Movies like The Secret of Blood Island
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The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
Plot:
prison, jungle, world war two, agent, torture, secret, concentration camp, pow, prisoners of war
Time:
1940s
Place:
asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about world war two, war, soldier, military, pow, escapades and nazi mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Secret of Blood Island: Black Birds (1967), Return from the River Kwai (1989), War Pigs (2015), The Great Raid (2005), To End All Wars (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Plot:
world war two, nazi, escape, prison, pow, prisoners of war, prison escape
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot:
world war two, nazi concentration camp, prison, nazi, concentration camp, nazis
Time:
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Place:
croatia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that ...
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train, world war two, british empire, british soldier, pow, british, submarine, japanese army, decapitation, imperial japan
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Place:
asia, japan, burma
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Plot:
world war two, interrogation, beating, battle, wehrmacht, american soldier, ambush, behind enemy lines, u.s. army, wound, battles, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
france
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79%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, rescue mission, military, world war two, pow, escape attempt, massacre, human spirit, against the odds, military life, daring rescue, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
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jungle, corporal punishment, captivity, pow, war crime, escape, military, hopes, war, leadership, human spirit, prison life ...
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Place:
japan, scotland, asia, thailand, burma ...
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77%
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.
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jungle, vietnam war, life is a bitch, danger, graphic violence, survival, interracial relations, military life, deadly, war, soldier, escapades ...
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70s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia
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77%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, espionage, rescue, undercover, war, escapades, danger, secret agents, d day, double agent, spring, ss ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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76%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
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72%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
Style:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
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Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
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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:
serious, realistic
Plot:
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Duration: 134 min.
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Duration: 85 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.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tijdens de laatste dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog wordt op het eiland Borneo een Australische legereenheid bijna geheel uitgemoord door een enkele Japanse Soldaat, Ichiro Yamamura (Koji Tamaki). Hij zit zo vol haat omdat hij zijn vrouw en kinderen ...
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70%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of ...
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Audience:
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70%
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
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Time:
1940s
Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
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Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: War, Drama
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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.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets
Plot:
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Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
Plot:
world war two, tank, german soldier, bombing, u.s. army
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred ...
Style:
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