Movies like The Rainbow Warrior

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The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
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The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent (Neill) that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spy, terrorist attack, environmental, environmental issue, international law, ship, heroes, investigation, politics, terrorism, conspiracy, rebellion, disaster, fighting the system, escapades, rivalry, society, danger, law enforcement, environmentalism, state affairs, special agent, catastrophe, special agents, crimes
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand

Most similar movies to The Rainbow Warrior

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about danger, state affairs, heroes, politics, society, fighting the system and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Rainbow Warrior: Afterburn (1992), Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982), The Informant (1997), The Enemy Within (1994), A Glimpse of Hell (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Afterburn (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: aviation, heroes, hopes, politics, law enforcement, state affairs, righting the wronged, military, rivalry, danger, legal, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, terrorism, law, professor, trial, power relations, injustice, hotshot lawyer, confined, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: suburbs, society, life is a bitch, danger, criminal's revenge, fighting the system, rebellion, impossible love, school, family in crisis, suburban life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Informant (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, anglo irish relations, trouble, spy, freedom, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Enemy Within (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political thriller
Plot: conspiracy, political conspiracy, terrorism, coup d'etat, political corruption, betrayal, manhunt, government agency, state affairs, undercover, special agent, revolution ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
A Glimpse of Hell (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: battleship, military, u.s. navy, society, military life, fighting the system, investigation, ship, political conspiracy, campaign, army investigation, state affairs ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional
Plot: disaster, heroic mission, escapades, survival, rescue, danger, heroes, child in peril, car crash, hospital, news report, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Erebus: Into the Unknown (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story: On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: investigation, survival, dishonesty, heroic mission, escapades, uncover truth, danger, aviation, forces of nature, disaster, conspiracy, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: homeless, heroic mission, righting the wronged, power relations, campaign, injustice, state affairs, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, politics, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: rome italy, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Hurricane (1974)
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: disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, heroes, chases and races, rescue, danger, escapades, forces of nature, u.s. air force, boat, submarine ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Insurgents (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, politics, conspiracy, bomb, rebellion, state affairs, society, rivalry, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: isolation, daring rescue, heroes, twins, confined, babies and infants, escapades, danger, mother daughter relationship, baby, police, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
My Little Assassin (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere
Plot: spy, politician, special agent, politics, assassination, state affairs, love and romance, fall in love, translator, political unrest, love affair, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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October (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was ...
Style: sad, political, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, murder, terrorist, good versus evil, danger, confined, society, politics, rebellion, state affairs, revolution ...
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, investigation, uncover truth, chaos, state affairs, danger, politics, society, fbi agent, 9/11, islam, torture ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, london, pakistan, israel, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Baltic Storm (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, interesting
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, state affairs, escapades, journalism, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, media, fighting the system, ocean ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, estonia, russia, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Judgement in Berlin (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, touching, sincere ...
Plot: terrorism, justice, politics, hijacking, legal action, legal, courtroom drama, fighting the system, confined, save the day, danger, culture clash ...
Time: 70s
Place: germany, europe, east berlin, berlin germany, west berlin west germany ...
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39%
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Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Strike (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIEÂ’S CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, human spirit, ambition, fighting the system, injustice, rivalry, life is a bitch, legal, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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May 18 (2007)
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, disturbing
Plot: soldier, korean history, losing-it hero, vigilantism, heroes, politics, revolution, political unrest, danger, rivalry, assassination, redemption ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style: tense, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: discrimination, apartheid, social change, racism, prison, legal, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, politics, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: christmas, danger, cave, daring rescue, chases and races, life is a bitch, escapades, heroes, race against time, workplace situations, labor union, disaster ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Frame of Mind (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: What happens when the truth is not enough? A New Jersey police detective comes across new evidence in the Kennedy assassination
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, assassination, political conspiracy, state affairs, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, kennedy assassination, violent content, profanity, conspiracy, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Revolutionary (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" ...
Style: political, independent film, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: strike, labor, liberal, union, college, labor union, counterculture, student protest, terrorism, socialism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Boxed (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: ira, moral dilemma, idealism, uncover truth, fighting the system, social decay, society, tragic hero, politics, life is a bitch, danger, terrorism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, rivalry, bounty hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Zookeeper (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, society, life is a bitch, danger, rebellion, political unrest, politics, totalitarianism, righting the wronged ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 2K
Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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