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You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
 5.7
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You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his three daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. Nobody is aware that Elci, a local colonel, plans to seal the gold for himself, while a rebel general persuses all parties involved.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slapstick
Plot: mercenary, greco turkish war, aviation, myth, man on a mission, great war, battles, soldier, heist, treasure hunt, heroes, military, kidnapping, rescue, intrigue, adventurer, revolution, escapades, rivalry, danger, partner, military life, buddies, officers and cadets, tough heroes ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: turkey
Keyword: partners, attack, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, exciting, suspenseful and serious films with plots about heroes, escapades, danger, battles, military, soldier and war mostly in Action, War and Adventure genres. Some movies like You Can't Win 'Em All: The Dirty Dozen (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Into the Sun (1991), Eastern Condors (1987), Dark of the Sun (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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 ...
Style: exciting, intense, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: world war two, redemption, squad, behind enemy lines, military, soldier, nazi, world war, psychopath, battlefield, u.s. army, machismo ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place: america, europe, france, brittany, london
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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Style: entertaining, light, semi serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, heist, world war two, tank, caper, robbery, world war, behind enemy lines, army, nazi, bank robbery, treasure hunt ...
Time: 1940s, year 1970, 20th century
Place: france, america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Into the Sun (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul Watkins (Michael Paré) is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor everything he needs to know about being a pilot in the Air Force. The actor, Tom Slade ...
Style: suspense, action comedy, independent film, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1992, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Eastern Condors (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, military, kung fu, battles, vietnam war, danger, military life, heroic mission, jungle, tough heroes, race against time, save the day ...
Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Dark of the Sun (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $25 million in uncut diamonds.
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting, political thriller ...
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Time: 50s, 60s, year 1964
Place: africa, congo
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87%
 6.0
 103K
Sahara (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, desert, obsessive quest, archaeology, escapades, civil war, good versus evil, danger, buddy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
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 ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, mind blowing, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: bavaria, austria, europe, germany, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Fifty/Fifty (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
Style: retro, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, cannon, jungle, village, island, soldier, revolution, village life, against the odds, political conspiracy, friendship, missing person ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: singapore, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Fire Birds (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound ...
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Skeleton Coast (1988)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Escape to Athena (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, chase, soldier, danger, survival, daring rescue, military, archaeologist, relic, world war, archeological dig ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, year 1944
Place: greece, europe, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
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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.
Style: realistic, exciting, retro, serious, suspenseful ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story: The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to ...
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The Wild Geese (1978)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hornets' Nest (1970)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wild Geese II (1985)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Covert Action (1988)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of Miguel Rivera, a Central American diplomat. Only two ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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