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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 85.
Komödie, comedy film
After serving in Europe during World War II, Herbie Brown and Slicker Smith return to the United States aboard a troop ship. Also on board is their old nemesis, Sgt. Collins.
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Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
The 16mm-shot film explores an underground revolutionary group that carries out urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States, while struggling against internal strife. This is intermixed with sequence…
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war film
In the time leading up to Jacobite rising of 1745, a young Highlander called Euan (Lewis Rae) and his father Alistair are press-ganged into the Jacobite army to fight for the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie. Euan's group of warriors…
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Destiny, drama film, romance film
A decade after they graduated from high school and went their separate ways, Casper (Sam Rosen), a soldier haunted by the horrors of war, and Rebecca (Zoe Lister Jones), a whip-smart graduate student with a shaky future, reunite by chance …
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war film
British Prisoners of War help a wounded female agent, Elaine, to escape the Japanese during the Second World War.
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war film
In Normandy in 1944 after D-Day, the crew of tank commander Sgt. Joe Davis fall into despondency following his death. Davis is replaced by Sgt.
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drama film, war film
The film concerns the American Revolutionary War encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and a planned escape by the men desperate to leave behind the terrible conditions of the winter.
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Late Western
Drama, action film, drama film, war film
U.S. Navy divers race to save the crew of a foundered submarine as the sailors hopelessly prepare to die.
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Psychodrama
Mohammad, his wife and their five children live in a large, isolated house located halfway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. The house, in the crossfire of the two sides, is a strategic lookout point that the Israeli…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film
drama film, war film
When an American transport plane crashed, only the pilot, Lieutenant Bob Bingham, survived. Now he is drifting out to sea as a “shipwrecked man”. Fortunately for him, he is fished up by the crew of a submarine.
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
The film is set in New York City in 2008, prior to the Great Recession. Sam Seneca, a former Green Beret who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira Jafari when he visits her uncle, Bassam Jafari, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translat…
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war film
Beginning in the Congo, a group of mercenaries led by British Major Harry Grigsby are due to be picked up by helicopters after completing a mission. As they board the choppers they are fired on from the helicopters by another group of merc…
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Conspiracy theory film, documentary film
Romance Film, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In the American Civil War, Union forces are reeling after their defeat in the Second Battle of Bull Run. The Pauline Cushman Players are performing for wounded soldiers at a Union military hospital. Pauline, a spy who works for Allan Pinke…
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drama film
Freighter owner and captain Mike Dillon reluctantly smuggles Jewish immigrants into Palestine, making it very clear to the Jewish leader, David Vogel, he is only doing it for the money. Dillon is annoyed to learn that he will have to go as…
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Drama, drama film
Frieda is a German woman who helps English airman Robert to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines, however, …
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drama film
Young Catholic priest Arturo Carrera sympathizes with the poor in the Spanish Civil War but finds that his fellow priests have little concern for the poor because they support the Nationalist rebels. He resigns from the priesthood. Hours l…
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Cartoon, Drama
In February 1939, artist Josep Bartolí had to flee his native Spain, which fell under Franco's dictatorship after the Spanish Civil War. Like thousands of other Spanish refugees, he went to France, but ended up in a concentration camp. The…
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adventure film
In 1941, in China struggling with civil war and the Japanese occupation, Captain Tao-Yuan-Kai wants to execute David Jones for selling oil to the Japanese, but can do nothing because Jones is American. Japanese aircraft bomb the town, so J…
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War Film, war film
In 1943, before the Allied invasion of North Africa, Algiers is under the control of the Vichy government and the headquarters of the German Armistice Commission. General Mark Clark's secret mission is vital in enabling a conference among …
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silent film, war film
Old Bill (Sydney Chaplin), a jovial Limey sergeant, serves in the Army during World War I, where he gets into various scrapes alongside his fellow soldier, Alf (Jack Ackroyd). While helping himself to a drink in the cellar of an inn, Bill …
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Anti-War Film, drama film, war film
Three British paratroopers are cut off from their unit and are lost behind enemy lines. Sheltering in a deserted farmhouse, they are awaiting the return of their Sergeant who has ventured out in an attempt to locate their unit. The three s…
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