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The Situation (2006)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
iraq war, racism, assassination, military, battles, soldier, terrorism, life is a bitch, journalism, media, state affairs, spy, intrigue, war, politics, anti war, fighting the system, leadership, society, military life, political unrest, wartime life, idealism, uncover truth, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
middle east, iraq
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about military, war, soldier, military life, anti war, battles and danger mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like The Situation: Live from Baghdad (2002), The Iron Triangle (1989), Battle for Haditha (2007), American Soldiers (2005), Private (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN ...
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war correspondent, journalism, gulf war, media, politics, military, escapades, anti war, against the odds, battles, fighting the system, soldier ...
Place:
baghdad iraq, iraq, middle east
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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:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, serious ...
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vietnam war, war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, anti war, wartime life ...
Place:
vietnam, asia
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90%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an ...
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tense, disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
iraq war, war, marine, military, soldier, attack, circumcision, culture clash, military life, desert, society, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
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83%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, terrorism, war, battles, survival, confined, escapades, heroes, soldier, state affairs, good versus evil, wartime life ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
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psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
muslim, soldier, human rights, survival, life is a bitch, military, dysfunctional family, society, politics, rivalry, terrorism, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestinian authority, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a ...
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tense, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
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boys' night
Plot:
navy seal, taliban, military, war, male nudity, battles, wartime life, heroic mission, against the odds, heroes, race against time, terrorism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ...
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rough, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
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boys' night
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vietnam war, military, found footage, survival, escapades, anti war, against the odds, battles, military life, heroic mission, jungle, cult ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fighting for Life is a very different movie about war and medicine, a real-life "M*A*S*H" for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines. The film interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses, and medics who are ...
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serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, wartime life, military life, military, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, homecoming, battles, hospital ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style:
political, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, military, prison, military prison, prison escape, electric torture, escape, graphic violence, battles, revolution, tough heroes, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
war correspondent, journalism, anti war, military, buddies, idealism, media, journalist, graphic violence, friends, soldier, war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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.
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tense, realistic, political, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
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journalism, politics, photojournalist, revolution, idealism, photographer, reporter, political unrest, military, media, anti war, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
nicaragua, latin america, ireland, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
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world war two, courtroom drama, murder, legal investigation, soldier, dedicated lawyer, court martial, psychopath, power relations, politics, heroes, rebellion ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
iraq war, military, soldier, u.s. military, friendship, army life, violence, self sacrifice, right and wrong, hopes, sacrifice, lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
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Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
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iraq war, military life, military, war veteran, life is a bitch, society, soldier, selflessness, culture clash, terrorism, iraq war veteran, gulf war ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
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psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, political unrest, politics, animal life, totalitarianism, righting the wronged ...
Place:
sarajevo, eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until ...
Style:
epic, emotional, sincere, thought provoking, captivating ...
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american civil war, military, genocide, battles, wilderness, soldier, heroes, politics, against humanity, weakness, state affairs, war ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
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disturbing, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, isolation, prison life, wartime life, captivity, confined, society, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
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realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, war, innocence lost, daring rescue, society, military, journalism, soldier, orphan, buddies, self discovery, battles ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
filmmaking, wartime life, life is a bitch, director, iraq war, military, iraq iran war, soldier, filmmaker, military base, suspense, death threat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels ...
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political, serious, realistic, thought provoking, biting ...
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spy, state terrorism, military, torture, anti war, jungle, political unrest, battles, revolution, state affairs, politics, media ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
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64%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, former yugoslavia, serbia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom; while the soldiers wait to receive their orders, they learn a Rolling Stone columnist will be embedded with them
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suspenseful, tense, disturbing, political, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, iraq war, marines, soldier, anti war, war, courage, military life, violence, character study, life & death, survival ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
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rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, battle zone, realism, jewish, judaism, terrorism, helicopter, israeli army ...
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70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy. The film ...
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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.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
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62%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 122 min.
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The movie opens with a fictionalized depiction of a real-life incident: the arrest on July 4, 2003 of 11 Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians by U.S. forces of the 173rd Airborne commanded by Colonel William C. Mayville in the northern ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself ...
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