Movies like Pueblo

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Pueblo (1973)
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Pueblo (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Plot: kidnapping, torture, cold war, hunger, espionage, capture, pow, interrogation, confession, jail cell, piracy, u.s. navy, mistreatment, secret document, reenactment
Time: year 1968
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about war, world war two, military, pow, heroes, battles and explosion mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Pueblo: The Forgotten Man (1971), Behind Enemy Lines (1985), The Iron Triangle (1989), Seven Women from Hell (1961), No Man is an Island (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Forgotten Man (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam but was actually a POW returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold and ...
Plot: vietnam war, presumed dead, father daughter relationship, beach, interrogation, flashback, torture, escape, pow, prospector, post traumatic stress disorder, veteran ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Behind Enemy Lines (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: spy, state affairs, chases and races, undercover, criminal heroes, heroes, danger, against humanity, war, espionage, military, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
84%
Seven Women from Hell (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
Plot: world war two, prisoner, world war, women, treachery, hunger, pregnancy, american soldier, heroine, thief, evacuation, cruelty ...
Time: 1940s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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No Man is an Island (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, stranded, shipwreck, u.s. navy, behind enemy lines, priest, bare chested male, scorpion
Time: year 1962
Place: pacific ocean, minneapolis minnesota, pearl harbor, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Style: disturbing, rough, realistic, intense, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, torture, muslim, survival, politics, military, british, pow, injustice, life is a bitch, danger, warning ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2002, year 2004, year 2003 ...
Place: middle east, united kingdom, latin america, pakistan, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Interrogation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot: russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, convict, soviet spy, military officer, russian spy, socialist, cell, female spy, breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: soviet union, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own.
Plot: car theft, police corruption, planting evidence, loss of son, father son relationship, flashback, police chase
Place: houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place: china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Dear Elza! (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Mankind is nature's greatest mistake. In his actions echoes millions of years of instinct and a few genius's idea's useless revolution." End of 1942, eastern front, Ukraine. Private Lombos, tied to his family and his ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, world war, homesickness, shootout, army, behind enemy lines, pow, combat, journal, translator, forest ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Green Berets (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, propaganda, green beret, military, culture clash, politics, war, freedom, soldier, battlefield, journalism, special forces ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he ...
Plot: vietnam war, explosions, ptsd, aeroplane, flashback, psychiatrist, airplane, cell, prisoner, pow, awol, repressed memory ...
Time: 70s
Place: vermont, vietnam, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.3
 55K
Hart's War (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style: realistic, tense, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, nazi, prison, racism, soldier, prison escape, ethnic conflict, pow, propaganda, torture, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2002
Place: germany, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 164
Jenny's War (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 198 min.
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Story: This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Plot: world war two, luftwaffe, capture, woman in jeopardy, royal air force, escape, pow, nazi, gestapo, prisoner of war camp, behind enemy lines, pilot
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Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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
Plot: vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, friendship, soldier, daring rescue, battles, jungle ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.6
 452
Women of Valor (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: TV movie, first shown by CBS in 1986. A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942. They are put in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan, where they spend three years of their lives. The story focuses on Lt Margaret Ann ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, prisoner, woman in jeopardy, corporal punishment, pow, loss of husband, prisoner of war camp, female bonding, military officer, tomboy, hunger ...
Time: year 1941
Place: pacific ocean, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Operation Overlord (2021)
Genre: War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A week before storming the beaches of Normandy, two US Soldiers infiltrate an abandoned complex to rescue a prisoner of war from the clutches of the Nazi regime.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
Plot: rescue mission, pow, soldier, captive, army, torture, prison, state affairs, survival, gunfight, kidnapping, police interrogation ...
Place: normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.6
 4K
Fatima (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Portugal
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist ...
Style: christian film, sincere, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: mysticism, catholic, faith, children, church, miraculous event, female protagonist, priest, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, nun, flash forward ...
Time: year 1917, edwardian era, year 2008, year 2017, year 2005 ...
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
Style: talky, biting, thought provoking, disturbing, clever ...
Plot: courtroom drama, world war two, court martial, army investigation, lawyer, legal, rebellion, leadership, law enforcement, mentally unstable, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Aryan Couple (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, survival, genocide, anti semitism, undercover, hidden identity, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, forbidden love, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 2K
Eleni (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as ...
Style: political, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: biopic, reporter, civil war, greek civil war, correspondents, photojournalist, war zone, christian, girl, revolution, village, war ...
Time: year 1985
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Some May Live (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her correspondent husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: vietnam war, spy, espionage, cold war, husband, intrigue, vietcong, traitor, police inspector, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, asian stereotype ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Held for Ransom (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, social
Plot: isis, terrorist, hostage, kidnapping, terrorism, captivity, captive, islam, hostage negotiator, ransom demand, war photographer, hostage situation ...
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37%
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, military, soldier, great war, cold war, wartime, war trauma, insurgent, pregnancy, adultery, corruption ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, world war, war, nazi, commando, holocaust, desert, battles, british soldier, military life, heroic mission, captivity ...
Time: year 1971, year 1943
Place: africa, libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor ...
Style: tense, captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, war violence, jungle, heroes, death, saving a life, heroism, dying, investigation, thanksgiving, self sacrifice ...
Time: year 1999, year 1969
Place: vietnam, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organisation, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, partisan, fbi agent, terrorist group, heiress, ransom, kidnapper kidnapped relationship
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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