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Escape from Afghanistan (2002)
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Escape from Afghanistan (2002)
Original name: Пешаварский вальс
Genre: Action, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: American journalist Charlie Palmer gets permission to meet Russian soldiers in a camp controlled by Tali-ban. While the Russian soldiers take over the camp Charlie films it all.
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot: journalist, pow, captivity, brutality, danger, confined, behind enemy lines, war in afghanistan, soviet afghanistan war
Place: afghanistan
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, realistic and serious films with plots about danger, heroes, confined, military, escapades, rivalry and soldier mostly in Action, War and Drama genres. Some movies like Escape from Afghanistan: Marines (2003), Special Forces (2011), Leaving Afghanistan (2019), Sector 4: Extraction (2014), Covert Action (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Plot: terrorism, marine, military life, rivalry, danger, military, conflict, soldier, violent content, battles, heroic mission, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, chechnya
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Special Forces (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: taliban, military, journalist, war, war zone, sniper, swat team, soldier, kidnapping, danger, daring rescue, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, pakistan
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Leaving Afghanistan (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: russian soldier, wartime, war, hostage, danger, conflict, soviet army, brutality, murderer, kgb, murder, robbery ...
Time: 80s, 1880s
Place: afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Sector 4: Extraction (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action - When an elite band of private mercenaries known as Black Knight gets caught behind enemy lines in a Middle East combat zone, their only hope for survival lies with the team leader, who has escaped but vows to return. - Salman Bokhari, ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, danger, captivity, rivalry, profanity, escapades, tough heroes, heroes, war, wartime, violent content, one man army ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Covert Action (1988)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of Miguel Rivera, a Central American diplomat. Only two ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mercenary, trial, courtroom, battles, undercover, heroes, rivalry, military, politics, rebellion, state affairs, soldier ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Special Ops military Force, led by expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler, are sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American congressman being held by the Taliban.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, entertaining
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, courage, heroism, heroic mission, battles, war, gunfight, danger, heroes, war in afghanistan, military, world war two ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Urgency (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, rescue, confined, ultimatum, abduction, uncover truth, rivalry, kidnapping, sexual content, chases and races, profanity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, marine, rescue, military, battles, save the day, leadership, heroic mission, race against time, escapades, danger, rivalry ...
Place: the philippines, asia
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The Hunt for Wehrwolf (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A small group of Russian soldiers with mixed skills are assembled to go on a covert mission to map out the area of Hitler's new HQ in the Ukraine known as Wehrwolf. But it's not until they get to their destination that the squads leader ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Misfire (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: WKBA kickboxing champion and hard-action star Gary Daniels (The Expendables) takes to the screen in a border-crossing, barrier smashing all-action explosion that pits his will to live against the merciless murder machine of a Mexican drug cartel. ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: danger, police, rivalry, journalism, abduction, rescue, organized crime, drug cartel, captivity, chases and races, couple relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
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Behind Enemy Lines (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Beast of War (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
Style: realistic, bleak, sexy, gothic, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tank, politics, desert, military, soldier, soviet afghanistan war, vengeance, war in afghanistan, international relations, revenge, brutality, world war two ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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The Human Shield (1991)
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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Time: 90s, year 1985, year 1990
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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: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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81%
Rogue Warfare: The Hunt (2019)
Genre: Action
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Duration: 103 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
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80%
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Search and Destroy (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SEARCH AND DESTROY (1988) - Terrorists destroy a chemical factory. A virus is released that infects the people of the town with a strange psychosis. Stars Joe Ambrose, Tom Banks and Peter Drinco
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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79%
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Genre: Action
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Duration: 94 min.
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The Last Escape (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: exciting, captivating, bleak, realistic, serious ...
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First Shot (2002)
Genre: Action
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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78%
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Black Shark (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
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78%
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Fear (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam ...
Style: independent film, bleak, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
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Time: year 1988
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Fatal Instinct (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Time: 21st century
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