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Bastards (2006)
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Bastards (2006)
Original name: Сволочи
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
Style: rough, art house, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting
Plot: world war two, coming of age, war, military, controversy, gay, gay interest, criminal heroes, confined, child murders a child, airplane, mine, adolescence, parachuting, child murder, suicide mission, group, battles, military camp, prisoner, death, murder, bullying, boy, blood ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 40s
Place: soviet union, romania, russia, ussr
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about military, world war two, war, soldier, battles, heroes and danger mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Bastards: The Last Frontier (2020), The Penal Battalion (2004), 9th Company (2005), Living (2012), The Star (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Frontier (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly ...
Style: exciting, rough, tense, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, rescue mission, military, teenager, trapped, combat, soldier, battles, war, violence, murder, gunfight ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
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The Penal Battalion (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 550 min.
TV show
Story: The authors of the television series studied archival materials and military chronicles. The last series ends with a demonstration of the list of penalty parts, which from 1942 to 1945 fought on the Soviet fronts.
Style: sentimental, realistic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, pow, prisoner, nazi, soviet army, wehrmacht, priest, infantry, russian soldier, sabotage, death ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
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9th Company (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, rough, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, death, basic training, officers and cadets, friendship, soldier, war in afghanistan, ambush, military life, wartime life, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1988
Place: afghanistan, ukraine, soviet union, russia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 7.2
 2K
Living (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the second feature film by Russian director Vasily Sigarev, fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, tragic love, life is a bitch, family problems, father son relationship, hopes, love, children, society, religion, self sacrifice, dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Star (2002)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, war, d day, soldier, battles, fall in love, danger, military, world war, battlefield, holocaust, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
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Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight ...
Style: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, red army, russian soldier, bravery, heroism, infantry, eastern front, protector, wartime, military life, world war, war ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min.
Story: When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Style: epic, realistic, emotional, tense, sad ...
Plot: war, korean war, military, soldier, combat, survival, idealism, mission, military life, courage, atrocity, patriotism ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s, 1940s
Place: korea, north korea, south korea, china, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style: epic, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, visually appealing ...
Plot: war, sergeant, jungle, soldier, world war two, infantry, anti war, pacific war, pacific island, existentialism, survival, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998
Place: asia, america, japan, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Last Escape (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back ...
Style: exciting, captivating, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, kidnapping, battles, danger, heroes, war, confined, soldier, escapades, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Taste of Hell (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the Philippines during WW II, two U.S. Army officers are caught and shot by a Japanese officer. One survives and soon joins with a guerrilla troop to battle the enemy... and get revenge.
Style: independent film, bleak, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war, soldier, against the odds, escapades, rivalry, heroes, war, confined, vengeance, danger, military, battles ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 920
Road to Berlin (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
Style: rough, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, male bonding, soldier, friendship, violence, society, fascism, friendship between men, war, world war, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Rocket Hunter (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In one of the most dangerous missions of the war, an American B-17 pilot volunteers to fly a surrendered Messerschmitt 109 on a daring flight through the heart of Germany to try to prevent the people of London from being terrorized by the V-2 ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, dangerous mission, fight, mission, military, war, heroic mission, soldier, survival, friendship, heroes, battles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, sentimental, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, world war, life & death, war, camaraderie, military, nazi, retreat, eastern front, soviet soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Ravagers (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Cruel captors of the war in the pacific.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, world war, convent, battles, war, state affairs, danger, escapades, soldier, military, heroes, against the odds ...
Time: 60s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Dawns Here Are Quiet... (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 175 min.
Story: It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, compassionate, serious, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, heroism, female soldier, military training, wartime life, soldier, war, battles, friendship, heroic mission, female friendship, human relationship ...
Place: soviet union, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, society, survival, war, danger, against humanity, military, escapades ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Fortress (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: bomber, aerial combats, world war two, airplane, soldier, battles, military life, heroic mission, leadership, flying, aviation, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Confrontation (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot: reconnaissance, world war two, behind enemy lines, battles, war crime, military, heroic mission, danger, fight, brutality, heroes, murder ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ukraine, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 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: captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: submarine, world war two, world war, ocean, underwater, diver, combat, kriegsmarine, battles, seaport, power relations, leadership ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Forbidden Ground (2013)
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, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: world war one, military, survival, mission gone awry, danger, against the odds, great war, escapades, infantrymen, world war two, violent content, soldier ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hornets' Nest (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Style: grindhouse, macaroni combat, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, world war, war, combat, machine gun, youth, man on a mission, kidnapping, battles, soldier, military, teenage life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for ...
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, combat, world war, train, collaborator, submarine, commando, revenge, resistance, disguise, soldier, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: normandy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Special Forces (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: taliban, military, journalist, war, war zone, sniper, swat team, soldier, kidnapping, danger, daring rescue, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Straight Into Darkness (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.
Style: surreal, psychological, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, soldier, military, against humanity, danger, survival, battle zone, military life, battles, psychopath, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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A Little Pond (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating ...
Plot: military, survival, captivity, wartime life, danger, anti war, homecoming, isolation, confined, genocide, against humanity, korean war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, war, military, soldier, wartime, fight, battles, brutality, danger, world war two, struggle for survival, gunfight ...
Time: 60s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
30%
 6.7
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The Bomber (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 181 min.
Story: During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya miraculously survive. Another survivor is flight navigator Linko, who ejected from the plane. Each of them has to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, sad
Plot: behind enemy lines, world war two, soviet army, traitor, sabotage, soldier, airplane shot down, social relations, diversion, love affair, great patriotic war, wartime ...
Place: hawaii, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Death and Glory in Changde (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial battles during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Changde Battle, ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: world war two, military, fight, battles, army, battlefield, wartime life, war, military life, warrior, soldier, combat ...
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30%
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