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Wicked Spring (2002)
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Wicked Spring (2002)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, epic, emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, contemplative
Plot: american civil war, military, genocide, civil war, battles, wilderness, soldier, heroes, politics, weakness, against humanity, war, survival, friendship, anti war, danger, military life, political unrest, state affairs, mistaken identity, foreign legion, legion, american south, colonialism, friends ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films with plots about war, military, soldier, battles, heroes, wartime life and society mostly in War, Drama and Western genres. Some movies like Wicked Spring: True Women (1997), The Colt (2005), Journey to Shiloh (1968), The Battle of Canudos (1997), Pharaoh's Army (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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True Women (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
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Story: True Women is a sweeping saga of love, war and adventure. Spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, True Women is the story of the love, friendship, survival and triumphs
Style: period piece, costume drama, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, indian chief, female protagonist, american history, woman, emancipation, femme fatale, black, woman with a gun, woman power, civil rights ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1840s, 1850s, 1830s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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The Colt (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, exciting
Plot: american civil war, horse, civil war, soldier, colt, military life, military, danger, daring rescue, basic training, friendship, heroism ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: virginia, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, atmospheric
Plot: american civil war, civil war, lonely, iconoclastic, battles, war, heroes, soldier, buddies, society, rivalry, military ...
Time: 19th century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, mississippi, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Battle of Canudos (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The film adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author, Mario Vargas Llosa's epic, The War At The End Of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo).
Style: political, captivating, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: military, prostitution, reflection, american civil war, battles, family relations, politics, religions or cults, state affairs, heroes, society, unfulfillment ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Pharaoh's Army (1995)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, intrigue, iconoclastic, fall in love, army investigation, survival, vengeance, war, soldier, society, coming of age ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Shenandoah (1965)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
Style: retro, black and white, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, wartime, military, anti war, bittersweet, war, interracial relations, wild west, father son relationship, family drama, cowboy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, touching
Plot: american civil war, military, civil war, battles, teenage life, danger, youth, friendship, battlefield, soldier, bare chested male, u.s. civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1850s
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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A Little Pond (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating ...
Plot: military, survival, captivity, wartime life, danger, anti war, homecoming, isolation, confined, genocide, against humanity, korean war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, conservative, military prison, prison escape, war trauma, electric torture, violent content, profanity, escape ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
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54%
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Dog Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: "Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, heroes, civil war, slave, plantation, dog, military enlistment, teenage boy, scout, black ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, biting ...
Plot: sniper, balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, state affairs, against humanity, politics, soldier, society, betrayal ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Company K (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Situation (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot: iraq war, danger, assassination, racism, battles, terrorism, media, soldier, military, state affairs, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2006
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Last Lieutenant (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, world war, holocaust, violent content, battles, survival, couple relations, human spirit, aging, rebelliousness, soldier, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Fallen (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: THE FALLEN is a three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers, set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: holocaust, world war two, war, soldier, military life, resistance movement, military, captivity, against the odds, battles, leadership, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Iron Triangle (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: vietnam war, confined, military life, captivity, battles, rebellion, espionage, on the run, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, anti war ...
Time: year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Hunley (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: submarine, american civil war, civil war, american history, underwater, sea, yacht, water, usa history, boat, politics, navy ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s, year 1995
Place: charleston south carolina, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Warring States (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Honglei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warring States.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, rivalry, heroes, soldier, military life, political intrigue, dishonesty, political unrest, state affairs, betrayal, battles, uninhibited rivalry ...
Place: seattle, ancient china, asia, china
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41%
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Texas '46 (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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40%
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable love for his Northerner wife, Eveline McCord (Gwendolyn ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, romantic, saga
Plot: civil war, battles, wartime life, love affair, true love, society, heroes, military, love and romance, supportive spouse, prison escape, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: south carolina, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Red and the White (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style: political, contemplative, black and white, experimental, art house ...
Plot: revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, time travel, great war, international relations, conflict, revolutionary war, revolutionary, freedom, spirituality ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1910s, year 1919
Place: soviet union, hungary, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The American Dream (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days before Obama's inauguration, these young men have joined ...
Style: contemplative, serious, sincere, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot: military, society, soldier, friends, military life, friendship, youth, introspection, manhood, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, california, afghanistan, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Major Dundee (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Style: tense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, civil war, rescue, apache, battles, raid, heroes, apache indian, leadership, friend turned foe ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1965, year 1865
Place: mexico, new mexico, usa, austin texas, texas ...
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37%
All the King's Men (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, uplifting
Plot: world war one, human spirit, military, heroic mission, military life, campaign, soldier, heroes, state affairs, battle zone, against the odds, wartime life ...
Place: gallipoli
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Hiroshima (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: world war two, politics, world war, atomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, terrorism, injustice, nuclear, disaster, surrender, battles, white house ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: hiroshima japan, usa, japan, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Empty Mirror (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund ...
Style: independent film, sincere, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, hitler, soldier, genocide, anti semitism, holocaust, obsession, under the surface, campaign, transvestism, wartime life ...
Time: year 1996
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Last Winter (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot: conflict, friends, destiny, military life, friendship, captivity, anti war, war, life is a bitch, danger, military, journalism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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35%
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The 4 Soldiers (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A climate of civil war, a fight that has made them lose everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 13 to 20 years, will meet and build friendships. In the grip of an adult conflict, which they do not understand, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: soldier, friendship, life is a bitch, wartime life, social decay, society, danger, youth, military, battles, teenage life, countryside ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: quebec
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34%
Live from Baghdad (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN ...
Style: disturbing, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: gulf war, journalism, war correspondent, media, military, politics, anti war, against the odds, escapades, battles, political unrest, soldier ...
Place: iraq, baghdad iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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