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Historie, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, drama television series, fantasy film, war film
Part 1 Odysseus is called to service by Agamemnon in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife, Penelope. Concerned that he may not return, Odysseus urges his wife to remarry if Telemachus reaches…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Historie, Monumental Film, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film
By 1950, the 44-year-old Puyi, former Emperor of China, has been in custody for five years since his capture by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. In the recently established People's Republic of China, Puyi arrives as a…
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, science fiction film, war film
After being rescued from the destroyed arena in the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Beetee, and Finnick Odair are taken to District 13, an underground district isolated from Panem that has been spearheading the rebellion. Katniss is i…
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Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
James Reese appears to be an efficient and affable personal aide to the U.S. ambassador in France and after a brief morning chat, Reese quickly leaves, slips into the building's dark parking garage to switch license plates on his vehicle b…
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Action, Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Ten years after the Battle of Naboo, the Galactic Republic is threatened by a Separatist movement consisting of star systems and planets in the outer rim seceding from the republic that has been organized by Count Dooku, a former Jedi Mast…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, war film
After the death of Bessie, her best friend and roommate of twelve years, 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein leaves Florida and moves to New York City to live with her daughter Lisa and grandson Max. Feeling sidelined by her busy family, Elean…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a Soviet microchip. Q analyzes the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse, made by government contractor Z…
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Crime, Komödie, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, romance film, thriller film
In Cape Fear, North Carolina, lovers Lula Fortune and Sailor Ripley are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta. Upon Sailor's relea…
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Action, Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a Green Beret platoon is attacked and killed in a remote jungle valley by unknown predators while on a classified mission. Their commander, Colonel Jericho, calls in Vulture Squad, a LRRP team consisting of…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, historical drama
While heading to afternoon prayers in New Delhi on January 30, 1948, Gandhi is fatally shot. On 7 June 1893, in the Colony of Natal, young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi is forcibly expelled from a whites-only train carriage in Pietermaritzburg de…
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Military Film, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Three years after the incident in Hope, Washington, former U.S. Army Green Beret John Rambo is imprisoned at a penal labor facility. He is met by Colonel Sam Trautman, his commanding officer during the Vietnam War.
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Military Film, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, disaster film, propaganda film, thriller film, war film
In the 1980s, the United States has become increasingly isolated after NATO is dissolved and Western Europe's nuclear weapons are removed. The Soviet Union is devastated by a failed wheat harvest and is forced to use military intervention …
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Film Noir, Mysterie, Thriller, adventure film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
Holly Martins, an American author of Western pulp novels, arrives in the British sector of Allied-occupied Vienna seeking Harry Lime, a childhood friend who has offered him a job. However, Martins is told that Lime was killed by a car whil…
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Military Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, submarine film, thriller film, war film
In post-Soviet Russia, civil war erupts as a result of the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Military units loyal to Vladimir Radchenko, a Russian ultra-nationalist rebel, take control of a nuclear missile installation in the Russian Far East …
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Family Drama, Sport, action film, drama film, kung fu film, martial arts film
A melancholic U.S. Marine Thomas "Tommy" Riordan visits his father, Paddy Conlon, a recovering alcoholic who has returned to his Roman Catholic faith in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, Tommy ran away from Paddy with his dying mother …
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Action, Christmas film, Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film
In 1985, Russian boxer and Soviet Army Captain Ivan Drago arrives in the United States from the Soviet Union with his wife Ludmilla, his trainers and his manager, Nicolai Koloff. Koloff takes every opportunity to promote Drago's athleticis…
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Historie, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, medieval film, swashbuckler film
In AD 1199, Robin Longstride serves as a common archer in the army of King Richard the Lionheart. A veteran of Richard's crusade, he now takes part in the siege of Chalus Castle. Disillusioned, war-weary, and facing charges of misconduct a…
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Action, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 2005, Ahmad Shah, a local Taliban warlord in the Korangal Valley is identified as the person responsible for the deaths of several Marines, plus many villagers who are believed to have aided the American forces in Afghanistan. A Navy SE…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, Historie
Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, historical film, mystery film, political thriller film
During his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the military-industrial complex. He is succeeded by John F.
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
James Bond, alongside fellow MI6 agents 004 and 002, participates in a training exercise in Gibraltar. During the exercise, an assassin kills 004 and several British military personnel. Bond manages to chase down the assassin, who dies aft…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, political thriller film, vigilante film
Force Recon Scout Snipers Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger and his spotter Donnie Fenn provide overwatch for a black ops mission in Ethiopia. The mission is successful, but while covering the retreat of friendly forces, an enemy attack hel…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In 2005, potentially habitable "Planet G" is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built on Oʻahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha "Sam" Shane, …
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Buddy Film, Komödie, Secret Agent, action film, buddy film, comedy film, heist film, spy film
In 1963, CIA Agent Napoleon Solo extracts Gaby Teller, daughter of nuclear scientist Dr. Udo Teller, from East Berlin. She does not know him, as she was left to be raised by a mechanic almost two decades ago.
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