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The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
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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, military life, navy, air attack, disobeying orders, military, wartime, war, combat, fight, battles, soldier, military officer, military base, wartime life, bombing, world war, world war two, fog, radio, all male cast, merchant marine, ship
Time:
year 1943
Place:
sicily
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and exciting films with plots about military, war, world war two, soldier, battles, world war and wartime mostly in War, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like The Rebels of PT-218: Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022), V2. Escape from Hell (2021), Convoy PQ-17 (2004), D-Day (2019), Torpedo: U-235 (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as ...
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Some people called it a suicide, but for the Rangers of the 2nd Battalion, that's another word for mission. When an elite group of American soldiers are ordered to take out a series of German machine gun nests, they find themselves blindly ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.
Style:
exciting, suspense, epic, serious, absurd
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
america, pacific ocean, japan, hawaii, germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Style:
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Time:
1940s
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39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1941
Place:
honolulu hawaii
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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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:
37%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, captivating, exciting, serious
Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, looked to their last remaining weapons and soldiers. The German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats were formed together for one desperate last ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
atlantic ocean, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
china
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35%
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, serbia, balkan
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Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
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Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1944
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
104K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: China
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the follow-up to "The Battle At Lake Changjin", brothers Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli undertake a new task for the People's Volunteer Army, defending a bridge part of the American troops' escape route from the advancing Chinese.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, period piece ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Style:
perverse, captivating, tense
Plot:
world war two, nazi, military, nazi hunter, battles, soldier, u.s. army, american soldier, behind enemy lines, fight, wartime, swat ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In 1920, when Korea is under Japanese rule the Korean Independence Army’s Hae-chul and his subordinates are carrying out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hae-chul is reunited ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, suspense, compassionate
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, f word
Plot:
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