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Blizzard of Souls (2019)
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Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Original name: Dvēseļu putenis
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Latvia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
Style: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: world war one, soldier, patriotism, war, military, wartime, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, loss of family, teenager, army, battles, military life, wartime life, loss of father, showdown, loss of brother, loss of mother, loss of sister, fight for supremacy, world war two, great war, death, murder, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century
Place: poland, estonia, latvia
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and serious films with plots about war, soldier, military, battles, wartime, wartime life and world war one mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Blizzard of Souls: Turkish Ice Cream (2019), Sand Castle (2017), The War Below (2021), The Forgotten Battle (2020), Defenders of Riga (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Turkish Ice Cream (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war one, soldier, ice cream, military life, power struggle, battles, war, wartime, showdown, military, insubordination, aborigine ...
Place: australia, britain, gallipoli, ottoman empire
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Sand Castle (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, psychological, rough, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: soldier, military, occupation, small village, war, military life, wartime life, military base, life is a bitch, military service, war violence, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, afghanistan
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100%
The War Below (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, thought provoking, powerful
Plot: world war one, military, miner, wartime, heroism, heroic mission, struggle for survival, soldier, wartime life, patriotism, fight, fight for supremacy ...
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36%
The Forgotten Battle (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, powerful
Plot: world war two, military, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, soldier, dam, shell shock, royal air force, british army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: netherlands, germany, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Defenders of Riga (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Latvia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: world war one, soldier, battles, against the odds, military, life is a bitch, ambition, great war, revolution, war, firearm
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, post world war one, year 1919
Place: latvia, europe
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31%
 3.7
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21 Brothers (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 21 Brothers tells the story of the Canadian 21st Battalion as they prepare for the battle of Courcellette in WWI. Taking place in real time, the film follows Sgt. Reid as he must get his men ready for the impending battle. Not only must he prep his ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: world war one, young soldier, military, battles, trench warfare, casualty of war, recruitment, tragedy, soldier, death, war, military life ...
Time: year 1916, 20th century, 1910s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.5
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The Legions (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, ...
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: world war one, patriotism, soldier, love affair, love triangle, couple relations, war, courage, military life, wartime, wartime life, heroism ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Our World War (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
TV show
Story: During the First World War, British troops face the horrors of the Battle of Mons in 1914, internal strife in 1916 and innovative tank warfare in 1918.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, costume drama ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, soldier, war, battle zone, great war, british soldier, wartime, military life, wartime life, struggle for survival ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Death and Glory in Changde (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial battles during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Changde Battle, ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: world war two, military, fight, battles, army, battlefield, wartime life, war, military life, warrior, soldier, combat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.0
 206
Foxhole (2021)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: battles, wartime life, wartime, war, world war one, alternate reality, soldier, military officer, civil war, fight, struggle for survival, american soldier ...
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27%
The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Gallipoli: End of the Road (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: April, 1915. First World War in Canakkale, Ottoman Empire. Two brothers leave their mountain village to fight on the front line. One is an experienced sniper fighting for Ottomans against the invasion, while his brother finds it much tougher to cope ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, realistic, epic ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, great war, survival, violent content, siblings relations, battle zone, danger, family relations, soldier, heroic mission ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, middle ages
Place: gallipoli, turkey, ottoman empire
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24%
Natural Light (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, Latvia, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: reconnaissance, partisan, soldier, spy, struggle for survival, soviet army, war, military officer, military, wartime, army, fight for supremacy ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Lost Battalion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I. Based on a true story, The Lost Battalion is set in 1918 ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, war, military, trench warfare, great war, survival, military life, american abroad, u.s. military, u.s. army, pigeon, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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24%
The Sacrifice (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1953, the Korean War is entering the final stage. The People's Volunteer Army of China has launched the last major battle in Kumsong. In order to arrive at the battleground on time and deliver enough force to the Kumsong front line, the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, philosophical, political
Plot: korean war, war, battles, wartime life, wartime, korean army, fight for supremacy, heroism, military base, struggle for survival, fight, protector ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Behind the Lines (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war one, shell shock, great war, war, gay interest, world war, writers, psychology, poet, world war two, mental illness, anti war ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
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Company K (2004)
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: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Father & Soldier (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. While Thierno learns to become a man, Bakary will do everything to ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: world war one, french soldier, father, soldier, father and son, relationships, family relations, father son relationship, wartime life, war, military, wartime ...
Time: 1920s, year 1917
Place: senegal, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Forbidden Ground (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
Style: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: world war one, military, survival, mission gone awry, danger, against the odds, great war, escapades, infantrymen, world war two, violent content, soldier ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: ...
Style: atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, anti war, danger, battle zone, military life, introspection, life is a bitch, great war, mountain, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place: italy
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22%
The Red Ghost (2020)
Genre: Action, History, Horror, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense
Plot: partisan, world war two, military, male nudity, world war, society, soldier, violence, showdown, battles, danger, legend ...
Time: year 1941, 20th century, 1940s
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22%
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, novela ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, battles, military, battlefield, soldier, death of friend, german army, infantry, dying young, german soldier, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1914, 2020s, year 1918, 1910s ...
Place: germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, war, military, soldier, wartime, fight, battles, brutality, danger, world war two, struggle for survival, gunfight ...
Time: 60s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Melody to Remember (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: korean army, orphan, military, life is a bitch, wartime, soldier, children, military officer, kids in trouble, wartime life, social problems, war ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare – one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was a secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: world war one, military, war, great war, human spirit, hopes, trench warfare, danger, tunnel, world war, life is a bitch, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, year 1916, 1910s
Place: gallipoli, belgium, europe, germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.
Style: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: korean war, chinese army, army, soldier, heroism, historical event, courage, cold weather, battles, fight, war, power struggle ...
Time: 1950s, year 1950, 20th century
Place: china, korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Mother at War (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Estonia, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which ...
Style: captivating, sincere, suspense, period drama
Plot: world war one, female soldier, motherhood, mother son relationship, military, soldier, parents and children, wartime, mother and son, military life, cross dressing, deception ...
Time: year 1918
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
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Chaco (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Argentina, Bolivia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, intense
Plot: wartime life, soldier, wartime, brutality, bittersweet, battles, war, fight, danger, defeat, military, battle zone ...
Time: 20th century, year 1934
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.7
 20
Alyosha (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: Summer 1944. The Second World War rages. On one side, elite German soldiers serving in the most dangerous and cruel army the world has ever seen. On the other, Russian partisans-fatigued, wounded and hungry, they have almost forgotten the warmth of ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: partisan, great patriotic war, world war two, russian soldier, life is a bitch, wartime, wartime life, battles, struggle for survival, soldier, fight, military life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as an American torpedo boat fights against the constant bombardment of German forces.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: sea battle, submarine, naval battle, navy, military life, disobeying orders, air attack, wartime, military, battles, soldier, wartime life ...
Time: year 1943
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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