Movies like Countryman
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Countryman (1982)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
Plot:
jungle, reggae, helicopter, airplane, air disaster, politics, swamp, nature, caribbean sea, catastrophe, survival, martial arts, heroes, rescue, disaster, escapades, rivalry, wilderness, drug abuse, folk hero, state affairs, chaos and mayhem, gambling, magic, revenge ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, africa, caribbean
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Most similar movies to Countryman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about danger, escapades, survival, heroes, disaster, catastrophe and society mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Countryman: Heart of Darkness (1993), No Place Like Home (2006), The Harder They Come (1972), The Rainbow Warrior (1993), Hurricane (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Plot:
jungle, survival, greed, ivory, insanity, boat, nature, apocalypse, escapades, obsessive quest, adventurer, heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, congo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Susan, a film producer from NYC, goes to Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial, she finds herself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, drifting further and further away from the world she knows and into the life of the island, a ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
lifestyle, life, male female relationship, island, relationships, reggae, singer, smoking, rastafarian, beach resort, nightclub, beach house ...
Place:
new york, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a ...
Style:
tense, road movie, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
reggae, music, blaxploitation, marijuana, poverty, culture clash, folk hero, gangsters, cult, crime gone awry, music business, visceral ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
jamaica, africa, new jersey, west indies
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30%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
terrorist attack, spy, environmental, environmental issue, disaster, catastrophe, conspiracy, law enforcement, investigation, rivalry, terrorism, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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201
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, catastrophe, rescue, escapades, heroes, forces of nature, boat, party, submarine, u.s. air force ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Siberia, Monamour related movies
553
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious
Plot:
starting over, human spirit, escapades, hopes, family life, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional
Plot:
disaster, heroic mission, survival, heroes, escapades, rescue, child in peril, catastrophe, hospital, letter, baseball, decapitation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
airplane, aviation, disaster, air disaster, catastrophe, flight attendant, hostage, race against time, fighting crime, confined, heroes, survival ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
dancing, blaxploitation, reggae, power relations, family relations, lifestyle, music, hidden identity, society, self discovery, single parent, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
jamaica, africa, caribbean, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
snowstorm, survival, rescue, wilderness, disaster, frostbite, hypothermia, babies and infants, confined, heroes, escapades, family life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Loose cannon cop Capone returns to his home town of Kingston to join a group of officers fighting organised crime in the area. On his first day he uncovers gun smuggling operation that may be connected with lead criminal Oney. However his old crew, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
friendship, reggae, drug dealer, police investigation, rivalry, partners, fighting crime, buddies, tough law enforcer, gangsters, arms dealing, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
jamaica, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
mountain, climbing, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, love triangle, wilderness, dream, mountain climbing, obsession, survival, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles cop who's joined to try and make up for an earlier PR blunder, to a tropical island to hunt for a buried treasure worth ten ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot:
treasure hunt, natural disaster, island, survival, escapades, rivalry, contests and competitions, dishonesty, criminal heroes, chaos and mayhem, betrayal, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, air disaster, aviation, spy, lebanese civil war, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, confined, rescue, leadership, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
281
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
survival, wilderness, island, escapades, forces of nature, shipwreck, isolation, human spirit, family relations, storm, stranded, spirituality ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies similar to The Snow Walker
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
air disaster, disaster, survival, death, mountain, cannibal, football team, catastrophe, wilderness, heroes, escapades, confined ...
Time:
70s
Place:
andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a nuclear attack submarine crashes on the floor of the Artic ocean, it's up to a pair of research scientists to save the entire crew before time and oxygen run out.
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, disaster, boat, u.s. navy, heroes, save the day, race against time, military, rescue, escapades, heroic mission, forces of nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as ...
Style:
surreal, sexy, psychedelic, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
counterculture, nature, magic realism, filmmaking, wilderness, jungle, obsessive quest, self discovery, survival, couple relations, adventurer, escapades ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, stylized ...
Plot:
desert, disorder, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, lizard, sea, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, desert, nature, court, mining, blaxploitation, culture clash, wilderness, wildlife, environmental destruction ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
germany, africa, australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
investigation, survival, heroic mission, dishonesty, escapades, uncover truth, aviation, forces of nature, disaster, conspiracy, catastrophe, mountain ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Reminiscent of the latter works of Bela Tarr, Miklos Jancso's "Beloved Electra" is comprised of a series of extremely slow and extremely long takes (there are just eight principal shots, each lasting an entire reel of film). More ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious
Plot:
ancient history, female nudity, revenge, surrealism, murder, obsession, state affairs, vengeance, rivalry, legends and myths, parents and children, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the 16th century in Chosun dynasty, HWANG Jung-hak and LEE Mong-hak create the “Grand Alliance” with the united dream of a better world. While the new leader LEE dreams of eradicating this world of all its corruption and becoming king ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, political unrest, rivalry, sword fight, vengeance, dishonesty, politics, assassination attempt, escapades, medieval, sword, joseon dynasty ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
air disaster, airplane, aviation, rescue, catastrophe, disaster, heroic mission, daring rescue, race against time, heroes, save the day, escapades ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, terrorism, contamination, plague, bio weapon, distopia, disaster, husband wife relationship, thirst, violence, racism, chaos ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
solitude, survival, wilderness, arctic, radio, isolation, human nature, dishonesty, confined, winter, nature, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ussr, russia, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, friendship, women, woman, friends, struggle for survival, strong female presence, couple relations, love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
travel, self discovery, adventurer, escapades, friends, prank, youth, survival, canceled wedding, disaster, journey, hiker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story:
A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.
Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, haunted by the past, wilderness, survival, life is a bitch, therapy, pimp, prostitute, sex show, social relations, chaos ...
Time:
future
Place:
asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
vengeance, rescue, survival, rivalry, jungle, abduction, track down, gang, suspense, kidnapping, heroes, land grab ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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