Movies like The Riddle of the Sands
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The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot:
yacht, spy, military, ocean, undercover, espionage, conquering, state affairs, ship, heroes, sea, sailing, war, boat, railway, historical event, north sea, world war two, friendship, college, graphic violence, escapades, rivalry, riddles and clues, agent ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
germany, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about danger, heroes, escapades, undercover, spy, espionage and state affairs mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Riddle of the Sands: Zeppelin (1971), The 39 Steps (2008), The Executioner (1970), Triple Cross (1966), Rosebud (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war one, zeppelin, war, aviation, spy, fighter plane, airplane, undercover, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, working undercover, military life ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
germany, london, scotland
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, clever, surprise ending ...
Plot:
on the run, agent as target, spy, world war one, race against time, manhunt, undercover, uncover truth, espionage, who to trust, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, scotland, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Style:
realistic, serious, talky, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, assassin, mole, secret agents, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, heroes, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, spy, espionage, nazi, double agent, secret agents, intrigue, nazi germany, safecracker, military, prison, sabotage ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, england, europe, english channel, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, yacht, hostage, terrorist, spy, boat, intrigue, open ending, secret agents, kidnapping, cave, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
middle east, israel, french riviera, jerusalem, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, ship, boat, survival, sailing, courage, battles, tough heroes, friends, psychopath, cons and scams, cause and meaning ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, u.s. navy, disaster, rescue, drowning, daring rescue, survival, nuclear submarine, heroes, save the day, tough heroes, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, kidnapping, scientist, heroes, state affairs, dishonesty, rescue, undercover, fall in love, graphic violence, knife fight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
Style:
sexual, sexy, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, couples, love affair, fall in love, infidelity, political conspiracy, undercover, secret agents, heroes, government agency ...
Time:
50s
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style:
exciting, intense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, spy, suspense, runaway, insubordination, rescue, commando mission ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, poland, england, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, realistic
Plot:
ship, castaway, ocean, sailing, survival, lone wolves, self discovery, isolation, violence, sea, storm at sea, social differences ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
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exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, survival, escapades, inventions and discoveries, forces of nature, ocean, rescue, coast guard, sea, boat, battles, helicopter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, feel good ...
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, ship captain, sea battle, military, battles, military life, couples, rescue, treason, heroes, sea ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, smuggling, secret agents, chase, stalking, espionage, heroes, special agents, undercover, on the run, rivalry, embezzlement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min.
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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, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, sea, ocean, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, whale, captain, friendship, shipwreck, suspense, revenge, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, british navy, sea battle, military, espionage, war hero, rebellion, military life, sword fight, ship, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
france, europe, english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, interesting
Plot:
missing person, wartime life, espionage, life is a bitch, war, undercover, world war two, alternate universe, strong female presence, killing an animal, horse, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1945
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, society, rivalry, vengeance, state affairs, life is a bitch, terrorism, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spy, state affairs, heroes, military, undercover, espionage, war, criminal heroes, escapades, against humanity, rebellion, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
london, england, norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, heroes, undercover, escapades, dishonesty, rebellion, state affairs, manhunt, hospital, political intrigue, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
france, london, russia, england, alps ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, heroes, french revolution, adventurer, sailing, sea, pirate, napoleonic era, seafaring, boat, courage ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1790s
Place:
france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship between 2 young men becomes everything, when an Australian soldier takes refuge under the canopied jungles of Singapore, during the violent Japanese invasion in World War II. Jim is lost, injured and defenseless in a hostile, ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
singapore, asia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Style:
exciting, realistic, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
pirate, pirate ship, sea battle, ocean, stowaway, sailboat, child in peril, sword fight, pirate captain, kidnapping, escapades, ship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
jamaica, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
strong female character, heroes, injustice, escapades, jungle, dishonesty, workplace situations, tribe, corruption, environmentalism, corporation, environmental ...
Time:
90s
Place:
indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, british intelligence, cold war, neo nazi, undercover, secret agents, secret mission, gang, rivalry, heroes, racism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, youth, adventurer, escapades, heroes, on the run, family life, friendship, train, friends, artifact, historian ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, renegade, conspiracy, hitman, escapades, undercover, race against time, military, secret agents, government agency ...
Time:
60s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, spy, jewish, revenge, arab israeli conflict, confined, assassination, fighting the system, contests and competitions, vengeance, rebellion ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot:
cold war, spy, undercover, kgb, iron curtain, espionage, assassination, politics, dishonesty, journalism, rivalry, race against time ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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