Movies like Prisoners of the Sun 1990

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Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
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Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
Original name: Blood Oath
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
Style: cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: world war two, courtroom drama, courtroom, prisoner of war camp, prisoners of war, war crime, law, world war, island, murder, war, survival, prison, military, soldier, captivity, prison life, legal, confined, military life, wartime life, political corruption, against humanity, uncover truth, jungle ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 40s
Place: asia, indonesia, australia, japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about world war two, war, world war, soldier, military, prison and pow mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Prisoners of the Sun: Tenko (1981), Hart's War (2002), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Blockhouse (1973), To End All Wars (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tenko (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, jungle, military prison, prisoners of war, women's prison, soldier, prison, war, pow, prisoner of war camp, death, torture ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: singapore
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100%
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Hart's War (2002)
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: realistic, tense, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, nazi, prison, racism, soldier, prison escape, ethnic conflict, pow, propaganda, torture, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2002
Place: germany, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak, experimental ...
Plot: world war two, prison, pow, war crime, christmas, anti war, war, samurai, japanese occupation, imperial japan, prison escape, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, year 1936, 20th century, year 1946 ...
Place: asia, southeast asia, britain, japan, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Blockhouse (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
Style: grindhouse, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: world war two, chess, world war, bunker, d day, survival, claustrophobia, battles, holocaust, wartime life, prison, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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To End All Wars (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
Style: harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, pow, military, prisoners of war, prisoner of war camp, jungle, christian, soldier, war crime, hopes, leadership ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942
Place: japan, asia, hawaii, scotland, burma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Paradise Road (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, pow, holocaust, war, prison, island, friendship, justice, war crime, nazi, women, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, indonesia, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
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43%
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The Great Raid (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Style: tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, war, rescue mission, pow, world war two, prisoner of war camp, prison, special forces, prison escape, world war, escape attempt, military life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: the philippines, asia, pearl harbor, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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King Rat (1965)
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, prisoner of war camp, world war, prisoners of war, military, friendship, bullying, great war, prisoner, prison life, british ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Winston Affair (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
Style: serious, captivating, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, courtroom drama, murder, legal investigation, soldier, dedicated lawyer, world war, court martial, society, politics, mentally unstable, state affairs ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his ...
Style: black and white, political, suspenseful, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot: courtroom drama, judge, genocide, holocaust, justice, lawyer, court, legal, courtroom, trial, politics, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, year 1946, 1940s, year 1961, 60s ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 15K
The Hill (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a ...
Style: black and white, tense, bleak, noir, retro ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, prison, military, desert, brutality, prison escape, sadism, military prison, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: africa, libya, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war, prisoners of war, prison, prison escape, military prison, revolutionary war, struggle, prisoner, freedom, revolution, pow, decapitation ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, thailand, burma, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Mark of Cain (2007)
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, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, realistic
Plot: court martial, soldier, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, political unrest, legal, life is a bitch, courtroom, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Murphy's War (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Plot: submarine, world war two, torpedo, world war, boat, obsession, war, sole survivor, navy, aviation, murder, kriegsmarine ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1945
Place: germany, ireland, south america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Texas '46 (2002)
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: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, soldier, holocaust, captive, basic training, gory, captivity, prison, anti war, military life, battles, rescue ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Breaker Morant (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the ...
Style: political, tense, factual, witty, intense ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, politics, legal, war, military, murder, court, military life, tragedy, world politics, soldier ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, year 1980, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: south africa, africa, australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
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31%
Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, london, europe, england ...
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God on Trial (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Style: thought provoking, serious, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, atrocity, genocide, debate, war crime, injustice, confined, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1940s
Place: europe, palestine, poland, israel, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Truce (1997)
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, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, prisoner, shoah, political intrigue, world war, biopic, writers, judaism, refugee ...
Time: year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place: italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Aryan Couple (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, survival, genocide, anti semitism, undercover, hidden identity, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, forbidden love, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style: disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, war crime, nazism, polish history, survival, ethnic conflict, holocaust, massacre, murder, courage, idealism, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
King & Country (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During World War I a British soldier, charged with desertion, is defended by an officer who at first despises his actions and then grows to feel sympathy for him.
Style: thought provoking, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war one, courtroom, military, great war, anti war, courtroom drama, lawyer, world war, trial, desertion, court martial, aviation ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place: england, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Highest Honor (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: On 11 September 1944, a squad of 23 Australian and British soldiers lead by Lieutanant-Colonel Ivan Lyon leave Fremantle bound for Indonesia as part of Operation Rimau, an attempted repeat of the highly-successful Operation Jaywick the previous year ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, world war, humanist, decapitation, revisionist history, japanese occupation, harbor, ship, captain, cambridge university, british, atomic bomb ...
Time: 1940s
Place: singapore, indonesia, sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Company K (2004)
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: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Death of a Soldier (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: serial killer, world war two, true crime, killer, murder, soldier, diplomacy, trial, psychopath, army investigation, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: year 1986
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.4
 29K
Cross of Iron (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style: political, cult classic, brutal, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, eastern front, anti war, war, nazi, soldier, wehrmacht, military, russian soldier, survival, world war, war atrocity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1943
Place: germany, bolivia, france, siberia, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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