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Johnny Mad Dog (2008)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Liberia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, sad, bleak
Plot:
children in wartime, child soldier, civil war, orphan, survival, life is a bitch, youth, soldier, society, against humanity, atrocity, escape, child, gangsters, ghetto, girl, realism, war, military, strong violent content, female nudity, sex scene, death, murder, tribe ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and disturbing films with plots about war, life is a bitch, wartime life, military, soldier, danger and society mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Johnny Mad Dog: Beasts of No Nation (2015), Ezra (2007), Attack on Darfur (2009), Camp de Thiaroye (1988), The Skin (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears ...
Style:
disturbing, political, intense, bleak, harsh ...
Plot:
war, child soldier, life is a bitch, children in wartime, violence, survival, adaptation, civil war, anti war, justice, military, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
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279
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Nigeria, USA, UK, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ezra, jeune ex-soldat Sierra-Léonais, essaie tant bien que mal de retrouver des repères pour revenir à une vie normale après la guerre civile qui a ravagé son pays. Son quotidien est partagé entre un centre de réhabilitation psychologique et ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
military, kidnapping, legal, haunted by the past, legal action, life is a bitch, starting over, kids in trouble, against humanity, life turned upside down, youth, wartime life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, journalist, village, desert, murder, tragedy, civil war, against humanity, uncover truth, survival, photojournalist ...
Place:
sudan, africa
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42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A historical drama based on the Thiaroye transit camp massacre, Camp de Thiaroye dismantles the myth of colonial assimilation to expose ingrained social and cultural mechanisms of racism, exploitation, and privilege. In 1944, the French army ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot:
racism, prison, prison escape, racial issues, imperialism, blaxploitation, interracial relations, soldier, autobiography, injustice, culture clash, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
africa, senegal, france
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41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face...
Style:
controversial, realistic, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, translator, soldier, chaos and mayhem, society, against humanity, life is a bitch, military, war, captivity, pimp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
military, murder, investigation, police investigation, soldier, amateur detective, kidnapping, war, criminal heroes, political unrest, anti war, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia, serbia, croatia
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40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, battle zone, realism, jewish, judaism, terrorism, helicopter, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, syria
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40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, hospital, military, soldier, investigation, world war two, italian army, italian history, buddies, graphic violence, nude, animal life ...
Time:
pre world war two, year 1936
Place:
africa, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, politics, betrayal, rwandan genocide, chaos, civil war, military, dishonesty, righting the wronged, anti war, hopes, moral dilemma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, rwanda
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, captivating, exciting, disturbing
Plot:
great patriotic war, world war two, little boy, wartime life, soldier, courage, friendship, military, orphan, violence, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, bleak, disturbing
Plot:
coming of age, bosnian war, drug addiction, children in wartime, anarchist, balkan war, deaf, humanism, survival, hanging, anti war, hiding place ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, sarajevo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training ...
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captivating, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
prostitute, soldier, mutiny, execution, platoon, anti war protest, military training, idealist, deserter, french army, pacifist, communist ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa, france
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38%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Rwanda, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
genocide, massacre, murder, civil war, racism, against humanity, rwandan genocide, mass murder, coup, battles, politics, political unrest ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, washington d.c.
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38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, non-linear ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, war crime, torture, violence, murder, orphan, war violence, children, boy, war ...
Time:
year 1999, 21st century
Place:
chechnya, russia, caucasus
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37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
kurd, children, orphan, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, family relations, village life, village, family in crisis, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iraq, iran, kurdistan, middle east, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, isolation, prison life, wartime life, captivity, confined, society, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
fascism, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, family business, social decay, political unrest, moral dilemma, against humanity, human nature, life is a bitch, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, epic, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war one, war, veteran, wartime life, battles, military life, prison life, haunted by the past, soldier, life is a bitch, politics, military ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place:
france
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37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, meditative, art house ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
orphan, world war two, war, courage, youth, man boy relationship, coming of age, childhood, boy, spy, children in wartime, death ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
russia, ussr, europe, berlin germany, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
reporter, civil war, christian, girl, village, revolution, political unrest, genocide, holocaust, wartime life, haunted by the past, war ...
Place:
greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
atrocity, terrorism, rape, redemption, mercenary, war crime, breast feeding, soldier, hopes, pregnancy, life is a bitch, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, serbia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, fictional history, bureaucracy, nazi, soldier, against humanity, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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37%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot:
military, atrocity, soldier, racism, basic training, anti war, politics, military life, imperialism, political unrest, moral dilemma, state affairs ...
Time:
50s, year 1959
Place:
algeria, europe, france
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37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
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serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
sniper, balkan war, sibling relationship, society, state affairs, against humanity, soldier, war, military, politics, best friends, betrayal ...
Place:
sarajevo, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style:
sincere, rough, bleak, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
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childhood, blind character, war, refugee, orphan, children, coming of age, camp, child, anti war, muslim, children in wartime ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
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holocaust, rescue, human spirit, orphan, survival, society, life is a bitch, against humanity, hopes, youth, fugitives, wartime life ...
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1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, slovenia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
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psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
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fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, political unrest, politics, animal life, totalitarianism, righting the wronged ...
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sarajevo, eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
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realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, rabbi, holocaust, jewish, confined, society, survival, war, life is a bitch, against humanity, human spirit, misfit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, bleak
Plot:
world war two, jewish, jewish ghetto, holocaust, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, children in wartime, coming of age, judaism, starvation ...
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1940s, 20th century
Place:
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