Movies like Happy New Year 2011
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Happy New Year (2011)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A war-torn marine returns home to face his fiercest battle yet - the one against himself.
Style:
psychological, tense, rough, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Plot:
haunted by the past, military, homecoming, friendship, soldier, disability, military hospital, under the surface, post traumatic stress disorder, anti war, society, therapy, friends, hospital, paralysis, power relations, war in afghanistan, iraq war, suicide, trauma, ptsd, injury
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, iraq
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Most similar movies to Happy New Year
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and captivating films with plots about soldier, military, friendship, war, society, friends and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Happy New Year: Green Dragon (2001), Missing in America (2005), Afghan Luke (2011), The American Dream (2011), A Hero's Welcome (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Plot:
war correspondent, journalism, anti war, military, idealism, danger, buddies, media, war on terror, war in afghanistan, journalist, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days before Obama's inauguration, these young men have joined ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, sincere, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot:
military, society, soldier, friends, friendship, military life, manhood, youth, introspection, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, california, afghanistan, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot:
soldier, haunted by the past, anti war, homecoming, sibling relationship, military, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, medical examination, post traumatic stress disorder, danger, forest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, germany
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, soldier, homecoming, society, redemption, family life, buddies, life is a bitch, parents and children, husband wife relationship, ptsd, rough sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, el paso texas
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Upon returning home as a hero from the Iraq War, Special Forces Agent Matt Taylor (Joelson) is thrown right into another battle. This time it is in his once quiet hometown where, as in Iraq, you don't know who are friends and who are enemies. ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homecoming, anti war, military life, starting over, battles, military, survival, soldier, unemployment, haunted by the past, small town, ptsd ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
86%
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, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, military, terrorist, war zone, sex scene, military officer, friendship, courage, brutality, danger, heroes ...
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, virginia
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
vietnam war, mental illness, bird, obsession, best friend, psychology, male friendship, military, friendship, illness, sex scene, mental institution ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 60s
Place:
vietnam, philadelphia, usa, asia, atlantic city new jersey ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, moral dilemma, society, life is a bitch, working class, family relations, family problems, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, urban, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
85%
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.
Style:
sex comedy, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, doctors and patients, self discovery, danger, orphan, journalism, war, buddies, daring rescue, military, society ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
soldier, translator, culture clash, gain trust, danger, battle zone, friendship, war in afghanistan, military, village, murder, death threat ...
Time:
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Place:
afghanistan, pakistan, middle east
Similarity:
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659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
world war two, military, fighting the system, love triangle, life is a bitch, soldier, betrayal, love and romance, military life, haunted by the past, basic training, society ...
Time:
future, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
83%
384
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
conflict, friends, military, war, life is a bitch, journalism, soldier, danger, destiny, military life, friendship, anti war ...
Time:
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Similarity:
82%
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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Style:
talky, psychological, sincere, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, vietnam veteran, friendship, loneliness, depression, idealism, dialogue, complex characters, haunted by the past, siblings relations, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
usa, vietnam, connecticut, california
Similarity:
81%
21K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Style:
sad, harsh, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, u.s. military, death, redemption, friendship, war on terror, war, homecoming, small town, depression, wartime life ...
Time:
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Place:
iraq, middle east, canada, afghanistan, usa ...
Similarity:
81%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
military hospital, war, psychiatric ward, doctor, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, psychiatrist, captain, shell shock, post traumatic stress disorder, hospital, u.s. military ...
Time:
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Place:
yuma arizona, arizona
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, bleak, disturbing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
vietnam war, hopes, introspection, war, moral dilemma, legal, military, buddies, state affairs, friendship, battles, power relations ...
Place:
asia, vietnam
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, japanese soldier, survival, danger, military life, escapades, isolation, confined, losing-it hero, rivalry, humanity, anti war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A ragtag group of veterans in New York deal with the aftermath of war by creating unusual art.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
ptsd, veteran, anti war, mental disorder, art, therapy, trauma, problem, social problems, war veteran, life, society ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
interracial relations, homecoming, friendship, disability, family relations, society, hopes, countryside, life is a bitch, love, true love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
iraq war, road trip, family relations, support group, insomnia, parents and children, patriotism, couple relations, death in the family, siblings relations, on the road, anti war ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, minnesota, florida, chicago, usa ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot:
military, post traumatic stress disorder, iraq war, sex scene, soldier, profanity, ptsd, haunted by the past, rage, homecoming, war zone, jihad ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iraq
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sex comedy, contemplative ...
Plot:
vietnam veteran, obsession, friendship, woman in short shorts, destruction, vietnam war, soldier, youth, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, human nature ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
kentucky, vietnam, usa, washington d.c., southern usa ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, redemption, father daughter relationship, death of wife, society, bittersweet, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
79%
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