While in the movie, the main character is sent to kill Kurtz, in the source novel, "Heart of Darkness", the main character is sent to rescue him.
Movies like Apocalypse Now (movies similar to Apocalypse Now)
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Apocalypse Now is a great movie. And, if you enjoyed the movie, you are sure gonna love these. Lets make a list of movies that are similar or suited for same audience.
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Full Metal Jacket 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Full Metal Jacket features rough, disturbing, suspense, bleak and tense style.
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The Deer Hunter 1978
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
The Deer Hunter features bleak, psychological, serious, rough and emotional style.
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Saving Private Ryan 1998
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy three brothers lie dead on the battlefield with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Saving Private Ryan features realistic, captivating, bleak, epic and rough style.
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Fury 2014
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 quotFuryquot and its five-man ...
Fury features exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough and bleak style.
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The Thin Red Line 1998
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie who change suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
The Thin Red Line features rough, captivating, bleak, epic and surreal style.
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84C MoPic 1989
A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
84C MoPic features rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful and bleak style.
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We Were Soldiers 2002
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
We Were Soldiers features factual, serious, realistic, sincere and suspenseful style.
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The Boys in Company C 1978
Disheartened by futile combat appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they ...
The Boys in Company C features realistic, serious, exciting, rough and bleak
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Gettysburg 1993
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg site of a theology school. For three days through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and ...
Gettysburg features epic, intense, realistic, captivating and serious style.
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To End All Wars 2001
Based on a real-life story this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon Ciaran McMenamin Lt. Jim Reardon Kiefer Sutherland and Maj. Ian Campbell Robert Carlyle are ...
To End All Wars features tense, suspenseful, rough, serious and harsh style.
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Fury 2014
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 quotFuryquot and its five-man ...
Fury features tense, exciting, suspenseful, rough and bleak style.
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Platoon 1986
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Platoon features epic, realistic, rough, disturbing and emotional style.
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Johnny Got His Gun 1971
Joe a young American soldier is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms legs eyes ears mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors he ...
Johnny Got His Gun features depressing, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal and political style.
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Come and See 1985
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters against his familys wishes. There he meets a girl Glasha who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Come and See features bleak, disturbing, rough, thought provoking and political style.
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Jacobs Ladder 1990
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isnt what he believes it to be when hes attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Jacobs Ladder features surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak and scary style.
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Fight Club 1999
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on with underground quotfight clubsquot forming in every town until an eccentric gets in the ...
Fight Club features surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral and philosophical style.
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Hamburger Hill 1987
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle thats all uphill up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their ...
Hamburger Hill features cult classic, realistic, action adventure, black and white and independent film style.
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Catch-22 1970
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a quotmilitary mentalityquot and of a bureaucratic society ...
Catch-22 features dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, absurd and cult classic style.
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Birdy 1984
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through
Birdy features depressing, emotional, psychological, realistic and touching style.
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