Las Vegas to visit Paul, an old buddy from the war. While in a casino, Jim is drawn to, and ends up in an altercation with, former fashion model Terry Smith (Mary Beth…
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War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1950, during the Cold War, František (Franta) Sláma (Ondřej Vetchý) is incarcerated in Czechoslovakia, because of his prior service in the RAF. His recollections of the war begin in 1939, just days prior to the German invasion of Czecho…
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Anti-War Film, war film
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimović (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo. Slavko, an eth…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Prior to the 1944 American invasion of the Philippines a hand-picked team of U.S. Marine Corps amphibious reconnaissance scouts is landed by a PBY Catalina with the mission of contacting an intelligence agent who has crucial information. E…
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War Film
The film is set in the middle of World War II, and in the deserts of Africa, Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. Sulli…
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