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Savior (1998)
12K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style:
disturbing, depressing, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, road movie, smart, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
terrorism, rape, atrocity, redemption, breast feeding, bosnian war, mercenary, ethnic cleansing, hopes, genocide, soldier, pregnancy, danger, life is a bitch, wartime life, woman in danger, battle zone, balkan war, civil war, sniper, military, tragic romance, yugoslav war, women, french foreign legion ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, serbia, europe, balkan, croatia, bosnia herzegovina
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Most similar movies to Savior
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about war, military, soldier, military life, anti war, battles and conflict mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Savior: Generation Kill (2008), Shot Through the Heart (1998), Casualties of War (1989), In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Harrison's Flowers (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom; while the soldiers wait to receive their orders, they learn a Rolling Stone columnist will be embedded with them
Style:
tense, political, disturbing, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, iraq war, marines, soldier, violence, war, anti war, military life, courage, desert, life & death, character study ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, tense ...
Plot:
balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, best friend, politics, state affairs, society, against humanity, military, soldier ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.
Style:
disturbing, rough, emotional, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, rape, pow, soldier, war crime, court martial, anti war, justice, brutality, gang rape, atrocity ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, year 1966, 60s, year 1974 ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, california, san francisco, indochina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
bosnian war, prisoner, forbidden love, rape, soldier, food, sex, muslim, love affair, war, couples, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
genocide, journalism, missing person, violence, murder, photograph, photojournalist, photographer, civil war, blood, battles, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, balkan, eastern europe, europe, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, epic, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, soldier, battlefield, battles, squad, jungle warfare, combat, jungle, anti war, violent, conflict ...
Time:
year 1967, year 1986, year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, the philippines, america, asia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tense drama that revolves around a platoon of Spanish soldiers, following the innocent young men as they step from the training field into a hell for which nothing could have prepared them.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, terrorism, military, danger, soldier, military life, political unrest, mission, survival, life is a bitch, battles, chaos ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo, macedonia, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, political, heartbreaking, brutal ...
Plot:
journalism, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, adoption, orphan, genocide, family relations, morality, military, anti war, rescue ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, year 1992
Place:
bosnia, england, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, europe ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, israeli, conflict, sex scene, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, syria, iraq ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, military, marine, war, culture clash, desert, military life, marines, society, vengeance, occupation ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, united kingdom
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, rape, desert, journalist, murder, civil war, tragedy, survival, uncover truth, against humanity, injustice ...
Place:
sudan, africa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story:
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
balkan war, bosnian war, genocide, war crime, propaganda, yugoslav war, ethnic cleansing, war on terror, aid worker, slavery, soldier, military ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, iraq, former yugoslavia, europe, liverpool ...
Similarity:
29%
854
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style:
bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
balkan war, amateur detective, military, soldier, police investigation, murder, danger, investigation, criminal heroes, human nature, anti war, kidnapping ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, croatia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, by the United States army, in Iraq.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, realistic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorism, pow, rescue, war on terror, struggle, soldier, female soldier, military, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, suspect, private investigation ...
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot:
iraq war, photograph, danger, assassination, racism, soldier, terrorism, media, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, political, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, heroism, resistance, jewish ghetto, nazi, survival, politics, rebellion, shoah, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, u.s. army, military life, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, idealism, hopes, rescue, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Style:
black comedy, sexy, harsh, bleak, political ...
Plot:
anti war, politics, soldier, civil war, military, intrigue, bosnian war, satire, un, wartime, dark humor, balkan war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1993, 2000s
Place:
bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, serbia, former yugoslavia, balkan ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
navy seal, taliban, military, male nudity, battles, heroic mission, against the odds, wartime life, heroes, soldier, terrorism, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, disgusting ...
Plot:
rape, bosnian war, sex slave, genocide, realism, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, soldier, life turned upside down, strong female presence, gang rape ...
Place:
bosnia, sarajevo, balkan, europe, former yugoslavia ...
Similarity:
24%
12K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
military, arab israeli conflict, confined, sergeant, tank, israeli, israeli soldier, army vs civilians, military life, mission gone awry, moral dilemma, danger ...
Time:
year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
Similarity:
24%
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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:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
sniper, military, behind enemy lines, survival, courage, fighter pilot, combat, u.s. navy, reconnaissance, war crime, fighter plane, rescue ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come ...
Style:
islamic, serious, realistic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
nude young male, boy, coming of age, bosnian war, balkan war, anti war, drug addiction, child, brother brother relationship, feeling, anarchist, humanism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, iraq, balkan ...
Similarity:
24%
487
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Israel, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, conflict, british empire, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict, world war, girl, soldier, anti hero, injustice, religions or cults ...
Time:
year 1966, 1940s
Place:
palestine, israel, syria
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
conflict, friends, military, war, life is a bitch, journalism, soldier, danger, destiny, military life, friendship, anti war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, political
Plot:
soldier, military, conflict, rescue mission, leadership, moral ambiguity, insubordination, battlefield, combat, power, heroism, platoon ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style:
captivating, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, army, death, battlefield, military life, combat, war violence, battles ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that ...
Style:
rough, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, bomb squad, israeli, military life, danger, evacuation, battle zone, military base, military, militia, officer, bombing ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 80s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
23%
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