Movies like K-19: The Widowmaker
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
72K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, harsh, intense, exciting, factual, serious, tension, epic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster, disaster, nuclear threat, mutiny, nuclear radiation, ocean, nuclear reactor, nuclear disaster, military, patriotism, survival, betrayal, shipwreck, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1961 ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean, ussr, russian
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Most similar movies to K-19: The Widowmaker
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about danger, catastrophe, military, ocean, heroes, survival and disaster mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like K-19: The Widowmaker: U-571 (2000), Kursk (2018), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), Greyhound (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
91K
Genre: Action, War
Country: France, USA
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 ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, submarine, navy, naval battle, war, military, naval officer, nazism, sea battle, ship captain, boat, soldier ...
Time:
year 2000, 1940s, y2k, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
germany, america
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, talky, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
submarine, nuclear submarine, rescue attempt, disaster, torpedo, fire, death of father, death of husband, survival, politics, struggle for survival, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, cold war, navy, espionage, spy, nuclear threat, politics, cold war era, water, cia, nuclear submarine, torpedo ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c., usa, atlantic ocean, maine ...
Similarity:
75%
135K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, u.s. navy, underwater, nuclear explosion, spy, terrorist, nuclear missile, military ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alabama, mediterranean sea, pacific ocean, russia
Similarity:
75%
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131K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, submarine, warship, war, u.s. navy, navy, captain, ship captain, convoy, wartime, naval officer, ocean ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
san francisco, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
67%
16K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
submarine, nuclear submarine, military, cold war, nuclear threat, navy, underwater, nuclear missile, military life, mission gone awry, danger, sea disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
33%
1.0M
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style:
dark, atmospheric, harsh, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, nuclear holocaust, nuclear reactor, disaster, radiation poisoning, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, abandoned city, evacuation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, europe ...
Similarity:
63%
208K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, factual ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, naval battle, navy, military, ocean, war, nazi, survival, sea, courage, ship captain ...
Time:
year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942, year 1981
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, submarine, nuclear submarine, rescue, drowning, daring rescue, survival, heroes, save the day, danger, tough heroes, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
pentagon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style:
suspense, inspirational, heartbreaking, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, tsunami, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, family in danger, vacation ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
252K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
81K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, race against time, tunnel, trapped, rescue, catastrophe, taxi driver, fire, self sacrifice, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Style:
tense, captivating, dark
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, nuclear power, radiation poisoning, flooding, radiation, nuclear, accident, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, political, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, war, navy, nuclear explosion, reporter, u.s. navy, confrontation, propaganda, battlefield, military, torpedo ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greenland, atlantic ocean, russia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, underwater, ship, holocaust, world war two, military, torpedo, boat, mutiny, daring rescue, survival, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Similarity:
29%
115K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, ship, shipwreck, catastrophe, cruise ship, ocean, sea disaster, drowning, father daughter relationship, trapped ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
warship, world war two, u.s. navy, sea, ocean, shark, military, rescue, world war, survival, naval battle, disobeying orders ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
san francisco, the philippines, washington d.c., pacific ocean, alabama
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
sniper, military, behind enemy lines, survival, courage, fighter pilot, combat, u.s. navy, reconnaissance, war crime, fighter plane, rescue ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
torpedo, ship, world war two, escapades, wartime life, downfall, ocean, evacuation, military, danger, confined, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear explosion, world war three, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, nuclear bomb, doom, post apocalypse, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
Similarity:
25%
273K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, cold war, politics, save the day, rescue, state affairs, heroic mission, race against time, danger, government agency, military, disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
soviet union, atlantic ocean, ussr, usa
Similarity:
25%
23K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, factual, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, military, sea battle, naval battle, pacific war, u.s. navy, navy, war, aviation, world war, fighter plane, white man asian woman relationship ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1976, 20th century, 1940s, 70s
Place:
america, pacific ocean, japan, hawaii, germany ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style:
tense, realistic, emotional, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
iraq war, terrorism, military, sniper, soldier, war, bomb squad, violence, army, shootout, marines, bomb ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, america, afghanistan ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ship, titanic, world war one, disaster, espionage, betrayal, military, cruise, survival, escapades, secret agent, undercover ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916
Place:
mediterranean sea, greece, europe, balkan
Similarity:
24%
104K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, exciting, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
naval battle, war, world war two, warship, aerial combat, sea battle, air battle, fighter plane, aircraft carrier, fighter pilot, navy, u.s. military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 2019, 1930s, year 1941 ...
Place:
pearl harbor, pacific ocean, tokyo, washington d.c., honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.
Style:
realistic, bleak, captivating, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, shark, submarine, u.s. navy, killer shark, animal attack, naval battle, ghost ship, world war, military, survival, ship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Very little time has passed since the beginning of World War II. The young captain of the ship receives a crucial task - to deliver a secret cargo. But besides this, prisoners are brought on board. During swimming, convicts riot. At the same time, ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
warship, navy, heroic mission, race against time, patriotism, state affairs, courage, politics, danger, captain, ocean, escapades ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
24%
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