Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.
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As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a comp...
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, c...
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
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A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...