Movies like Pompeii: The Last Day
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Pompeii: The Last Day (2003)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. With speculative dramatizations of various inhabitants' final hours along with detailed documentation of the known facts concerning the eruption, the horrific day is vividly brought to life.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, semi documentary, disaster movie
Plot:
roman empire, ancient rome, disaster, ancient history, heroes, catastrophe, legends and myths, life is a bitch, escapades, on the run, society, forces of nature, death, slave, panic, roman, volcanic eruption, excavation, suffocation, admiral, gladiator, archaeology, volcano, danger, burnt body ...
Time:
70s, 1st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, pompeii
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about danger, heroes, escapades, disaster, catastrophe, society and survival mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Pompeii: The Last Day: The Last Days of Pompeii (1984), Pompeii (2014), Pompeii (2007), Boudica (2003), Hurricane (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 310 min.
TV show
Story:
This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
volcano, ancient rome, true love, antiquity, natural disaster, bible, ancient, disaster, catastrophe, state affairs, clergy, politics ...
Time:
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Country: Canada, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
Forbidden love blossoms in the city of Pompeii, which until the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the empire's most powerful cities.
Style:
epic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe’s continued independence. But ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, epic, rough ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the ...
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28%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Steve Reeves and George Scott are raised by wolves, but grow up to become the founders of Rome.
Style:
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Plot:
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27%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, disturbing
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, weird
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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