Movies like Sky Hook
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Sky Hook (2000)
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Original name: Nebeska udica
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
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Sky Hook (Serbian: Nebeska udica) is a 2000 Yugoslavian film directed by Ljubiša Samardžić. It was Yugoslavia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, melancholic
Plot:
anti war, war, battles, political unrest, wartime life, survival, friends, buddies, suspense, heist, journalism, hanging, innocence lost, campaign, basketball, friendship, youth, neighbor, street life, young man, danger
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, italy, germany, yugoslavia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and captivating films with plots about war, soldier, wartime life, military, anti war, danger and military life mostly in Drama, War and Western genres. Some movies like Sky Hook: A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998), Witnesses (2003), The Last Lieutenant (1993), Comanche Territory (1997), Afghan Luke (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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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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77%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
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Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
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world war two, military life, military base, political unrest, wartime life, captivity, couple relations, anti war, working class, battles, heroes, aging ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
jungle, female journalist, journalism, sexual content, graphic violence, innocence lost, war, life is a bitch, love and romance, media, wartime life, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, europe, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas ...
Style:
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Plot:
war correspondent, journalism, anti war, military, buddies, idealism, media, journalist, graphic violence, friends, soldier, war ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
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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 ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
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Place:
germany
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62%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative
Plot:
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chechnya, russia, germany, europe
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61%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until ...
Style:
epic, emotional, sincere, thought provoking, captivating ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
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tense, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
the philippines
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56%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 116 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Argentina, Bolivia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
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realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing
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world war two, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, against the odds, daring rescue, prospector, wartime, suspense, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
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20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, touching, tense
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 95 min.
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Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style:
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Place:
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Duration: 112 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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