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Beyond Rangoon (1995)
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Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
Style: suspense, inspirational, touching, emotional, intense, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, tropical, anamorphic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, doctor, adaptation, state affairs, heroes, leadership, haunted by the past, revolution, justice, family drama, lone hero, jungle, buddhism, journey, independence, human rights, international relations, political unrest, military dictatorship, society, character on the edge, travel, escape, violence, partisan ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: burma, asia, thailand
Keyword: doctors, matriarch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about heroes, danger, escapades, state affairs, rivalry, military and battles mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Beyond Rangoon: 24: Redemption (2008), Fire on the Amazon (1993), Sweepers (1998), Gladiator (2000), Lone Hero (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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24: Redemption (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Style: intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist plot, politics, secret agent, kidnapping, tough heroes, brutality, violence, spy, chases and races, danger, political unrest, police corruption ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: africa, washington d.c., usa
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100%
Fire on the Amazon (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, exciting, colorful ...
Plot: jungle, amazon, murder, assassination, deforestation, fighting the system, protest, love, environmentalism, uncover truth, investigation, rain forest ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sweepers (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the ...
Style: cliffhanger, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, die hard, espionage, vengeance, chases and races, race against time, escapades, save the day, rescue, danger, undercover, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 1.6M
Gladiator (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 155 min.
Story: In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, emotional, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, revenge, vengeance, sword fight, ancient history, gladiator, freedom, slavery, courage, warrior, ancient world ...
Time: year 2000, ancient times, 2000s, y2k, middle ages ...
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, north africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Lone Hero (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, tough heroes, small town, leadership, lone wolves, vigilantism, gang, fighting crime, rivalry, escapades, danger, chase ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style: anthropological, retro, disturbing, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: jungle, tribe, adoption, environmental, coming of age, amazon rainforest, sex trafficking, pagan, survival, kidnapping, culture clash, treasure hunt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: soldier, political unrest, terrorism, danger, military, idealism, state affairs, daring rescue, romanian revolution, artist, media, society ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: romania, europe
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25%
The Dogs of War (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
Style: suspense, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, revolution, war, gunfight, torture, military, commando, soldier, covert operation, undercover, jail cell, espionage ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: africa, london, new york, central america, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Patrol Horse (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued by the warriors of notorious Warlord Yue Sai Hoi, they have seven days to reach the Lo Yang Pass with their secret cargo.
Style: realistic, serious, tense
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, ninja, battles, politics, heroes, soldier, state affairs, rivalry, escapades, chase, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Missing in Action (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, one man army, martial arts, military, heroes, justice, fight scenes, military life, heroic mission, rescue, tough heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, the philippines, thailand, asia, saigon ...
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22%
 6.2
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The Eagle (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander ...
Style: exciting, intense, epic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, ancient history, ancient world, medieval, slavery, sword fight, master and servant, gladiator, legends and myths, ancient, legion ...
Time: ancient times, middle ages
Place: england, scotland, britain, greece, europe ...
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22%
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The Sicilian (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Style: intense, serious, realistic, suspense, spiritual ...
Plot: mafia, betrayal, sicilian, gunfight, ambition, leadership, political unrest, dishonesty, politics, society, gangster, class differences ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Way of the Dragon 2 (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A classic tribute to a legendary Kung-Fu master. The high-powered action and deadly fistfights don’t let up for a moment. When all the chips are down, the Dragon Master will prevail!
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, martial arts, heroes, tough heroes, righting the wronged, discrimination, interracial relations, rivalry, society, vengeance, chinaman, violence ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot ...
Style: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: revolutionary, trucker, exotic locale, fictional country, truck, arab, desert, tough heroes, revolution, military, fugitives, state affairs ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Marco Polo (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth ...
Style: captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious ...
Plot: adventurer, medieval, heroes, heroic mission, hopes, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, culture clash, political unrest, society, priest ...
Time: 13th century, middle ages
Place: asia, china, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Toy Soldiers (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, woman with a gun, kidnapping, violent content, nudity, escapades, danger, soldier, heroes, military, confined, daring rescue ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: central america, beverly hills
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21%
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Red Scorpion (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, gunfight, brutality, assassination, justice, gratuitous violence, soldier, mission of murder, politics, war, state affairs, undercover ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Style: scenic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: desert, kidnapping, politics, rescue, hostage, little girl, confined, boy, battle of the sexes, german soldier, sword fight, cavalry ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: morocco, north africa, africa, washington d.c., ottoman empire ...
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21%
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7 Assassins (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When social unrest plagues a Kingdom in ancient China, the Imperial Court collects stockpiles of gold from local governments to expand the royal army. However, the gold is robbed while in transport. In a desperate move to retrieve the stolen ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, intense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rebellion, martial arts, heroic mission, assassin, master warrior, medieval, revolution, state affairs, gold, partner, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team ...
Style: serious, bleak, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: arab israeli conflict, politics, military, uninhibited rivalry, violence spree, soldier, vengeance, state affairs, political unrest, murder, death, conflict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, turkey, palestinian authority
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20%
River of Death (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, mad scientist, adventurer, betrayal, investigation, chase, heroic mission, vengeance, daring rescue, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s, year 1965 ...
Place: south america, usa, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Revolutionary (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" ...
Style: political, independent film, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: strike, labor, liberal, union, college, labor union, counterculture, student protest, terrorism, socialism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
Style: inspirational, heroic, realistic, touching, biblical ...
Plot: lone hero, gunfight, christian, christianity, religion, civil war, children, child in peril, atrocity, protector, army, biopic ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2003, 21st century
Place: uganda, africa, sudan, pennsylvania
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20%
Puncture Wounds (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After returning home from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, John finds himself struggling with PTSD. What little peace he had managed to build around him is shattered one fateful day when he rescues a local call girl from a group of violent Aryan ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: gang, heroes, gangster, post traumatic stress, criminal, saving a life, showdown, post traumatic stress disorder, changing lives, lifestyle change, fighting crime, ex soldier ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
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Kidnapped (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot: pirate, captain, courage, kidnapping, ocean, danger, adventurer, confined, orphan, corrupted ruler, state affairs, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 3K
The Warrior (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, India, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, desert, leadership, rivalry, redemption, danger, vengeance, change of heart, outlaw, warrior, manhunt, criminal ...
Place: himalaya, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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13 Assassins (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style: intense, suspense, harsh, tense, visually appealing ...
Plot: samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, seppuku, swords and armor, shogun, battles, martial arts, revenge, swordsman, medieval ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1800s ...
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 761
Shogun's Ninja (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the ...
Style: jidai geki, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, shogun, ancient, clan, kung fu, karate, master warrior, ninja master, revenge, warlord, violent content ...
Time: 16th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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