Movies like The Bedford Incident

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The Bedford Incident (1965)
 7.3
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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 Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew, and the on-screen tension, to breaking point in this chilling cold-war tale of cat and mouse.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, political, tense, suspense, realistic, intense, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, submarine, navy, war, battlefield, military, confrontation, reporter, u.s. navy, world war two, propaganda, nuclear, ship, danger, heroic mission, doctor, african american, nuclear explosion, ship captain, naval officer, megalomaniac, exhaustion, photojournalist, journalism, race against time ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: greenland, atlantic ocean, russia
Keyword: russian, outburst, american, doctors, german

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Most similar movies to The Bedford Incident

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, heroes, military, cold war, race against time, chases and races and politics mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Bedford Incident: Fail-Safe (1964), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981), Crimson Tide (1995), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.0
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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
Place: russia, new york, usa, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
 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, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, underwater, u.s. navy, military, nuclear, war, spy, sea ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, pacific ocean, mediterranean sea, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
 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 ⇓
45%
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style: political, political thriller, neo noir, tense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear threat, vietnam war, cold war, president, u.s. president, terrorism, conspiracy, danger, military, international relations, world war, post apocalyptic ...
Place: montana, usa, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 15K
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 ⇓
42%
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style: political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot: cold war, conspiracy, politics, white house, u.s. air force, terrorism, president, secret service, u.s. president, coup d'etat, betrayal, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: austin texas, russia, soviet union, america, el paso texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 2K
Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
The Ipcress File (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, albania, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Fourth War (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.
Style: political, grindhouse, political thriller, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: cold war, border, spy, iron curtain, 007, winter, world war two, terrorism, cannon, soldier, battles, wartime life ...
Time: 80s
Place: czechoslovakia, germany, asia, vietnam, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Little Nikita (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: fbi, cold war, teenager, investigation, death, teenage boy, killer, name calling, family relations, spy, youth, hidden identity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, san diego california, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 73K
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 ⇓
35%
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: titanic, submarine, ship, sea, survival, treasure hunt, disaster, water, boat, spy, underwater, cold war ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: russia, atlantic ocean, new york, washington d.c., manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, action thriller, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, espionage, spy, satellite, military, underwater, winter, snow, disaster, political intrigue, double agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
35%
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Style: political, black and white, suspense, grim, realistic ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, berlin wall, iron curtain, british intelligence, double agent, politics, great ending, secret agent, spy thriller, loner ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.5
 758
Sub Down (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a nuclear attack submarine crashes on the floor of the Artic ocean, it's up to a pair of research scientists to save the entire crew before time and oxygen run out.
Style: independent film, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, disaster, die hard, boat, u.s. navy, ocean, underwater, save the day, chases and races, escapades, rescue, military ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.4
 968
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 ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, boat, die hard, tough heroes, water, disaster, hijacking, terrorism, military life, heroic mission, heroes, save the day ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Domino Killings (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, vietnam war, prison, terrorism, paranoia, vietnam veteran, prison escape, murder, conspiracy theory, paranoid, communism, assassination ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, europe, spain, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Missiles of October (1974)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Style: political, thought provoking, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: cold war, cuban missile crisis, president, u.s. president, diplomacy, politics, nuclear threat, spy, missile, intrigue, john f. kennedy, american politics ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The China Syndrome (1979)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, political, psychological ...
Plot: reporter, radiation, journalism, power plant, politics, investigation, disaster, nuclear, media, nuclear power, environmental, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, usa, los angeles, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 484
Ghostboat (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, mind bending, rough ...
Plot: submarine, supernatural, world war two, british navy, ghost ship, supernatural ability, heroes, danger, escapades, ghost, memory loss, ocean ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.3
 62K
Thirteen Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style: political, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: cold war, politics, president, political intrigue, un, race against time, diplomacy, nuclear, spy, conspiracy, cuban missile crisis, leadership ...
Time: 60s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, ussr, the philippines, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, terrorism, rebelliousness, military life, rivalry, danger, military, race against time, undercover, nuclear holocaust, hijacking, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 41K
Black Sea (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Plot: submarine, underwater, boat, treasure hunt, sea, ocean, gold, isolation, heist, danger, greed, murder ...
Time: year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place: black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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