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The Bad Bunch (1973)
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The Bad Bunch (1973)
Original name: Tom
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, violence, afro
Place: vietnam

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and bleak films with plots about vietnam war, soldier, blaxploitation, vietnam veteran, military, military life and war mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Bad Bunch: The Bus Is Coming (1971), There Is No 13 (1974), Cease Fire (1985), Ashes and Embers (1982), Killzone (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bus Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style: black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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95%
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 ⇓
78%
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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 ⇓
76%
Ashes and Embers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd ...
Style: independent film, non-linear, black cinema
Plot: vietnam war, blaxploitation, black, american dream, flashback, african american, father son relationship, gas station, beach, argument, vietnam veteran, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Place: washington d.c., vietnam, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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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 ⇓
61%
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Summertree (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: vietnam war, age-gap relationship, college, dying man, father son relationship, musician, older woman younger man relationship, college dropout, battles, military life, parents and children, anti war ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: vietnam, canada
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58%
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Tracks (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to ...
Style: indie film, independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: vietnam war, train, soldier, grief, friendship, homecoming, nudity, male pubic hair, love, mental illness, college, battles ...
Place: vietnam, usa, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Welcome Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An Air Force officer (Kris Kristofferson) returns to his father (Brian Keith), son and remarried wife (JoBeth Williams) in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, contemplative
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, grief, family relations, high school football, war veteran, power relations, hospital, military life, parents and children, anti war, captivity ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century
Place: vietnam, cambodia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Woman Inside (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970's. Canadian / American production.
Plot: transgender, vietnam war, vietnam veteran, gender bender, transgender woman, gender bending, gender, sexual identity, surgery, transsexual, new identity, shower
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
50%
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The Black Six (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his ...
Style: absurd, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, biker, motorcycle, vietnam war, bike, urban, hooker, bar fight, lynching, prostitute, student, avenge ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
First Time Felon (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style: hood, inspirational, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, urban, boot camp, ghetto, thug life, prison, black man, black history, blaxploitation, thug, drug dealing, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s
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48%
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Hail, Hero! (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, generation gap, coming of age, dysfunctional family, cooking, military enlistment, college dropout, cowboy, ranch, college student, u.s. senator, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1969
Place: arizona, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.4
 638
Resting Place (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help ...
Style: sincere, realistic, talky, serious
Plot: vietnam war, racism, parents and children, interracial relations, military, military life, investigation, mysterious death, patriot, death of son, racial segregation, society ...
Time: year 1986, year 1972, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
Coach of the Year (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Plot: american football, vietnam war, coach, vietnam veteran, juvenile detention, wheelchair
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Black Lolita (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, revenge, singer, sex, gangster, african american, female nudity, sexploitation
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Green Dragon (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, homecoming, culture clash, translator, human nature, immigrant ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: vietnam, usa, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
39%
Children of the Mountain (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Against the picturesque Ghanaian backdrop, Children of the Mountain is an honest exploration of a mother’s will in the face of much adversity. When her baby is born with a cleft lip, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome, Essuman is led to believe ...
Plot: disability, blaxploitation, help, african, women, children
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Faith of Our Fathers (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten ...
Style: touching, psychological, captivating, disgusting, christian film
Plot: christian, vietnam war, faith, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, religious conversion, robbery, road trip, soldier, christianity, military life, father son relationship, war veteran ...
Time: 90s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Book of Numbers (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, gambling, great depression, black, depression, waiter
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Slam (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written ...
Style: independent film, hood, talky, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot: prison, hip hop, gang, art, urban, bittersweet, profanity, ghetto, african american, coming of age, hip hop culture, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was ...
Style: political
Plot: black panthers, blaxploitation, shootout, black history, prison escape, injustice, revolution, black panther party
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Killing Yard (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Plot: blaxploitation, law, helicopter, prison riot, massacre, false accusation, prison, murder, courtroom, political corruption
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Black Starlet (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, hollywood, betrayal, drug, black, casting couch, stripper, price of fame, fortune, poverty, rags to riches, starlet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Distant Thunder (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: vietnam war, suicide, homelessness, war trauma, hidden treasure, starting over, hopes, military, dealing with death, soldier, unfulfillment, buddies ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, washington state, asia, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
35%
Captain Milkshake (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, stoner, marine, vietnam veteran, lsd, cigar, army captain, morality, anti war, marijuana, drug ...
Time: 60s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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