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Nightwatching
6.3
2007

Nightwatching

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by ...

The Zookeeper's Wife
7.3
2017

The Zookeeper's Wife

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals duri...

The Ghost Hill
1971

The Ghost Hill

The film opens with a duel on a beach between two master swordsman. An elderly master looks on as the two battle. He sto...

Dongji Rescue
6.8
2025

Dongji Rescue

Inspired by the real life rescue of over 300 British soldiers in 1942, Dongji Rescue is a rousing, action-packed story o...

Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra
3.5
2024

Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra

A student whose parents died in the Gujarat pogrom receives an assignment on the same topic at his university. During hi...

Bushido
7.2
2013

Bushido

1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as...

Shellshock
2011

Shellshock

Ireland, 1923. A young man returns home after fighting for the British Army during World War One. He struggles to settle...

The Border
5.1
2007

The Border

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While...

Running on Empty
5.0
1991

Running on Empty

Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from...

The Emperor in August
6.4
2015

The Emperor in August

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has c...

Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
7.2
2015

Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the t...

Gate of Hell
7.1
1953

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Morit...

Andersonville
6.5
1996

Andersonville

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The dr...

The Amorous Lotus Pan
4.8
1994

The Amorous Lotus Pan

Helmed by the aesthetic Li Han-hsiang, The Amorous Lotus Pan features former Blue Jeans band member Shan Li-wen in a dua...

The Flowers of War
7.4
2011

The Flowers of War

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, h...

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
6.2
2017

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the ...

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
1957

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kages...

The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920

The Night of Queen Isabeau

The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
10.0
1959

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the...

Oh Islam
6.1
1961

Oh Islam

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as wides...