Movies like Railway Spine

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Railway Spine (2016)
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Railway Spine (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Michael Delucca, a Vietnam veteran broken by his struggle with post-traumatic stress, recollects his violent postwar life in a raw and touching memoir for the son he never knew.
Plot: vietnam war, memoir
Place: vietnam

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Most similar movies to Railway Spine

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about vietnam war, soldier, military, war, jungle, violence and vietcong mostly in Drama, War and Crime genres. Some movies like Railway Spine: There Is No 13 (1974), Heroes from Another Land (1996), The Wall (1998), Killzone (1985), Platoon Leader (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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There Is No 13 (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, memory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex, soldier
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Heroes from Another Land (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This docu-drama deals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict. Based on a real-life incident, the movie relates the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their ...
Plot: vietnam war, war trauma, family relations, puerto rican, young
Place: vietnam, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.2
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The Wall (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
Style: anthology, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, adolescence, military, father son relationship, boy, colonel, theft, ambulance, teenager, military base, wounded soldier
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 4.2
 140
Killzone (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It turns awry for a Vietnam veteran with problems during an exercise at a survival camp, and he believes that he is back in Vietnam. He kills many of the leaders whom he believes is the Vietcong. The other participants venture out to find him and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, massacre, soldier, army, death, violence, delusion, colonel, maniac, terror, brainwashing, warrior ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Platoon Leader (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, military, war, cannon, real life, revolutionary war, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, us military ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.2
 461
Friendly Fire (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendly fire, cover-up, killed in action, catholic, social commentary, flashback, journalist, witness, family relations, frustration, dead son ...
Time: year 1970, 70s
Place: iowa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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84C MoPic (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, found footage, military, survival, escapades, against the odds, anti war, danger, battles, military life, heroic mission, jungle ...
Time: year 1989, 60s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.9
 237
The Bad Bunch (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, ghetto, soldier, hostility, afro
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Cease Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of his time in Vietnam. The stresses and strains nearly destroy his marriage and his family. Only after joining a veterans' therapy group does Tim ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, love, nightmare, support group, vietnam veteran, ptsd, house, combat
Time: year 1985
Place: vietnam, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.3
 38
Explosion (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, counterculture, juvenile delinquent, hippie, murder, psychiatrist, canuxploitation, deserter, misanthrope, death, father son relationship, violence ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Purple Hearts (1984)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.
Style: political, anamorphic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: vietnam war, conflict, war trauma, wartime, struggle, love, bittersweet, war, military, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfilled love ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, military life, u.s. army, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, hopes, idealism, mercenary ...
Time: 60s, year 1978, 20th century, 70s, year 1964
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An Army medic working in a mortuary in Saigon becomes emotionally involved with a group of Vietnamese orphans.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, orphanage, orphan, nun, dying, suicide, military, morgue, survival, blood, tragic event, drug dealer ...
Time: year 1982
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Phantom Soldiers (1987)
Genre: War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, exploitation, green beret, soldier, jungle, texas ranger, rescue mission, army
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Some Kind of Hero (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Style: sad, funny, black comedy, intelligent, realistic ...
Plot: vietnam war, torture, homecoming, blaxploitation, black, ex soldier, self discovery, prostitute, infidelity, african american, bank, redemption ...
Time: year 1982, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Forgotten Man (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam but was actually a POW returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold and ...
Plot: vietnam war, presumed dead, father daughter relationship, beach, interrogation, flashback, torture, escape, pow, prospector, post traumatic stress disorder, veteran ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.8
 74
Memorial Day (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
Style: contemplative, disturbing, bleak, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: vietnam war, legal, hopes, war, moral dilemma, buddies, military, introspection, state affairs, friendship, friends, battles ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.5
 10K
Bat*21 (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
Style: realistic, suspense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, friendship, soldier, daring rescue, battles, jungle ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Streamers (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, psychological, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, military, gay, soldier, racism, u.s. military, u.s. army, peer pressure, injustice, military life, lgbt, prejudice ...
Time: 60s, year 1983
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Iron Triangle (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: vietnam war, confined, military life, captivity, battles, rebellion, espionage, on the run, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, anti war ...
Time: year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Walking Dead (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
Style: action adventure, independent film, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, black, interracial, violent content, military life, interracial relations, danger, escapades, soldier, military, war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 2K
McBain (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, soldier, military, drug dealing, vietnam veteran, vengeance, heroes, rebelliousness, coup d'etat, revolution, gang, danger ...
Time: year 1991, year 1973
Place: vietnam, new york, asia, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Veteran (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, soldier, confined, vengeance, war, friendship, politics, haunted by the past, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Casualties of War (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.
Style: disturbing, rough, emotional, realistic, intense ...
Plot: vietnam war, soldier, military, pow, rape, war crime, anti war, war, murder, atrocity, brutality, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 60s, year 1966, year 1974 ...
Place: vietnam, asia, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.3
 2K
The Visitors (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, hostage, vietnam veteran, war buddy, partner, psychopath, injustice, friends, vengeance, friendship, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Target for Death (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Vietnam, Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Coordinates of Death (Russian Title: Koordinaty smerti / Координаты смерти) is a 1985 Soviet-Vietnamese co-production directed by Samvel Gasparov and Nguyen Xuan Chan. Set during the Vietnam War (presumably during Operation ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, officer, singer, sailor, actor, soldier, sadistic killer, engineer
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.3
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The Last Blood (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: vietnam war, escape, green beret, jungle, vietcong, pow, journalist, reporter, frustration, prisoner of war camp, military officer, torture ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
My Friends Need Killing (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam veteran goes on a killing spree, targeting the men with whom he served in the army.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: serial killer, freak, killing spree, vietnam war, nihilism, skydiving, forced suicide, murder, revenge, vietnam veteran, proto-slasher
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt ...
Plot: army, deserter, fight, vietnam war, young man, misanthrope, conscription, criminal, violence, police, robbery, anger ...
Place: australia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
21 and a Wake-Up (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in the waning days of the war, is based on events that he experienced and heard about." - Roger Ebert
Plot: vietnam war, medical, real life, nurse, bare chested male, profanity, swearing, handgun, singer, blood, violence, wine ...
Place: vietnam, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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