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Beau Travail (1999)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind. He feels compelled to stop him from coming to the attention of the commandant who he admires, but who ignores him. Ultimately, his jealousy leads to the destruction of both Sentain and himself.
Style:
surreal, harsh, touching, realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, stylized, inspirational ...
Plot:
foreign legion, gay, desert, obsession, military, military training, discipline, gay interest, french foreign legion, soldier, homoeroticism, jealousy, existential loneliness, transformation, male nudity, lgbt, lgbtq, battles, resentment, military life, destructive relationship, life turned upside down, power relations, chess, poetry ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 1990s
Place:
africa, france, south africa, paris france, marseille, salt lake city utah, east africa ...
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Most similar movies to Beau Travail
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, contemplative and harsh films with plots about male nudity, soldier, military, friendship, bare chested male, cigarette smoking and father son relationship mostly in Drama, War and Adventure genres. Some movies like Beau Travail: The Intruder (2004), The Little Soldier (1963), The Sea (2000), Barry Lyndon (1975), Gerry (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
angel of death, female nudity, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, redemption, transplant ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tahiti, europe, france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style:
black and white, political, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, algerian war, politics, assassin, assassination, fighting the system, identity, revolution, death, hotel, torture, terrorist group ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place:
algeria, switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Childhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, childhood friend, naked man, gay rape, homoerotic friendship, gay erotica, homoeroticism, male rape, gay, friendship, friendship between boys, male pubic hair ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
spain, europe, mallorca
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, duel, card playing, british army, pistol duel, wealth, soldier, social climber, literary ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, year 1975, 19th century ...
Place:
ireland, england, prussia, berlin germany, britain ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
desert, wilderness, hiking, death, wandering, isolation, nature, survival, best friend, walking, mountain, car ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, argentina, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Cameroon
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
coffee, terrorist, family relations, civil war, chaos, family in danger, family business, political unrest, single parent, state affairs, danger, colonialism ...
Time:
90s, year 2009, 2000s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Unlikely friends in a melting pot of confusion. Simon Murray fights for the French Foreign Legion. Pascal Dupont fights for himself. War torn men question honour, hope, morality...because you can desert everything...except yourself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense
Plot:
french foreign legion, military, war, introspection, military life, rivalry, soldier, moral dilemma, hopes, friendship, infantrymen, basic training ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
africa, algeria
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, melancholic, art house, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, runaway, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, siblings, incest ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
vietnam, france, tokyo, london
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) follows the story of Nicholas van der Swart: from a very young age, he realises he is different. Try as he may, he cannot live up to the macho image expected of him by his family, by his heritage. ...
Style:
sexy, touching, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay slur, closeted gay, gay lead character, gay love, gay soldier, gay, military, homosexuality, soldier ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 1981
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
foreign legion, immigrant, french foreign legion, hostage, soldier, military, oil field, black man, illegal immigration, military training, guilt, rebel ...
Place:
paris france, france, guyana
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
war, military, world war two, skinny dipping, british army, soldier, battles, friendship, danger, wartime life, military life, mother son relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
middle east, egypt, africa, palermo italy, libya ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, realistic, semi autobiographical, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, colonialism, interracial relations, youth, coming of age, culture clash, imperialism, farm, woman, master servant relationship, hyena, priest ...
Time:
1950s, year 1988, 80s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, france, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small family "a father and a son" lives on the top floor of an old house. The father retired from the military, when he was a student in flight school, he experienced the first and the only love of his life. This girl became his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, touching, sensual ...
Plot:
gay subtext, father son relationship, homosexual subtext, gay, soldier, youth, bare chested male, dream, teenage boy, family relations, single parent, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
Style:
epic, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot:
french foreign legion, foreign legion, military, world war one, dictatorship, dictator, female nudity, imperialism, colonialism, native, french soldier, sahara desert ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
africa, paris france, europe, france, algeria ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A widowed metro conductor, approaching retirement, lives with his beautiful grown daughter – the object of a neighbor’s romantic interest. The man’s former girlfriend also lives in their building and plays a role in their closely-knit lives. ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family relations, looking for love, single parent, human nature, lifestyle, love affair, midlife crisis, parents and children, love and romance, women of color, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, africa
Similarity:
21%
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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:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, male nudity, apartheid, gay relationship, gay slur, male homosexuality, choir, homosexuality, gay lead character, military service ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified elderly neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, comes to live at the hotel and becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, gloomy, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
gay, serial killer, murder, immigrant, lgbt, killing spree, male nudity, killer, bare breasts, female nudity, nudity, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, london, tokyo ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
military, soldier, military life, human nature, family relations, parents and children, anti war, homecoming, fish out of water, grandmother grandson relationship, journey, underground ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, russia, europe, germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style:
emotional, realistic, rough, serious, political ...
Plot:
battles, war, world war two, politics, brutality, justice, military, muslim, survival, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, morocco, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Switzerland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Abdellah is a young gay man navigating the sexual, racial and political climate of Morocco. Growing up in a large family in a working-class neighborhood, Abdellah is caught between a distant father, an authoritarian mother, an older brother whom he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, gay, lgbt, gay teenager, teenage boy, self discovery, father son relationship, gay interest, teenage life, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
south africa, morocco, geneva switzerland, switzerland
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which ...
Style:
emotional, lgbt cinema, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, forbidden love, lgbtq, gay teenager, couple relations, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, lgbt, fighter pilot, love affair, life turned upside down ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
french algerian war, prostitute, soldier, pacifist, idealist, deserter, french army, communist, platoon, military training, anti war protest, male nudity ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
algeria, africa, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears ...
Style:
political, sexy, harsh, dramatic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
civil war, war, child soldier, adaptation, children in wartime, terrorist, justice, violent, life is a bitch, military, culture clash, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 2015, 90s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa, liberia, west africa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style:
black and white, political, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
revolution, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, french algerian war, politics, terrorism, insurrection, independence, revolutionary ...
Time:
year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1954, year 1966 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east, france, north africa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
orphan, youth, orphanage, friendship, betrayal, prison, coming of age, soldier, idealism, haunted by the past, injustice, politics ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, soviet union, ussr ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, crying
Plot:
coming of age, children in wartime, youth, boy, french president, little boy, orphan, terrorism, friendship, immigrant, society, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, beirut lebanon ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, ethnic conflict, military, behind enemy lines, courage, justice, culture clash, visceral, danger, battles, military life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, 1930s
Place:
russia, finland, eastern europe, poland, germany
Similarity:
18%
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