From the director of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind.
In the Heart of the Sea is 2015 historical adventure drama thriller film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book of the same name, about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820.
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In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story.
Spotlight is American drama film directed by Thomas McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
The Pirates (Hangul: 해적: 바다로 간 산적; RR: Haejeok: Badaro Gan Sanjeok; lit. "Pirates: Bandits Going to the Sea") is a 2014 South Korean period adventure film starring Son Ye-jin and Kim Nam-gil.
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Set in the Joseon Dynasty period, this movie is about a whale that swallows a royal stamp; pirates and bandits then go searching after it.
14 Blades is a 2010 wuxia film directed by Daniel Lee, starring Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Sammo Hung, Wu Chun, Kate Tsui, Qi Yuwu and Damian Lau.
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A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent (Donnie Yen) in the emperor's court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues.
A remarkable vision. A dream of a better life. A romance that would change their lives forever.
Nuovomondo, literally "new world" and also known as Golden Door, is a 2006 drama film based on a family's migration from Italy to New York, U.S.A. at the beginning of the 20th century.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the poor Mancuso family (headed by the widowed Salvatore, Vincenzo Amato), from Sicily, Italy, emigrates to the United States. They dream of the land of opportunity, where giant vegetables are grown, people swim in milk, and coins fall from the sky. Salvatore takes his family, as well as his old mother, Fortunata (Aurora Quattrocchi). While on the ship to America, many men find the British Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attractive. For administrative reasons, Lucy wants to marry Salvatore on arrival on Ellis Island. He agrees; he understands that she is not in love with him yet, but expects that will come.
At Ellis Island, the families undergo extensive and humiliating physical and psychological examinations and questioning. Pietro (Filippo Pucillo) is about to be sent back for being mute, and Salvatore's mother for insufficient intelligence.*Wikipedia*
Good Men, Good Women (Chinese: 好男好女; pinyin: Hǎonán hǎonǚ) is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong and Jack Kao.
Inspired by the true story of the greatest security breach in U.S. history
Breach is a 2007 American historical and political thriller film directed by Billy Ray.
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Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Baahubali: The Beginning, also presented as Bābhubali: The Beginning (English: The One With Strong Arms) is a 2015 Indian Telugu epic historical fiction film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli.
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A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Eleni Karapanos (Myrto Alikaki), professor of cardiology in London, has been estranged from her father (Elias Logothetis) for over fifteen years now, ever since she left Greece to relocate to England. Kyriakos, a refugee child in Serbia after the war, has never forgiven her for leaving her country. One day, Eleni's British husband Harris loses his job in a big corporation and is posted to China indefinitely. Faced with a tough personal and professional dilemma, Eleni decides to visit her homeland and make amends with her father. On the pretext of responding to one of his calls, she takes her daughter Anna (Iris Mitta) and comes to Greece for Easter holiday. But when she reaches home nothing she finds is as she expects. A Serbian woman, Nina (Mirjanna Karanovic), is living with Kyriakos, looking after his big estate. Kyriakos has been harbouring a few secrets of his own.
Max finds himself in possession of an ancient scroll that describes the entire history of humankind from beginning to end. Seeking to use the information for his own gain, Max triggers the mechanism that begins influencing his own life.
Director Attila Szász's political thriller chronicles the day of August 16, 1958 when two Hungarian immigrants (Tamás Szabó Kimmel and József Kádas) broke into the Hungarian embassy in Bern and took the ambassador (János Kulka) hostage. As the Swiss police surrounds the building and a group of Hungarian immigrants shows up on the street to demonstrate, a tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out behind the closed doors of the embassy. The screenplay by Norbert Köbli ('The Exam') is based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
The Profession of Arms (Italian: Il mestiere delle armi) is a 2001 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
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In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de'Medici, try to chase them in the midst of a harsh winter. Nevertheless, the Imperial armies manage to cross the rivers along their march and get cannons thanks to the maneuvers of its Lords.
In a skirmish, Giovanni de'Medici is wounded in the leg by a falconet shot. The attempts to cure him fail and he dies. The Imperial armies assault Rome.
The film is beautifully but unassumingly set, and shows the hard conditions in which war is waged and its lack of glory. It ends straightforwardly with the declaration made after the death of Giovanni de'Medici by the commanders of the armies in Europe of not using again fire weapons because of their cruelty.*Wikipedia*
The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 British rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols, directed by Julien Temple.
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Julien Temple follows up his first Sex Pistols documentary, 1980's The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, with a more historical perspective directly from the members of this anarchistic band - Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, original member Glen Matlock and his successor Sid Vicious (bass).
St. George Shoots the Dragon (Serbian: Свети Георгије убива аждаху, Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu) is a Serbian World War I drama directed by Srđan Dragojević and written by Dušan Kovačević.
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The movie starts with the Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary.
The village is deeply divided between able-bodied men that are potential army recruits and the many disabled veterans from the previous Balkan wars; there is bitter animosity between the two groups, who do not intermingle much with each other even though they live in the same village.
The movie's central theme is a love triangle between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo who was previously engaged to Katarina before he went to war and lost his arm in battle, and with the arm partly also his lust for life. Even though Katarina in the meantime married Đorđe, she still has affection for Gavrilo, which is a source of friction between the two.
At the onset of World War I, all able-bodied men in the village are recruited for combat. Left in the village are only women, children and disabled veterans from previous Balkan wars. Rumours start circulating that the invalids in the village are trying to take advantage of the situation by making their moves on the women in the village – the wives and sisters of the recruited men. These rumours reach the villagers at the frontlines, and in order to prevent mutiny the army staff decides to recruit the invalids as well and send them to the front line. * Wikipedia*
Ironclad is a 2011 adventure film directed by Jonathan English. Written by English and Erick Kastel, based on a screenplay by Stephen McDool, the cast includes James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Vladimir Kulich, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemyng, Derek Jacobi and Kate Mara.
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In 13th-century England, a small group of Knights Templar fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.