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Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film
Anna (Felicitas Woll), daughter of a wealthy hospital director, works as a nurse along with her father and her future husband, Doctor Alexander (Benjamin Sadler). Whilst behind enemy lines, British pilot Robert Newman (John Light) is sever…
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drama film, war film
Western, Western film
A group of copper miners who are Southern veterans are terrorized by local men led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. Johnny's…
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Drama, drama film
During the late 1930s, David Charleston is an ambitious campaigning newspaper journalist, a fierce opponent of fascism and the British policy of appeasement. He wishes to alert his readers to the dangers of German rearmament and the folly …
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Political Thriller, Terrorism, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
The film follows two anti-terror officers from Istanbul, sent to New York City to find and bring back a Turkish religious man named Hadji Gümüş, who they suspect is the man they've codenamed Dajjal, a terrorist who is responsible for attac…
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adventure film, drama film, family film, historical film, war film
The film takes place primarily in German South-West Africa (now Namibia) in 1914 during World War I. An Arabian mare gives birth to a beautiful chestnut foal during a voyage to Swakopmund for work in the copper mines. The foal is separated…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Drama, Political Drama
The film portrays the early life of the director in his home city, Alexandria.
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Horror, Zombiefilm, horror film
During the American Civil War, deep in the sullen backwoods of the Southern United States, a Confederate town is held captive, the soldiers forced to walk through a piece of woodland laced with mines. Because he is found wearing a Confeder…
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Action, Drama, Motor-Bike Film, action film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, outlaw biker film
Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
Towards the conclusion of the Second World War, Japan nears defeat as Emperor Hirohito reminisces about the final war years. He is depicted as still surrounded by his attentive staff who look after his every bodily need. When Hirohito rece…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The commander of an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II, is ordered to stop to pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes. Hayes' mission is to locate and destroy an American submarine sunk in a lagoon off Bik…
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Event Documentary, documentary film
Melodrama, War Film, drama film
On the eve of the 1989 revolution in Romania, Dr. Daniel Pavenic sits down to dinner with some friends and discusses his past and his obsession with his housekeeper. His shocking honesty eventually leads to his guests also disclosing some …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, animal-like creatures known as "the ravagers" roam the earth and kill all survivors. A man named Falk (Richard Harris) witnesses his wife's murder by the creatures. Seeking vengeance, Falk becomes a…
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Documentation, documentary film
The French war cameraman and First Indochina War veteran Piere Schoendoerffer (38), already famous for his celebrated masterpiece The 317th Platoon (1965), returned to Vietnam. The documentary follows a 33-man platoon led by 24 year old Li…
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drama film
Soldiers Martin and Jack are very good friends during World War II. While their friendship grows, they do not realize they are brothers-in-law. Martin eventually learns that Jack is married to his sister Josie.
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Crime, mockumentary
A week in the life of a Soho pimp - Woody (Robert Cavanah) as seen through the lens of a documentary camera team: A week which spirals brutally out of control when the Chinese up their muscle on Woody's boss's territory, a girl goes missin…
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Drama, drama film
During World War II, American war correspondent John Davis leaves France for safer London with his wife, Nora, who is pregnant. John wants her to go back home to Connecticut, but she decides to stay on by his side. John is worn down by the…
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Komödie, comedy film
Set in Nazi-occupied France, the story follows Major Robinson of the British Army. Installing himself at a Parisian brothel, he assists the French resistance and works with Madame Grenier and her girls who find themselves eliminating high …
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War Film, drama film, war film
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria and join the 'Snake brigade', an international battalion of women fighting the ISIS alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yazidi survivor. Born in different cultures…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, melodrama, propaganda film, silent film, war film
Two families live next to one another in a French village on the eve of World War I. The Boy in one of the families falls for the only daughter in the other family. As they make preparations for marriage, World War I breaks out, and, altho…
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War Film, war film
thumb|Mosque built on set in Kurnell. In 1916 Jerusalem, German troops led by Hauptmann Von Schiller arrest French wine seller Paul Rouget for spying and hang him. His daughter Juliet goes into hiding dressed as a boy and starts spying on …
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action film, adventure film, historical film, spy film, war film
The film takes place in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Erast Fandorin is put on the trail of a Turkish agent who is trying to disrupt the Russian advance during the Siege of Plevna. The agent, known as Anwar Efendi, is …
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war film
In Hawaii, during World War II, U.S. Navy pilot Alec Brooke (Van Johnson) commands a flying boat, named the "High Barbaree". During a bombing mission against a Japanese submarine, his PBY Catalina is shot down with all but one of his crew …
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