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The Detached Mission (1986)
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Original name: Одиночное Плавание
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
CIA appointed US Army major Jack Hessalt to be in charge of a secret missile base in the Atlantic Ocean. Jack is still troubled by memories of Vietnam, and soon goes berserk, taking control of the base and killing some crew members. Jack and his cronies commandeer a powerful missile and proceed to perform terrorism, but they haven't counted on a rough-n-ready squad of Russian Marines...
Plot:
cold war, army, soviet army, technology, economics, super strength, risk, energy, international relations, gas, military uniform, pipe, beret
Place:
soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and realistic films with plots about cold war, army, military, fight, violence, soviet army and soldier mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Detached Mission: Incident at Map-Grid 36-80 (1982), An Englishman Abroad (1983), Foxbat (1977), Blackmark (2018), Choice of Purpose (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
Plot:
u.s. navy, bomber, u.s. air force, soviet army, naval uniform, mishap, sea, incident, nuclear submarine, radioactivity, military, crash landing
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Genre: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Action film about the Russian paratroopers.
Style:
captivating, tense, motivational
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
paratrooper, war game, soviet army, military uniform, friendship, rivalry, danger, military training, military, forest, beret, workout ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Plot:
actress playing herself, spy, defector, cold war, iron curtain, autobiography, espionage
Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Plot:
evil man, kgb, cold war, violence, agent, spy, top secret, defector
Place:
hong kong, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
1963 Military Industrialist Arthur Blackmark must race against the clock to stop an international incident which threatens to end the world.
Plot:
cold war, john f. kennedy, terrorist, conspiracy, save the world, military industrial complex, nuclear missile
Time:
year 1963
Place:
ussr
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24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.
Plot:
historical event, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapon, physicist, beard, post war, nuclear threat, cold war, scientist, nuclear testing, nuclear
Place:
soviet union, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The film takes place in the first half of the 1960s. The protagonist of the picture is a young worker of the apparatus, Vladimir Novikov, a charming, educated, energetic person - a thriving functionary. Novikov has a young sweetheart - student ...
Plot:
revenge, death, murder, student, father, taxi driver, construction site, worker, leadership
Time:
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Place:
siberia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Plot:
cold war, espionage, teenage girl
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Plot:
train conductor, composer, death of husband, pianist, homeland, love, concert
Place:
soviet union, japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 870 min.
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Plot:
cold war, cold war era
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21%
Genre: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Plot:
border, army, uniform, kgb, frontier, paramilitary, soviet army, border guard
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they managed to learn a lot about each other ... But Elia absurdly dies. So Zhenya begins another, adult ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Story:
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