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The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
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The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.
Style: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, retro, period piece, tragic, period drama
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, great war, soldier, self discovery, female protagonist, friendly fire, danger, nurse, war, world war two, women, hunting, lovers, strength, revolution, tragic love, lieutenant, sniper, heroes, young woman, love triangle, doctor, jealousy, armory, atrocity ...
Time: 1910s, victorian era, year 1914
Place: ottoman empire, istanbul turkey, philadelphia, turkey, america, usa, united states of america
Keyword: armenian, doctors, operation, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about world war one, war, military, soldier, great war, battles and military life mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Ottoman Lieutenant: Ali and Nino (2016), The Yellow Birds (2017), The Crimson Field (2014), The Cut (2014), Sunset Song (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ali and Nino (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight ...
Style: romantic, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: muslim, couples, turk, world war one, society, impossible love, christian, secret love, family relations, love and romance, friendship, forbidden love ...
Place: azerbaijan, georgia, caucasus
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The Yellow Birds (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, iraq war, soldier, war, courage, friendship, adaptation, military officer, danger, brutality, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Place: iraq, afghanistan, virginia
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100%
The Crimson Field (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
Style: serious, period piece, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war one, military hospital, nurse, army, wartime life, friendship, lifesaver, love triangle, nursing, doctor, medicine, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Cut (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, factual, suspense ...
Plot: armenian genocide, genocide, refugee, world war one, diaspora, deportation, mute, desert, turkish history, charlie chaplin, odyssey, mass murder ...
Time: year 1915, year 2014
Place: ottoman empire, armenia, turkey, north dakota
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100%
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Sunset Song (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, farmer, father daughter relationship, love, shepherd, female protagonist, marriage proposal, father son relationship, sex scene, village, execution, death of father ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 2010s
Place: scotland, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
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27%
Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, journalism, idealism, soldier, battle zone, danger, great war, intrigue, trench warfare, media, turkish army, male nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: middle east, turkey, ottoman empire, gallipoli
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Forbidden Ground (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
Style: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: world war one, military, survival, mission gone awry, danger, against the odds, great war, escapades, infantrymen, world war two, violent content, soldier ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france
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25%
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The Fear (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, bombing, self mutilation, death of friend, desperation, wounded, trench warfare, hiding, youth, love ...
Time: 1910s, year 1914, year 1916, year 1915, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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120 (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story: During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can ...
Style: realistic, captivating, educational, serious
Plot: world war one, war, genocide, battles, nationalism, military, against humanity, great war, islam, turk, mountain, armenian genocide ...
Place: turkey, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Gallipoli: End of the Road (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: April, 1915. First World War in Canakkale, Ottoman Empire. Two brothers leave their mountain village to fight on the front line. One is an experienced sniper fighting for Ottomans against the invasion, while his brother finds it much tougher to cope ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, realistic, epic ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, great war, survival, violent content, siblings relations, battle zone, danger, family relations, soldier, heroic mission ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, middle ages
Place: gallipoli, turkey, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Promise (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Style: sad, factual, heartbreaking, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Plot: armenian genocide, love triangle, world war one, genocide, true love, wedding, orphanage, tragic love, love affair, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, war ...
Time: 1910s, 2010s
Place: ottoman empire, turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
12%
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to ...
Style: bleak, historical drama, suspenseful, sad, sincere ...
Plot: world war one, war, great war, soldier, combat, world war two, intrigue, literary, world war, military, battles, hospital ...
Time: 20th century, year 1918, 1910s
Place: europe, germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Lost Battalion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I. Based on a true story, The Lost Battalion is set in 1918 ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, war, military, trench warfare, great war, survival, military life, american abroad, u.s. military, u.s. army, pigeon, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Private Peaceful (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, weeping ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war one, war, soldier, love triangle, family relations, military, teenage love, siblings relations, social relations, family life, great war, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 1910s
Place: england, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Journey's End (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style: suspense, psychological, period piece, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, war, great war, british army, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear, nightmare ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s, future
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style: touching, period piece, captivating, serious, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france ...
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22%
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The Big Red One (1980)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, political, cynical, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, war, military, sniper, world war, great war, soldier, tank, survival, hospital, infantry, friendly fire ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, year 1942, year 1943, year 1945 ...
Place: africa, germany, america, europe, southern italy ...
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22%
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Foxhole (2021)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: battles, wartime life, wartime, war, world war one, alternate reality, soldier, military officer, civil war, fight, struggle for survival, american soldier ...
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21%
Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery (2023)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
Style: period piece, dramatic, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, shooting, wartime, wartime life, war, weapons, warrior, shooter, military, journey
Time: 1910s
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21%
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, anamorphic ...
Plot: world war one, military, soldier, horse, battles, great war, heroic mission, basic training, against the odds, danger, military life, wartime life ...
Time: 1910s, year 1917, year 1987
Place: australia, palestine, gallipoli, ottoman empire, melbourne ...
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21%
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Company K (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
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20%
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Mother at War (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Estonia, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which ...
Style: captivating, sincere, suspense, period drama
Plot: world war one, female soldier, motherhood, mother son relationship, military, soldier, parents and children, wartime, mother and son, military life, cross dressing, deception ...
Time: year 1918
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20%
A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration ...
Style: feel good, serious, touching, captivating, light
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: world war one, friendship, soldier, winnie the pooh, hopes, survival, human animal relationship, best friend, friends, battles, military life, military ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918, year 1914
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: realistic, epic, breathtaking, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, kids, date night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, army, d day, rescue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: normandy, poland, germany, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Turkish Ice Cream (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war one, soldier, ice cream, military life, power struggle, battles, war, wartime, showdown, military, insubordination, aborigine ...
Place: australia, britain, gallipoli, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: middle east, eastern europe, poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal, political ...
Plot: anti war, hospital, disability, dream, haunted by the past, mute, amputation, patient, freak, isolation, soldier, world war one ...
Time: year 1971, near future, 1920s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: france, colorado, los angeles, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Red and the White (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style: political, contemplative, black and white, experimental, art house ...
Plot: revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, time travel, great war, international relations, conflict, revolutionary war, revolutionary, freedom, spirituality ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1910s, year 1919
Place: soviet union, hungary, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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