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Aces High (1976)
 6.5
 3K
Aces High (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
Style: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: world war one, aviation, fighter pilot, military, great war, war, aerial combat, world war two, luftwaffe, world war, flying, holocaust, pilot, freedom, intrigue, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, revolutionary war, military aviation, soldier, british empire, british military, dying young, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1976, year 1917, 20th century
Place: england, europe, france
Keyword: german, french

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Most similar movies to Aces High

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about soldier, military, war, battles, heroes, world war and danger mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Aces High: Battle of Britain (1969), The Blue Max (1966), Fury (2014), The Red Baron (2008), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, spectacular ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, aerial combat, luftwaffe, air battle, fighter pilot, raf, british history, battles, fighter plane, world war, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, poland, england, english channel, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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The Blue Max (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style: retro, exciting, realistic, serious, sex comedy
Plot: world war one, ambition, aviation, fighter plane, fighter pilot, military, biplane, chivalry, airplane shot down, soldier, german army, great war ...
Time: year 1966, 1910s, year 1916
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 542K
Fury (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
Style: serious, tense, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: world war two, war, soldier, military, tank, battles, heroism, american soldier, ambush, violence, combat, nazi germany ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, year 1945, 2010s, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.3
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The Red Baron (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of ...
Style: emotional, captivating, exciting, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, soldier, fighter pilot, airplane, aviation, flying, great war, fall in love, rise to the top, pilot, airplane shot down, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, belgium, france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, novela ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, battles, military, battlefield, soldier, death of friend, german army, infantry, dying young, german soldier, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1914, 2020s, year 1918, 1910s ...
Place: germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of Manfred von Richtofen, the german air ace during the World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous german officers.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war one, fighter plane, fighter pilot, aerial combat, raf, soldier, aviation, great war, danger, military, military life, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 1910s
Place: germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 44K
Flyboys (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Style: harsh, exciting, realistic, factual, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: war, world war one, aerial combat, airplane, fighter pilot, aviation, zeppelin, vengeance, biplane, fight scenes, great war, love story ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 30K
Memphis Belle (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, bomber, military, war, soldier, battles, friendship, aerial combat, airplane, u.s. air force, heroic mission, luftwaffe ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: europe, america, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Lost Battalion (2001)
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, war, military, trench warfare, great war, survival, military life, american abroad, u.s. military, u.s. army, pigeon, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.0
 2K
Fortress (2012)
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
Plot: bomber, aerial combats, world war two, airplane, soldier, battles, military life, heroic mission, leadership, flying, aviation, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Eagles Over London (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Style: macaroni combat, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: luftwaffe, world war two, soldier, combat, world war, revolution, freedom, revolutionary, struggle, revolutionary war, evacuation, superior officer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, england, france, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.3
 3K
Triple Cross (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, spy, double agent, world war, secret agent, nazi germany, intrigue, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle ...
Time: year 1966, 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany, english channel, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Forbidden Ground (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mosquito Squadron (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 90 min.
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22%
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Duration: 134 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Trench (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' ...
Style: independent film, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
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Time: 1910s, year 1916
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: realistic, tense, factual, intense, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, military, sea battle, pacific war, naval battle, aviation, navy, u.s. navy, world war, wartime, ethnic conflict, fascism ...
Time: year 1976, year 1942, 20th century, 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
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Style: exciting, serious, stylized, realistic, epic ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, great war, survival, violent content, siblings relations, battle zone, danger, family relations, soldier, heroic mission ...
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20%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Red Tails (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1945, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
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Time: 1940s, year 1969
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
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Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
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Stalingrad (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 131 min.
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Style: realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, heroism, battles, heroes, world war, life is a bitch, wartime life, russian history, danger, battle zone, military life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 3K
Overlord (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
King & Country (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: thought provoking, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war one, courtroom, military, great war, anti war, courtroom drama, lawyer, world war, trial, desertion, court martial, aviation ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place: england, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Everyman's War (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no choice but to make his way through enemy ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, historical event, military life, against the odds, heroes, danger, infantrymen, battle zone, small town, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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