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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Style:
lighthearted, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
pirate, treasure hunt, buried treasure, children, mutiny, map, sea voyage, sailboat, island, treasure map, parrot, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Macross 7 is an anime television series. It is a sequel to the show The Super Dimension Fortress Macross that takes place many years after the events of the first series following a cast of mostly new characters. The show ran from October 16, 1994 ...
Style:
anime, mecha, heroic, dramatic, action packed ...
Plot:
space opera, alien invasion, rock music, battles, extraterrestrial, rock band, space colony, robot, military, young adult, captain, culture clash ...
Time:
2040s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Civil war reigns in one of the most dangerous areas of the world for 7 years. The Turkish army enters the region without any allied states. Among the officials in the region, there are also the Special Forces team under the command of Captain ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic, action drama ...
Plot:
terrorist, soldier, military, civil war, teamwork, struggle, battlefield, sacrifice, combat, special forces, struggle for survival, terrorism ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A doctor, a soldier, a smuggler, a father, and a captain. In a world divided by borders and war, five lives intersect in the pursuit of safety and belonging. Their journeys reveal the heartbreak and fragile beauty of those who dare to start over.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, political, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, kids and family, problem, dysfunctional family, hopes, sacrifice, migration, humanity ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta, India, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, period piece, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural horror, ship, supernatural, doctor, ship captain, vampirism, danger, ocean, survival, sea voyage ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london, transylvania
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, satirical, inspirational ...
Plot:
world war two, military, mission, british soldier, military officer, soldier, pilot, british army, battles, special agent, fight, military life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
north africa, libya, cairo egypt, egypt
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia, USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, controversial
Plot:
independence, military, elite, japanese occupation, soldier, independence movement, war for independence, world war two, squad, crisis of conscience, moral dilemma, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1946
Place:
indonesia, germany
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Genre: Action, Horror, War
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Style:
minimal cast, captivating, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
female pilot, strong female lead, breast feeding, world war two, female warrior, female soldier, gremlin, aerial combat, creature, fake identity, profanity, navigator ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert ...
Style:
bleak, anthology, period drama
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, barber, nazi occupation, smuggler, doctor, resistance movement, occupation, occupied france, sacrifice, betrayal, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, treasure hunt, treasure, pirate, alien, treasure map, fictional planet, space and aliens, space travel, adventurer, outer space, swashbuckler ...
Time:
future, year 2002, distant future, 18th century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA, China, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth’s cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected ...
Style:
futuristic, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, revenge, female warrior, chase, dystopia, good versus evil, capitalism, resistance, tough girl, post apocalyptic, danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future
Place:
london, big ben london, europe, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Alice is a sailor. While her partner Félix waits for her on land, she sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that her predecessor has just died, but also that the skipper is none other than ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, erotic, emotional ...
Plot:
ship, sex scene, female pubic hair, beach, journey, sea, photograph, bare breasts, dead body, reading someone else's diary, selfie, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
marseille, romania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chaos, apocalypse, universe, desert, survival, astronomer, danger, disaster, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, government agency ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Style:
touching, anamorphic, historical drama, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, taliban, war on terror, behind enemy lines, heroism, military, cia, us military, war in afghanistan, special forces, machismo, commando mission ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, survival, ocean, animal attack, killer animal, great white shark, underwater, rescue, diver, creature feature, killer shark ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
mexico, greece
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, controversial ...
Plot:
village, native american white relationships, native american, native american attack, american indian, soldier, massacre, survival, american history, military, fall in love, wild west ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
persia, usa, colorado
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, racism, blaxploitation, chess, dam, fear, courage, sniper, incompetence, mission, deaf man, cowardice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, england, london, germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 255 min.
Story:
This film dramatizes events that occurred as the hostility between India and Pakistan over Kashmir came to a head in 1999, when more than 1,000 men crossed the "Line of Control" that separates the two locations. Taliban and Pakistani ...
Style:
patriotic, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
military, death of friend, military officer, lieutenant, battlefield, husband wife relationship, soldier, army life, patriot, war, bravery, colonel ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india, pakistan
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Animation
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When seven archaeologists find an old Inca temple, they become the victims of an old Inca curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for some minutes and have hallucinations ...
Style:
manga, semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
tintin, eclipse, captain, superhero, bird, racist, explorer, lost world, partner, friends, curses spells and rituals, archaeologist ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
peru
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, inspirational, feel good ...
Plot:
cricket, rags to riches, biopic, rise to the top, athlete's life, ambition, sport team, rising to stardom, rivalry, contests and competitions, captain, patriot ...
Time:
2000s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Dredge are bent on mankind's destruction.
Style:
exciting, serious, adult animation, computer animated, anime ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, preschool, adult
Plot:
alien, heroic mission, spacecraft, space battle, space travel, galaxy, young heroes, space opera, space station, dystopia, mission, scientist ...
Time:
future, year 2000, 20th century, y2k
Place:
colorado
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, visually appealing, visual, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, sergeant, jungle, infantry, soldier, pacific war, anti war, u.s. army, pacific island, survival, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place:
asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, winter, death, fort, mountain, gory, survival, food, violent, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 20th century, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
leopard, male nudity, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, humanity, loneliness, brutality, soldier, wilderness, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place:
egypt, sahara, france, ottoman empire, africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron ...
Style:
parody, slapstick, satirical, humorous, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
goofy hero, homoeroticism, stupidity, satire, breakdance, oracle, male male relationship, queen, celebrity, heroic mission, army, heroes ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
ancient greece, greece
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Style:
entertaining, light, semi serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, world war two, tank, caper, heist, gold, bank robbery, machine gun, behind enemy lines, robbery, world war, hippie ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, america, europe, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details ...
Style:
detective, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
army investigation, conspiracy, rape, murder, gang rape, strangulation, military, reluctant partners, corruption, rape victim, military training, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, west point
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style:
bloody, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
world war one, french army, heroism, frontline, brutality, military life, society, great war, insubordination, danger, french military, investigation ...
Time:
year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, post world war one ...
Place:
macedonia, romania, europe, brittany, balkan ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style:
lovecraft, creepy, black and white, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, cthulhu, ancient mystery, cosmic horror, supernatural, monster, swamp, shipwreck, sailor, kaiju, desert island, giant monster ...
Time:
1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
louisiana, rhode island
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