Movies like Cargo 2006
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Cargo (2006)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.
Plot:
theft, smuggling, murder, self sacrifice, stowaway, chase, graffiti, bird, tourist, male nudity, masturbation, refugee, cooking, passport, strong female character, sea captain, boat ride, empire, drug smuggling, kitchen, bar, head butt, shaving, scottish accent, cargo ...
Place:
africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about murder, chase, danger, suspense, violence, blood and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Cargo: Sara's Notebook (2018), True North (2006), Shadow of the Wolf (1992), To Steal from a Thief (2016), Out in the Open (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the embassy, have news on her whereabouts until a photo appears of Sara in a mining town. Apparently, ...
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atmospheric, tense, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
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missing person, sister sister relationship, reporter, investigation, uncover truth, lawyer, twists and turns, friend, revenge, little girl, businessman, female protagonist ...
Place:
africa, spain, congo
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, touching
Plot:
fisherman, ship, illegal immigration, dishonesty, moral dilemma, parents and children, smuggling, stowaway, life is a bitch, human nature, ocean, human trafficking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe
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70%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
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atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot:
village, survival, wilderness, murder, on the run, eskimo indian, native american, family life, false accusation, village life, righting the wronged, escapades ...
Time:
1930s
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62%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, clever, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank, heist, suspense, secret, political corruption, hostage, hostage situation, bank robbery, dishonesty, secrets, plan gone awry, escapades ...
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, man boy relationship, suspense, gays and lesbians, survival, boy, wasteland, water, bus, motorcycle, horse, male nudity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, USA, Switzerland, Denmark, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Style:
ambiguous ending, avant garde, suspenseful, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, child soldier, chase, violence, teenage boy, nude, surrealism, escape, rescue, teenage girl, hostage, gangsters ...
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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:
central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, ...
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neo noir, captivating, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, chase, niece, police, card playing, murder, fight, mob boss, rivalry, mercilessness, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers (John Hurt), who spends his time traveling and giving burials to ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, touching ...
Plot:
beach, brain damage, ladybug, children, politics, pagan, mental illness, murder, pets, on the run, escape, nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
cornwall, london
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48%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A l'automne 1964, la construction des 52 derniers milles du chemin de fer du Grand lac des Esclaves est en voie d'achèvement. Une bande hétéroclite de travailleurs instables, ivrognes et voleurs, est recrutée dans les tavernes par ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, uplifting, offbeat
Plot:
escapades, concentration camp, alcohol abuse, outcast, corruption, chase, murder, theft, flashback, german shepherd, railway, burial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio PadÃn, recently released from prison, enters the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, realistic, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
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mafia, drug dealing, drug dealer, police raid, murder, doctor, police, prison, lawyer, organized crime, betrayal, revenge ...
Place:
galicia
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46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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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exciting, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic ...
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survival, colonialism, jungle, dangerous animal, animal attack, lion, suspense, obsessive quest, adventurer, hunting, heroes, animals ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
africa, kenya, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
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tense, suspenseful, tricky, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
submarine, boat, sea, treasure hunt, survival, gold, ocean, heist, murder, greed, suspense, disaster ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1941, 21st century
Place:
black sea, russia, scotland, ukraine, crimea
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
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suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
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survival, manhunt, wilderness, tribe, hunter, on the run, adventurer, cannibalism, culture clash, nature, desert, chase ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bdsm, sensuality, passion, deviant sex, fetish, jealousy, photographer, seduction, power relations, couples, society, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. ...
Style:
controversial, thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
religion, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, killer, cult, murder, historical figure, social relations, mate swapping, psychopath, religions or cults, clergy ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.
Style:
fairy tale, tense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
chase, spy, vengeance, teenage girl, female warrior, strong female lead, female protagonist, secret agents, assassin, hitman, martial arts, cia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, berlin germany, africa, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
342
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and Julia (Charlotte Rampling) decide it's best to hide out on an island of paradise until the war ends. However politics and jealousy ensue when Larsen (Max Von Sydow) enter the mix.
Style:
sexual, sexy
Plot:
world war two, love, wartime, decadence, nazi, island, luxury, tropical island, food shortage, jealousy, desert island, suicide ...
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, journalism, missing person, sexploitation, reporter, female nudity, photojournalist
Place:
africa
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38%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
American and Mexican police operatives team up to catch gem-smugglers operating on the gulf coast in Texas.
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thought provoking, dark ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, hunter, mercenary, little boy, manipulation, greed, twists and turns, obsessive quest, bio weapon, beautiful scenery, isolation ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, erotic ...
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boys' night
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chase, hostage, psychopath, on the run, murder, survival, mind game, lie, held captive, crime gone awry, mentally unstable, isolation ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate the contraband.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
US-agent West travels to Moscow for the CIA in order to buy Russian weapons and to send them to the rebels in Afghanistan. When West gets caught he hides his identity and receives 15 years in a working camp in Siberia as penalty
Plot:
spy, law enforcement, prison escape, male nudity
Place:
siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, serious, political ...
Plot:
war criminal, world war two, investigation, politics, murder, justice, on the run, fighting the system, jewish, nazi, law enforcement, state affairs ...
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1940s, 90s
Place:
france, poland, europe, provence, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Kate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
suicide, betrayal, nurse, double life, false identity, anger, marriage, murder, infidelity, pregnant woman, theft, suspense ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 1829, Claire, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, controversial, road movie ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
revenge, aborigine, female protagonist, rape, racial prejudice, rape and revenge, vengeance, murder, brutality, turning the tables, outback, colonization ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, 1820s
Place:
australia, ireland, tasmania, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, tricky, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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