Movies like The Last Winter 1983

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The Last Winter (1983)
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The Last Winter (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style: bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
Plot: conflict, war, military, friendship, friends, soldier, captivity, destiny, life is a bitch, anti war, journalism, danger, military life, women, female nudity, photograph, husband wife relationship, husband, skinny dipping, nudity, nude, breasts, buttocks, nipples, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
Time: 80s, 20th century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films with plots about military, soldier, war, anti war, military life, battles and danger mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Last Winter: Kippur (2000), A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998), Company K (2004), Cup Final (1991), 20 Cigarettes (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kippur (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style: tense, disturbing, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, conflict, israeli, revolutionary war, revolution ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, iraq, syria ...
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95%
A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
Style: sex comedy, psychological, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, war, society, innocence lost, military, self discovery, buddies, danger, soldier, orphan, journalism, doctors and patients ...
Time: 20th century
Place: vietnam
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91%
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Company K (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Cup Final (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: soccer, football, israeli, hostage, profanity, military, life is a bitch, confined, soldier, war, wartime life, hapless soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: lebanon, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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20 Cigarettes (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: filmmaking, wartime life, life is a bitch, director, iraq iran war, iraq war, soldier, military, filmmaker, death threat, military life, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
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72%
Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: ...
Style: atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, anti war, danger, battle zone, military life, introspection, life is a bitch, great war, mountain, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place: italy
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69%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, conservative, military prison, prison escape, war trauma, electric torture, violent content, profanity, escape ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
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69%
Fires on the Plain (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, survival, japanese soldier, military life, danger, isolation, confined, escapades, rivalry, asian prostitute, anti war, humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: the philippines
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68%
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Texas '46 (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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67%
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Afghan Luke (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas ...
Style: realistic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: war correspondent, journalism, military, anti war, danger, buddies, idealism, media, war on terror, war in afghanistan, journalist, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Two Fingers from Sidon (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, suspenseful
Plot: soldier, realism, military, moral dilemma, war, battle zone, military life, israeli army, israeli soldier, army life
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel
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62%
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Only the Brave (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, battles, soldier, survival, military life, society, daring rescue, danger, war, heroic mission, battle zone, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, france, italy, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, biting ...
Plot: sniper, balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, state affairs, against humanity, politics, soldier, society, betrayal ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
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60%
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 ⇓
60%
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Chaco (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Argentina, Bolivia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, intense
Plot: wartime life, soldier, wartime, brutality, bittersweet, battles, war, fight, danger, defeat, military, battle zone ...
Time: 20th century, year 1934
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59%
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The Situation (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot: iraq war, danger, assassination, racism, battles, terrorism, media, soldier, military, state affairs, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2006
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Boys in Company C (1978)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, bleak
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, bare chested male, soccer, football, war trauma, conflict, exodus, american football, friendship, army ...
Time: year 1978, 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: military, confined, arab israeli conflict, sergeant, tank, mission gone awry, military life, moral dilemma, leadership, danger, battle zone, deathtrap ...
Time: year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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
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54%
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Witnesses (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: balkan war, military, soldier, investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, criminal heroes, amateur detective, human nature, political unrest, war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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This Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, wartime, showdown, self sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Comanche Territory (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, gloomy
Plot: photograph, photojournalist, female journalist, jungle, war zone, photojournalism, yugoslav war, journalism, violent content, sexual content, profanity, war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, europe, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
Live from Baghdad (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN ...
Style: disturbing, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: gulf war, journalism, war correspondent, media, military, politics, anti war, against the odds, escapades, battles, political unrest, soldier ...
Place: iraq, baghdad iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Blessed by Fire (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Falklands War.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot: falklands war, military, friendship, life is a bitch, politics, sadness, survival, violence, danger, british empire, cavalry, soldier ...
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Happy New Year (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A war-torn marine returns home to face his fiercest battle yet - the one against himself.
Style: psychological, rough, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, homecoming, military, under the surface, disability, military hospital, friendship, soldier, post traumatic stress disorder, anti war, society, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Faith of My Fathers (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: vietnam war, prison, human spirit, survival, military, confined, captivity, patriotism, hopes, rebellion, danger, soldier ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, harsh, political, brutal ...
Plot: journalism, adoption, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, genocide, family relations, military, anti war, rescue, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: bosnia, england, sarajevo, former yugoslavia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
An American Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, gloomy, thought provoking ...
Plot: battles, world war two, politics, soldier, friends, cons and scams, political corruption, homecoming, friendship, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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42%
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