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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 76.
Italo-Western, Western, drama film
A United States Army cavalry unit returns from a two-week patrol to find the inhabitants of a Christian mission near its home fort have been killed by Apache Indians. The savagely tortured wife of the patrol's leader, Captain Victor Kaleb,…
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Komödie, Parodie, romantic comedy
In the film, George Lucas (Martin Hynes) is a 1967 USC college student, suffering from writer's block as he attempts to write a movie about a young space farmer with a bad crop of "space wheat". Taking a break from his work, George goes on…
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Action, War Film, action film, thriller film, war film
After a successful amphibious insertion, a small group of U.S. Marines prepare for combat against local rebels on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The U.S.
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Documentation, War Film
War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943, German Sergeant Keller has sex with women of a German-occupied Yugoslav town. Some are willing, while others have to be persuaded. Keller tells Ljuba that he can arrange for her brother not to be sent to work camps.
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war film
Illustrating the political complexities the hard-headed nurse had to battle in order to achieve sanitary medical conditions during the Crimean War. Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Flo…
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Drama, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film
The film's story intercuts between a Nazi German concentration camp in occupied Poland, in 1944 and New York City in 1976. In 1944, Tomasz Limanowski, a captured member of the Polish resistance, manages to aid the resistance from inside a …
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drama film, prison film
The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle). They are forced to leave thei…
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Drama, War Film
Adventure, Drama, War Film
In late October 1943, a battalion of U.S. Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied attack and invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomon Islands, northeast of the larg…
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Komödie, comedy film, war film
William "Bill" Kluggs is the first in his hometown of Punxatawney, West Virginia, to enlist in the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor, making his father Herman, mother Gertrude, girlfriend Marge Fettles and the entire town pr…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, melodrama, romance film, war film
Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both in Moscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life …
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Western, Western film
Jesse James and his friends—brother Frank, brothers Cole and Jim Younger and Kit Dalton—arrive in Lawrence, Kansas and are falsely accused of being members of Quantrill's Raiders. They are about to be lynched but are saved by the intervent…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, drama film, war film
Terrick (James Faulkner), a British South Africa Police officer in rural Rhodesia, looks forward towards the end of his police service and early retirement to his farm with his fiancée, Sally (Sybil Danning). Terrick's hopes for a peaceful…
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Drama, war film
Shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack the Philippines. A group of polo-playing soldiers of the US 26th Cavalry Regiment and their families are surprised while playing a polo game. Major Bailey orders his Swiss fianc…
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Drama, War Film, epic film
1943: Angry and bereaved by the death of his younger brother, Flight Lieutenant Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary, Spitfire ace, who survived the Battle of Britain, transfers to RAF Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies …
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Anti-War Film, Documentation, anti-war film, documentary film
Sir! No Sir! tells for the first time on film the story of the 1960s GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
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Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, gangster film
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so,…
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War Film, drama film
Colonel Sir Charles Holland receives a note at his country estate. He contacts the Foreign Office and is informed that his missing-in-action brother may still be alive in Libya. A promissory note dating from the Second World War has turned…
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Documentation, documentary film
War Film, drama film
The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army major Joppolo, who is placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily. The priest explains that the heart of the town's activities centered upon the ringing of a 700-year-ol…
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Action, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction film
Haunted by memories of the murder of his partner by anarchist terrorist Nassim, former policeman Nick James has become a debt-ridden shell of his former self, and works as a janitor for computer science firm Quantum. Quantum's top research…
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War Film, war film
During the Second World War a fighter pilot bails out over the English Channel. Lost in the vast sea he floats but is unaided. A lifeboat is launched to rescue the pilot but fails to find him in time, and observers on the Sussex coast near…
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Thriller, War Film, action film, war film
Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris (David Warbeck) accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting anti-war propaganda spoken by an American woman to America…
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