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Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
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Original name: Кавказский пленник
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal reveals the human soul of two vastly different cultures.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional, gloomy, bleak, sentimental, road movie, atmospheric ...
Plot:
pow, islam, russian soldier, hostage, drinking, violence, prison, soldier, confined, captivity, poverty, prisoner, friendship, culture clash, murder, winter, heroes, gang, life is a bitch, prisoners of war, escapades, war violence, gory, rescue, interview ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
russia, caucasus, chechnya, soviet union, asia, poland, russian
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Most similar movies to Prisoner of the Mountains
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about war, soldier, military, wartime life, life is a bitch, danger and confined mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Prisoner of the Mountains: War (2002), Army of Shadows (1969), Stalingrad (1993), The Search (2014), Checkpoint (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
captivity, gang, rescue, ransom, military, life is a bitch, heroes, military officer, danger, drinking, interview, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
100%
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, terrorist, espionage, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, nazism, world war, betrayal, resistance movement ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, lyon, marseille, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, non-linear ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, war crime, murder, violence, orphan, war violence, boy, children, little boy, world war ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
russia, chechnya, caucasus
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
conflict, civil war, sniper, village, military base, recruit, violent content, woods, wartime life, military life, village life, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chechnya, germany, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia, Georgia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Style:
harsh, thought provoking, tense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti war, humanity, brutality, wartime life, civil war, tragedy, life & death, survival, character study, bullet wound, war, caucasian ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, year 2013, year 2014, 20th century
Place:
georgia, caucasus, middle east, iraq, soviet union ...
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100%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
military, soldier, military life, human nature, family relations, parents and children, anti war, homecoming, fish out of water, grandmother grandson relationship, journey, underground ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, russia, europe, germany
Similarity:
32%
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709
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla ...
Style:
captivating, serious, cult classic, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
soldier, moral dilemma, rebel, friendship, rebelliousness, culture clash, society, military, social relations, life is a bitch, leadership, jungle ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1900, 90s
Place:
the philippines, asia, iraq
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin ...
Style:
touching, stylized, captivating, sad, political ...
Plot:
politics, communist, stalinism, communism, father daughter relationship, nkvd, countryside, repression, symbolism, love, tragedy, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, poland
Similarity:
29%
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
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, wartime life, male nudity, public nudity, holocaust, soldier, prisoners of war, captivity, against humanity, genocide, prison life, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that ...
Style:
epic, atmospheric, stylized, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
soldier, life is a bitch, wartime life, family relations, injustice, family problems, battles, dishonesty, war, danger, battle zone, nurse ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
court martial, soldier, political unrest, bare chested male, male nudity, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
soldier, military, wartime life, danger, war, life is a bitch, state affairs, dishonesty, battles, family relations, love, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
ussr, russia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, bleak, sad, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, prison, pow, british soldier, soldier, prisoner of war camp, capitalism, world war, prisoners of war, bullying, military, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
asia, japan, singapore, california, england ...
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
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:
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style:
tense, realistic, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, racism, war, prison, prisoner of war camp, court martial, pow, moral dilemma, prison escape, soldier, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2002, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, poland
Similarity:
25%
966
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
muslim, human rights, soldier, military, dysfunctional family, society, politics, terrorism, rivalry, confined, family problems, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, jerusalem, palestinian authority, israel
Similarity:
25%
384
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:
psychological, serious, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot:
world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, life is a bitch, military, state affairs, politics, military life, haunted by the past, prison life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
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, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, danger, terrorism, military, heroes, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, kurd, brother brother relationship, rescue mission ...
Time:
90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, baghdad iraq, jordan
Similarity:
25%
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
Similarity:
24%
474
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, military, wartime life, heroes, life is a bitch, heroism, idealism, death of son, eastern front, russo finnish war, soldier, suicide attempt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
finland, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
conflict, friends, military, war, life is a bitch, journalism, soldier, danger, destiny, military life, friendship, anti war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
israeli, world war two, arab, prison, soldier, rescue mission, war, heroes, military, danger, confined, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
israel, syria, middle east
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, desert, friendship, soldier, military, tank, courage, german soldier, german officer, pow, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
africa, france, libya, paris france, north africa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style:
sincere, historical drama, captivating, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, holocaust survivor, prisoner, writers, biopic, political intrigue, world war, judaism, shoah ...
Time:
year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, soldier, holocaust, captive, battles, basic training, captivity, military life, prison, gory, anti war, war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, england, germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
children, breast feeding, pregnancy, russian civil war, pregnant woman, life is a bitch, wartime life, female soldier, jewish family, soldier, baby, newborn baby ...
Time:
year 1967, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
23%
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