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The War Is Over

Poster for the movie "The War Is Over"
Poster for the movie "The War Is Over"

The War Is Over (1966)

117 min - Drama, Thriller - 11 May 1966
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Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.

Director:  Alain Resnais
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Z

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Poster for the movie "Z"

Z (1969)

127 min - Thriller, History, Drama - 26 February 1969
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Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

Director:  Costa-Gavras
Writers:  Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún, Ben Barzman
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The Longest Day

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The Longest Day (1962)

178 min - War, Action, Drama - 25 September 1962
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Writers:  David Pursall, Jack Seddon, James Jones, Romain Gary
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