Movies like The Raft of the Medusa

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The Raft of the Medusa (1990)
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The Raft of the Medusa (1990)
Original name: Le radeau de la Méduse
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: shipwreck, napoleonic wars, sea, catastrophe, survival, ship, painter, cannibalism, napoleon bonaparte, fear, corpse, raft, scandal, panic, lifeboat, scene based on painting
Time: 19th century
Place: france, senegal

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and exciting films with plots about escapades, ship, survival, ocean, danger, sea and napoleonic wars mostly in Drama, Adventure and History genres. Some movies like The Raft of the Medusa: Quest for Fire (1981), Hornblower: Mutiny (2001), The Whale (2013), 1812. Ballad of the Uhlans (2012), The Supper (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious ...
Plot: caveman, survival, neanderthal, cannibalism, prehistoric man, discovery, fire, tribe, ancient history, sword and sorcery, ancient, love story ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, ancient times, year 1981 ...
Place: france
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Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, military, leadership, navy, military life, naval battle, napoleonic era, rebelliousness, uninhibited rivalry, rebel ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 1800s
Place: west indies, jamaica
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29%
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The Whale (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: whale, lost at sea, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, shipwreck, rescue, isolation, catastrophe ...
Time: 19th century
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27%
1812. Ballad of the Uhlans (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Year is 1812. On the eve of the decisive battle of Borodino, Napoleon's secret agent steals a Russian battle plan. This fact is known to General Kutuzov (Head of Russian forces), thanks to a young nobleman Alexey Tarusov. Tarusov joint to ...
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: countess, love affair, male female relationship, couple relations, battles, political unrest, love story, secret agent, escapades, monarchy, relationships, political intrigue ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Supper (1992)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, ...
Style: political, contemplative, talky, biting, cynical ...
Plot: french history, napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, politics, gastronomy, secret police, french revolution, police, vice, revolution, battles, wartime life ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: paris france, france
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26%
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
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26%
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style: scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
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25%
125 Years Memory (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan, Turkey
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this Japanese-Turkish blockbuster: The sinking of the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul off the Japanese coast in 1890, and the evacuation of Japanese nationals ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, psychological
Plot: turk, shipwreck, turkish history, tragedy, typhoon, sea disaster, drowning, danger, survival, compassion, friendship, friend ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, ottoman empire, turkey, iran, istanbul turkey ...
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24%
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La Chartreuse de Parme (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story: The love story of 2 youths during the '700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl of a important Noble of the high society of Parma in that era. Their love became impossible ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: napoleonic wars, family life, love story, relationship problems, love triangle, love affair, forbidden love, love and romance, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, couple relations
Time: 19th century
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23%
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The White Dawn (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
Style: realistic, serious, vintage
Plot: wilderness, survival, arctic, snow, winter, wilderness survival, culture clash, seafaring, landscape, hiking, nature, frozen ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: canada
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23%
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Francofonia (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, visual ...
Plot: nazi occupation, art, world war two, painting, nazism, painter, museum, art history, fear, evacuation, shipwreck, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1929, year 1942, year 1972, year 1959 ...
Place: vichy, paris france, st. petersburg russia, germany, russia ...
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23%
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Abandoned (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: sea, lost at sea, ship, desert island, death, fear, storm, courage, survival, boat, sailing, wilderness ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: pacific ocean
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23%
The Marquise of O (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Style: spiritual, romantic, realistic, serious, period piece ...
Plot: marriage, american revolution, spirit, spirituality, napoleon bonaparte, german history, summer, pregnancy, couples, introspection, life is a bitch, rescue ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century, 18th century, 1790s
Place: italy, europe
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23%
The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: shipwreck, ocean, sea, raft, struggle for survival, storm at sea, survival, drowning, madness, male pubic hair, death, captain ...
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23%
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, british navy, military, sea battle, chivalry, espionage, war hero, rebellion, sword fight, ship, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, georgian era, 1800s
Place: europe, france, english channel
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22%
Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: young lovers, rivalry, haunted by the past, forbidden love, injustice, rebelliousness, rich and poor, love and romance, orphan, nobility, napoleonic era, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france, europe
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22%
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, friendship, stranded on an island, destiny, stranded, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss ...
Time: year 1997, 18th century
Place: fictional island, london, scotland, oceania, pacific ocean
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22%
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Crusoe (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: desert island, robinson crusoe, tropical island, survival, shipwreck, ocean, marooned, stranded, isolation, fish out of water, confined, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: fictional island, virginia
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22%
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: jungle, belgian history, imperialism, slavery, jungle adventure, interracial relations, culture clash, against the odds, missing person, wilderness, adventurer, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: africa
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22%
Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's ...
Style: period piece, feel good, serious, exciting, period drama
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, sea battle, pirate, sailing, heroes, napoleonic era, sea, swashbuckler, seafaring, fish, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: europe, england
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22%
Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: period piece, feel good, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, french revolution, heroes, sailing, adventurer, pirate, sea, napoleonic era, swashbuckler, marine, seafaring ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1790s
Place: europe, france, brittany
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21%
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, writers, russian soldier, soviet, uniform, novel
Time: 19th century, 1810s
Place: soviet union, ussr
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21%
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Deadliest Sea (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Plot: ship, survival, coast guard, escapades, danger, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, sea, boat, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
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21%
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The Rover (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
Plot: sailor, pirate, peplum, napoleonic wars, swashbuckler, boat, french revolution, redheaded woman, mediterranean, treasure, duel, treasure chest ...
Time: year 1967, 18th century
Place: mediterranean sea, france
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20%
Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: exciting, serious, period piece, feel good, period drama
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, sailing, battles, pirate, sea, french revolution, napoleonic era, success, swashbuckler, boat ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 18th century
Place: north africa
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20%
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The Sea Wolf (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story: The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: ship, ocean, survival, castaway, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, storm at sea, violence, sea, social differences ...
Time: year 2008, 1920s, 1900s
Place: pacific ocean
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20%
Odyssey of Heroes (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: naval battle, world war one, german officer, war, weapons, escapades, danger, love and romance, sea, great war, british empire, german history ...
Time: year 1914
Place: germany
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20%
Against the Ice (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period piece ...
Plot: snow, cold, survival, struggle for survival, arctic, island, winter, captain, camp, crew, ship, biopic ...
Time: 2020s, edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place: greenland, denmark
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20%
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
Plot: interview, map, geopolitics, colonialism, diplomat, conference, colonization
Time: 1880s, 19th century
Place: united kingdom, spain, germany, usa, france ...
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19%
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Volaverunt (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the ...
Style: weird
Plot: painter, biopic, french revolution, napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, bare breasts, nude, female nudity, female stockinged legs, partial female nudity, footsie under the table, concealed nudity
Time: 19th century, 18th century
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19%
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