Movies like Red Dawn

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Red Dawn (1984)
 6.3
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Red Dawn (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Style: intense, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, entertaining, apocalyptic, realistic, harsh, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: survival, propaganda, invasion, dystopia, cold war, politics, high school, anti communist, military, end of the world, communism, visceral, post apocalypse, brat pack, teenager, against the odds, save the day, heroic mission, bravery, ak 47, dying young, male bonding, wolverine, heroes, youth ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, future, near future
Place: colorado, china, new mexico, ussr, soviet union, usa, russia ...
Keyword: fighting movie, propaganda film, reboot, superior, cuban, attack, drive in, take over, russian, challenge, latin

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Most similar movies to Red Dawn

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about explosion, danger, military, machine gun, soldier, heroes and battles mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Red Dawn: Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), Tears of the Sun (2003), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), Green Zone (2010), Iron Eagle (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.3
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Red Dawn (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky - shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, intense, teen, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: invasion, survival, danger, gunfight, battles, occupation, propaganda, heroic mission, save the day, war, friends, super weapon ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, north korea, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: invasion, military, wartime life, survival, young heroes, danger, life is a bitch, youth, society, resistance, teenager, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
Style: touching, serious, suspense, factual, compassionate ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, war, jungle, soldier, civil war, navy seal, commando, genocide, rescue mission, gunfight, violence, brutality ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria, iraq, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.8
 142K
Green Zone (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, iraq war, military, war, soldier, spy, army, deception, pow, chase, investigation, politics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 16K
Iron Eagle (1986)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted ...
Style: light, exciting, realistic, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, manly
Plot: air force, airplane, rescue, fighter jet, fighter plane, military, brutality, colonel, desert, parent child relationship, pilot, daring rescue ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 472K
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: realistic, emotional, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, war, soldier, army, bomb squad, marines, terrorist, gulf war, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 18K
The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, political, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, cia, cold war, terrorism, espionage, nuclear war, secret agent, terrorist, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosion, nuclear threat, covert operation ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, year 1973, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: maryland, israel, russia, washington d.c., chechnya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 155K
Defiance (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style: sincere, epic, period piece, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, judaism, genocide, partisan, world war, survival, rebellion, red army, military ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place: poland, germany, indiana, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, jungle, military, one man army, martial arts, explosions, survival, cannon, war, vietcong, betrayal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
White House Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is ...
Style: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: secret service, terrorism, president, white house, save the day, conspiracy, treason, hostage, rescue, nuclear threat, head of state, siege ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., north america, pentagon, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 28K
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, action adventure, black and white, independent film ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, soldier, military, combat, war, jungle, gunfight, anti war, great war, insanity, wartime, conflict ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.3
 122K
Crimson Tide (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, underwater, u.s. navy, military, nuclear, war, spy, sea ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, pacific ocean, mediterranean sea, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 14K
The Wild Geese (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and ...
Style: exciting, harsh, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, mercenary, betrayal, battles, rescue, politics, political unrest, behind enemy lines, political corruption, against the odds, danger, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: africa, zimbabwe, south africa, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: sniper, world war two, war, military, friendship, nazi, ambition, wartime, courage, world war, winter, battles ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, year 1942
Place: germany, russia, iraq, persia, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 338K
The Book of Eli (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style: futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, twist ending, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, end of the world, desert, faith, religion, danger, dystopia, lone hero ...
Time: future, year 2010, near future, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, military, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 5.4
 35K
Big Game (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, War
Country: Finland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness. 13-year old Oskari is also in that wilderness, on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but ...
Style: entertaining, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: wilderness, survival, president, secret service, conspiracy, transformation, boy hero, partner, woods, unlikely partners, terrorism, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland, europe, pentagon, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style: action packed, harsh, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, revenge, rambo, weapons, vietnam war, violent, prisoner, prison, chase, violence, soldier, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, arizona, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.0
 62K
The Peacemaker (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, visually stunning, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, secret service, train crash, terrorist, car chase, espionage, cold war, die hard, disaster, 007, nuclear ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, bosnia, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
 140K
Rambo III (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when ...
Style: action packed, intense, homoerotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: one man army, lone hero, rambo, heroes, desert, gunfight, revenge, violence, loner, war, cold war, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, pakistan, soviet union, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.4
 1K
Soldier Boyz (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence against women, vietnam war, female warrior, terrorism, cavalry, battles, survival, danger, military, soldier, rivalry, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s
Place: vietnam, los angeles, usa, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 34K
Seraphim Falls (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and ...
Style: realistic, suspense, intense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: wilderness, civil war, survival, chase, american civil war, revenge, justice, plot twist, twists and turns, colonel, indians, union soldier ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Too Late the Hero (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, jungle, war, survival, military, british army, anti war, danger, soldier, rescue, rivalry, wartime ...
Time: year 1942
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 34K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: plague, post apocalypse, survival, vampire, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, virus, pandemic, dystopia, apocalypse, transformation ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, near future, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, soviet union, china, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 30K
Memphis Belle (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, bomber, military, war, soldier, battles, friendship, aerial combat, airplane, u.s. air force, heroic mission, luftwaffe ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: europe, america, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Saints and Soldiers (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Style: touching, intense, emotional, rough, epic ...
Plot: world war two, military, behind enemy lines, soldier, war, world war, battles, winter, survival, friendship, pow, allies ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: belgium, germany, europe, chicago, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, world war three, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, post apocalypse, politics, doom, flying, cold war ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.8
 733K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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