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Jaatishwar (2014)

Jaatishwar

2014Feature Film

80/100

The life and notable works of Anthony Firingee a 19th century Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin.The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different time periods-19th century and the present day.

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True Women (1997)

True Women

1997TV Movie

68/100

Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.

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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936Feature Film

74/100

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

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The Marquise of O (1976)

The Marquise of O

1976Feature Film

73/100

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

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Assa (1987)

Assa

1987Feature Film

79/100

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century... See full summary »

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Die grünen Teufel vom Mekong (1981)

Die grünen Teufel vom Mekong

1981Feature Film

56/100

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

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Before the Rains (2007)

Before the Rains

2007Feature Film

66/100

A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.

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Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Sharpe's Gold

1995TV Movie

75/100

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

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Artemisia (1997)

Artemisia

1997Feature Film

68/100

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ... See full summary »

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Romero (1989)

Romero

1989Feature Film

72/100

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

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Virginia City (1940)

Virginia City

1940Feature Film

68/100

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.

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The Deluge (1974)

The Deluge

1974Feature Film

78/100

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

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Kano (2014)

Kano

2014Feature Film

78/100

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

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Yellow Earth (1984)

Yellow Earth

1984Feature Film

73/100

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns... See full summary »

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Sharpe's Sword (1995)

Sharpe's Sword

1995TV Movie

80/100

Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success.

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Bang Rajan (2000)

Bang Rajan

2000Feature Film

67/100

Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the ... See full summary »

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The Unforgiven (2013)

The Unforgiven

2013Feature Film

72/100

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to ... See full summary »

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Sharpe's Battle (1995)

Sharpe's Battle

1995TV Movie

80/100

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.

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Madrasapattinam (2010)

Madrasapattinam

2010Feature Film

78/100

A film set in 1940s India, during the country's struggle for independence. The young daughter of an English governor falls in love with a local Indian boy.

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Guernica (2016)

Guernica

2016Feature Film

58/100

The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.

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The Jesus Film (1979)

The Jesus Film

1979Feature Film

71/100

Jesus of Nazareth,the son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testament,here is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of ... See full summary »

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Afterimage (2016)

Afterimage

2016Feature Film

71/100

The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

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Band of Angels (1957)

Band of Angels

1957Feature Film

66/100

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black.

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Der König tanzt (2000)

Der König tanzt

2000Feature Film

68/100

Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its... See full summary »

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The Devil's Disciple (1959)

The Devil's Disciple

1959Feature Film

73/100

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

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