Movies like Battle for Haditha

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Battle for Haditha (2007)
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Battle for Haditha (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
Style: tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, sexy, touching ...
Plot: military, iraq war, war, marine, soldier, circumcision, culture clash, military life, desert, marines, vengeance, society, occupation, danger, realism, battle zone, violent content, graphic violence, al qaeda, islam, terrorism, revolution, war on terror, shootout, great war ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: iraq, middle east, united kingdom
Keyword: attack

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Most similar movies to Battle for Haditha

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about war, military, soldier, military life, battles, danger and world war two mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Battle for Haditha: Black Hawk Down (2001), Sand Castle (2017), Kippur (2000), Generation Kill (2008), Green Zone (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story: When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Style: realistic, epic, rough, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: war, combat, courage, battles, army, military, shooting, gunfight, chaos, sniper, survival, american soldier ...
Time: year 1993, year 2001, 90s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: africa, somalia, america, south africa, middle east ...
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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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Kippur (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style: tense, disturbing, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, conflict, israeli, revolutionary war, revolution ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, iraq, syria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Generation Kill (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom; while the soldiers wait to receive their orders, they learn a Rolling Stone columnist will be embedded with them
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, political, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, iraq war, marines, soldier, war, anti war, courage, military life, violence, character study, life & death, survival ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Green Zone (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, iraq war, military, war, soldier, spy, army, deception, pow, chase, investigation, politics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq
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100%
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: realistic, emotional, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, war, soldier, army, bomb squad, marines, terrorist, gulf war, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, america ...
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Rules of Engagement (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.
Style: political, tense, intense, serious, rough ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, vietnam war, courtroom, war, army investigation, military, marines, court, court case, investigation, gulf war ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: middle east, usa, washington d.c., vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kajaki (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Style: bleak, exciting, tense, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: war, soldier, bravery, military, british army, war in afghanistan, minefield, desert, heroic mission, danger, tough heroes, battle zone ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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100%
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The Mark of Cain (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, realistic
Plot: court martial, soldier, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, political unrest, legal, life is a bitch, courtroom, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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The Situation (2006)
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: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot: iraq war, danger, assassination, racism, battles, terrorism, media, soldier, military, state affairs, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2006
Place: iraq, middle east
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American Soldiers (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, war, american soldier, battles, danger, soldier, state affairs, good versus evil, confined, escapades, heroes ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Texas '46 (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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21%
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Savior (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
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Plot: terrorism, atrocity, rape, redemption, genocide, breast feeding, war crime, ethnic cleansing, mercenary, soldier, hopes, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
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Occupation (2009)
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Style: serious, suspenseful, touching, thought provoking, contemplative ...
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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
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20%
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Jarhead (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swafford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the ...
Style: realistic, emotional, factual, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gulf war, war, iraq war, marines, military, u.s. military, anti war, boot camp, american soldier, desert, military training, basic training ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 80s, year 1991, 90s ...
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Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: military, confined, arab israeli conflict, sergeant, tank, mission gone awry, military life, moral dilemma, leadership, danger, battle zone, deathtrap ...
Time: year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Intimate Enemies (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Style: realistic, rough, serious, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: military, atrocity, soldier, basic training, anti war, racism, politics, imperialism, political unrest, military life, against humanity, state affairs ...
Time: 1950s, year 2007, 50s, year 1959
Place: algeria, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy. The film ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, d day, against the odds, president, battles, human spirit, heroic mission, basic training, military life, idealism, leadership ...
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Overlord (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: During the war a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.
Style: black and white, political, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot: world war two, basic training, military, world war, d day, boot camp, soldier, politics, struggle, revolution, revolutionary, freedom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: britain, france, europe, normandy
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Memorial Day (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself ...
Style: exciting, serious, sincere, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: iraq war, soldier, military, family relations, war, military life, battles, world war, world war two, army, national guard, war on terror ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style: serious, factual, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, vietnam war, war, battles, soldier, battlefield, army, military life, heroic mission, wartime, justice, u.s. army ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
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19%
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Lone Survivor (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The ...
Style: epic, factual, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, tank, nazi, military, world war, u.s. military, battles, heroic mission, campaign, danger, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place: belgium, america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Only the Brave (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, battles, soldier, survival, military life, society, daring rescue, danger, war, heroic mission, battle zone, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Patrol (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Morocco
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle ...
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, morocco, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Front Line (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: war, chinese army, military, battles, soldier, korean army, military life, infantrymen, wartime life, life is a bitch, friendship, army investigation ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1950, year 1953
Place: north korea, south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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American Sniper (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. ...
Style: factual, emotional, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: war, iraq war, sniper, military, soldier, violence, navy seal, assassin, american soldier, battles, biopic, middle east conflict ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, september 11 2001 ...
Place: iraq, middle east, california, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, factual, serious ...
Plot: military, battles, against the odds, rivalry, soldier, ambition, war, liberation, army, danger, combat, american history ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: mexico, america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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