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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,833 films · Page 95.
fantasy film, musical film, war film
In late Victorian England Kathleen is a young Irish woman in love with an American, Kenneth Wayne. The romance, however, is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who recalls the painful memory of his tragically thwarted love for Kat…
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propaganda film
In World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The …
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Documentation
drama film, romance film
Three men enlist in the United States Army in the summer of 1941. Bill Burke (Edmond O'Brien) is doubtful of his own courage and enlists while intoxicated. Don Morse (Robert Preston), an All-American football player at Harvard, enlists to …
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action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In World War I, American pilots Mal Andrews, Tap Johnson, and Jim Watson enroll in a Royal Air Force squadron. Mal and Tap are worried that their friend Jim is cheating on his new bride. When General Trafford Jones arrives to evaluate the …
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war film
Before the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Brussels nightclub owner André Delange (Portman) used to publish an anti-Nazi newspaper called La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium) which was distributed secretly. In the aftermath of the German occupatio…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, war film
Set during World War II, somewhere in Romania, a German soldier is found dead near a village, and the local authorities must find the culprit or they will all be shot by Nazis the following morning. There's no way to identify the guilty pa…
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adventure film, war film
thumb|left|Lester Vail and Ralph Forbes awaiting death in the prison pit thumb|left|Lester Vail & Paul McAllister The last two surviving members of a French Foreign Legion detachment, who know each other as Smith and Brown, are consigned t…
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Horror, Splatter Film, horror film
A group of six friends (Mel, Wyatt, Bill, Blind Kiyomi, Lin, and Sarah) are on a deer hunt in the southern United States. Kiyomi hears noises in the distance, and her boyfriend Mel goes to investigate. He then leads the others to a church …
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Anti-War Film, drama film
The film is mainly set in a dugout, formed from a basement, in the no man's land between the trenches and front lines during the First World War. A ruined house is entered by a soldier stranded between the lines who then discovers an injur…
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war film
During the Korean War, scientist Dean Olmstead (Joseph Hamilton) designs a long-range radio transmitting and tracking device for the United States Air Force. During testing of the device, Capt. Tom Arnett (John Agar), leading an escort of …
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War Film, horror film, war film
Two American World War II soldiers, both about to be court martialed for cowardice near the end of the war, escape when the Military Police Jeep they are riding in hits a land mine. They flee over the presumably French or Belgian countrysi…
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drama film, war film
During the Korean War, United States Air Force nurse Lieutenant Polly Davis flies to Japan for her first assignment with the Medical Air Evacuation Unit. Hoping to be near her fiancé, helicopter pilot Captain Mike Barnes, she meets her roo…
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drama film, romance film, war film
Set against the backdrop of the present time UK, the storyline of the film shows the memories of an ailing British-Bangladeshi Muslim man Karim Uddin (Anupam Kher) recalling, recounting and sharing his horrific experiences during the war o…
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War Film, propaganda film, war film
The film depicts the life of a group of volunteer nurses for the Red Cross in 1941. Anna Sten portrays a Russian nurse, Natasha, who is one of the volunteers taking care of the Allied soldiers near Stalingrad. As part of her job, she takes…
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adventure film, drama film, war film
U-153 is damaged during air attack in the Atlantic, and its crew abandon ship to escape chlorine gas now leaking from its battery cells. Her commanding officer is overcome by fumes before he can jettison the ship's papers. Due to the intel…
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action film, horror film, thriller film, war film, zombie film
American soldiers are sent on a mission to prevent Nazi scientists from creating a super serum to transform their victims into an unstoppable fighting force.
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Western, Western film
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton (Faith Domergue) and Stephen Cook (Lyle Bettger) are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee, Stan Watie, is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union…
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Sgt. Tom Sloan sees his Lieutenant Joel Brady kill one of their own Marines, Johnny Campbell on Guadalcanal after Brady led a disastrous suicidal attack against Japanese entrenched in caves. As the only survivors of the debacle, Sloan does…
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war film
In 1971, Tony (Richard Dean Anderson) fell in love with Maria (Valerie Bertinelli), but their future was abruptly put on hold when Tony was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. When he returned to the country two years later, she was still…
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Drama, War Film, war film
John Larsen, a Marine Captain, stationed in the Philippines, had lost his right hand in an accident and is scheduled to be medically retired from the Corps. An American general is held captive by Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines a…
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action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, romance film, war film
In the Mexican city of Cholula, the wedding of María Dolores Peñafiel, daughter of the successful glass manufacturer Don Carlos Peñafiel, to the American doctor Dr. Robert Stanley is prepared. When the rebel leader José Juan Reyes and his …
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war film
The film examines four periods in the life of (the fictitious) doctor Edward Trenbow: In 1918 Trenbow is treating shell-shocked soldiers from the front. In the 1920s he works as a psychiatrist at the Sydney insane asylum and becomes involv…
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war film
Just after World War II, American Steve Pitt (Sterling Hayden) seeks out Father Paolo (David Leonard) at an Italian village. A new priest tells him Paolo was executed by the Germans. Steve recalls the events of 1944, when as a fighter pilo…
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