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1963 Movie 173 min

HD NR

1963 7.9 173 min

Country: USA

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out ...

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1995 Movie 140 min

Apollo 13

HD PG

1995 7.4 140 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a ...

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2021 Movie 88 min

Girl in the Basement

HD PG-13

2021 7.7 88 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the ...

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2019 Movie 91 min

Finding Steve McQueen

HD R

2019 6.3 91 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime

In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.

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2016 Movie 96 min

Sully

HD PG-13

2016 7.1 96 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls ...

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1988 Movie 128 min

Mississippi Burning

HD R

1988 7.6 128 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and ...

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2017 Movie 112 min

The Case for Christ

HD PG

2017 6.8 112 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian ...

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2023 Movie 104 min

Next Goal Wins

HD PG-13

2023 6.3 104 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

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2008 Movie 141 min

Changeling

HD R

2008 7.5 141 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her ...

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2000 Movie 165 min

The Patriot

HD R

2000 7.1 165 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Action, Drama

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when ...

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2002 Movie 134 min

Windtalkers

HD R

2002 6.2 134 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Drama

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was ...

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2022 Movie 126 min

Medieval

HD R

2022 7.0 126 min

Country: Czech Republic

Genre: Action, Drama

The story of 14th century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.

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2001 Movie 131 min

Enemy at the Gates

HD R

2001 7.4 131 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, History

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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2010 Movie 117 min

22 Bullets

HD NR

2010 6.6 117 min

Country: France

Genre: Crime, Drama

Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, ...

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2016 Movie 113 min

I’m Not Ashamed

HD PG-13

2016 7.2 113 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. She was the first person Harris and Klebold saw in their desire ...

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2018 Movie 100 min

Tag

HD R

2018 6.7 100 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Comedy

For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game ...

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2013 Movie 119 min

47 Ronin

HD PG-13

2013 6.1 119 min

Country: Hungary

Genre: Action, Drama

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore ...

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2021 Movie 107 min

The Shadow in My Eye

HD NR

2021 7.8 107 min

Country: Denmark

Genre: Drama, History

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally ...

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2019 Movie 127 min

Dark Waters

HD NR

2019 7.5 127 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Thriller

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his ...

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2013 Movie 123 min

Rush

HD R

2013 7.7 123 min

Country: UK

Genre: Action, Drama

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

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2016 Movie 106 min

Eddie the Eagle

HD NR

2016 7.2 106 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With ...

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2021 Movie 131 min

Benedetta

HD NR

2021 6.6 131 min

Country: Belgium

Genre: Drama, History

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

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2021 Movie 126 min

Judas and the Black Messiah

HD R

2021 7.3 126 min

Country: Canada

Genre: Drama, History

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en ...

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2010 Movie 121 min

The Social Network

HD PG-13

2010 7.3 121 min

Country: USA

Genre: Biography, Drama

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he ...

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2018 Movie 141 min

First Man

HD PG-13

2018 7 141 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

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2009 Movie 134 min

Invictus

HD PG-13

2009 7.1 134 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the ...

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2022 Movie 96 min

Jerry & Marge Go Large

HD NR

2022 7.3 96 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins $27 million dollars and ...

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