Movies like The Carabineers
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The Carabineers (1963)
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Original name: Les carabiniers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, serious, surreal, disturbing, cynical, semi serious, biting, offbeat, cult film
Plot:
anti war, satire, war, military, betrayal, battles, soldier, suspense, life is a bitch, down on your luck, military life, war crime, treason, firing squad, cynicism, new wave, imaginary, french new wave
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, egypt, africa, france, usa, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and biting films with plots about military, soldier, war, anti war, military life, life is a bitch and wartime life mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Carabineers: Black and White in Color (1976), La chinoise (1967), Kippur (2000), No Man's Land (2001), Two Men Went to War (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them ...
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world war one, colonialism, war, imperialism, blaxploitation, satire, military, soldier, french colonialism, suspense, state affairs, society ...
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1910s, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
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political, art house, philosophical, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
revolution, politics, anarchist, marxist, modernism, reform, isolation, protest, university, marxism, roommate, communism ...
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60s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
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The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
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rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, battle zone, realism, jewish, judaism, terrorism, helicopter, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
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thought provoking, bleak, harsh, political, talky ...
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anti war, politics, soldier, military, bosnian war, survival, war, intrigue, un, bomb, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
serbia, bosnia herzegovina, eastern europe, europe, bosnia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, War, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, dentist, military life, heroic mission, military, adventurer, goofy hero, officers and cadets, battles, army investigation, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
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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 ...
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sniper, balkan war, sibling relationship, society, state affairs, against humanity, soldier, war, military, politics, best friends, betrayal ...
Place:
sarajevo, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW ...
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humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
Plot:
world war two, escape, dentist, anti war, soldier, prison, confined, partners, buddies, down on your luck, friends, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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71%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian ...
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serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
filmmaking, wartime life, life is a bitch, director, iraq war, military, iraq iran war, soldier, filmmaker, military base, suspense, death threat ...
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21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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 ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Iraq, Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A historical drama based on the Thiaroye transit camp massacre, Camp de Thiaroye dismantles the myth of colonial assimilation to expose ingrained social and cultural mechanisms of racism, exploitation, and privilege. In 1944, the French army ...
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racism, prison, prison escape, racial issues, imperialism, blaxploitation, interracial relations, soldier, autobiography, injustice, culture clash, wartime life ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training ...
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prostitute, soldier, mutiny, execution, platoon, anti war protest, military training, idealist, deserter, french army, pacifist, communist ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative
Plot:
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chechnya, russia, germany, europe
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53%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Duration: 101 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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