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1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016)
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1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016)
Original name: 1898. Los Ășltimos de Filipinas
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Spanish troops in the Philippines Have to fight for their lives as they are forgot by the Spanish Empire
Style: perverse
Plot: military, war, siege, hallucination, paranoia, desertion, jungle, respect, tribute, drug, spanish history, dictator, dictatorship, ancient, biopic, horse, sea, combat, food, violence, death, illness, battles, soldier, tomb ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1890s, victorian era
Place: the philippines, southeast asia, spain, usa, asia, manila philippines, united states ...
Keyword: orange, filipino

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Baler (2008)
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