Movies like Dunkirk
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Dunkirk (2017)
559K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, suspense, realistic, based on true events, suspenseful, harsh, intense, complex ...
Plot:
world war two, british history, wartime, warship, rescue mission, survival, british army, evacuation, war, army, military, military officer, bravery, soldier, battleship, rescue, german army, surrounded, french military, air strike, air attack, death, fear, dying, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, england, english channel, flanders
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Most similar movies to Dunkirk
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspense and epic films with plots about survival, explosion, wartime, war, military, soldier and world war two mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Dunkirk: Battle of Britain (1969), Greyhound (2020), Black Hawk Down (2001), '71 (2014), 1917 (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, sincere, factual ...
Plot:
world war two, raf, aerial combat, battles, british history, fighter pilot, luftwaffe, war, politics, heroes, military, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1940, 1930s
Place:
england, europe, london, berlin germany, english channel ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, suspense ...
Plot:
u.s. navy, navy, submarine, world war two, warship, convoy, war, ocean, ship captain, ocean or sea, battleship, captain ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sniper, war, warrior, courage, battles, u.s. military, gunfight, marine, chaos, survival, helicopter, army ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1993
Place:
somalia, africa, north africa, arkansas, iraq
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100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, ira, survival, terrorism, violence, military, riot, explosion, danger, war, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
ireland, england, belfast, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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435K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India, Spain, Canada, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
trench warfare, world war one, soldier, british army, race against time, british soldier, pursuit, behind enemy lines, british military, storytelling, brother brother relationship, chaos ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, 20th century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly ...
Style:
epic, brutal, stylized, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot:
attack, world war two, combat, soldier, rescue mission, war, battles, military, surrounded, gunfight, murder, german ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1941
Place:
soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Style:
exciting, bleak, scary, suspense, sad ...
Plot:
sea battle, naval battle, fighter plane, warship, aerial combat, aircraft carrier, fighter pilot, navy, u.s. navy, submarine, emperor, battleship ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1937 ...
Place:
pearl harbor, pacific ocean, tokyo, washington d.c., japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A Bridge Too Far tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the failed attempt by the allies to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland and allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and ...
Style:
epic, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
war, behind enemy lines, world war two, army, allies, heroic mission, battle zone, against the odds, soldier, mission, resistance, danger ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1944, 70s
Place:
netherlands, holland, germany, europe, united states ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style:
suspense, emotional, brutal, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
german soldier, minefield, post world war two, soldier, world war two, war crime, pow, moral dilemma, teenager, child soldier, military officer, abuse of power ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, future
Place:
denmark, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with ...
Style:
based on true events, suspense, serious, realistic, harsh
Plot:
british history, world war two, prime minister, politics, winston churchill, leader, wartime, british empire, leadership, historical character, choice, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940
Place:
england, europe, france, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hunter Killer similar movies
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, love triangle, war, warship, navy, aerial combats, battleship, love and romance, airplane, love, fighter pilot, pilot ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1942, year 1941 ...
Place:
pearl harbor, hawaii, japan, england, asia ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
war, world war two, military, fame, battles, loss of friend, survival, homecoming, selflessness, danger, propaganda, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
japan, pacific ocean, usa, asia, okinawa japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, resistance, war, invasion, allies, german, military, navy, military life, officers and cadets, battle zone ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s, year 1944
Place:
normandy, france, europe, england, paris france ...
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41%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Occupied France, 1940. A Nazi Commander discovers one of his prisoners, Danny is a champion boxer. He forces him to fight for his company's entertainment. But the POWs realise they can use these contests, as cover for an audacious breakout, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, brutal, complex
Plot:
world war two, pow, survival, life & death, soldier, moral dilemma, fistfight, plan, surrounded, british army, nazi occupied france, army ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style:
tense, exciting, rough, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
bomber, war, battles, soldier, world war two, military, one last job, mission, behind enemy lines, friendship, airplane, rescue ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1943
Place:
europe, england, germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies like Fury
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, epic, factual ...
Plot:
world war two, military life, battleship, military, navy, war, political unrest, state affairs, imperial japan, danger, rebellion, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1941, 70s
Place:
hawaii, japan, pearl harbor, washington d.c., usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, fighter pilot, interracial relations, aerial combats, military life, war, military base, soldier, discrimination, airplane, military, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1944, year 1942
Place:
europe, italy, pentagon, germany, cuba ...
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35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Style:
realistic, bleak, contemplative, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
survival, world war two, battles, military, war, chaos, japanese history, danger, chaos and mayhem, selflessness, brutality, japanese army ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1945, year 2005
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style:
factual, serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, battles, military, war, military life, heroes, battlefield, wartime life, u.s. army, army, death ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, harsh, factual ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, moral dilemma, wartime life, against the odds, totalitarianism, rescue, resistance, insubordination, danger, anti heroes, heroic mission ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, europe, warsaw poland, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Series like Band of Brothers
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Style:
rough, touching, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
soldier, behind enemy lines, world war two, pow, battles, allies, military, tragic hero, heroic mission, bondage, hapless soldier, battle zone ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, berlin germany, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, storm at sea, adventure, ocean, forces of nature, courage, coast guard, rescue mission, daring rescue, danger, sinking ship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
emotional, epic, sincere, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, holocaust, survival, wartime life, jewish, rebellion, partisan, camp, russian, jews, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942
Place:
poland, europe, germany, israel, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style:
epic, emotional, touching, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, pow, innocence lost, young heroes, survival, prison, bravery, child protagonist, japanese army, stadium, japanese soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
china, shanghai, tokyo, asia, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, world war two, battles, soldier, wehrmacht, infantrymen, heroes, invasion, squad, nazism, german, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Movies similar to Pearl Harbor
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, soldier, war crime, army, war, jungle, navy seal, brutality, genocide, civil war, moral dilemma, rebel ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
nigeria, africa, iraq, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style:
realistic, captivating, rough, bleak, epic ...
Plot:
military, army, war, world war two, battles, sniper, courage, heroic mission, warrior, rescue, d day, bravery ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1944
Place:
normandy, france, europe, poland, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
battles, task force, colonel, battle, military, double agent, survival, adventure, war, danger, heroic mission, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s, 70s
Place:
italy, former yugoslavia, england, yugoslavia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, tense, psychedelic ...
Plot:
behind enemy lines, survival, military, murder, soldier, friendship, escape, pursuit, prisoner, betrayal, world war two, chase ...
Time:
21st century, 20th century
Place:
normandy, germany, vietnam, congo, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style:
realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
battles, world war two, soldier, military, explosion, war, wartime life, anti war, escapades, survival, heroic mission, against the odds ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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