Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
2019-01-25Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.
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Death and Glory in Changde
2010-08-19Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial bat...
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Picture Bride
1995-05-05Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and s...
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Les Misérables
1934-02-09In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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The Devil's Mistress
2016-01-21Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her pa...
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The New Babylon
1929-03-18In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, ...
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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
1954-06-01Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Des...
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Catherine the Great
2025-02-20The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Catherine the Great. She could have settled for the role...
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The Snake Princess
1940-04-03When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind. While running fr...
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How to Survive a Plague
2012-09-21A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageabl...
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Deadly Swords in Search of Hidden Gold
1983-08-19The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A fight over the treasure that the map shows happens ...
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Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice
2021-10-24The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected wit...
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J.T. LeRoy
2019-04-26A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-i...
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Shadow Warrior of Nobunaga Oda
1996-01-03In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer remaining regions. Meanwhile, a peasant farmer nam...
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The Retired Samurai
1987-09-10Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from ...
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Muscle Shoals
2013-08-16In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming,...
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Yasubei Nakayama
1951-03-31Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's fa...
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Wondrous Boccaccio
2015-02-26It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is a...
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