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Plot Summary:
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 117 min
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Memories of the Future (1969)
Plot Summary:
Memories of the Future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min
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Los hermanos Muerte (1964)
Plot Summary:
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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De todos modos Juan te llamas (1976)
Plot Summary:
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Longitud de guerra (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 142 min
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The Attempt Dossier (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 163 min
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New Moon (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to live a simple and peaceful life. He works as a doctor in Manila while his wife, Fatima, and his only son, Ibrahim, stay in Mindanao with his mother, Farida. Ahmad is shocked and devastated when Fatima breaks the confounding news. Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet when vigilantes indiscriminately fire at their village. Ahmad goes back to where he came from Mindanao. Ibrahim’s death did not cause Ahmad to stop striving to live a peaceful life, much to the consternation of his brother, Musa. His brother takes an exactly opposite stand. Musa believes in waging a war against all the Kaafir (unbelievers) who may impede the Moro’s goal of independence. He even trains his young son, Rashid to a Muslim warrior’s life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min
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The Scapular (1968)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
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Cananea (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min
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Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. The situation is unsustainable and Yrigoyen government sent from Buenos Aires, Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order ... Based on the book "Los vengadores de la Patagonia trágica", written by Osvaldo Bayer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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Morenga (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga (Ken Gampu) is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries. What follows is a sequence of battles and skirmishes that ultimately lead to Morenga seeking asylum in South Africa, where the ruling Brits are about as trustworthy as their German counterparts. Morenga was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min
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Alsino and the Condor (1982)
Plot Summary:
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political
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Sarajevo (2014)
Plot Summary:
The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Florian Teichtmeister) investigating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Trying to do his job in a time of lawlessness and violence, intrigues and betrayal, Leo struggles to maintain his integrity and save his love, Marija, and her father, prominent Serbian merchant. But the events of Sarajevo have set into motion an inescapable course of events that will escalate to become … the Great War.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, factual, historical drama
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Chicogrande (2010)
Plot Summary:
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, captivating, epic, realistic
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The Heroic Ones (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. However, jealously amongst them sparks a treacherous family feud that could lead to catastrophic consequences for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, serious, realistic
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Mohenjo Daro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Village lad Sarman is drawn to big, bad Mohenjo Daro - and its mascot Chaani. But Chaani must wed Munja, son of Mohenjo Daro's ruler, Maham. Will Sarman find love - and more - in Mohenjo Daro?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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Game for Vultures (1979)
Plot Summary:
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore), interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, surreal, factual, philosophical
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The Man on the Shore (1993)
Plot Summary:
Early 1960s Haiti during Duvallier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family heavily suffered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Haiti, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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The President (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, serious, captivating, realistic
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Tula: The Revolt (2013)
Plot Summary:
'Tula, The Revolt' is an international English spoken feature length movie about the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Butcher of Prague (2011)
Plot Summary:
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, František Šíma, is sent to prison following a family dispute that results in the accidental death of one of his sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
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For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, realistic, epic, christian film, stylized
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The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Plot Summary:
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, South Africa
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, tense, factual, political, intense, suspenseful, feel good, breathtaking, bad ending
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Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, serious, epic, captivating, stylized, dramatic, brutal, uplifting
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Kingdom of War: Part 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead. While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan. Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out of the Burmese capital and declare that Siam will no longer bow to Burma. The war for the kingdom's independence begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, epic, serious, realistic, period drama
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Bloody Sunday (2002)
Plot Summary:
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing, sincere, realistic, controversial, educational, philosophical
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Damn the Defiant! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: historical drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, technicolor, vintage, period drama
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Salvador (1986)
Plot Summary:
A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Mexico, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, tense, harsh, factual, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating
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Outlaw King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: historical drama, atmospheric, exciting, suspense, factual, period piece, erotic, sexy, dark, costume drama