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The Turkish Gambit (2005)
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The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Original name: Турецкий гамбит
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Bulgaria
Duration: 208 min.
Story: The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, romantic, rough, bleak, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: siege, russian empire, whodunit, spy, heroes, escapades, rivalry, russian history, wartime life, woman in danger, war, investigation, romantic triangle, fall in love, chess, american civil war, sniper, pow, russian soldier, rescue, isolation, danger, battles, camp, sword ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: ottoman empire, bulgaria, europe
Keyword: russian, bulgarian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about danger, heroes, war, escapades, military, soldier and rivalry mostly in Action, Drama and War genres. Some movies like The Turkish Gambit: The Spy (2012), The Sovereign's Servant (2007), The Fall of the Empire (2005), August 8 (2012), In August of 1944 (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Spy (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, prospector, undercover, secret agent, war, mole, secret police, mentor, heroic mission, betrayal, rivalry, life & death ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Sovereign's Servant (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, baroque ...
Plot: state affairs, danger, soldier, military, rivalry, battles, conquering, war, love interest, courage, resistance, legends and myths ...
Time: 18th century
Place: europe, ukraine, poland, russia, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fall of the Empire (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 520 min.
TV show
Story: The Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.
Style: exciting, stylized, captivating, political, realistic ...
Plot: russian history, imperial russia, russian empire, world war one, military officer, revolution, russian revolution, spy, civil war, war, revenge, soldier ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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August 8 (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: August Eighth - story of an ordinary young woman. Ksenia's life is not too happy. Problem at work, problem in personal life, problem with mother, a baby requiring constant cares... Ksenia want to spend a few days in Sochi with new boyfriend, ...
Style: exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, semi serious
Plot: robot, parents and children, village life, danger, battles, woman in danger, village, heroes, imagination, military, fire, kurd ...
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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In August of 1944 (2001)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: world war two, counter intelligence, war, spy, russian soldier, betrayal, patriotism, camaraderie, traitor, friendship between men, wartime, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: ussr, russia
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Stalingrad (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, heroism, battles, heroes, world war, life is a bitch, wartime life, russian history, danger, battle zone, military life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: europe, soviet union, russia
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Azazel (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min.
Story: Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - ...
Style: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, surprise ending ...
Plot: whodunit, power struggle, love and romance, terrorist plot, betrayal by friend, amateur sleuth, police investigation, investigation, intern, secret society, private detective
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, rescue, danger, spy, law enforcement, heroes, assassination attempt, special agent, rivalry, agent, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Sharpe's Siege (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, battles, castle, british soldier, heroes, siege, danger, military life, war, military, woman in danger, heroic mission ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, danger, race against time, forced into action, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, heroes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Target of Opportunity (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, friendship, rescue, escapades, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, spy, conflict, secret agent, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Behind Enemy Lines (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: spy, state affairs, chases and races, undercover, criminal heroes, heroes, danger, against humanity, war, espionage, military, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Sector 4: Extraction (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action - When an elite band of private mercenaries known as Black Knight gets caught behind enemy lines in a Middle East combat zone, their only hope for survival lies with the team leader, who has escaped but vows to return. - Salman Bokhari, ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, danger, captivity, rivalry, profanity, escapades, tough heroes, heroes, war, wartime, violent content, one man army ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sniper: Reloaded (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's star Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, marines, terrorism, soldier, heroes, terrorist plot, behind enemy lines, rescue, danger, daring rescue, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: congo, africa
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The Hunt for Wehrwolf (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A small group of Russian soldiers with mixed skills are assembled to go on a covert mission to map out the area of Hitler's new HQ in the Ukraine known as Wehrwolf. But it's not until they get to their destination that the squads leader ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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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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 ⇓
42%
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Terra Nova (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A story, which takes place in 2013, describes the world overflowing with "dangerous" criminals due to the official termination of death penalty. The UN "blue helmets" under the directive from the central authority (i.e., One ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, sadistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
41%
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
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41%
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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
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41%
Tango Charlie (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Indian Army Sepoy Tarun Chauhan is assigned to proceed to Northeastern part of India that has been rocked by riots and violence with orders to report to his superior, Havaldar Mohammed Ali. Once there, he comes to know that things can be quiet for ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, war, rescue, anti war, heroes, soldier, danger, patriot, politics, battlefield, war on terror, indian war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fires on the Plain (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, survival, japanese soldier, military life, danger, isolation, confined, escapades, rivalry, asian prostitute, anti war, humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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USS Seaviper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, world war two, save the day, danger, isolation, heroic mission, rebellion, survival, island, rebelliousness, war, soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Brass Target (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war two, conspiracy, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle, revolution, revolutionary, ss, secret mission, gold, gay interest, violent content ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.3
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Counterstrike (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
 934
The Fallen (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: THE FALLEN is a three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers, set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: holocaust, world war two, war, soldier, military life, resistance movement, military, captivity, against the odds, battles, leadership, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Double Identity (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, on the run, danger, save the lady, daring rescue, mistaken identity, heroes, woman in danger, spy, police officer, hustler, hitman ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, bulgaria, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, touching
Plot: american civil war, military, civil war, battles, teenage life, danger, youth, friendship, battlefield, soldier, bare chested male, u.s. civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1850s
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Covert Operation (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, rough ...
Plot: secret agent, danger, soldier, undercover, rivalry, rescue attempt, behind enemy lines, escapades, plan, military base, confrontation, war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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