Movies and TV shows like Frankie's House

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Frankie's House (1992)
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Frankie's House (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: In 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photojournalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ropes, learns about the war first in Saigon, and then "in country" on patrol with troops. He and his colleagues, including the sons of Errol Flynn and John Steinbeck, capture the war in pictures, recover from their wounds, swap stories, battle censorship, and support each other between the explosions at the brothel run by Tranh Ki: "Frankie's House".
Style: cult film
Plot: vietnam war, photography, photograph, photographer, journalism, vietcong, war photographer, tank, motorcycle, brothel, helicopter, boat, execution, darkroom, narration, photojournalism, injury
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: vietnam, england, saigon, laos, french riviera

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and rough films and TV series with plots about vietnam war, military, war, soldier, war trauma, cold war and battles mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Frankie's House: A Rumor of War (1980), Vietnam (1987), A Bright Shining Lie (1998), Tour of Duty (1987), Camille (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Rumor of War (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
TV show
Story: The memories of a US private in Vietnam who slowly gets disillusioned as the war progresses.
Style: historical drama
Plot: vietnam war, war trauma, cold war, firefight, helicopter, ambush, courage, degradation, casualty of war, idealism, vietcong, soldier ...
Place: vietnam
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95%
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Vietnam (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman becomes an anti war activist when she sees what is happening in Veitnam after the Australians got involved.
Style: historical drama
Plot: vietnam veteran, vietnam war, election, cold war, family reunited, schoolgirl, anti war protest, rape and murder, minefield, politics, nightclub, hospital ...
Time: 60s
Place: australia, saigon, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
58%
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Tour of Duty (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, bleak, vintage
Plot: vietnam war, jungle warfare, war, battles, military, revolutionary war, conflict, war trauma, freedom, revolutionary, cold war, struggle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Camille (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.
Style: suspense, melancholic, touching, thought provoking, suspenseful
Plot: war photographer, journalist, murder, civil war, photographer, militia, female protagonist, christmas, photograph, photography, feminist, psychoanalysis ...
Time: year 2014, year 2013, 2010s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
43%
The Killing Fields (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style: disturbing, rough, political, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot: genocide, journalism, vietnam war, war, photographer, civil war, photograph, brutality, anti war, friendship, photography, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1984
Place: cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
42%
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84C MoPic (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, found footage, military, survival, escapades, against the odds, anti war, danger, battles, military life, heroic mission, jungle ...
Time: year 1989, 60s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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China Beach (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, medical drama ...
Plot: vietnam war, medical, military, doctor, life is a bitch, superior officer, power relations, doctors and patients, military life, wartime life, military base, nurse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take ...
Style: funny, feel good, political, clever, realistic ...
Plot: vietnam war, radio, military, radio dj, great war, politics, wartime, satire, radio station, violence, conflict, american history ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1965
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Friendly Fire (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendly fire, cover-up, killed in action, catholic, social commentary, flashback, journalist, witness, family relations, frustration, dead son ...
Time: year 1970, 70s
Place: iowa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ...
Style: realistic, suspense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, friendship, soldier, daring rescue, battles, jungle ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 9K
Mrs Wilson (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Alison Wilson thinks she is happily married until her husband Alec dies and a woman turns up on her doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage - and her husband's love for ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: british intelligence, secret past, secret life, death of husband, widow, cold war, world war two, uncover truth, writers, couples, investigation, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place: britain, india, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Path to War (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: From director John Frankenheimer ('The Manchurian Candidate') comes this powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way our country goes to war--as seen from inside the LBJ ...
Style: political, tense, serious, realistic, non fiction ...
Plot: vietnam war, politics, usa politics, military, u.s. president, president, political corruption, cold war, campaign, state affairs, battles, idealism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1968, year 1966
Place: vietnam, asia, texas, pentagon, saigon
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35%
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Under Fire (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Style: realistic, political, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: journalism, photojournalist, politics, photographer, idealism, reporter, revolution, journalist, photograph, photography, media, military ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1979
Place: nicaragua, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style: factual, disturbing, realistic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: vietnam war, anti war, disability, war, wartime, biopic, fighting the system, military, vietnam veteran, guilt, disabled, injustice ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1989, 50s ...
Place: vietnam, texas, the philippines, usa, new york ...
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33%
The Iron Triangle (1989)
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 ...
Time: year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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
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33%
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Eadweard (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film "the motion of life" in all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his ...
Style: educational, thought provoking, period piece
Plot: photography, photographer, photograph, nude women, nature, biopic, murder, darkroom, older man younger woman marriage, male nudity, miscarriage, female nudity ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s
Place: california
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32%
Faith of My Fathers (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: vietnam war, prison, human spirit, survival, military, confined, captivity, patriotism, hopes, rebellion, danger, soldier ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, anti war, suicide, soldier, basic training, boot camp, sniper, military life, brutality, blood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, year 1968, year 1987, 60s ...
Place: vietnam, persia, america, asia, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
Plot: family relations, depression era, matriarchy, biopic, voice over narration, family drama, mother daughter conflict, newspaper columnist, family conflict, party, sister in law sister in law relationship, greed ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Super Pumped (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, anthology
Plot: business, taxi, businessman, scandal, sex scandal, economist, driver, finance, real life, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, silicon valley ...
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31%
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Heaven & Earth (1993)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. ...
Style: psychological, realistic, intense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: vietnam war, buddhism, survival, interracial relations, military, biopic, redemption, village, war crime, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: vietnam, asia, saigon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Held for Ransom (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, social
Plot: isis, terrorist, hostage, kidnapping, terrorism, captivity, captive, islam, hostage negotiator, ransom demand, war photographer, hostage situation ...
Time: year 2014, year 2013
Place: syria, denmark, turkey, antwerp, new hampshire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Target for Death (1986)
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 ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, officer, singer, sailor, actor, soldier, sadistic killer, engineer
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Ike: The War Years (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 291 min.
TV show
Story: Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. ...
Style: saga, serious, realistic, exciting, sincere
Plot: world war two, president, u.s. president, world war, usa history, historical figure, biopic, battles, heroes, against humanity, war, soldier ...
Place: usa, kansas, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, siege, sergeant, battles, survival, war, escapades, danger, soldier, military life, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Life (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, magazine, showbiz, friendship, actor, celebrity, buddy, photograph, celebrity culture, journalism, photographer ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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