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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008.
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting
Plot:
world war two, resistance, resistance movement, wartime, battles, soldier, military life, power struggle, wartime life, class struggle, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary, Spain, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The sixth film in the "Terminator" series will pick up where the second film left off, ignoring all the subsequent sequels.
Style:
saga, action adventure, apocalyptic, tech noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, gunfight, technology, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, killer robot, escape, shapeshifter ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019, future, 90s ...
Place:
mexico, texas, mexico city, guatemala
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, resistance, undercover, teenage love, family relations, love and romance, youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, bittersweet, infatuation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
catalonia, barcelona, spain, china
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns. As a result, they live in fear of the occasional earthquake and cave-in, and have been for hundreds of years. Jeeha is one such village. One day, a ...
Style:
mecha, anime, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female warrior, battles, beast, bravery, resistance, danger, battle zone, heroic mission, dystopian future, confined, escapades, survival ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a ...
Style:
period piece, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, fascism, politics, world war one, dictator, male star appears nude, couples, hopes, world war two, cinema, coitus, resistance ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, year 2009 ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during ...
Style:
art house, suspense, historical drama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, unrequited love, resistance, partisan, family problems, love triangle, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime, war, relationship problems, political conflict ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The mini-series is based on the true story of journalist Hans Knoop, who attempts to find the truth behind the then not yet prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. In the seventies, the case caused uproar in the media and in the political landscape ...
Style:
period piece, serious, historical drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
war crime, investigative journalism, resistance, war criminal, justice, investigation, dutch history, journalist, investigative reporter, war, secret, research ...
Time:
70s
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Sweden, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story:
In the year of our Lord 1678, Sweden is plagued by countless wars and a dysfunctional royal rule. One night, the young and devout Nils losing everything he holds dear and tragedy drives him on a quest for vengeance. It will be a raid, which makes ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
resistance fighter, resistance, noble, escape, save the day, danger, solidarity, renegade, war, fugitives, anti war, insubordination ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, heartbreaking, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, little red riding hood, resistance fighter, dystopia, alternate history, politics, distopia, double agent, neo fascism, resistance, political unrest, dark hero ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan, east asia, poland, tokyo, germany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, entertaining, tense, serious ...
Plot:
ninja, genocide, assassination, revenge, resistance, vengeance, wartime life, world war two, martial arts, heroes, medieval, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, usa, asia, japan
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16K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Palestine
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, mind blowing, controversial ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, power of love, friendship, moral dilemma, resistance, confession, gain trust, family relations, danger, love affair, terrorism, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, palestinian authority, maghreb, israel
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Children of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
female warrior, politics, olympics, rebellion, human spirit, wartime life, resistance, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1956, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
hungary, europe, australia, oceania, melbourne ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, war, military, battles, red army, wehrmacht, infantrymen, border guard, nazism, squad, heroes, invasion ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
Style:
costume drama, captivating
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fight for freedom, resistance, independence movement, victorian england, freedom fighter, war for independence, showdown, historical character, medieval, power struggle, female warrior, fighting the system ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era
Place:
india, britain
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Style:
costume drama, tension, period piece, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, escape, gestapo, luftwaffe, underground movement, nazi germany, occupation, sacrifice, survival, courage, heroism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
belgium, brussels, brussels belgium
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style:
costume drama, powerful
Plot:
french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, resistance, world war, nazi occupied france, shoah, love, secret, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, geneva switzerland, france ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
japanese occupation, war, wartime life, rivalry, resistance, society, hidden identity, tragic hero, life is a bitch, love and romance, anti war, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 2000s, post world war two
Place:
china, asia, japan, shanghai
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot:
escape, world war two, french resistance, resistance, school, prisoner, teacher, racism, farm, arrest, pow, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1940
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Style:
political, bleak, suspenseful, tension, period drama ...
Plot:
resistance, anti fascist, world war two, spy, espionage, nazism, underground movement, betrayal, surveillance, biopic, propaganda, spying ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
berlin germany, europe, east germany
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29K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: France, Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
folk hero, gang, bank robbery, biopic, injustice, criminal heroes, wilderness, lawlessness, resistance, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new south wales, ireland, new zealand
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10K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most natural resources have been exhausted, Ecoban is powered by pollution. The citizens of Ecoban need to continue creating this ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
resistance movement, cyberpunk, environmental issue, survival, apocalypse, heroic mission, resistance, dystopian future, chaos, danger, escapades, toxic ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, 22nd century
Place:
japan, asia, korea, tokyo
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85K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style:
breathtaking, perverse, suspense, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, tough law enforcer, vigilante, killer, violence, murder, one man army, car chase, chase, police investigation, violent, hostage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, south america, california, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's ...
Style:
futuristic, captivating, teen, cliffhanger, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
female protagonist, distopia, dystopian future, survival, competition, post apocalypse, dictator, badass female lead, young heroes, fight, anti heroine, fight scenes ...
Time:
future, year 2013, near future, 2010s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, political, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
rebellion, sexism, childhood, torture, mutilation, child abuse, culture clash, tradition, fighting the system, african, hopes, injustice ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
africa, tokyo, japan, france
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Spain, UK, Latvia, Estonia, Brazil, USA, Thailand, China
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix.
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, exciting, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
rescue, ancient history, viking, obsessive quest, curses spells and rituals, magical potion, ambition, disorder, resistance, rivalry, goofy hero, dog ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style:
political, brutal, harsh, factual, intense ...
Plot:
politics, irish history, civil war, terrorism, revolution, biopic, ira, freedom, british empire, civil unrest, independence movement, fight ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
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21K
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot:
train, world war two, french resistance, saboteur, art, art theft, sabotage, nazi, resistance, military, railway, resistance movement ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Taiwan, China
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Perry's worst fear comes true when Phineas and Ferb finds out that he is in fact Secret Agent P, but that soon pales in comparison during a trip to the 2nd dimension where Perry finds out that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is truly evil and successful.
Style:
humorous, witty, not serious, sweet, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
parallel universe, parallel world, save the day, secret identity, heroes, daring rescue, hidden identity, resistance, danger, undercover, rivalry, kids and family ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a ...
Style:
political, serious, emotional, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
politics, protest, police brutality, fighting the system, idealism, hopes, political unrest, chaos and mayhem, state affairs, rebelliousness, resistance, rebellion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 80s
Place:
usa, seattle, washington d.c., canada, latin america
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