Films like The Wind and the Lion

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   6 Days

   Film · 2017 · also action and drama

   London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether...

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   Five Fingers

   Film · 2006 · also action and drama

   Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abduct...

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   Shout at the Devil

   Film · 1976 · also action and adventure

   During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is a...

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   Black Gold

   Film · 2011 · also adventure and drama

   On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Sa...

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   The Secrets We Keep

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believ...

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   Beirut

   Film · 2018 · also action and drama

   In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family...

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   Fanny Lye Deliver'd

   Film · 2019 · also drama and history

   On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young...

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   Waiting for the Barbarians

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending up...

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   The Wild Geese

   Film · 1978 · also action and adventure

   A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save...

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    Escape from Pretoria

    Film · 2020 · also drama and history

    South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion...

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