Movies like Act of Valor

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Act of Valor (2012)
 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, suspense, talky, intense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action packed, visually appealing, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, rescue mission, terrorist plot, cia, navy seal, swat team, navy, army, soldier, torture, sniper, war, violence, kidnapping, gunfight, justice, brutality, courage, heroism, battles, special forces, military life, commando unit, bomb ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: somalia, africa, ukraine, las vegas, costa rica, san diego california, mexico ...
Keyword: propaganda film, russian, attack, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about military, soldier, danger, special forces, shootout, gunfight and machine gun mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Act of Valor: Lone Survivor (2013), Expend4bles (2023), 12 Strong (2018), Tears of the Sun (2003), American Sniper (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 305K
Lone Survivor (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, survival, soldier, war, terrorism, gunfight, courage, military life, selflessness, war on terror, squad, army ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Style: intense, suspenseful, realistic, tense, factual ...
Audience: manly
Plot: cia, war, terrorism, rescue mission, mercenary, swat team, military, navy seal, courage, gunfight, commando, combat ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2016, year 2011, 21st century
Place: libya, middle east, africa, pentagon, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the rumored whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are revealed, the CIA readies a team of seasoned U.S. Navy SEALs for the mission of a lifetime. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin Laden is inside the compound, and ignoring the possible ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, military, navy seal, top secret, manhunt, mastermind, heroic mission, government agency, danger, wanted, once in a lifetime opportunity, chases and races ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 34K
Expend4bles (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Expendables square up against an arms dealer who commands the might of a massive private army.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, action thriller
Plot: good versus evil, spy, tough guy, warrior, teamwork, death of child, terrorist, mission, mercenary, army, man on a mission, swat team ...
Time: 2020s
Place: thailand, southeast asia, syria, new orleans, libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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12 Strong (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Style: touching, historical drama, anamorphic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: soldier, cia, military, taliban, special forces, war on terror, heroism, behind enemy lines, us military, war in afghanistan, machismo, commando mission ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
Style: touching, serious, suspense, factual, compassionate ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, war, jungle, soldier, civil war, navy seal, commando, genocide, rescue mission, gunfight, violence, brutality ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria, iraq, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.3
 525K
American Sniper (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. ...
Style: factual, emotional, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: war, iraq war, sniper, military, soldier, violence, navy seal, assassin, american soldier, battles, biopic, middle east conflict ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, september 11 2001 ...
Place: iraq, middle east, california, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.1
 23K
The Unit (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, squad, terrorist, top secret, spy, military, veteran, army, swat team, special forces, sergeant, marital problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, political, realistic, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, cia, espionage, military, 9/11, special forces, manhunt, al qaeda, islamic terrorism, propaganda, terrorist plot, investigation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2011 ...
Place: middle east, pakistan, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.3
 19K
Special Forces (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: taliban, military, journalist, war, war zone, sniper, swat team, soldier, kidnapping, danger, daring rescue, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sniper: Reloaded (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's star Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, marines, terrorism, soldier, heroes, terrorist plot, behind enemy lines, rescue, danger, daring rescue, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: congo, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 132K
The Kingdom (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, investigation, terrorist, fbi, military, deception, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, mission, muslim, evidence, gunfight ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, saudi arabia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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%
 6.2
 24K
6 Days (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place, all the while a group of highly trained soldiers from the SAS prepared for a raid the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, factual, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, politics, commando mission, rescue, hostage, danger, violence, siege, police, death, terrorist ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: england, iran, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, soldier, heroes, battles, danger, military life, mission gone awry, daring rescue, cliche, tough heroes, nuclear threat, timebomb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, washington d.c., north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 11K
Renegades (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A team of Navy SEALs discovers an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bosnian war, military, world war two, treasure, navy, rescue, courage, friendship between men, gold, gunfight, bomb, map ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1995, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: serbia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, balkan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, spy, runaway, insubordination, rescue, world war, commando unit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Navy Seals (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, north america, pentagon
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22%
 6.6
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Hunter Killer (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: submarine, u.s. navy, navy, military coup, warship, swat team, battleship, save the day, daring rescue, danger, chases and races, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pentagon, moscow russia, washington d.c., usa, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.1
 33K
Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Green Zone (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, iraq war, military, war, soldier, spy, army, deception, pow, chase, investigation, politics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Special Forces (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When the crazed commander (Eli Danker) of a sadistic army in Moldavia kidnaps an American photojournalist (Daniella Deutscher) and holds her hostage, his misguided actions ignite a targeted response from Maj. Don Harding (Marshall R. Teague) and his ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, martial arts, tough heroes, reluctant partners, military, rescue, heroes, soldier, good versus evil, war on terror, terrorist plot, vengeance ...
Time: year 1995
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, stylized, predictable ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, president, martial arts, military, superhero, bodyguard, terrorism, gi joe, betrayal, revenge, comic book, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle, north korea, germany, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
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 ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style: action packed, harsh, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, revenge, rambo, weapons, vietnam war, violent, prisoner, prison, chase, violence, soldier, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, arizona, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sniper: Legacy (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett is informed his father, legendary shooter Thomas Beckett has been killed, Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator. But when ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, assassination, hitman, chase, vengeance, danger, rivalry, female warrior, dishonesty, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: syria, greece, berlin germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.8
 6K
Stratton (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorist, laboratory, terrorism, terrorist plot, rescue, investigation, military, chase, danger, murder, deception, evacuation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: big ben london, iran, rome italy, london, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Bravo Two Zero (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded by Saddam's army, ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gulf war, special forces, military, war, soldier, middle east conflict, war on terror, shootout, meaning of life, conflict, military operation, hostage rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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