Movies like The Four Feathers
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The Four Feathers (2002)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, touching, captivating, epic, intense, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
military, imperialism, soldier, redemption, rescue, desert, colonialism, islam, slavery, pow, revenge, escape, battles, bravery, honor, loyalty, siege, starvation, adventure, british empire, slave, war, ambition, heroes, mercenary ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1890s, victorian
Place:
sudan, england, africa, europe, britain, london, north africa ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, dramatic and epic films with plots about violence, culture clash, mentor, war, battles, dialogue and brutality mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Four Feathers: Cold Mountain (2003), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), House of Flying Daggers (2004), The Patriot (2000), Tristan & Isolde (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
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exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
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ship, sea battle, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, adventure, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, escapades, sailboat, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
brazil, europe, england, pacific ocean, france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, sincere, touching, epic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, tragic love, slavery, loss of family member, getting home, loss of loved one, soldier, friendship, survival, civil war, love story, lovers reunited ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
usa, south carolina, north carolina, appalachia, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
Story:
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
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epic, captivating, exciting, realistic, stylized ...
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desert, adventure, historical character, battles, world war one, imperialism, military, politics, rebel, war, horse, stoicism ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
middle east, ottoman empire, saudi arabia, lebanon, cairo egypt ...
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67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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exciting, stylized, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
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martial arts, warrior, tragic love, swords and armor, romance, emperor, heroine, adventure, sword fight, tragic event, resistance, mission ...
Time:
middle ages, 9th century
Place:
china, ancient china, asia, hong kong
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100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style:
uplifting, rough, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
battles, war, revolution, american revolution, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, freedom, heroic mission, patriotism, soldier, lone hero ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, 1770s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa, england, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.
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touching, exciting, romantic, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
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forbidden love, knight, romance, true love, medieval, love affair, legends and myths, betrayal, infidelity, tragic love, swords and armor, king ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
ireland, england, cornwall, europe, san francisco
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under ...
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epic, realistic, serious, factual, talky ...
Plot:
siege, islam, desert, politics, culture clash, imperialism, military, negotiation, battles, heroes, british empire, wartime ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 18th century
Place:
africa, sudan, egypt, england, north africa ...
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50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
Style:
touching, captivating, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
charity, surgery, starvation, desert, pianist, un, landmine, love affair, romance, negotiation, obsessive quest, war ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1984 ...
Place:
africa, london, england, cambodia, chechnya ...
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
anti war, military, world war one, friendship, british empire, idealism, human spirit, military life, battle zone, soldier, desert, army ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1915, 18th century
Place:
australia, turkey, egypt, middle east, africa ...
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style:
emotional, touching, uplifting, epic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
horse, world war one, war, friendship, battles, hopes, animals, animal training, german, human spirit, french, trapped ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1918
Place:
england, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, tense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
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mercenary, adventure, military, betrayal, battles, rescue, behind enemy lines, political unrest, political corruption, against the odds, heroes, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
africa, zimbabwe, england, london, europe ...
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36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, england
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18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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exciting, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
mercenary, revolution, adventure, war, military, combat, soldier, undercover, torture, gunfight, espionage, political intrigue ...
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Place:
africa, paris france, central america, london, new york
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35%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, berlin germany, new york ...
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34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, adventure, island, german, military, behind enemy lines, battles, resistance, allies, war, save the day, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" ...
Style:
epic, tense, realistic, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
battles, friendship, warship, navy, heroes, u.s. navy, missionary, chinese, ship, politics, redemption, war ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, asia, shanghai, philadelphia, salt lake city utah ...
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33%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary ...
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epic, serious, exciting, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
anti war, politics, british army, heroes, battles, british history, british empire, war, massacre, british soldier, military life, against the odds ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 70s, 60s
Place:
russia, england, europe, istanbul turkey, turkey ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an ...
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realistic, exciting, serious, psychological, epic ...
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siege, british army, british empire, military, human spirit, battles, native, soldier, war, british colonialism, heroic mission, against the odds ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 60s
Place:
south africa, africa, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Sweden, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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stylized, captivating, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monastery, knight, crusader, adventure, heroes, war, forbidden love, battles, nun, adaptation, cavalry, religion ...
Time:
middle ages, 12th century
Place:
europe, sweden, holy land, middle east, scandinavia ...
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31%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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tense, rough, suspenseful, harsh, realistic ...
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boys' night
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rescue mission, military, war, pow, world war two, escape attempt, massacre, swat team, against the odds, military life, human spirit, daring rescue ...
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1940s, 20th century
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the philippines, asia, manila philippines, pearl harbor, japan ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, ...
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exciting, epic, stylized, rough, serious ...
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boys' night
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knight, king arthur, battles, medieval, king, swords and armor, roman empire, army, folk hero, state affairs, arthurian legend, freedom ...
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scotland, europe, england, britain, rome italy ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The ...
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jungle, world war two, battles, soldier, military, war, u.s. navy, adventure, survival, betrayal, vengeance, island ...
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Place:
japan, asia, borneo, indonesia, usa ...
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30%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
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tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, harsh ...
Plot:
pow, jungle, corporal punishment, world war two, captivity, escape, war crime, soldier, military, hopes, war, prison life ...
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20th century, 1940s, year 1942, year 1943
Place:
japan, scotland, asia, india, burma ...
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30%
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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, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized ...
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world war two, battles, double agent, military, task force, survival, adventure, war, heroic mission, racism, against the odds, betrayal ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
former yugoslavia, italy, england, germany
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30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. ...
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atmospheric, rough, serious, exciting, realistic ...
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state affairs, war, battlefield, military, escapades, adventure, homecoming, leadership, heroes, forbidden love, heroic mission, battle zone ...
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Place:
sweden, holy land, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
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tense, exciting, rough, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
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bomber, world war two, military, war, soldier, battles, one last job, mission, behind enemy lines, friendship, airplane, rescue ...
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1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
europe, england, united kingdom, germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
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serious, touching, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
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military, war, soldier, jungle, war crime, brutality, army, rescue mission, navy seal, child soldier, genocide, civil war ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
nigeria, africa, iraq, hawaii
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30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Morocco, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Style:
epic, serious, exciting, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
knight, warrior, battles, siege, war, sword fight, king, christianity, crusade, crusader, medieval, military ...
Time:
12th century, middle ages
Place:
jerusalem, holy land, middle east, england, israel ...
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50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of ...
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epic, exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
battles, imperialism, heroes, soldier, military, victory, army life, death, british empire, surrounded, colonialism, catastrophe ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
africa
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29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her growing love for his rival. ...
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romantic, atmospheric, epic, sentimental, exciting ...
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chick flick, girls' night
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middle ages
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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