Movies like U-571
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U-571 (2000)
84K
Genre: Action, War
Country: France, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, factual, intense, rough, serious, dramatic, tense, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
submarine, world war two, military, navy, war, naval battle, ocean, nazism, naval officer, sea battle, ship captain, boat, mission, soldier, survival, sinking ship, suspense, wartime, courage, chase, stranded, secrets, battles, escapades, allies ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about military, war, heroes, soldier, world war two, danger and explosion mostly in War, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like U-571: Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Greyhound (2020), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Where Eagles Dare (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, war, navy, ocean, naval battle, anti war, military, nazi, boat, battles, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, cold war, navy, nuclear submarine, military, courage, nuclear, radiation sickness, sea, suspense, radiation, disaster ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1989 ...
Place:
ussr, russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, motivational ...
Plot:
world war two, submarine, war, convoy, navy, u.s. navy, warship, ocean, us military, captain, battleship, naval officer ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
san francisco, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, political, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, cold war, spy, suspense, navy, espionage, nuclear threat, u.s. navy, politics, cia, nuclear submarine, cold war era ...
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Place:
russia, washington d.c., ussr, usa, virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
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Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
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1940s, 20th century
Place:
bavaria, austria, europe, germany, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
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 ...
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Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.
Style:
exciting, serious, epic
Plot:
sea battle, torpedo, naval battle, submarine, navy, world war two, sailor, fight, battle zone, suspense, save the world, military ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1941
Place:
miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put ...
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boys' night
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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338K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, factual ...
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world war two, war, love, love triangle, military, airplane, love and romance, fighter pilot, aviation, navy, aerial combats, warship ...
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1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942 ...
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hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
116K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
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50%
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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england, india, asia, goa india, portugal ...
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33%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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.
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boys' night
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1940s, year 1943, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
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epic, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
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sniper, world war two, war, military, german, friendship, heroes, ambition, death, nazi, courage, russian ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film ...
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boys' night
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world war two, military, war, commando, visceral, battles, betrayal, heroes, espionage, escapades, military life, anti war ...
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31%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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Plot:
world war two, military, behind enemy lines, soldier, pow, war, battles, winter, survival, friendship, allies, heroic mission ...
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1940s, post world war two, year 1944, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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realistic, factual, brutal, intense, stylized ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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29%
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 ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
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Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.
Style:
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28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
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