Movies like The Beast 1988
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The Beast (1988)
12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
Style:
sexy, gothic, bleak, realistic, retro, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tank, politics, military, soldier, war in afghanistan, vengeance, international relations, revenge, brutality, anti communist, desert, world war two, holocaust, explosions, intrigue, conflict, african, cavalry, cold war era, fictional history, great war, village, battles, heroes, captivity ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, vietnam, iraq, russia, israel, russian
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Most similar movies to The Beast
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about war, military, soldier, battles, heroes, danger and escapades mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Beast: Kajaki (2014), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Major Dundee (1965), Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009), Lone Survivor (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
16K
Genre: 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, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
war, soldier, war in afghanistan, minefield, bravery, military, british army, desert, danger, heroic mission, tough heroes, battle zone ...
Time:
year 2006, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, behind enemy lines, island, resistance, nazi, mercenary, spy, wartime, gunfight, mountain, fortress ...
Time:
1940s, year 1961, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
greece, fictional island, germany, hellas, balkan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
american civil war, military, soldier, civil war, rescue, apache, friend turned foe, massacre, chase, battles, apache indian, raid ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1965, year 1865
Place:
mexico, new mexico, usa, latin america, austin texas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, realistic, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female warrior, female soldier, cross dressing, gender, medieval, heroic mission, female fighter, martial arts, tough girl, warrior, strong female lead, soldier ...
Place:
china, ancient china, asia
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100%
322K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
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, captivating, inspirational, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, survival, soldier, gunfight, war, terrorism, death, squad, courage, military life, special forces, war on terror ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa, iraq, israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tense drama that revolves around a platoon of Spanish soldiers, following the innocent young men as they step from the training field into a hell for which nothing could have prepared them.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, terrorism, military, danger, soldier, military life, political unrest, mission, survival, life is a bitch, battles, chaos ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo, macedonia, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style:
suspense, breathtaking, inspirational, atmospheric, witty ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war two, nazism, nazi, war, vengeance, dark humor, alternate history, working undercover, violence, dialogue, violent, blood ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, germany, america, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, foreign legion, martial arts, combat, soldier, french foreign legion, military, battlefield, behind enemy lines, hitman, master warrior, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, france, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Style:
period piece, epic, serious, technicolor, fast paced ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic mission, mythology, battles, heroes, ancient, ancient history, sword fight, antiquity, greek mythology, chivalry, peplum, ancient world ...
Time:
ancient times, 5th century, 18th century, 60s, 19th century
Place:
ancient greece, rome italy, hellas, europe, greece ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
28%
89K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, ...
Style:
brutal, intense, epic, stylized, scenic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
roman empire, ancient rome, ancient history, roman, violence, survival, roman soldier, soldier, medieval, legion, fort, revenge ...
Time:
year 2010, middle ages, ancient times
Place:
rome italy, britain, england, greece, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, military, politics, british colonialism, safari, world war, wilderness, british empire, battles, artificial intelligence, political unrest, wartime life ...
Place:
asia, malaysia, russia
Similarity:
25%
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, trench warfare, military, u.s. military, american abroad, u.s. army, pigeon, great war, survival, military life, leadership, danger ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, pow, electric torture, conservative, cold war era, prison escape, military prison, war trauma, escape ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, indochina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
taliban, military, chase, soldier, war zone, kidnapping, tough heroes, daring rescue, danger, rescue, swat team, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
THE FALLEN is a three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers, set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey ...
Style:
captivating, rough, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, war, soldier, resistance movement, military life, military, captivity, against the odds, battles, leadership, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
23%
241
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:
rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, confined, danger, captivity, prison life, wartime life, isolation, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, military, infantry, battles, heroic mission, military life, nazi germany, world war, wartime life, anti war, battle zone, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, france, belgium
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, danger, terrorism, military, heroes, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, kurd, brother brother relationship, rescue mission ...
Time:
90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place:
iraq, middle east, iran, baghdad iraq, jordan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, cannon, cold war era, special forces, conflict, bomb, prisoner of war camp, jungle warfare, battles, violent content, nudity, military ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
military, survival, captivity, wartime life, korean war, confined, homecoming, anti war, against humanity, genocide, isolation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, danger, war, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines, japan, asia, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, desert, world war, commando, nazi, british soldier, holocaust, battles, survival, escapades, confined, soldier ...
Time:
year 1971, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
north africa, africa, libya
Similarity:
22%
11K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, harsh, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, battles, daring rescue, soldier, friendship, golf ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, iraq, indochina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
vietnam war, vietnam veteran, gay soldier, soldier, confined, vengeance, politics, haunted by the past, friendship, cold war era, innocence lost, state affairs ...
Place:
asia, vietnam
Similarity:
22%
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:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot:
iraq war, photograph, danger, assassination, racism, soldier, terrorism, media, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
22%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Style:
macaroni combat, exciting, bleak, rough, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, battles, nazi, combat, revolution, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, soldier, computers and web, destiny ...
Time:
1940s, year 1978
Place:
africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, great war, war, military, swamp, world war, conflict, battles, soldier, jungle warfare, pacific war, chaos ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, year 1944
Place:
asia, burma, japan, pacific ocean, southeast asia
Similarity:
21%
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