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Target for Death (1986)
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Target for Death (1986)
Original name: Координаты смерти
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Vietnam, Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Coordinates of Death (Russian Title: Koordinaty smerti / Координаты смерти) is a 1985 Soviet-Vietnamese co-production directed by Samvel Gasparov and Nguyen Xuan Chan. Set during the Vietnam War (presumably during Operation Linebacker II in 1972), the film is about a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk, interspersed with scenes depicting the brutality of Americans towards Vietnamese civilians as seen through the eyes of an actress named Kate Francis (a Jane Fonda analogue).
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, sailor, soldier, singer, officer, actor, sadistic killer, engineer
Place: soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about vietnam war, soldier, military, war, battles, war trauma and vietcong mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Target for Death: Platoon Leader (1988), There Is No 13 (1974), Go Tell the Spartans (1978), Some May Live (1967), A Bright Shining Lie (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
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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
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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 ⇓
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Some May Live (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her correspondent husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: vietnam war, spy, espionage, cold war, husband, intrigue, vietcong, traitor, police inspector, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, asian stereotype ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, military, soldier, great war, cold war, wartime, war trauma, insurgent, pregnancy, adultery, corruption ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Forgotten Man (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam but was actually a POW returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold and ...
Plot: vietnam war, presumed dead, father daughter relationship, beach, interrogation, flashback, torture, escape, pow, prospector, post traumatic stress disorder, veteran ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Veteran (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, soldier, confined, vengeance, war, friendship, politics, haunted by the past, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
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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 ...
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60%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This docu-drama deals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict. Based on a real-life incident, the movie relates the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their ...
Plot: vietnam war, war trauma, family relations, puerto rican, young
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Hello, Gnat (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Plot: soldier, prisoner, rescue, landslide, captivity, mine, memories, fascist, building
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Bat*21 (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
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Audience: manly, boys' night
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Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: vietnam war, escape, green beret, jungle, vietcong, pow, journalist, reporter, frustration, prisoner of war camp, military officer, torture ...
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Genre: War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, exploitation, green beret, soldier, jungle, texas ranger, rescue mission, army
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A story about a heroic nurse working for Soviet Intelligence during and after WWII.
Plot: pow, occupation, officer, underground, great patriotic war, accusation, gestapo, nurse, reconnaissance, fascist
Place: soviet union, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: vietnam war, confined, military life, captivity, battles, rebellion, espionage, on the run, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, anti war ...
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54%
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Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 82 min.
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Duration: 147 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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