Movies like Pacific Inferno

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Pacific Inferno (1979)
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Pacific Inferno (1979)
Genre: War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
Style: cult film
Plot: world war two, world war, combat, martial arts, tank, ocean, military, escape, sea battle, violence, gold, water, tough guy, diver, battles, soldier, judo, american soldier, pow, japanese army, japanese soldier, machine gun, brawl, war violence, imperial japan ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, usa, asia, pacific ocean, the philippines, united states of america

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Most similar movies to Pacific Inferno

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about world war two, battles, soldier, world war, military, combat and war mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Pacific Inferno: The Quick and the Dead (1963), Submarine X-1 (1968), Fist of Anger (1973), The Steel Claw (1961), Only the Brave (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Quick and the Dead (1963)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Pretty intense war-action drama about a small group of soldiers who capture a German observation post, but in turn are captured themselves. They soon escape and--with the aid of two women--try to fight their way to safety.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, cowboy, soldier, behind enemy lines, shootout, doctor, pistol, machine gun, chase, escape, on the run, violence ...
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95%
Iron Cross: The Road to Normandy (2022)
Genre: War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Normandy as Americans Lee and Trey prepare for D-Day. Soon, scores are settled and battle brings our GIs and Germans on the same path.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, period piece, epic
Plot: world war two, battles, military, military officer, war, wartime, struggle for survival, soldier, fight, combat, love
Time: 1940s
Place: normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: submarine, world war two, world war, ocean, underwater, diver, combat, kriegsmarine, battles, seaport, power relations, leadership ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Fist of Anger (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Historical movie set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII. Jackie Chan is one of the good guys but has nothing much more than a supporting role.
Style: fast paced, serious, realistic
Plot: martial arts, world war two, japanese occupation of china, heroes, kung fu classic, military, life is a bitch, escapades, rivalry, good versus evil, war, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: china, japan, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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The Steel Claw (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a general held by Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, world war, combat, war, bare chested male, shootout, commando mission, pow, battles, ambush, japanese army, behind enemy lines ...
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85%
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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 ⇓
80%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
From Hell to Victory (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style: spectacular, macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, world war, combat, machine gun, scuba diving, soldier, battles, commando, childhood, nazi, french soldier, war violence ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place: france, amsterdam, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Normandy (2011)
Genre: War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Klaus Muller, a battle-hardened veteran, finds himself fighting for his life on the Russian front. Surrounded by overwhelming numbers of Russian tanks and planes, he and his men are doomed until famed German tank ace, Michael Wittmann, shows up in ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot: soldier, military, heroes, family relations, battles, lovers on the run, danger, escapades, d day, world war two, chase, tank ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Battle at Bloody Beach (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the ...
Plot: world war two, war, showdown, jungle warfare, jungle, battlefield, japanese soldier, death of mother, island, shark, shipwreck, japanese army ...
Time: year 1961
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
D-Day Assassins (2019)
Genre: War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 1944, group of rebellious American soldiers known as "The Filthy Thirteen" parachute into Normandy to carry out a deadly mission.
Plot: world war two, military, war veteran, world war, medal, paratrooper, father son relationship, nazi occupied france, nazi, army, d day, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Marine's, Let's Go (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
Plot: korean war, world war two, machine gun, violence, bomb, pistol, blood, soldier, cigarette smoking, interracial relations, battles, death of protagonist ...
Time: year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...
Style: political
Plot: world war two, world war, japanese soldier, japanese army, japanese history, military, japanese military, soldier, atomic bomb, emperor, imperial japan, pacific war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, tokyo, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Sahara (1995)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, desert, tank, revolution, holocaust, struggle, freedom, nazi, combat, revolutionary, luftwaffe, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 2K
Beach Red (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare. Soldiers on both sides are haunted by memories of home and the horrifying, sickening images they find in combat.
Style: spectacular, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, war, military, island, world war, combat, wartime, colonialism, foreign legion, legion, battles, soldier ...
Time: year 1967
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Operation Bikini (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, underwater, dream, scuba diving, japanese soldier, island, love interest, fistfight, ocean, battleship, battles ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Last Rescue (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
Style: realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, rescue, evacuation, field hospital, d day, friendship, soldier, bravery, danger, rivalry, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Cry of Battle (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, world war, shootout, son, machete, u.s. army, guerilla warfare, river, jungle, jungle warfare, village, rebel ...
Time: year 1963
Place: the philippines
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57%
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The Ravagers (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Cruel captors of the war in the pacific.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, world war, convent, battles, war, state affairs, danger, escapades, soldier, military, heroes, against the odds ...
Time: 60s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Dear Elza! (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Mankind is nature's greatest mistake. In his actions echoes millions of years of instinct and a few genius's idea's useless revolution." End of 1942, eastern front, Ukraine. Private Lombos, tied to his family and his ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, world war, homesickness, shootout, army, behind enemy lines, pow, combat, journal, translator, forest ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union
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55%
Assault on Hill 400 (2023)
Genre: War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On November 14, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion is tasked with sieging the German town of Bergstein, and Hill 400, a highly strategic position that provides the Reich with high ground for artillery.
Style: captivating, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: american soldier, world war two, forest, fortress, shootout, german soldier, nurse, soldier, military, world war, war, military life ...
Time: year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, island, survival, military, friendship, friendship between men, human spirit, pilot, stranded on an island, visceral, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, persia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: world war two, world war, usa history, atomic bomb, bomber, military, danger, moral dilemma, state affairs, against humanity, war, heroes ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, usa, asia, hiroshima japan, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Hell in Normandy (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, combat, world war, man on a mission, holocaust, invasion, beach, battles, death of protagonist, military, fire, water ...
Time: 1940s
Place: normandy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film ...
Style: exciting, realistic, tense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, commando, espionage, visceral, battles, betrayal, heroes, anti war, military life, basic training, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, europe, canada, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Ardennes Fury (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, heroic mission, daring rescue, battles, danger, heroes, platoon, world war, scarecrow, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend ...
Style: bleak, realistic, christmas classics, scenic, sexy ...
Plot: world war two, world war, nazi, military, war, innocence lost, friendship, violence, tragedy, great war, friendly fire, cold ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, year 1944
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Company of Heroes (2013)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, danger, save the day, escapades, heroes, obsessive quest, race against time, heroic mission, against the odds, super weapon ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Hornets' Nest (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Style: grindhouse, macaroni combat, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, world war, war, combat, machine gun, youth, man on a mission, kidnapping, battles, soldier, military, teenage life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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