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Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, feel good, period piece, realistic, period drama
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Sharpe's Company (1994)
Plot Summary:
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The 7th Dawn (1964)
Plot Summary:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
Plot Summary:
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Sharpe's Sword (1995)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Siege (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Sharpe's Honour (1994)
Plot Summary:
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Battle (1995)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, factual, suspenseful, period drama
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Sharpe's Gold (1995)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
Plot Summary:
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, costume drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
Plot Summary:
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Billy Budd (1962)
Plot Summary:
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, retro, road movie, black and white, historical drama, independent film, realistic
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Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Sharpe's Peril (2008)
Plot Summary:
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing, realistic
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Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Duclos.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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The Sea Wolf (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Last Valley (1971)
Plot Summary:
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, spiritual, sad, epic, independent film, period drama
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Deadliest Sea (2009)
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Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps in the Bering Sea, but the boat and crew are soon victims of a powerful and relentless storm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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The Duellists (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: costume drama, visually appealing, period piece, cult classic, realistic, stylized, satanic, action adventure, historical drama, serious
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Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, vintage
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Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, feel good, period piece, period drama, mad
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Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Plot Summary:
Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's first taste of the high life, when he is invited to dine with the Governor of Gibraltar and his wife. The prospect of this is frightening enough, but an unexpected guest, the glamorous Duchess of Wharfedale, adds another spin to his evening.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, period piece, exciting, serious, period drama
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Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Spithead, Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, a 17 year old midshipman takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, costume drama, serious, realistic, road movie, feel good, period piece, historical drama, period drama, masterpiece
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Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, feel good, period piece, bleak, serious, realistic, period drama
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Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history. Pellew, Captain of the Indefatigable, decides to put forward his protege Horatio Hornblower for the examination for lieutenant. Leading up to the exam Hornblower comes up against many challenges to prepare him for the difficult life as a lieutenant.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, feel good, period piece, period drama
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Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, feel good, period drama
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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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Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history.Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, period piece, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, period drama
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Plot Summary:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, period piece, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking, dramatic, visually appealing, visually stunning, costume drama