Movies like The Bounty
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The Bounty (1984)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Style:
epic, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking, intense, factual, melancholic, serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
ship, island, mutiny, betrayal, sea, storm at sea, sailboat, survival, boat, lost at sea, murder, suspense, greed, journey, escapades, naval officer, rebelliousness, military life, ocean, beautiful scenery, courage, brutality, british, rebellion, sea captain ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s, year 1984, georgian era, 1780s
Place:
england, tahiti, pacific ocean, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, dramatic and visually appealing films with plots about dialogue, beautiful scenery, courage, brutality, mentor, storytelling and culture clash mostly in Drama, History and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Bounty: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Amazing Grace (2006), The Mission (1986), Longitude (2000), Lord Jim (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a ...
Style:
epic, psychological, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ship, ocean, sailboat, mutiny, betrayal, suspense, captain, leadership, brutality, sea, rebelliousness, military ...
Time:
18th century, 60s, 1930s, georgian era, 1780s ...
Place:
tahiti, england, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, edwardian era, georgian era
Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
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80%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story of William Wilberforce's courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Although meeting intense opposition, his minister, John Newton, urges him to see the cause through.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, political, talky, factual ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
slavery, politics, christian, friendship, freedom, corruption, civil rights, politician, slave trade, culture clash, justice, civil war ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1790s, 50s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, london, africa, paris france, france ...
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to ...
Style:
thought provoking, epic, harsh, realistic, dramatic ...
Plot:
jungle, mission, slavery, clergy, jesuit, religion, christian, slave, slave trader, redemption, ethnic conflict, native american ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
south america, argentina, portugal, latin america, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
inventor, sea, british navy, sailboat, ocean, military life, against the odds, escapades, sea disaster, father son relationship, sailing, seafaring ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.
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tense, sexy, breathtaking, cerebral, brutal ...
Plot:
ocean, betrayal, guilt, cheating, runaway, death, depression, desert, philosophy, adultery, chase, adolescence ...
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indonesia, southeast asia, cambodia
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
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realistic, rough, epic, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
survival, escape, prison escape, freedom, war, wilderness, world war two, journey, desert, gulag, pow, human spirit ...
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20th century, 1940s
Place:
himalaya, russia, poland, germany, ussr ...
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style:
harsh, realistic, exciting, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ocean, survival, shark, boat, adventurer, raft, sea voyage, obsessive quest, expedition, travel, fish, diary ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s ...
Place:
pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, exciting, inspirational, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, starvation, shipwreck, man versus nature, dangerous animal, castaway ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, middle ages, georgian era ...
Place:
new england, ecuador, pacific ocean, south america, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
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realistic, serious, factual, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conquistador, adventurer, renaissance, medieval, native americans, ocean, jungle, military, state affairs, against the odds, obsessive quest, rebelliousness ...
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spain, italy, latin america, haiti, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" ...
Style:
epic, realistic, tense, allegory, scenic ...
Plot:
war, military, warship, u.s. navy, friendship, navy, gunfight, anti war, civil war, revolution, politics, redemption ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, shanghai, asia, new jersey, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, military, heroes, leadership, navy, war, military life, naval battle, rebel, rebelliousness ...
Time:
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Place:
west indies, jamaica
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style:
psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
travel, island, adventurer, utopia, obsessive quest, exotic island, beach, drugs, tourist, marijuana, desire, secret place ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 2000
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Style:
tense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
mutiny, ship, courtroom drama, napoleonic wars, injustice, navy, ship captain, british navy, ocean, betrayal, military life, captivity ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1790s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, harsh, emotional, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war one, military, anti war, friendship, war, idealism, human spirit, politics, british army, battle zone, military life, british empire ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915, 18th century
Place:
australia, ottoman empire, egypt, turkey, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, light, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, murder, prison escape, adultery, escape, life is a bitch, confined, love and romance, couple relations, prison warden, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era
Place:
pittsburgh, australia, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
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20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
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moscow russia, russia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
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exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
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survival, desert island, shipwreck, friendship, stranded on an island, island, ocean, destiny, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss, female nudity ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, scenic ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, disaster, ocean, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, daring rescue, catastrophe, sinking ship ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, realistic, dramatic, talky ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, escape, life philosophy, human spirit, survival, runaway, escape attempt, brutality, criminal heroes, jail, escape plan ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style:
factual, realistic, atmospheric, serious, epic ...
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teens, chick flick
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politics, intrigue, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, countess, couples, state affairs, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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atmospheric, melancholic, tense, sexy, visually appealing ...
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interracial relations, shakespeare, black man white woman relationship, betrayal, racism, murder, tragedy, jealousy, tragic love, revenge, love and romance, rivalry ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under ...
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islam, military, politics, culture clash, imperialism, siege, colonialism, wartime, british empire, battles, war, justice ...
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africa, sudan, england, ireland, middle east ...
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25%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Style:
melancholic, captivating, sentimental, sexy, satirical ...
Plot:
island, rivalry, catastrophe, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, state affairs, family feud, parents and children, isolation, jungle, survival ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century
Place:
latin america, chile, polynesia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship ...
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captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, reflective ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, expedition, british empire, betrayal, friendship, heroic mission, escapades, gay, colonialism, exploration, disaster ...
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africa, england, egypt, cairo egypt, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless ...
Style:
dramatic, sexy, romantic, intellectual, reflective ...
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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england, france
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24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just ...
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romantic, serious, epic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
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royal family, love story, culture clash, social differences, interracial relations, unlikely friendships, forbidden love, teacher, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, palace ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, england, burma
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24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed ...
Style:
political, touching, emotional, epic, dramatic ...
Plot:
slavery, slave trade, court, lawyer, rebellion, ship, legal, idealism, courtroom, african american, justice, politics ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1830s, 18th century
Place:
africa, cuba, england, washington d.c., massachusetts ...
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24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance, class differences ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, regency period, georgian era, 70s
Place:
england, europe
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24%
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