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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, assassination, convict, army, confined, military life, heroic mission, heroes, leadership, escapades, danger, wartime life, prison, death, nazi officer, military training, world war, holocaust, squad, prisoner, war, redemption, against the odds ...
Place: germany, europe
Keyword: reboot

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about military, soldier, heroes, war, danger, battles and escapades mostly in Action, War and Drama genres. Some movies like The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission: When Trumpets Fade (1998), Battle of the Commandos (1969), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Sea Wolves (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, military, heroic mission, military life, world war, battles, anti war, battle zone, siblings relations, wartime life, danger, tank ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for ...
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, combat, world war, train, collaborator, submarine, commando, revenge, resistance, disguise, soldier, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: normandy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
Style: exciting, intense, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: world war two, redemption, squad, behind enemy lines, military, soldier, nazi, world war, psychopath, battlefield, u.s. army, machismo ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place: america, europe, france, brittany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, mind blowing, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, mountain, commando, nazi, spy, machine gun, two man army, castle, espionage, winter, secret mission ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: bavaria, austria, europe, germany, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Sea Wolves (1980)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This true story follows the exploits of a top secret British military mission to destroy Nazi radio ships in a neutral harbor during WWII. The daring plan is led by British Intelligence officers Col. Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) and Capt. Gavin Stewart ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, battles, espionage, military, submarine, seaport, 007, ship, heroic mission, sea, undercover ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: india, asia, goa india, portugal, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Drop (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, battles, heroic mission, military life, confined, survival, espionage, military, against humanity, danger, world war, resistance ...
Place: holland, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, soldier, resistance movement, against the odds, danger, good versus evil, heroic mission, heroes, world war, death sentence, suicide mission, suicide ...
Place: liverpool, former yugoslavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Company of Heroes (2013)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, danger, save the day, escapades, heroes, obsessive quest, race against time, heroic mission, against the odds, super weapon ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film ...
Style: exciting, realistic, tense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, commando, espionage, visceral, battles, betrayal, heroes, anti war, military life, basic training, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, europe, canada, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, military, rescue, danger, heroic mission, heroes, anti hero, world war, french resistance, machine gun ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, military, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Ardennes Fury (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, heroic mission, daring rescue, battles, danger, heroes, platoon, world war, scarecrow, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Sniper 2 (2002)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Berenger) is back - and this time he has teamed up with death row inmate B.J. Cole (Woodbine) on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target: a rogue general accused of running ethnic cleansing missions. But when Becket ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
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Marines (2003)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Saints and Soldiers: The Void (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, tank, military, racism, soldier, danger, against the odds, save the day, military life, battles, human spirit, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Style: realistic, exciting, retro, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, world war two, prison, behind enemy lines, prison escape, nazi, great war, world war, prisoner, railway, wartime, military ...
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26%
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The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: realistic, grindhouse, talky, intense, rough ...
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Plot: world war two, nazi, military, gunfight, escape, battles, skinny dipping, brutality, fascism, survival, partner, battle zone ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
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Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Eastern Condors (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious ...
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Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Skeleton Coast (1988)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
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25%
Born to Defense (1988)
Genre: Action, War
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Style: suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic ...
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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U-571 (2000)
Genre: Action, War
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Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, historical drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Lost Battalion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Fallen (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: THE FALLEN is a three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers, set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, serious, bleak
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Last Escape (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back ...
Style: exciting, captivating, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, kidnapping, battles, danger, heroes, war, confined, soldier, escapades, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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