Movies like In the Heart of the Sea
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
105K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. But that told only half the story. “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, scenic, inspirational, serious, realistic, based on true events, surprise ending, dramatic ...
Plot:
survival, ship, dangerous animal, ocean, adventure, isolation, whale, danger, against the odds, lost at sea, death, starvation, hopes, stranded, ocean or sea, boat, revenge, hunting, catastrophe, sea, suicide, hunger, cannibalism, shipwreck, confined ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, 1820s
Place:
new england, south america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, intense, realistic and suspense films with plots about danger, survival, escapades, death, adventure, mentor and dialogue mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like In the Heart of the Sea: The Finest Hours (2016), All Is Lost (2013), The Whale (2013), The Grey (2011), 127 Hours (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, daring rescue, adventure, rescue mission, courage, coast guard, sinking ship, ocean, escapades, natural disaster, boat, danger ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
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suspenseful, touching, captivating, rough, harsh ...
Plot:
survival, sea disaster, isolation, boat, adventure, ocean or sea, storm, desperation, forces of nature, human spirit, human nature, sailor ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, exciting, captivating
Plot:
ship, survival, danger, ocean or sea, shipwreck, whale, escapades, adventure, dangerous animal, orphan, forces of nature, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, rough, exciting, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, dangerous animal, isolation, wilderness, death, stranded, wolf, male camaraderie, eaten alive, air disaster, danger, atheist ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, uplifting, psychological, inspirational, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, desert, human spirit, adventure, courage, loneliness, extreme sport, climbing, peril, life & death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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suspense, serious, touching, tense, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, mining, rescue, race against time, hopes, isolation, danger, human spirit, president, courage, stranded, catastrophe ...
Time:
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Place:
chile, mine, australia
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, based on true events, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, death, forces of nature, adventure, climbing, against the odds, adventurer, stranded, tragedy, death of protagonist, freeze to death ...
Time:
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Place:
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47%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, atmospheric, scenic, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, adventure, ocean or sea, hopes, human nature, ocean, isolation, storytelling, young heroes, ship, teenage boy, starvation ...
Place:
india, pacific ocean, paris france, mexico, toronto ontario canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style:
exciting, serious, harsh, inspirational, factual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
survival, trapped, island, shark, surfing, ocean, death, shark attack, strong female character, stranded, eaten alive, great white shark ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
survival, forces of nature, ship, drowning, ocean, giant wave, race against time, adventure, daring rescue, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
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Place:
atlantic ocean
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43%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
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Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, rugby, starvation, helicopter, adventure, rescue, freezing, human spirit, isolation, against the odds ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
survival, adventure, expedition, forces of nature, ocean or sea, isolation, water, danger, escapades, family relations, underwater, cave ...
Time:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's ...
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serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspense, gloomy, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
survival, island, loneliness, isolation, human spirit, courage, adventure, suicide attempt, air disaster, hopes, fish out of water, tropical island ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 1990s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, in the woods, dangerous animal, lost, camping, danger, bear attack, bear, blood, nature, couple relations, wilderness ...
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21st century, contemporary
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
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captivating, exciting, biblical, suspense, epic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, forces of nature, human nature, natural disaster, god, moral dilemma, belief, ship, adventure, redemption, religion ...
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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suspenseful, realistic, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
ship, cruise, survival, race against time, new year's eve, adventure, passenger, hysteria, wife husband relationship, prostitute, faith, sibling relationship ...
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
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survival, wilderness, vengeance, violence, revenge, betrayal, native american, manhunt, native americans, old west, brutality, greed ...
Time:
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Place:
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32%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
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thought provoking, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, ship, whale, mutiny, sea, adventure, obsessive quest, ocean or sea, pirate, danger, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, 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, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ship, leadership, navy, battles, adventure, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, rivalry, human spirit, heroic mission, officers and cadets, military ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate ...
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exciting, suspenseful, intense, harsh, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
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Plot:
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Time:
18th century, 1700s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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