Movies like Crimson Tide

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Crimson Tide (1995)
 7.3
 122K
Crimson Tide (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, rough, serious, exciting, political, tense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, underwater, u.s. navy, military, nuclear, war, spy, end of the world, sea, mutiny, boat, danger, leadership, save the day, water, battles, anti war, rebelliousness, military life, race against time, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: russia, pacific ocean, alabama, mediterranean sea
Keyword: russian, ocean or sea, gangsters, order, poster

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and suspense films with plots about military, danger, heroes, submarine, soldier, world war and war mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Crimson Tide: The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Peacemaker (1997), Phantom (2013), The Wolf's Call (2019), The Sum of All Fears (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, political thriller, political ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, cold war, spy, navy, espionage, nuclear threat, cia, politics, underwater, nuclear submarine, u.s. navy, sea ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c., usa, maine, soviet union ...
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94%
 6.0
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The Peacemaker (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, visually stunning, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, secret service, train crash, terrorist, car chase, espionage, cold war, die hard, disaster, 007, nuclear ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, bosnia, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Phantom (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, political thriller ...
Plot: submarine, military, cold war, nuclear submarine, navy, nuclear threat, underwater, military life, mission gone awry, danger, sea disaster, haunted by the past ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Wolf's Call (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Thriller set in the milieu of French nuclear submarines.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic
Plot: submarine, sea battle, torpedo, sea, nuclear submarine, naval battle, chain of command, nuclear threat, danger, investigation, water, nuclear testing ...
Time: near future
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, political, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, cia, cold war, terrorism, espionage, nuclear war, secret agent, terrorist, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosion, nuclear threat, covert operation ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, year 1973, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: maryland, israel, russia, washington d.c., chechnya ...
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In Enemy Hands (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, world war two, ship, holocaust, military, mutiny, boat, survival, daring rescue, danger, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 7K
Fail Safe (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, nuclear threat, aviation, moral dilemma, nuclear holocaust, politics, military life, disaster, danger, military, race against time, chaos ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 95K
Under Siege (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned ...
Style: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, one man army, u.s. navy, ship, hostage, one against many, terrorist plot, violence, terrorist, sociopath, race against time ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: hawaii, pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Last Resort (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, navy, government conspiracy, nuclear threat, captain, moral dilemma, power relations, heroes, nuclear, chases and races, nato, bomb ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, military, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Captain Phillips (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, ship, kidnapping, terrorism, survival, rescue, ocean, pirate, u.s. navy, ship captain, piracy, ransom ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: somalia, africa, america, middle east, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, sea, underwater, nuclear, radiation sickness, disaster, sea disaster, nuclear threat ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1989, 80s ...
Place: soviet union, russia, nova scotia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.0
 24K
Fail-Safe (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style: tense, political thriller, political, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, nuclear threat, politics, military, u.s. air force, atomic bomb, nuclear, chaos, radio, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1967
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
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Greyhound (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style: serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, inspirational ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, submarine, war, u.s. navy, navy, warship, convoy, wartime, ocean, battleship, naval officer, captain ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: san francisco, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style: epic, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, navy, military, war, ocean, naval battle, nazi, anti war, battles, survival, ship captain ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1981, year 1942, year 1941
Place: germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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U-571 (2000)
Genre: Action, War
Country: France, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, factual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, world war two, military, navy, war, naval battle, nazism, naval officer, sea battle, ship captain, wartime, boat ...
Time: year 2000, 1940s, y2k, 20th century
Place: germany, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 72K
Act of Valor (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.
Style: realistic, talky, suspense, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Bedford Incident (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, political, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
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Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
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Crash Dive (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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USS Seaviper (2012)
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Story: Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Morituri (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so ...
Style: black and white, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
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27%
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Kursk (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, talky, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, world war three, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, post apocalypse, politics, doom, flying, cold war ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.3
 12K
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Style: intense, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, jungle, survival, military, rescue, soldier, captivity, danger, missing person, against the odds, military life ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1977, year 1982, year 1972 ...
Place: vietnam, texas, laos, bangkok thailand, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 10K
Bat*21 (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
Style: realistic, suspense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
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Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, dieselpunk
Audience: boys' night
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Place: japan, hiroshima japan, pacific ocean, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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