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Code Name: Emerald (1985)
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will be supported by a secret friend of the allies, a very important German officer and the French resistance. But the nazi SS is not resting...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
espionage, world war two, war, secret agents, danger, escapades, rescue, undercover, d day, agent, spy, nazi, spring, ss, double agent, prisoner, interrogation, cell mate, nazi uniform, nazi occupied france
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
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rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
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Duration: 105 min.
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Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) ...
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Duration: 135 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back ...
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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