Movies like My Boy Jack
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My Boy Jack (2007)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, touching, sad
Plot:
world war one, war, military, battles, british army, family relations, writers, teenage life, officers and cadets, missing person, parents and children, father son relationship, fear, battlefield, suspense, royal family, infection, family in crisis, writer's life, children, army, motorcycle, german, death, photographer ...
Time:
1910s, year 1915
Place:
england, france, germany, dublin ireland
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Most similar movies to My Boy Jack
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and captivating films with plots about war, battles, military, soldier, death, world war two and world war one mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like My Boy Jack: Testament of Youth (2014), The Water Diviner (2014), 1917 (2019), The Crossing (2000), Journey's End (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, war, wartime, aspiring writer, women, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, death, destiny, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1918, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, london, flanders, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style:
touching, emotional, dramatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war one, war, missing person, redemption, destiny, courage, world war two, parents and children, family relations, graphic violence, escapades, military ...
Time:
1910s, year 1919, 1920s, year 1915, 20th century
Place:
australia, ottoman empire, england, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, sad, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, death, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.
Style:
tense, realistic, exciting, serious, political ...
Plot:
military, american revolution, george washington, war, battles, heroes, against the odds, military life, heroic mission, rebellion, rebelliousness, battlefield ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
usa, delaware, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thought provoking
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, british army, war, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, nightmare, fear, battles, german ...
Time:
year 1918, 1910s, future
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Films like Hacksaw Ridge
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, captivating, exciting, surprise ending
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, chase, soldier, spy, husband wife relationship, military, battlefield, politician, battles, combat, slavery ...
Time:
1890s
Place:
alabama, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war one, shell shock, war, writers, psychology, mental illness, world war two, anti war, friendship, battles, wartime life, military life ...
Place:
scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy, captivating
Plot:
world war one, military, soldier, war, battlefield, intrigue, nature, world war two, world war, battles, friendship, bravery ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
world war one, horse, war, animals, friendship, military, battles, animal training, human spirit, survival, wartime, cavalry charge ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1918
Place:
england, belgium, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
touching, atmospheric, harsh, emotional, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war one, military, anti war, friendship, war, idealism, human spirit, politics, british army, battle zone, military life, british empire ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915, 18th century
Place:
australia, ottoman empire, egypt, turkey, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Films like Braveheart
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Biography of the last Russian Monarch, Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Alexandra.Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
royal family, czar, world war one, russian history, rise and fall, politics, political unrest, state affairs, rebellion, rebelliousness, coming of age, royalty ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s, 90s
Place:
russia, siberia, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Style:
epic, realistic, factual, talky, serious ...
Plot:
revolution, battles, royal family, political unrest, british history, society, tyranny, military, leadership, intrigue, against the odds, rebellion ...
Time:
17th century, 80s, 18th century, middle ages
Place:
england, ireland, scotland, europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
540K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, UK, China
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, brutal ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, religion, american soldier, u.s. army, bible, military, father son relationship, pacifism, u.s. military ...
Time:
1940s, middle ages, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
okinawa, okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
360K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, South Africa, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...
Style:
emotional, rough, thought provoking, intense, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
genocide, racism, war, hotel, against humanity, ethnic conflict, cruelty, politics, murder, un, war crime, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, somalia, congo, tanzania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, human spirit, idealism, german, holiday, anti war, friendship, christmas eve ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1914
Place:
france, berlin germany, germany, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have ...
Style:
sincere, touching, suspenseful, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, human spirit, survival, couples, writer's life, hopes, lifestyle, escapades, society, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, vichy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare – one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was a secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot:
military, war, world war one, human spirit, hopes, tunnel, life is a bitch, heroes, brutality, world war, intrigue, trench warfare ...
Time:
20th century, year 1916, 1910s
Place:
belgium, europe, germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war one, war, soldier, love triangle, military, siblings relations, teenage love, social relations, family life, family relations, world war two, world war ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
england, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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506
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrants, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
europe, belgrade, vienna, harvard university, naples italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of Manfred von Richtofen, the german air ace during the World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous german officers.
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war one, fighter pilot, fighter plane, aerial combat, soldier, military, heroic mission, military life, aviation, battles, uninhibited rivalry, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The King similar movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting coming-of-age tale recounts Antonio's experiences to reveal the spiritual conflict in his ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
youth, healer, coming of age, friendship, village, child's point of view, introspection, war, social relations, village life, elderly, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, epic
Plot:
world war one, military, soldier, battles, war, survival, heroic mission, against the odds, basic training, military life, wartime life, world war two ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
australia, palestine, ottoman empire, turkey, melbourne australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
194K
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swafford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, factual, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gulf war, war, iraq war, anti war, military, u.s. military, marines, american soldier, boot camp, desert, death, sniper ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s, year 1990, year 1989 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east, saudi arabia, vietnam, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Style:
tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
war, world war two, rescue, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, against humanity, life is a bitch, fighting the system, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, post world war two, year 1937, year 1938
Place:
china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the ...
Style:
captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, motivational
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas eve, anti war, world war two, christmas, american soldier, soldier, hitler youth, military, friendship, single parent, nazi, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, europe, africa, dunkirk
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
world war one, military, miner, wartime, mining, battles, showdown, war, struggle for survival, fight, fight for supremacy, patriotism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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 ...
Style:
realistic, epic, factual, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
military, war, british army, british empire, british colonialism, siege, human spirit, battles, soldier, historical event, colonialism, suspense ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 60s, 1870s
Place:
africa, south africa, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, dramatic, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
world war one, political unrest, russian history, military, battles, russian empire, destiny, heroes, wartime life, warship, against the odds, sea ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson is killed ...
Style:
intense, sincere, rough, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
american civil war, military, confederate soldier, battles, civil war, confederate army, war, war hero, military life, epic battle, battlefield, social relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
virginia, maine, west virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style:
intense, realistic, emotional, sincere, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, military, battles, survival, guilt, propaganda, fame, political intrigue, suspense, wartime, loss of friend ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, pacific ocean, iraq, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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