Movies like Challenger
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Challenger (1990)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
Style:
sad, sincere, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, space shuttle, disaster, catastrophe, heroes, space and aliens, escapades, pilot, ice, tragedy, celebrity, accident, test pilot, school teacher, father son relationship, security, husband wife relationship, flashback, press conference, spacecraft, danger, bar, explosion, saxophone ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1986
Place:
texas, hawaii
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about danger, catastrophe, disaster, escapades, heroes, life is a bitch and society mostly in Drama, History and Action genres. Some movies like Challenger: Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993), Freefall: Flight 174 (1995), The Rainbow Warrior (1993), Ordeal in the Arctic (1993), Hurricane (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
isolation, confined, heroes, babies and infants, escapades, twins, daring rescue, baby, rescue, child in peril, media coverage, trapped ...
Time:
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Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
airplane, aviation, disaster, air disaster, catastrophe, flight attendant, hostage, race against time, fighting crime, confined, heroes, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, political, realistic
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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