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The Iron Triangle (1989)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John Sacksteder
Style:
rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, bleak, captivating, cult film
Plot:
vietnam war, captivity, confined, military life, battles, espionage, life is a bitch, anti war, rebellion, on the run, political unrest, wartime life, military, terrorism, cold war, conspiracy, cold war era, war trauma, soldier, village, heroes, profanity, village life, interracial relations, leadership ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about military, war, soldier, military life, battles, anti war and vietnam war mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Iron Triangle: The Veteran (2006), The Boys in Company C (1978), Tour of Duty (1987), Warriors (2002), The Hanoi Hilton (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
vietnam war, vietnam veteran, gay soldier, soldier, confined, vengeance, politics, haunted by the past, friendship, cold war era, innocence lost, state affairs ...
Place:
asia, vietnam
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, bare chested male, american football, soccer, football, conflict, war trauma, exodus, cold war era, friendship, army ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, the philippines, asia, indochina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
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Story:
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, vintage
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle warfare, battles, war, military, conflict, war trauma, struggle, revolutionary, destruction, cold war, cold war era ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tense drama that revolves around a platoon of Spanish soldiers, following the innocent young men as they step from the training field into a hell for which nothing could have prepared them.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, terrorism, military, danger, soldier, military life, political unrest, mission, survival, life is a bitch, battles, chaos ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo, macedonia, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, pow, electric torture, conservative, cold war era, prison escape, military prison, war trauma, escape ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, indochina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, survival, escapades, anti war, against the odds, danger, battles, military life, heroic mission, war trauma, jungle ...
Time:
year 1989, 60s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, u.s. army, military life, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, idealism, hopes, rescue, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, harsh, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, battles, daring rescue, soldier, friendship, golf ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, iraq, indochina
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of Marines return to Vietnam with a news crew to relive their tragic war experiences.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional
Plot:
vietnam war, leadership, military life, life is a bitch, military, battles, love, war, cold war era, war trauma, revolutionary, struggle ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
vietnam war, vietcong, military, war, cannon, struggle, revolutionary, real life, revolutionary war, cold war era, revolution, us military ...
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, war, survival, soldier, heroic mission, danger, chaos, military life, escapades, blood, vietcong, american abroad ...
Time:
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Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot:
iraq war, photograph, danger, assassination, racism, soldier, terrorism, media, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
40%
241
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, confined, danger, captivity, prison life, wartime life, isolation, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
prison, human spirit, confined, survival, military, captivity, patriotism, life is a bitch, hopes, rebellion, soldier, danger ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
vietnam, maryland, indochina
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
Style:
action adventure, independent film, realistic, serious, biting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, black, cold war era, interracial, military life, interracial relations, soldier, military, danger, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
vietnam war, vietcong, soldier, military, adultery, corruption, adulterous husband, ambassador, peasant, womanizer, patriotism, helicopter ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia, indochina
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
Style:
sex comedy, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, doctors and patients, self discovery, danger, orphan, journalism, war, buddies, daring rescue, military, society ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
military, survival, captivity, wartime life, korean war, confined, homecoming, anti war, against humanity, genocide, isolation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, danger, war, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines, japan, asia, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, war, politics, soldier, casualty of war, justice, military life, civil war, wartime, dialogue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1968
Place:
washington d.c., vietnam, usa, indochina, iraq
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, society, tragic hero, hopes, danger, military ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, california, indochina
Similarity:
34%
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
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, war, soldier, resistance movement, military life, military, captivity, against the odds, battles, leadership, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
navy seal, taliban, military, male nudity, battles, heroic mission, against the odds, wartime life, heroes, soldier, terrorism, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Honglei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warring States.
Style:
stylized, exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, rivalry, heroes, political intrigue, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, soldier, battles, betrayal, political unrest, military life, state affairs ...
Place:
seattle, ancient china, asia, china
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, courtroom drama, murder, soldier, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, world war, court martial, mentally unstable, legal action, society, politics ...
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: War
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, jungle warfare, dying man, cold war, tropics, parachute drop, platoon, behind enemy lines, french soldier, opium, french military ...
Time:
year 1954, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
cambodia, indochina, vietnam, asia, laos ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. ...
Style:
psychological, intense, bleak, serious, epic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, rape, interracial relations, military, biopic, redemption, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, opposites attract, culture clash, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
vietnam, north america, asia, saigon, indochina ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.
Style:
political, anamorphic, independent film, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
vietnam war, female nudity, struggle, conflict, war trauma, cold war era, wartime, love, bittersweet, war, military, fall in love ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
33%
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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:
sexy, gothic, realistic, bleak, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tank, politics, military, soldier, war in afghanistan, vengeance, international relations, brutality, revenge, anti communist, desert, cavalry ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
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