Movies like The Recce

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The Recce (2018)
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The Recce (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
Plot: survival, international relations, military, mourning, behind enemy lines, special forces, war, swat team
Time: 80s
Place: south africa, angola, cape town south africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and suspenseful films with plots about survival, society, military, life is a bitch, soldier, fighting the system and hopes mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Recce: Tess (2016), The Invisible Wall (1991), Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987), Collapse (1990), Boy Called Twist (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tess (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, erotic
Plot: sex worker, afrikaans, pregnancy, prostitute, unplanned pregnancy, changing lives, female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, confronting the past, pregnant woman, social problems, prostitution ...
Place: africa, south africa
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95%
The Invisible Wall (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante ...
Plot: politics, military, reconnaissance, years of lead, scandal, italian history, terrorism, conspiracy theory, sicilian, airplane crash
Time: 80s
Place: palermo italy, mediterranean sea, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was ...
Plot: italian army, military, italian soldier, illness, shooting, helicopter, realism, army lieutenant, commander, army, lieutenant, soldier ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Boy Called Twist (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, danger, gang, society, orphan, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional
Plot: disaster, heroic mission, escapades, survival, rescue, danger, heroes, child in peril, car crash, hospital, news report, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
I Don't Give a Damn (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Like many, another young Israeli, Rafi never gave much thought to the fact that when he reached a certain age, he would be expected to serve in the Israeli Army and that he would experience active duty in combat. It certainly never occurred to him ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot: military, hopes, youth, love and romance, introspection, soldier, life is a bitch, down on your luck, life turned upside down, disability, nudity, photographer ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style: tense, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: discrimination, apartheid, social change, racism, prison, legal, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, politics, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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One of Us (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: israeli, military, moral dilemma, army investigation, soldier, power relations, basic training, military life, military base, machismo, macho man, gay subtext ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Faith Like Potatoes (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: farm, christian, faith, starting over, human spirit, political unrest, friendship, religions or cults, hopes, social differences, christianity, religious ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Good Man (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their ...
Plot: teenager, accident, banker, redemption, guilt, shack
Place: ireland, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: arab, farm, wedding, colonialism, arab israeli conflict, foreign legion, legion, international relations, conflict, village, bride and groom, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: palestine, israel, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Journey from the Fall (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style: serious, sincere, bleak, informative, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, hopes, military, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, california, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Style: anthology
Plot: international relations, politics, muslim, german politics, german culture
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Into Thin Air (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their ...
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, missing son, survival, grief, family relations, private detective, investigation, college, kidnapping, teenage life, school, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot: sea, killer animal, animal, creature, water, nature, elderly, fish, fisherman, obsessive quest, survival, lone wolves ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 168 min.
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Plot: korean war, military, partisan, leftist
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Hunter (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
Plot: survival, nature, rural setting, horse riding, teenager, single mother, outdoor sex, hunter, coming of age, tent, gunshot
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Lucky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
Plot: african, boy, blaxploitation, lottery winner, indian woman, zulu, aids, taxi driver, guardian, death of mother, pastor, orphan ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Last Survivors (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Plot: boat, disaster, die hard, shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, sea, sinking ship
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Earthquake (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
Style: psychological, suspense, touching, suspenseful, tense
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, earthquake, catastrophe, survival, rescue, demolished city, humanity in peril, death, human existence, society, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: armenia, caucasus, soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, life is a bitch, single parent, introspection, family relations, family problems, parents and children, misfit, society, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot: survival, family farm, farm, farmer, family relations, life is a bitch, couple relations, family business, against the odds, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Impetus: A Decision (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Impetus: A Decision follows our hero, Jay Fossier, as he returns home to the states after serving his third and final tour in the middle east. He is forced to return due to P.T.S.D. Home is not so sweet when he returns.
Plot: post traumatic stress disorder, military, racism, dessert
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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My Breast (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's ...
Plot: breast cancer, survival, courage, cancer, surgery, sports writer, writers, male female relationship, death, journalist
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
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, contemplative, political, realistic, serious ...
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, desert, environment, nature, mining, explorer, human rights, ecology, expedition, union ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: germany, africa, australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Truth Below (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four friends decide to spend their Spring Break at a ski resort. But, on their way back, they decide to take a short-cut. Off the road and now buried under over a ton of snow, they begin to realize they don't really know each other.
Audience: teens
Plot: winter, survival, snow, sex in car, male virgin, locked in, defloration, avalanche, truth, car accident, vacation, confession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Glimpse of Hell (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: battleship, military, u.s. navy, society, military life, fighting the system, investigation, ship, political conspiracy, campaign, army investigation, state affairs ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Diamonds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada, UK
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: investigation, senator, greed, campaign, intrigue, murder, politics, loss of daughter, diamond, chess, righteous rage, fashion industry ...
Place: africa, south africa, sierra leone, congo, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.5
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Bopha! (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: racism, slavery, independence, social commentary, african american, human trafficking, apartheid, family relations, police brutality, father son conflict, police station, afrikaans ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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