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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 75.
Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
An aircraft lands in Kenya near Rhino Rock, and Zia (Gene Tierney) disembarks and is met by a caravan she owns. In Manieka, British East Africa, Bill Crawford (Bruce Cabot), District Commissioner, contacts the governor at Nairobi, requesti…
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A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of securing an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allied advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These Africa…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, disaster film, science fiction film, war film
SAS lieutenant Michael Galloway, his friends Vincent and Robin, and Robin's girlfriend Dana, go out to a club. While there, Michael hooks up with a girl named Carrie and Robin proposes to Dana. Just as Robin sees a strange light in the sky…
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war film
In 1942, newly promoted Capt. John Madison Hoskins returns home after two years at sea to spend a seven-hour leave with his wife Sue and their children, before taking command of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). However, he receives …
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1941, prostitute Mamie Stover is pressured to leave San Francisco by the police. On a freighter bound for Honolulu, she meets Jim Blair, a successful writer and the only other passenger. Initially hostile, Mamie softens a bit when he st…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
In England during World War II, Alice, a woman running a farm in the countryside, discovers a young man named Barton roaming the fields. He helps around the farm and the two become friends, then lovers. Barton decides to desert the army.
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Christmas film, drama film, romance film, war film
Set in 1944 Rockport, Massachusetts during the final moments of World War II, I'll Be Home for Christmas focuses on the Bundy family. Head of the family Joseph (Hal Holbrook) and his wife Martha (Eva Marie Saint) await the return of their …
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Satire On War, comedy film
During the Second World War, Norman Pitkin, a roadmender with the St Godric's Borough Council, enjoys annoying the soldiers of the nearby British Army camp, even a general. Despite the efforts of his boss, Borough Engineer Mr Grimsdale, Co…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film
1941. In German-occupied France, five downed RAF fliers make their way to Paris to seek help returning to England. Their leader, Paul (Paul Henreid), contacts a former mentor, Father Antoine (Thomas Mitchell), who agrees to hide them in hi…
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romantic comedy, war film
In flying school, lazy Private Archie Hall somehow dominates everyone around him, fellow trainees, sergeants and officers alike, and manages to avoid doing any work. Bill Bowers, a Hollywood screenwriter in civilian life, becomes his sidek…
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Komödie, war film
During the Second World War, spiv Horace Pope is taken to court for street peddling. In mitigation, he tells the magistrate he is working in the black market only while waiting to enlist in the war effort. On hearing this plea, the magistr…
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Adventure, biographical film, romance film, war film
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect its inhabitants from the ravages of the occupying French nobles and their army. After defe…
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war film
In 1942, a group of American Marines are attacked by the Japanese in the jungles at Guadalcanal. Staff Sergeant "Shanghai" Jack Conell is the sole survivor of his squad, and when he makes it back to his own lines, he is given a field promo…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
The residents living in the South Korean countryside around a U.S. military base are affected by its presence. These include an unstable, near psychotic American soldier (Mitch Malem) who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, Eun-ok, a girl …
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War Film, drama film, war film
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the former horse racing-correspondent Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later he meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailor…
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Drama, drama film
During an air-raid on Piccadilly in World War II, Chief Wren Diana Fraser, who is on active duty with the Women's Royal Naval Service, meets Captain Alan Pearson, a Royal Marines officer on sick leave after the evacuation from Dunkirk. He …
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film, ghost film
Towards the end of World War II four United States Navy sailors—the accountant Lieutenant Krim, the cook Oglethorpe, the gunner's mate Toole, and the Cheyenne seaman Lightfoot—are separated from their ship and are marooned on an island in …
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War Film, war film
It is 1941. Tweed is at a radio outpost on Guam from where he expects to return to mainland America. His replacement, Roy, arrives with Vicente, a local.
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
thumb|The full film Personable Judge Priest (Will Rogers), known to his contemporaries as "Billy", presides over court in Fairfield, Kentucky, in 1890; Jeff Poindexter is accused of chicken theft. Senator Horace Maydew, a rival in an elect…
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Thriller, crime film
Sisters Kayla (Aimée Kelly) and Tanya (Kate Foster-Barnes) move from Newcastle upon Tyne to commence a new life near their estranged father after their mother has died. Kayla is reluctant to reconcile with him. Meanwhile, drug dealer/gang-…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, High School Comedy Film, action film, post-apocalyptic film
After World War III, people are sterile and ruled by the artificial intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a fetus has to take it through the dangerous city of Charleston, South Caroli…
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War Film, drama film, war film
Officers of the U.S. Army Air Corps debate the importance of bombardiers at a staff meeting in Washington, D.C., in 1941. Major "Chick" Davis argues that a bombardier, using the top secret American bombsight will be the "spearhead of our s…
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War Film, drama film
In May 1945, remnants of the German army continue to fight in the Harz mountains. The rapid advance of Allied forces into Germany has opened a widening gap between the farthest advancing forces, or spearhead, and the "critical rearguard" f…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In the nuclear-ravaged wasteland of Earth in the year 2087, rain has not fallen for fifty years and water is as precious as life itself. The isolated town of Lost Wells, an outpost that survived the holocaust, is led by Ethan, a Moses-like…
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