Movies like 1969
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1969 (1988)
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father, Cliff, and Ralph deals with his desperately sexual mother, Ev. When tragic news arrives from overseas, the entire town, inspired by Ralph and Scott's antiwar efforts, reevaluates its attitude toward the war.
Style:
realistic, independent film, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, serious, road movie, intellectual, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vietnam war, prejudice, anti war, drug use, death of father, unfaithfulness, hippie, small town, college, male nudity, high school, coming of age, drug, death, police brutality, lgbt, rock, president, graduation, family relations, bad trip, nudity, youth, friends, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s, 1960s
Place:
vietnam, usa, texas, canada, california, maine, maryland ...
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Most similar movies to 1969
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and independent film films with plots about vietnam war, friendship, soldier, society, friends, culture clash and anti war mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like 1969: Coming Home (1978), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), More American Graffiti (1979), Taking Chance (2009), The Year That Trembled (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, emotional, romantic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, paraplegic, hospital, love, disability, vietnam veteran, love story, soldier, military, suicide, dysfunctional marriage, war hero ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1978, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, hong kong, vietnam ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style:
factual, disturbing, intense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
vietnam war, war, anti war, politics, disability, profanity, desert, wartime, fighting the system, biopic, military, vietnam veteran ...
Time:
year 1989, post world war two, 1950s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
vietnam, bronx new york city, north america, texas, the philippines ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
Style:
grindhouse, sentimental, captivating, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
vietnam war, drag racing, hippie, racing, bittersweet, coming of age, marijuana, student protest, radio, driving, car, auto racing ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1966, year 1965 ...
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, san francisco, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
iraq war, war, military, ritual, soldier, self discovery, military life, father son relationship, ethnic conflict, patriotism, marines, u.s. marine ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
iraq, wyoming, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
college, vietnam war, lottery, friendship, anti war, politics, coming of age, teenage life, fighting the system, political unrest, love affair, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, cambodia ...
Similarity:
43%
45K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971
Style:
psychological, talky, harsh, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
military, boot camp, vietnam war, basic training, recruit, anti war, profanity, military base, insubordination, buddies, military training, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2000, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, usa, kansas, louisiana, indochina
Similarity:
32%
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:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, canada, afghanistan, usa ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, hispanic ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, thanksgiving, family gatherings, marine, love and romance, soldier, society, self discovery, homecoming, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, usa, california
Similarity:
29%
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666
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to ...
Style:
indie film, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, naked man, soldier, train, outdoor sex, male pubic hair, nudity, grief, friendship, homecoming, love, military ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, california, usa
Similarity:
29%
26K
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:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style:
emotional, dark comedy, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family problems, family secret, loneliness, family drama, parenthood, youth, society, lifestyle, loss of son ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
single mother, family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single parent, dealing with death, human nature, working class, death in the family, parents and children, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, oregon, virginia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, lsd, deaf, drug, summer of love, female nudity, rock band, runaway, marijuana, commune, stoner ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the Vietnam War. Julie, an archeologist, joined the ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, family relations, vietnam war, parents and children, haunted by the past, human nature, village, family life, culture clash, expedition, missing son, love ...
Place:
vietnam, chicago, usa, asia, honolulu hawaii
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, translator, homecoming, culture clash, human nature, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, california, usa
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, bare chested male, american football, soccer, football, conflict, war trauma, exodus, cold war era, friendship, army ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, the philippines, asia, indochina
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot:
friendship, vietnam war, male nudity, college, skinny dipping, naked man, drinking, drug, marriage, teacher, hitchhiking, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston, california
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, promise, friendship, family relations, death of brother, fear, husband wife relationship, jealousy, teenage boy, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
Style:
romantic, psychological, serious, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, anti war, love and romance, friends, homecoming, wartime life, military, looking for love, awol, army, girl ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
25%
44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on ...
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, feel good ...
Plot:
hippie, nudity, counterculture, vietnam war, broadway, anti war, music, rock and roll, dancing, male nudity, commune, lsd ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manchester, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
Style:
sincere, psychological, realistic, serious, road movie ...
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, hopes, politics, vietnam veteran, self discovery, introspection, redemption, haunted by the past, society, obsessive quest, on the road ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, salt lake city utah, africa ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, u.s. army, military life, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, idealism, hopes, rescue, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style:
erotic drama, erotic, stylized, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, male nudity, friendship, male prostitution, male prostitute, hedonism, addiction, drug, drug abuse, homosexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.
Style:
psychological, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot:
rebellion, friendship, betrayal, boarding school, lifestyle, teenage love, youth, teenage life, coming of age, secret, schoolboy, gay ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
vietnam war, vietcong, military, war, cannon, struggle, revolutionary, real life, revolutionary war, cold war era, revolution, us military ...
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
vietnam war, vietcong, soldier, military, adultery, corruption, adulterous husband, ambassador, peasant, womanizer, patriotism, helicopter ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia, indochina
Similarity:
23%
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