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ZOS: Zone of Separation (2009)
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ZOS: Zone of Separation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: ZOS: Zone of Separation is a Canadian television drama mini-series, co-executive produced by Paul Gross. It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, Sarajevo-like town of Jadac.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, bleak, thought provoking
Plot: un, military life, peaceful mission, peace, war, life is a bitch, anti war, rivalry, society, religions or cults, violence spree, muslim, soldier, religion, profanity, sexual content, wartime life, uninhibited rivalry, nudity, balkan war, woman, female soldier, military, nude, deadly ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, former yugoslavia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films and TV series with plots about military, soldier, life is a bitch, war, wartime life, military life and anti war mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like ZOS: Zone of Separation: Witnesses (2003), Warriors (1999), In Flanders Fields (2014), Occupation (2009), The Passing Bells (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Witnesses (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: balkan war, military, soldier, investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, criminal heroes, amateur detective, human nature, political unrest, war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
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Warriors (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
Style: independent film, captivating, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: balkan war, bosnian war, genocide, war crime, yugoslav war, ethnic cleansing, war on terror, propaganda, slavery, aid worker, atrocity, military ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: bosnia herzegovina, iraq, former yugoslavia, europe, liverpool ...
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In Flanders Fields (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the Boesman family's attempt to survive in the city of Ghent during the first world war focusing on each of the five family member's different experiences
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, costume drama
Plot: soldier, idealism, survival, family life, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, life turned upside down, teenage life, society, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: belgium, flanders, europe
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Occupation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Style: serious, suspenseful, touching, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot: iraq war, military, military life, war veteran, soldier, life is a bitch, society, danger, selflessness, culture clash, war on terror, terrorism ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, dubai, manchester
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The Passing Bells (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
TV show
Story: At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.
Style: historical drama, epic, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: world war one, military, wartime life, soldier, battles, life is a bitch, hopes, great war, friendship, danger, young soldier, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: europe
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81%
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, biting ...
Plot: sniper, balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, state affairs, against humanity, politics, soldier, society, betrayal ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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Country: UK
Duration: 356 min.
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Story: A young British girl travels to Israel/Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, soldier, diary, military, wartime life, military life, youth, society, life is a bitch, occupation, political unrest, loss of family member ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Winston Affair (1964)
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 ...
Style: serious, captivating, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
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78%
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The Last Winter (1983)
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.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot: conflict, friends, destiny, military life, friendship, captivity, anti war, war, life is a bitch, danger, military, journalism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 ...
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Time: year 1989
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78%
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms is a six-part Australian drama miniseries, screened on Network Ten on 15 May 2012. Bikie Wars is based on the book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey. The screenplay was written by Greg Haddrick, Roger ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, rough, captivating ...
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78%
A Touch of Green (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
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Story: The drama tells the story of air force pilots and their families from 1945 to 1971. As the husbands embarked on patriotic missions to fight against the enemies, their families must content with horror of wars, mass emigration to distant land, and ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
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Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century
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77%
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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 ...
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77%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 87 min.
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Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Combat Hospital was a Canadian-British medical drama television series, filmed in Toronto, that debuted on Global in Canada on 21 June 2011. In the United States, it aired on ABC. Its final episode was broadcast on 6 September 2011. The series was ...
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77%
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Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
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Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face...
Style: controversial, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, world war, translator, female pubic hair, chaos and mayhem, war, against humanity, life is a bitch, soldier, society, captivity ...
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The Veteran (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
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Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: algeria, africa, france
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