Movies like Submerged 2001

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Submerged (2001)
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Submerged (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: submarine, navy, accident, rescue mission, military, crash, rescue, team, military officer, saving a life, rescue from drowning, underwater fight, sea, inventor, sinking boat, boat accident
Time: 1930s

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Most similar movies to Submerged

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and disturbing films with plots about military, navy, rescue, submarine, soldier, ship and sea mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Submerged: 72 Meters (2004), Sub Down (1997), The Rebels of PT-218 (2021), Danny Boy (2021), The Catcher in the Rye (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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72 Meters (2004)
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she ...
Style: exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot: submarine, underwater, survival, warship, emergency, unrequited love, military, accident, rescue, friendship, danger, disaster ...
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95%
 4.5
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Sub Down (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a nuclear attack submarine crashes on the floor of the Artic ocean, it's up to a pair of research scientists to save the entire crew before time and oxygen run out.
Style: independent film, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, disaster, die hard, boat, u.s. navy, ocean, underwater, save the day, chases and races, escapades, rescue, military ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as an American torpedo boat fights against the constant bombardment of German forces.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: sea battle, submarine, naval battle, navy, military life, disobeying orders, air attack, wartime, military, battles, soldier, wartime life ...
Time: year 1943
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.1
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Danny Boy (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: iraq war, american soldier, war crime, ex soldier, accused of murder, military, framed for a crime, military officer, soldier, framed for murder, accusation, war violence ...
Place: united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style: avant garde, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: abstract art, surrealism, absurdism
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Island of Lies (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of SĂ¡lvora Island. Three island women, MarĂ­a, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: shipwreck, castaway, ship, secret, island life, rescue, saving a life, problem, sinking ship, investigative reporter, island
Time: 1920s
Place: galicia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Code Blue: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, meditative, captivating, medical drama
Plot: 911, doctor, physician, accident, doctors and patients, teamwork, ambulance, workplace situations, coworker, rescue, medicine, saving a life ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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44%
Paskal: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true events of Lieutenant Commander Arman Anwar of PASKAL, an elite unit in the Royal Malaysian Navy, and his team's mission to rescue the MV Bunga Laurel, a tanker which was hijacked by Somalian Pirates in 2011.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, inspirational, patriotic
Plot: military, soldier, mission, trap, pirate, assault, terrorist, piracy, military service, rescue mission, swat team, rescue ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s
Place: malaysia, indonesia, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Trial of Chaplain Jensen (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
Plot: navy, chaplain, naval officer, adultery
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39%
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Ice Bound (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, disturbing, realistic
Plot: cancer, doctor, adaptation, survival, hopes, happy ending, rescue, trapped, illness, breast cancer, party, wind ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Challenger Disaster (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: nasa, space shuttle, race against time, rocket launching, corporate greed, moral dilemma, engineer, risk, space exploration, real life, catastrophe, launch ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Northern Limit Line (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The movies follows the incident knows as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: navy, military, sea battle, sea, war, inter-korean relations, marine, patriot, showdown, fight for supremacy, battles, patriotism ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Burning Sea (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: disaster, oil rig, catastrophe, north sea, submarine, ocean, oil industry, sea, natural disaster, rescue mission, trapped, trap ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Down with the King (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sent to the Berkshires to focus on his next album, disillusioned rap star Money Merc abruptly announces his retirement on Twitter. After Merc's announcement, his manager rushes to the countryside to lure him back into the music industry.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: music industry, frustration, rapper, hip hop, rap, small town, small town life, black man, lifestyle change, problem, changing lives
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Wildfire 7: The Inferno (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, psychotronic
Plot: intelligence agency, fire, firefighter, firefighting, workplace situations, risk, fire brigade, female protagonist, teamwork, rescue mission, rescue, disaster
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Trees of Peace (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: genocide, survival, women's rights, struggle for survival, woman in danger, political unrest, female protagonist, civil rights movement, leader, sorority, deathtrap, civil rights ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rwanda, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.4
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After (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An aging man lies bleeding to death in an alley. As onlookers start to gather around, he reflects on the life that he has lived.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, visual ...
Plot: death, a vision, memory, flashback, dying, life is a bitch, promiscuous past, left for dead, troubled past, white trash, dying man, life ...
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Phantom (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, political thriller ...
Plot: submarine, military, cold war, nuclear submarine, navy, nuclear threat, underwater, military life, mission gone awry, danger, sea disaster, haunted by the past ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Deepwater Forces (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
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Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: navy, chinaman, wartime life, chinawoman, military officer, military life, military service, chinese woman, underwater, military
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.0
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Foxhole (2021)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: battles, wartime life, wartime, war, world war one, alternate reality, soldier, military officer, civil war, fight, struggle for survival, american soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: shipwreck, ocean, sea, raft, struggle for survival, storm at sea, survival, drowning, madness, male pubic hair, death, captain ...
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29%
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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 ⇓
28%
The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: military, rancher, ranch, father daughter relationship, farm, corrupt official, problem, family relations, corruption, capture, horse, corrupt sheriff
Place: north dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Bedford Incident (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, political, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, submarine, navy, war, battlefield, military, confrontation, u.s. navy, reporter, propaganda, world war two, nuclear ...
Time: 60s
Place: greenland, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Affluenza (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, social decay, society, rich, suburbs, suburban life, teenager, bare chested male, summer, international crisis, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Criminal Desires (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, sexy
Plot: erotica, murder, murderer, strip club, eroticism, online dating, seduction, reporter, private club, hitman, police, female pubic hair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: secret, female writer, mysterious character, screenwriter, changing lives, female protagonist, lifestyle change, writer's life, ghost writer, intrigue
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.0
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This Town (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: womanizer, social problems, multiple storylines, family problems, society, small town, social relations, friends, family relations, city life, lifestyle, friendship ...
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27%
 5.7
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Last Man Club (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: friendship, veteran, young woman, elderly man, woman in danger, escapades, old friends reunited, world war two veteran, runaway, elderly, friends, reunited friends ...
Time: 1940s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Anniversary Nightmare (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. But with no witnesses, she's immediately labeled the prime suspect. Without any help from the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, accused of murder, kidnapped man, crime solving, protagonist as suspect, suspicion, kidnapping, murder investigation, secret, private investigation, abduction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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