Movies like Outside the Law
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Outside the Law (2010)
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Original name: Hors-la-loi
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Tunisia, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, political, tense, captivating, psychological, sincere, rough, serious, beautiful
Plot:
french algerian war, algerian war, politics, police brutality, resistance, revenge, war crime, political unrest, world war two, military, family relations, society, battles, soldier, injustice, eviction, brother brother relationship, arab, protest, prison, murder, terrorism, death of brother, friendly fire, boxing ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, year 1945, post world war two, year 1962 ...
Place:
algeria, france, africa, europe, north africa
Keyword:
algerian, gangsters, arabic
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films with plots about war, politics, soldier, military, society, state affairs and battles mostly in Drama, War and Crime genres. Some movies like Outside the Law: Days of Glory (2006), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Nothing to Report (1973), The Colonel (2006), London River (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style:
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Plot:
war, battles, world war two, politics, justice, military, survival, muslim, brutality, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
france, africa, vichy, algeria, morocco ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style:
political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time:
year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place:
algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
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 ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
french algerian war, soldier, prostitute, colonialism, french army, platoon, idealist, military training, conscience, communist, anti war protest, pacifist ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
military, algerian war, torture, murder, investigation, military life, state affairs, uncover truth, love affair, brutality, war, soldier ...
Time:
90s, 50s
Place:
algeria, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Algeria
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 London terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
muslim, missing person, koran, terrorist bombing, terrorism, father, parents and children, family relations, bigotry, religious differences, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style:
political, black and white, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, algerian war, assassination, politics, assassin, fighting the system, revolution, death, hotel, torture, lovers, exodus ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s
Place:
algeria, switzerland, france, europe, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
dictatorship, military coup, military, rebellion, coup d'etat, family relations, politics, state affairs, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
portugal, africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style:
noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Style:
realistic, political, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
nicaragua, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Style:
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Plot:
military, atrocity, soldier, basic training, anti war, racism, politics, imperialism, political unrest, military life, against humanity, state affairs ...
Time:
1950s, year 2007, 50s, year 1959
Place:
algeria, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style:
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Plot:
terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, islam, self sacrifice, israeli ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The film begins with the final moments of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, when the final assault of Viet Minh is imminent. The weakened French garrison awaits reinforcements that arrive with a single plane under the command of Major De ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears ...
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disturbing, political, bleak, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
war, civil war, child soldier, life is a bitch, children in wartime, adaptation, violence, justice, military, moral ambiguity, violent, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, west africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
world war two, politics, world war, atomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, terrorism, injustice, nuclear, disaster, surrender, battles, white house ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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 ...
Style:
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world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time:
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and ...
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Plot:
vengeance, police investigation, police detective, immigrant, law enforcement, society, juvenile delinquency, life turned upside down, doctor, violent content, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and ...
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.
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Plot:
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Place:
vietnam, asia, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Algeria, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, touching, sincere
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Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 177 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, War
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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