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Plot Summary:
Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. Tyrolian sentiment is rising strongly against Napoleon and trouble is stirring. In no time it sweeps up Franz and his brothers along with the whole town.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, exciting
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 839
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Duration: 150 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
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Country: Poland, France
Duration: 147 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 934
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 524
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Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 515
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Duration: 102 min
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Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Portugal, France
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 834
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 590
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
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Plot Summary:
The film adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author, Mario Vargas Llosa's epic, The War At The End Of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 786
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 629
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 716
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 386
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 532
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
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IMDB Votes: 4000
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Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten Vergangenheit. Sie rebellieren gegen das Naziregime. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelwei%C3%9Fpiraten_(Film)).
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IMDB Votes: 565
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