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Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
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Original name: 모가디슈
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, political thriller, mindfuck
Plot:
inter-korean relations, escape, wartime, survival, soldier, diplomat, life is a bitch, runaway, society, wartime life, escape attempt, civil disobedience, military, dictator, dictatorship, life, journalist, quarantine, boy, family relations, city, girl, civil war, army, explosion ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 1990s
Place:
somalia, south korea, africa
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Most similar movies to Escape from Mogadishu
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about military, society, escape, survival, soldier, danger and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Escape from Mogadishu: The Point Men (2023), Pandora (2016), Escape (2024), Steel Rain (2017), The Spy Gone North (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Jordan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story about a diplomat and a national intelligence service agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in the Middle East.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
taliban, diplomat, kidnapping, hostage, survival, negotiation, hostage negotiator, agent, diplomacy, hostage situation, murder, special agent ...
Time:
2000s, 2020s
Place:
afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, tear jerker
Plot:
nuclear power plant, disaster, nuclear holocaust, tragedy, panic, small town, survival, workplace situations, save the day, workplace, virus outbreak, nuclear fallout ...
Place:
south korea, korea, indiana, busan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
desertion, soldier, escape, escape attempt, war crime, military, military officer, military life, problem, border crossing, pursuit, manhunt ...
Place:
north korea, korea
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
spy, politics, coup d'etat, inter-korean relations, geopolitics, society, sting operation, danger, rivalry, kickass, covert operation, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, korea, seoul
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
dictatorship, inter-korean relations, undercover agent, political campaign, political corruption, undercover, dictator, top secret, secret mission, government official, military, double agent ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1998, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
north korea, south korea, beijing china, china, asia ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The true story of 14-year-old freshman Abby Hernandez who vanished while walking home from school in North Conway, New Hampshire. Kicking off the state’s largest search, Abby’s disappearance left her family, especially her mother Zenya , ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
kidnapping, escape, rape victim, child abuse, violence, psychological torment, psychological abuse, rape, life is a bitch, emotional abuse, struggle for survival, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
Style:
political thriller, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coup d'etat, inter-korean relations, submarine, politics, peace, geopolitics, nuclear threat, society, rules and policies, political intrigue, danger, rivalry ...
Place:
north korea, south korea
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of Silmido to kill Kim Il-sung ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
military, inter-korean relations, korean war, military life, military base, basic training, isolation, violent content, officers and cadets, boot camp, cold war, special forces ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
north korea, asia, south korea, korea
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
investigative reporter, investigative journalism, politics, partner, jail, partners against crime, journalist, news report, investigation, dictatorship, prison, wartime ...
Place:
ethiopia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
PURPLE HEART tells of a clean-up effort after a covert mission gone wrong. It is the story of Colonel Allen, the leader of a new, elite military unit designed for covert operations. His first mission: assassinate Saddam Hussein prior to the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, moral dilemma, secret mission, colonel, murderer, runaway, military officer, murder, military base, soldier, mission, post traumatic stress ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
convict, prison escape, prison break, danger, prison, vengeance, race against time, murder, fugitives, against the odds, death, pursuit ...
Time:
90s, year 1990
Place:
chile
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, tunnel, danger, disaster, rescue, life & death, catastrophe, hopes, car accident, confined, youth, christmas ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The movies follows the incident knows as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
Style:
captivating, tense
Plot:
navy, naval battle, military, sea battle, inter-korean relations, korean war, sea, world cup, war, naval officer, fight for supremacy, marine ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, korea, north korea
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The "Los Alfaques" campground is a much-loved, much-visited holiday destination. Reveling holidaymakers, families, groups, couples and singles. Lots of skin, fun and frolicking on the beach. The blazing sun, the rush of the waves, the ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
catastrophe, forest fire, fire, corpse, tourism, summer, burn victim, car accident, burned alive, trapped, tragic event, family vacation ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
runaway, escape, military, anti communism, penance, moral dilemma, officer, special agent, stalinism, flashback, fire, death ...
Time:
year 1938, 1930s
Place:
ussr
Similarity:
22%
34K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
This biopic follows the life of Indian Army officer Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, from his childhood to his heroic actions during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorist attack, mission, military, soldier, life, military officer, terror, based on real people, terrorism, parents, hotel, wife ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
india, mumbai india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends a squad of his bravest soldiers on a rescue mission to retrieve the top-secret material the plane ...
Style:
suspense, mystical, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
mysticism, military, soldier, world war two, survival horror, wartime, nazism, struggle for survival, survival, kaiju, supernatural, witchcraft ...
Time:
year 1945
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
father daughter relationship, military, rancher, farm, corrupt official, corruption, family relations, problem, ranch, homecoming, determination, injustice ...
Place:
north dakota, midwest
Similarity:
21%
43K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, living dead, death, virus, brutality, soldier, halloween, supernatural, plague ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
busan, korea, south korea, hong kong
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, ...
Style:
tense, political, suspenseful, bleak, touching ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
asian, politics, investigation, tragedy, friendship, soldier, undercover, vengeance, justice, assassination, state affairs, political conspiracy ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea, east asia, asia ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
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Story:
Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot:
terrorist, turkish army, military, battles, heroes, danger, fear, society, showdown, wartime, political unrest, fight ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
democracy, korean history, political corruption, police brutality, protest, historical event, cover up, military dictatorship, disorder, police, police investigation, brutality ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After 10 years of incarceration on behalf of his employer, all Su-hyuk wants is a normal life - one he hopes will include his former girlfriend, Min-seo, and their daughter, In-bi. But once you've penetrated the upper echelons of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
organized crime, gang, underworld, hitman, redemption, second chance, fatherhood, changing lives, bandit, criminal, life is a bitch, male protagonist ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a liver transplant and she is all out of legal options.
Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
cartel, desperation, moral dilemma, mother and son, organ trafficking, money problems, transplant, organ donation, blood donor, organ transplant, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico
Similarity:
20%
281
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Italy, September 1943. After the armistice and the flight of the King, the war theaters of the North-East see the advance of Tito's partisans. At the center of the story, in this dramatic historical context, the figure of Norma Cossetto, a ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
power struggle, soldier, life is a bitch, guerilla warfare, partisan, military, military life, wartime, wartime life, war, society, world war two ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
243
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rex and his men aim to kill the homeless people living in a local deserted school hoping it'll slow an ultra-deadly strand of COVID. Now, outnumbered 100 to 1, Hap must save his little sister.
Style:
tense, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
virus, homelessness, distopia, quarantine, pandemic, society, coronavirus, salvation, rescue, homeless, deadly virus, sibling relationship ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
The film is set in the late 90s revolving around the life of a young high range rubber planter from Mundakayam and his rivalry with a high ranking officer in the Kerala Police
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, tension ...
Plot:
rivalry, grudge, life is a bitch, criminal, fight, organized crime, problem, competitor, battles, revenge, violence, feud ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Zero Hour tells the story of the La Parca (Zapata 666), a fearsome assassin who is forced to kidnap a private clinic to save the love of his life, Ladydi (Amanda Key). They soonreached the police and a media circus with them, ...
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
hostage, childbirth, hospital, gang, confined, danger, media circus, doctors and patients, negotiation, poverty, pregnant woman, journalist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
venezuela, south america, latin america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic
Plot:
undercover, rebel, insurgent, mutiny, runaway, social problems, escape, society, escape attempt, fleeing, terrorism, war ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
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