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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Style: ridiculous
Plot: world war two, prison, prison escape, prisoner, freedom, revolution, struggle, military prison, revolutionary war, nazi, escape, pow, battles, rebellion, revolutionary, prisoners of war, battle

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about world war two, rebellion, struggle, freedom, battles, revolutionary war and revolution mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Great Escape II: The Untold Story: In Enemy Country (1968), Return from the River Kwai (1989), For Those I Loved (1983), Code Name: Emerald (1985), Von Ryan's Express (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In Enemy Country (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Plot: world war two, world war, nazi, revolutionary war, struggle, freedom, revolution, lonely, revolutionary, nazi germany, espionage, secret ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, france
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95%
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
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 ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war, prisoners of war, prison, prison escape, military prison, revolutionary war, struggle, prisoner, freedom, revolution, pow, decapitation ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, thailand, burma, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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For Those I Loved (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Polish Martin Gray (Michael York) recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife (Brigitte Fossey) and family.
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, world war, revolutionary war, terror, immigration, army ...
Place: eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe, usa
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73%
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
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, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, spy, revolutionary war, man on a mission, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, secret mission, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Style: realistic, exciting, retro, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, world war two, prison, behind enemy lines, prison escape, nazi, great war, world war, prisoner, railway, wartime, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: italy, germany, europe, swiss alps, florence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Password Is Courage (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A British officer, captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, amongst many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross !! Based on a true story.
Style: historical drama, sitcom
Plot: world war two, prisoner of war camp, prison escape, railway, resistance, prisoners of war, military prison, revolutionary war, world war, revolutionary, struggle, revolution ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, germany, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Silent Raid (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1944. Resistance-fighter Bakker gets send to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other resistance-fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their companions
Plot: world war two, resistance movement, prison escape, nazi, world war, military prison, escape, pow, caper, prison, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Place: netherlands
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66%
The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
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.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, tank, revolutionary war, world war, war, freedom, revolution, revolutionary, struggle, u.s. army, german soldier, bombing ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, nazi, spy, revolutionary war, diplomacy, revolutionary, struggle, freedom, revolution, lifesaver ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
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Triple Cross (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, spy, double agent, world war, secret agent, nazi germany, intrigue, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle ...
Time: year 1966, 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany, english channel, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Too Young the Hero (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: WWII drama.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, youth, war, military, u.s. navy, revolutionary war, coming of age, revolutionary, freedom, struggle, revolution, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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 ⇓
55%
The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
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 ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: world war two, prisoner, bare chested male, secret, torture, prison, agent, jungle, concentration camp, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
Style: sincere, disturbing, serious, realistic
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: horse, world war two, equestrian, animal, revolutionary war, revolutionary, revolution, freedom, struggle, stallion, wartime life, miraculous event ...
Time: year 1963, year 1945, 1940s
Place: austria, europe, vienna
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Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. - from IMDB
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Time: year 1940
Place: france, dunkirk, english channel, flanders
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The Biggest Battle (1978)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Style: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, realistic ...
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Place: africa
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Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot: world war two, escape, world war, prison escape, military prison, historical event, caper, prisoner, castle, broken leg, chess, prisoner of war camp ...
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1971 (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on true facts, the film revolves around 6 brave soldiers who escape from the clutches of the Pakistan Army and risk death with honour and courage with sacrifice towards their journey home.
Style: patriotic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: soldier, freedom, escape, pow, patriot, military, army, courage, prisoner of war camp, prisoners of war, danger, military prison ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: india, pakistan, kashmir
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The Heroes (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 208 min.
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Story: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on ...
Plot: world war two, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, revolutionary war, male nudity, naked in public, canoe, male objectification, heroism, behind enemy lines ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
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Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, sitcom ...
Audience: boys' night
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45%
The Great Escape (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
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Plot: world war two, prison, nazi, prison escape, motorcycle, pow, freedom, army, war, military, soldier, chase ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 20th century, 1900s
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A Coming-Out Party (1961)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
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Style: black and white, independent film
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Time: year 1961
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44%
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Story: It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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The Tenth Man (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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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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Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942
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Tobruk (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British ...
Style: spectacular, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, desert, war, world war, espionage, tank, prisoner, commando, secret mission, great war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967, year 1942, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Eagles Over London (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Style: macaroni combat, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: luftwaffe, world war two, soldier, combat, world war, revolution, freedom, revolutionary, struggle, revolutionary war, evacuation, superior officer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, england, france, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The McKenzie Break (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A German U-Boat commander and 600 prisoners plan a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, captivity, military, soldier, battles, british soldier, prison life, survival, nazi officer, gay soldier, wartime life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: ireland, london, scotland
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34%
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