Films like The Captive
In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers as a hostage. Aware that a cruel death awaits him if his family does not pay his ransom soon, he finds refuge in his passion for storytelling.
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Munich - The Edge of War
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyAt the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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Giant
Film · 2026 · also drama and historyFollows Prince Naseem Hamed from his humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel industry worker turned...
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Memories of My Father
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyIn the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Film · 2002 · also drama and historyYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who bet...
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The Red Virgin
Film · 2024 · also drama and historyHildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the Eur...
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Julia
Film · 1977 · also drama and historyAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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Origin
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyWhile investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resil...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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Victoria & Abdul
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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