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Checkpoint (1999)
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Checkpoint (1999)
Original name: Блокпост
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: sniper, civil war, conflict, village, military base, recruit, war, heroes, military, investigation, village life, anti war, danger, sexual content, military life, wartime life, death in the family, dealing with death, battle zone, woods, violent content, love, girl, resistance, young soldier ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chechnya, germany, russia
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films with plots about war, military, soldier, military life, wartime life, anti war and danger mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Checkpoint: Alexandra (2007), Chaco (2020), Dresden (2006), Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014), Red Angel (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alexandra (2007)
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, homecoming, parents and children, anti war, family relations, fish out of water, grandmother grandson relationship, underground, minimalism ...
Time: 2000s
Place: chechnya, soviet union, russia, europe, germany
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Chaco (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Argentina, Bolivia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, intense
Plot: wartime life, soldier, wartime, brutality, bittersweet, battles, war, fight, danger, defeat, military, battle zone ...
Time: 20th century, year 1934
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Dresden (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story: At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot: world war two, war, bombing, moral dilemma, survival, military, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, danger, fall in love, military life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: ...
Style: atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, anti war, danger, battle zone, military life, introspection, life is a bitch, great war, mountain, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Red Angel (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, medical, nurse, amputation, medicine, darkness, sensuality, military hospital, gory, anti war, military life, wartime life ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: china
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72%
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A Little Pond (2009)
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: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating ...
Plot: military, survival, captivity, wartime life, danger, anti war, homecoming, isolation, confined, genocide, against humanity, korean war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Captive Hearts (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, ...
Style: independent film, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, world war, violent content, mountain, war, against the odds, concentration camp, prison life, wartime life, captivity, forbidden love, village life ...
Time: year 1987, year 1944
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Last Lieutenant (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, world war, holocaust, violent content, battles, survival, couple relations, human spirit, aging, rebelliousness, soldier, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany
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68%
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Love and Honor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
Style: romantic, psychological, emotional, serious, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: vietnam war, anti war, soldier, love and romance, wartime life, friends, homecoming, looking for love, military, army, awol, girl ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Witnesses (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: balkan war, military, soldier, investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, criminal heroes, amateur detective, human nature, political unrest, war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Breath (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A major who had just lost two people in his command in a combat with PKK militants arrives at the station and takes charge. He finds it very difficult to step out of the state of depression due to his recent loss and so intimidates his soldiers into ...
Style: captivating, rough, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: military, turkish army, soldier, ambush, danger, war, against the odds, military life, anti war, terror, terrorism, wartime life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place: ottoman empire, middle east, asia, turkey, kurdistan
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62%
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military life, heroic mission, military, military base, battles, danger, friendship, battle zone, d day, world war, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: normandy, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Last Winter (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot: conflict, friends, destiny, military life, friendship, captivity, anti war, war, life is a bitch, danger, military, journalism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, serious ...
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, soldier, vietnam veteran, justice, politics, military life, civil war, dialogue, wartime, casualty of war ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1968
Place: washington d.c., vietnam, usa
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Fires on the Plain (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, survival, japanese soldier, military life, danger, isolation, confined, escapades, rivalry, asian prostitute, anti war, humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: the philippines
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59%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
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57%
A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.
Style: sex comedy, psychological, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, war, society, innocence lost, military, self discovery, buddies, danger, soldier, orphan, journalism, doctors and patients ...
Time: 20th century
Place: vietnam
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57%
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Sky Hook (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sky Hook (Serbian: Nebeska udica) is a 2000 Yugoslavian film directed by Ljubiša Samardžić. It was Yugoslavia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: anti war, battles, war, political unrest, wartime life, friends, survival, buddies, danger, life story, international relations, mugging ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, balkan, italy, germany
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53%
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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 ...
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52%
The Iron Triangle (1989)
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, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: vietnam war, confined, military life, captivity, battles, rebellion, espionage, on the run, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, anti war ...
Time: year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia
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51%
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Warriors Five (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
Style: macaroni combat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, anarchy, paratrooper, military, soldier, prison, escape, espionage, prostitute, heroes, against humanity, escapades ...
Place: germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Comanche Territory (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, gloomy
Plot: photograph, photojournalist, female journalist, jungle, war zone, photojournalism, yugoslav war, journalism, violent content, sexual content, profanity, war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, europe, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
Style: realistic, bleak, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: pow, war, hostage, russian soldier, prison, violence, soldier, confined, captivity, poverty, islam, prisoner ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus, soviet union, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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4 Days in May (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense
Plot: holocaust, battles, world war two, military, love affair, military life, friendship, wartime life, basic training, hiding, russian soldier, boyhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: ukraine, germany
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47%
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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
Place: europe, usa, france, italy, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, biting ...
Plot: sniper, balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, state affairs, against humanity, politics, soldier, society, betrayal ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Two Fingers from Sidon (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, suspenseful
Plot: soldier, realism, military, moral dilemma, war, battle zone, military life, israeli army, israeli soldier, army life
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: lebanon, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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This Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, wartime, showdown, self sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
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, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
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, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, conservative, military prison, prison escape, war trauma, electric torture, violent content, profanity, escape ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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