Movies like The Unvanquished

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The Unvanquished (1964)
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The Unvanquished (1964)
Original name: L'Insoumis
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
Style: neo noir, french noir
Plot: military, kidnapping, conflict, african, held captive, kidnapped woman, hostage, ship, abduction, train, violence, mercenary, death, hotel, captivity, boy, gunfight, rat, elevator, boat, death of protagonist, french foreign legion, cuckold, surgery, heat wave ...
Time: 60s, year 1959, year 1961, 1960s
Place: algeria, africa, france

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Most similar movies to The Unvanquished

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about murder, shot to death, telephone call, police officer, cigarette smoking, shooting and chase mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Unvanquished: Le monte-charge (1962), Le Samurai (1967), The Red Circle (1970), Someone Is Bleeding (1974), Flic Story (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Le monte-charge (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a Christmas night, an ex-convict ,Robert Herbin, meets a beautiful Italian married woman Marthe Drévet ,who has got a lot of things to hide . She lives in an old house ,the first floor of which is a big workshop where a service elevator leads to ...
Style: neo noir, crying, detective, french noir
Plot: deception, christmas, murder, femme fatale, police, married, marriage, woman, fireman, immigrant, murderous scheme, failed expectations ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Red Circle (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir ...
Plot: heist, gangster, robbery, caper, organized crime, nightclub, mafia, great ending, thief, prison, gunfight, existentialism ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who ...
Style: neo noir, mind bending, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love, mental illness, murder, police detective, mentally unstable, femme fatale, unrequited love, villa, drug abuse, addiction, resort, false accusation ...
Time: 70s
Place: nice france, france, south of france, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Flic Story (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, gangster, robbery, prison, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Joy House (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French ...
Style: neo noir, manga, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: femme fatale, car, post war, trippy, organized crime, mediterranean, on the run, hidden room, gangster, criminal's revenge, witnessing a crime, mysterious character ...
Time: 60s
Place: french riviera, nice france, cote d'azur, monte carlo, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Widow Couderc (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is enjoying being in control of the farm. And then she hires the ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: breast feeding, father in law daughter in law relationship, farm, criminal, interwar period, love triangle, village, family relations, french countryside, unwed mother, female sexual predator, widow ...
Time: 1930s, 70s, 20th century, year 1934
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Diabolically Yours (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alain Delon stars as Pierre, an amnesiac recovering from a car accident. He can't remember any details about the accident or about his past life as a wealthy businessman based in the orient. He is currently being nursed back to health on his ...
Style: ambiguous ending, psychotronic, neo noir, french noir
Plot: amnesia, mental disorder, boat, cycling, card playing, assassination plot, man hits a woman, pills, excavation, bad dream, manipulative behavior, jealous boyfriend ...
Place: france, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Cop or Hood (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police, assassination, police brutality, chase, murder investigation, police operation, employer employee relationship, violence, attempted murder, bad cop ...
Place: south of france, france, cote d'azur, nice france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Farewell, Friend (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become ...
Style: retro, manga, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chess, female nudity, robbery, trapped, heist, friendship between men, safecracker, friendship, chase, soldier, rivalry, femme fatale ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria, france, europe, paris france, congo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Obsessions (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young medicine student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspense thriller
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, spying, nudity, bare chested male, bare butt, dead body, mystery woman, student, old woman, assassination attempt, co worker co worker relationship ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.5
 891
Fire and Ice (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, eurospy, french noir
Plot: politics, assassination, terrorism, french algerian war, contract killer, fascism, battles, couple relations, mentally unstable, society, state affairs, anti war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: algeria, france, paris france, normandy, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Love in the Strangest Way (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to ...
Style: sensual, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, french noir
Plot: erotica, woman peeing, scam, female nudity, sex, bare breasts, mysterious telephone call, immigrant, babysitter, mystery woman, woman punches a man in the face, vacation ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.4
 5K
Scorpio (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. ...
Style: neo noir, political thriller, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, kgb, secret agent, espionage, undercover, revenge, hitman, police officer, spy thriller, killer, assassination, cia ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, washington d.c., langley virginia, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 3K
Man on Fire (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ex-CIA agent is hired to protect the daughter of a rich American family.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, bodyguard, haunted by the past, daring rescue, rescue, vengeance, danger, confined, lone wolves, heroes, missing child, revenge ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A story set in 1947 when Ukrainian right-wing anti-Communist guerillas, looking like and feeling like Nazi's, are trying to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy a family's countryside ...
Plot: renaissance, visitor, german shepherd, killing an animal, terrorist, surgery, courage, family in danger, uninvited guest, poacher, heroism, forest ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, year 1947
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt ...
Style: political, disclosure, suspense
Plot: murder, serial killer, car wreck, commissioner, racketeer, diary, mistress, disco, car chase, fear, chase, police ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
 1K
The Gypsy (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious circumstance just after a major burglary. The Gypsy ...
Style: freeze frame, poliziottesco
Plot: gypsy, organized crime, police, couples, car crash, romani people, voyeurism, cooking, man hits a woman, little boy, ethnic stereotype, voyeur ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Taxi 121 (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Taxi 121 is a feature film inspired by true events, where a serial killer took lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Story is focused on one of the victims, the young driver Matej. His one last ride will change life of many people around forever.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, violence, saving a life, getting away with murder, death, killing spree, drunkenness, american tourist, boy, traffic policeman, psychopath, husband wife relationship ...
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains ...
Style: neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: telephone call, death, kidnapping, violent content, confined, mind game, criminal heroes, dishonesty, investigation, on the run, false accusation, injustice ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
 1K
The Fighter (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style: neo noir, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, vengeance, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 2K
Once a Thief (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style: neo noir, retro, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, jazz, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, siblings relations, false arrest, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, ...
Style: neo noir, slasher, noir, perverse, political ...
Plot: train, police, serial killer, investigation, boxing, murder, trippy, railway, age-gap relationship, swing, characters murdered one by one, police detective ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Captive (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological thriller, serious
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, danger, captivity, rescue, journalist, hostage, murder, muslim, religion, military, jungle ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 2K
No Way Out (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, noir, perverse
Plot: mafia, police, hitman, car chase, mobster, italian mafia, police officer, vigilante, lgbt, revenge, killer, birthday party ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, copenhagen, sicily, milan italy, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 1K
Cop's Honour (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own ...
Style: neo noir, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: guy, bad guy, vigilantism, police corruption, murder, violent content, heroes, law enforcement, violence spree, one man army, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, africa, europe, congo
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Burned Barns (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
Plot: murder, farm, farming, cow, coroner, weather, financial problem, infidelity, police, extramarital affair, death, hotel ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 10K
Custody (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, disturbing, touching, smart ...
Plot: custody battle, divorce, lie, child custody, lawyer, child, violent father, parent child relationship, boy, divorced parents, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, year 2013
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, disaster, plague, terrorism, survival, race against time, train crash, quarantine, virus, disease, military, natural disaster ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: geneva switzerland, poland, europe, germany, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 5K
Michael (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, sexy ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, child abuse, boy, life is a bitch, child molestation, kidnapping, child rape, isolation, gay, basement, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, austria, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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