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Bushido
7.4
2024

Bushido

Kakunoshin, renowned for his skills with a sword and in the game of go, embodies the samurai code. Falsely accused of a ...

Alfred
3.0
1995

Alfred

The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize.

Land of Hope
6.9
2018

Land of Hope

Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuati...

The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death
6.3
2024

The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death

The movie focuses on the battle of Cheolwon, where the 63rd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPVA) was order...

Monsieur Aznavour
7.2
2024

Monsieur Aznavour

From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New York, discover the exc...

Brave: Gunjyou Senki
6.8
2021

Brave: Gunjyou Senki

Students, including Aoi Nishino, take part in class and sports activity at a prestigious high school. Aoi Nishino is a m...

Suez
5.2
1938

Suez

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just ...

The Opium War
6.3
1997

The Opium War

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, ...

Race
7.3
2016

Race

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thr...

The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8
1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. Bri...

My Sister My Love
6.4
1966

My Sister My Love

Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, h...

A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain
2019

A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain

Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical v...

The Longest Voyage
4.5
2020

The Longest Voyage

Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of fi...

Mark of Cain
1989

Mark of Cain

In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. When he is c...

Charlotte Gray
6.1
2001

Charlotte Gray

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of ...

Anthropoid
7.1
2016

Anthropoid

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi o...

Mapplethorpe
6.3
2019

Mapplethorpe

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

The Eight Hundred
7.0
2020

The Eight Hundred

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, co...

Jesus Christ Superstar
7.1
1973

Jesus Christ Superstar

As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, hi...

The Convent
5.5
2018

The Convent

During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a gr...