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Shout at the Devil (1976)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic, suspense, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war one, great war, 007, revenge, husband wife relationship, loss of child, father in law son in law relationship, ivory, war, spy, mission, woman with a gun, sea disaster, kriegsmarine, jungle adventure, world war, ship, military, rescue, fall in love, adventurer, battleship, poacher, survival, treasure hunt ...
Time:
1910s, year 1976
Place:
africa, east africa, american
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Most similar movies to Shout at the Devil
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about military, war, soldier, heroes, battles, danger and explosion mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Shout at the Devil: Escape to Athena (1979), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), The Blue Max (1966), Gold (1974), The Guns of Navarone (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, escape, chase, soldier, archaeologist, daring rescue, danger, survival, relic, military, world war, archeological dig ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, year 1944
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece, balkan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
war, military, world war two, nazi, timebomb, task force, mission, wartime, battles, double agent, spy, world war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1978, 70s
Place:
former yugoslavia, italy, england, germany
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style:
retro, exciting, serious, realistic, sex comedy ...
Plot:
world war one, biplane, ambition, fighter plane, fighter pilot, aviation, class differences, german army, chivalry, soldier, military, air attack ...
Time:
1910s, year 1966, year 1916, 1930s, 70s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, england, france
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gold mine, male male relationship, conspiracy, sabotage, apartheid, gold, extramarital affair, mine, corporation, miner, 007, aviation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south africa, africa, buckingham palace, london, big ben london ...
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, behind enemy lines, island, resistance, nazi, mercenary, spy, wartime, gunfight, mountain, fortress ...
Time:
1940s, year 1961, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
greece, fictional island, germany, hellas, balkan ...
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87%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, suspenseful, sad, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war one, war, great war, soldier, combat, war hero, death of hero, last stand, literary, german soldier, world war, intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1918
Place:
europe, germany, france
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
April, 1915. First World War in Canakkale, Ottoman Empire. Two brothers leave their mountain village to fight on the front line. One is an experienced sniper fighting for Ottomans against the invasion, while his brother finds it much tougher to cope ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, stylized, epic ...
Plot:
world war one, turk, battles, great war, military, turkish history, survival, violent content, battle zone, heroic mission, danger, one man army ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1915, middle ages
Place:
gallipoli, turkey, ottoman empire
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
world war one, aviation, military, fighter pilot, war, great war, military aviation, aerial combat, pilot, warplane, world war two, luftwaffe ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, france
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
Style:
suspense, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revolution, mercenary, gunfight, machine gun, war, torture, undercover, soldier, military, dictator, espionage, political intrigue ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s
Place:
africa, west africa, new york, london, central america ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, foreign legion, martial arts, combat, soldier, french foreign legion, military, battlefield, behind enemy lines, hitman, master warrior, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, france, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, soldier, military, assassination, convict, army, military life, heroic mission, confined, wartime life, escapades, danger ...
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
81%
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, combat, civil war, soldier, sniper, refugee, special forces, escapades, rescue mission, army ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa, nigeria, iran, iraq, hawaii
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A terrorist (Anthony Perkins) holds an offshore drilling rig and production platform for ransom in the North Sea. Ffolkes (Roger Moore) a wealthy eccentric, volunteers to send his crack team of soldiers in to stop the terrorists. With few other ...
Style:
political thriller, fast, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, closeted homosexual, spy, 007, boat, sea, oil rig, north sea, chase, eccentricity, oil, british ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 18th century
Place:
big ben london, scotland, london, california
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, military, politics, british colonialism, safari, world war, wilderness, british empire, battles, artificial intelligence, political unrest, wartime life ...
Place:
asia, malaysia, russia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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Story:
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
adventurer, soldier, battlefield, rivalry, heroic mission, danger, state affairs, daring rescue, war, escapades, investigation, political unrest ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, military, survival, danger, against the odds, mission gone awry, great war, escapades, infantrymen, world war two, violent content, hapless soldier ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" ...
Style:
epic, realistic, tense, surprise ending, retro ...
Plot:
warship, u.s. navy, last stand, military, navy, friendship, brutality, gunfight, combat, international law, great war, missionary ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, shanghai, asia, philadelphia, salt lake city utah ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, danger, terrorism, military, heroes, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, kurd, brother brother relationship, rescue mission ...
Time:
90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, baghdad iraq, jordan
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, anamorphic, hilarious, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, rescue, culture clash, elephant, military, boy, journey, cargo plane, airplane, chase, politics, friendly fire ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 1962
Place:
vietnam, asia, middle east, california
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style:
period piece, visually stunning, tense, entertaining, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, race against time, soldier, british soldier, british army, death, battlefield, military, british military, dangerous mission, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 20th century, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
persia, los angeles, britain, europe, france
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war one, love triangle, soldier, war, military, landowner, grief, flashback, unplanned pregnancy, injustice, poverty, battlefield ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 2012
Place:
england, belgium, europe
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under ...
Style:
epic, realistic, factual, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
islam, imperialism, military, culture clash, politics, british empire, colonialism, siege, pyramid, wartime, war, idealism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, year 1966, turn of the century ...
Place:
africa, sudan, england, cairo egypt, belgium ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Style:
sentimental, serious, exciting, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, oil, firefighting, tough guy, fire, danger, fistfight, reporter, marriage, oil well, heroes, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
malaysia, houston texas, usa, acapulco mexico, texas ...
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
Style:
retro, captivating, tense, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, military, battle of the bulge, brothel madam, nobility, battles, fall in love, heroic mission, castle, soldier, village, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 10th century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, bleak, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, d day, war, soldier, battles, danger, fall in love, world war, military, battlefield, holocaust, soviet army ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
79%
601K
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
Style:
sexy, serious, exciting, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
world war two, war, tank, soldier, military, battles, heroism, nazi, last stand, world war, combat, american soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, year 1945, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
germany, america, europe
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
submarine, world war two, naval battle, world war, ocean, torpedo, underwater, diver, combat, kriegsmarine, sea disaster, warship ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, period piece, epic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, naval battle, sea battle, battles, sailing, warship, heroic mission, royal navy, british navy, sea ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place:
britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, war, survival, soldier, heroic mission, danger, chaos, military life, escapades, blood, vietcong, american abroad ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) ...
Style:
political thriller, suspense, cult classic, retro, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, undercover, spy thriller, british, nazi, espionage, world war, luftwaffe, covert operation, great war, machine gun, aviation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, london, england, europe, big ben london ...
Similarity:
78%
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