Comedy, War, Drama, TV Movie
When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wipers Times - "Wipers" being army slang for Ypres. Full of gallows humour, The Wipers Times was poignant, subversive and very funny. Produced literally under enemy fire and defying both authority and gas attacks, the magazine proved a huge success with the troops on the western front. It was, above all, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. In his spare time, Roberts also managed to win the Military Cross for gallantry.
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Benediction
La Dolce Vita
The African Queen
Scoop
Citizen Kane
Letters
27 Dresses
Behind the News
Touch and Die
Aphrodite
It Happened Tomorrow
It Happened One Night
Suicide Fleet
Two-Fisted Tales
A Very Long Engagement
A Promise
The Cardinal
The Big Parade
The Dark Field
The Red Baron
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IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2021
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IMDB 8.1 | Feb , 1960
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.The African Queen
IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 1952
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IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 2006
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.Letters
IMDB 9 | Apr , 2021
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IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2008
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.Behind the News
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1940
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IMDB 3.3 | Jan , 1991
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IMDB 4.6 | Jan , 1982
Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...It Happened Tomorrow
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1944
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IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 1934
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IMDB 4.3 | Nov , 1931
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IMDB 5 | Jan , 1992
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IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2004
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IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 2013
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IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1963
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 1925
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
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IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2008
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.