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Special Bulletin (1983)
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Special Bulletin (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
Style: bad ending, psychological, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: found footage, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear war, terrorism, end of the world, president, disaster, u.s. president, witch, cold war, atomic bomb, nuclear threat, post nuclear, world war, anti war, journalism, heroes, hostage, hijacking, rebellion, chases and races, fighting the system, escapades ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about danger, disaster, heroes, state affairs, deadly, terrorism and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Special Bulletin: Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), Ladybug Ladybug (1963), Fail-Safe (1964), Fail Safe (2000), The Day After (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the ...
Style: apocalyptic, tragic ending, mockumentary
Plot: nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, disaster, apocalypse, cold war, found footage, post apocalypse, u.s. president, president, catastrophe, distopia, post apocalyptic ...
Place: usa, soviet union, saudi arabia, middle east
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: rome italy, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: nuclear threat, elementary school, youth, nuclear holocaust, bomb shelter, panic, cold war, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, nuclear, school, society ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.0
 24K
Fail-Safe (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style: tense, political thriller, political, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, nuclear threat, politics, military, u.s. air force, atomic bomb, nuclear, chaos, radio, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1967
Place: russia, new york, usa, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fail Safe (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, nuclear threat, aviation, moral dilemma, nuclear holocaust, politics, military life, disaster, danger, military, race against time, chaos ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style: political, political thriller, neo noir, tense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear threat, vietnam war, cold war, president, u.s. president, terrorism, conspiracy, danger, military, international relations, world war, post apocalyptic ...
Place: montana, usa, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: kidnapping, clinic, dystopia, journalism, terrorism, danger, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, legal, politics, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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My Gal Sunday (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, rescue, fighting crime, danger, uncover truth, rivalry, hitman, couple relations, race against time, murder, confined, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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War Book (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a contemporary Commons briefing room, a government minister and several aids enact the ‘war book’ exercise: a protocol written in the 1950s which is periodically played out to test post-nuclear scenarios. Low-budget but high-concept, War Book ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: politics, nuclear explosion, nuclear war, danger, chaos, international crisis, state affairs, international relations, terrorism, end of the world, terrorist attack, government official ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, england, london, mumbai india, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 2K
Dirty War (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: radical, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, nuclear threat, terrorist plot, firefighter, save the day, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, race against time ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot: airplane, aviation, disaster, air disaster, real life, danger, flight attendant, hostage, chases and races, confined, race against time, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 778
Waterborne (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: survival, terrorism, contamination, danger, plague, bio weapon, dystopia, disaster, thirst, husband wife relationship, violence, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.9
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Boxed (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 4.3
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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On the Beach (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain ...
Style: tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting ...
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Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Citizen Verdict (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marty Rockman, the notorious producer of the hit reality-TV show "So Sue Me", has a brand new concept: "Citizen Verdict". Each week a real criminal case will be tried before the American people, but this time they're also ...
Style: serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: jury, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, murder, false accusation, political corruption, political unrest, courtroom, power relations, rebellion, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
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Pu-239 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: radiation, radiation poisoning, plutonium, danger, manhunt, uncover truth, life is a bitch, race against time, dishonesty, contamination, computer hacker, hacker ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Innocent Saturday (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: friendship, danger, survival, race against time, small town, disaster, nuclear reactor, escape, post apocalypse, rock, government facility, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 536
Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 169
Shelter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.
Style: serious, suspenseful, epic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, chaos, small town, disaster, family relations, hopes, society, escapades, danger, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 677
Afterburn (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: aviation, heroes, hopes, politics, law enforcement, state affairs, righting the wronged, military, rivalry, danger, legal, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: homeless, heroic mission, righting the wronged, power relations, campaign, injustice, state affairs, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, politics, hopes ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 1K
PVC-1 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, rough, tense ...
Plot: profanity, terrorism, against the odds, race against time, rescue, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.4
 838
October (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was ...
Style: sad, political, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, murder, terrorist, good versus evil, danger, confined, society, politics, rebellion, state affairs, revolution ...
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.0
 488
Comet Impact (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story: A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot: comet, astronomer, danger, nasa, chaos, escapades, forces of nature, catastrophe, save the day, disaster, evacuation, tsunami ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 468
The Exonerated (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, mockumentary
Plot: false accusation, racism, human spirit, fighting the system, injustice, courtroom drama, confined, life is a bitch, legal, society, hopes, rebellion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, terrorism, law, professor, trial, power relations, injustice, hotshot lawyer, confined, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: environmentalism, chaos, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace, human nature, society, state affairs, danger, workplace situations, political corruption, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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