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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Original name: 태극기 휘날리며
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, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: war, korean war, military, soldier, combat, survival, idealism, mission, military life, courage, atrocity, patriotism, chinese army, korean army, shooting, battle zone, asian, tragedy, civil war, great war, war violence, gory, conflict, army, fistfight ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 40s
Place: korea, north korea, south korea, china, east asia, seoul, asia
Keyword: korean, retrospective, attack, propaganda film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about military, war, soldier, battles, world war two, military life and battlefield mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War: Band of Brothers (2001), We Were Soldiers (2002), My Way (2011), Cross of Iron (1977), Assembly (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Band of Brothers (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 594 min.
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Style: heroic, epic, captivating, serious, tense ...
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We Were Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
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Time: 20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, america, asia, usa
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My Way (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two become rivals. But the war ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1944, 1930s
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Cross of Iron (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style: political, cult classic, brutal, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Assembly (2007)
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The Front Line (2011)
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style: epic, breathtaking, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, adult
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Time: 19th century, year 2003, victorian era, 1800s, middle ages ...
Place: japan, asia, africa, san francisco, tokyo ...
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Casualties of War (1989)
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 ...
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The Great Battle (2018)
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Duration: 136 min.
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Style: exciting, tense, intense, epic, period drama
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Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
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Country: USA, UK
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: serious, rough, tense, inspirational
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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
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Place: europe
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