Movies like 13 Days, 13 Nights

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   The Chase

   Similar atmosphere

   2024 · 95 min · Action · Thriller

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   11 years ago, inspector Malik couldn’t solve a kidnapping case and a little girl died. Now with only a few days before the crime gets classified, he decides to reopen the case. Malik owes it to the mother and to himself. As he digs into the past, a child is kidnapped again. The pattern is the same one as a decade ago, it’s no coincidence. Malik knows he has a few days to make things right and to bring justice.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: uMedia

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   November

   Shared cast

   2022 · 105 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   In November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred face an unprecedented level of pressure. In a race against the clock, they must find the perpetrators of the attacks as quickly as possible before they can strike again, travelling across Europe and beyond in one of the biggest manhunts in history.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   Guy Ritchie's The Covenant

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 123 min · Action · Thriller · War

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   After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must return to the war zone and repay his debt.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   15 Minutes of War

   Genre overlap

   2019 · 98 min · Action · Drama · History · War

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   February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.

   Why it connects

   • shared genre DNA

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   White Paradise

   Genre overlap

   2023 · 93 min · Action · Drama · Thriller

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   Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating with his wife in the Italian Alps. Indifferent to the anger of locals who help police to hunt down migrants, he comes across a woman who fled Afghanistan. Samuel decides to help her reach the border, thinking it will take them a few hours. But an aggressive group of men comes after them…

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Warhorse One

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 125 min · Action · Drama · War

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   A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   12 Strong

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 130 min · Action · History · War

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   A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Kali: Avenging Angel

   Genre overlap

   2024 · 96 min · Action · Adventure · Thriller

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   Lisa, aka Kali, has nothing left to lose when she finds out her husband has been executed in Rio to cover up a corruption scandal. A former Special Forces recruit, she heads to Brazil with fists, blood and explosives, to find out the truth.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Outpost

   Shared themes

   2020 · 123 min · Action · Drama · History · War

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   A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

   Why it connects

   • shared theme: afghanistan war (2001-2021)
   • shared genre DNA

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    Kill Shot

    Strong movie match

    2023 · 93 min · Action

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    Posing as hunters, a group of terrorists are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan.

    Why it connects

    • strong recommendation signals

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