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Biopic about Alvin Ailey who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City in 1958 and helped popularize modern dance.

Biography Dance

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Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich's third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lock down, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever.

R Drama War 2 hrs, 0 mins

  • 3.3 / 5
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True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.

PG Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 20 mins

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Based on the true story of a deep-cover KGB assassin sent to Manhattan amid the tumult of the 1960s with the mission of acquiring all the attributes of an American life until the time he is called upon to assassinate a defector. He's then faced with the choice between family and country after he marries an American woman and becomes a father.

Thriller

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The romance, inspired by a true story, takes place during the Chinese Revolution in 1949 and is about an American photojournalist who falls in love with a revolutionary.

Drama Romance

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A special ops soldier runs covert missions into Baghdad before the U.S. invasion. The unit is comprised of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon who are conducting secret surveillance during the Saddam Hussein regime.

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Bowe Bergdahl, a young American soldier, is captured by the Taliban in June 2009 and becomes the last American prisoner of war. He is released in May 2014 as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members, who were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This exchange quickly became a major political controversy within the U.S.

Drama War

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Based on the true story, AMERICAN TRAITOR: THE TRIAL OF AXIS SALLY follows the life of American woman Mildred Gillars (Meadow Williams) and her lawyer (Al Pacino), who struggles to redeem her reputation. Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to American troops during World War II, Mildred’s story exposes the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, her eventual capture in Berlin, and subsequent trial for treason against the United States after the war.

Drama

  • 1.3 / 5
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The film is based on a true story that began with the death of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. In 1976, Bolles was killed in a car bomb explosion as he was investigating the infiltration of organized crime into state government.

Drama

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Arminius, a German, is trained as a Roman warrior, but switches allegiance when the Romans try to take over Germania. At 25, he unites disparate Germanic tribes and rallies them to victory against the Roman Army in the bloody Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The defeat has ramifications that end with Arminius losing his life, but it halts the Roman Empire's expansion North, and becomes the worst loss suffered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus Caesar.

Drama Action

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Set in the 60s, a CIA agent travels to Guatemala to investigate his brother's death and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to turn the tide of the Cold War.

Thriller Spy

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Elizabeth Taylor takes on a crusading role in the fight against AIDS, which stems from her hiring of assistant Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South, in the mid-1980s.

Drama Biography

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After being threatened by Boko Haram, the Adewumi family flees Nigeria and escapes terrorism in their home country. They seek and receive asylum in America, and — against all odds — find a welcoming new home in New York. Living in a homeless center on religious asylum, their 8-year-old son, Tani, wins the 2019 New York State chess championship, despite only being introduced to the game two years prior.

Drama Biography

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In the 1976, a woman miraculously survives a Tangshan earthquake but cabnot come to terms with a traumatic past until she witnesses the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan.

Drama

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During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.

Drama Adventure

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True story of the divers and seamen of Barge 269, a cargo ship, who were caught in the path of Hurricane Roxanne's 90-mph winds and 45-foot waves in 1995.

Drama Action

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Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son’s captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son’s life in the balance, Gail and Getty’s advisor (Mark Wahlberg) become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.

R Drama Crime 2 hrs, 12 mins

  • 3 / 5
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The true story of U.S. Army Captain Hugh Thompson, who defied orders and saved a number of civilian lives during the Vietnam War’s infamous My Lai massacre.

Drama True Story

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The plot is based on the true story of Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti), a Cleveland Hospital file clerk who writes comic books about his life and experiences in his free time.

R Drama Biography

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During World War I, women in a Yorkshire farming community turn murderous when their husbands return from the trenches to discover their places on the farms and in their beds have been taken by German POWs.

Drama

89% 11%

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