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Down River (2018)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, psychological, surprise ending, road movie, psychedelic, neo noir, dark, sad ...
Plot:
war criminal, behind enemy lines, truck, 18 year old, fictional war, gas mask, 20 year old, bosnian war, survival, military, murder, escape, friendship, prisoner, betrayal, soldier, suspense, world war two, violence, chase, chaos, captured, wartime life, boat, isis ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
vietnam, germany, normandy, congo, cambodia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, exciting and serious films with plots about military, soldier, death, gunfight, explosion, fight and violence mostly in Action, War and Drama genres. Some movies like Down River: Hamburger Hill (1987), Act of Valor (2012), American Sniper (2014), 1917 (2019), Soldier Boyz (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their ...
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Audience:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.
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realistic, talky, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. ...
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tense, emotional, intense, serious, realistic ...
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boys' night, manly
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war, iraq war, sniper, military, soldier, violence, navy seal, battles, american soldier, assassin, courage, u.s. marine ...
Time:
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iraq, middle east, usa, california, texas
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100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, sad, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, death, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, vietnam war, battles, survival, military, soldier, rivalry, kidnapping, violence against women, female warrior, escapades, confined ...
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vietnam, los angeles, asia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
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Plot:
world war two, war, tank, soldier, military, battles, heroism, american soldier, nazi germany, nazi, ambush, battlefield ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Style:
intense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, manly, boys' night
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vietnam, texas, california, laos, bangkok thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style:
exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style:
campy, feel good, unusual plot structure, tear jerker, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, escape, martial arts, prison, prison escape, survival, jungle, war, vietcong, rat, fight ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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, bleak, psychological, clever, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
military, vietnam war, war, anti war, soldier, suicide, boot camp, military life, sniper, suspense, infantry, violence ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 1967, 20th century, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
race against time, soldier, heroes, battles, military, betrayal, rescue mission, u.s. navy, woman with a gun, graphic violence, sexual content, renegade ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, congo, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of ...
Style:
suspenseful, brutal, perverse, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Style:
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Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, soldier, battles, battlefield, squad, war, anti war, jungle warfare, combat, violent, jungle ...
Time:
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vietnam, the philippines, southeast asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style:
rough, tense, brutal, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, survival, terrorism, soldier, war, gunfight, courage, military life, selflessness, squad, swat team, army ...
Time:
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Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iraq, usa, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jungle action from the glorious period of Rambo ripoffs.
Style:
surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style:
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64%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.
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disturbing, exciting, tense, suspenseful, heroic ...
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boys' night
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Place:
syria, usa, new york, morocco, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, perverse ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A team of Navy SEALs discovers an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, entertaining, surprise ending ...
Plot:
military, world war two, treasure, navy, bosnian war, rescue, courage, friendship between men, top secret, bomb, map, chase ...
Time:
1940s, year 1995, year 1944, 90s, 20th century
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63%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
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serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult
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world war two, military, survival, war, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, wartime, air attack, rescue mission, army ...
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1940s, year 1940, middle ages, 20th century
Place:
france, england, english channel, dunkirk, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Style:
intense, realistic, suspenseful, tense, factual ...
Audience:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Place:
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61%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the ...
Style:
splatter, funny, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
vietnam, asia, cambodia, saigon, thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, thrilling, neo noir ...
Plot:
military, mission, ex military, veteran, ex soldier, ex special forces, murder, soldier, fight, swat team, suspense, flashback ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
germany, atlanta georgia, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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