Top 20 movies like The Soldier's Star
Top 20 Movies like The Soldier's Star
- 1. Russian Red
- 2. Backseat Fighter
- 3. Young Fugitives
- 4. Hannibal Brooks
- 5. Pulgasari
- 6. Bone
- 7. Catfight
- 8. Julie & Julia
- 9. The Deep End
- 10. The Man Outside
- 11. Pu-239
- 12. The Fallen Sparrow
- 13. Men Behind the Sun
- 14. Journeys from Berlin/1971
- 15. A Sister
- 16. Monos
- 17. The Samurai in Autumn
- 18. Afgan: The Soviet Experience
- 19. Red King, White Knight
- 20. Into the Fire
1. Russian Red (Vermelho Russo)
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Backseat Fighter
Mark is a nomad fighter who is taken in the backseat of a car to fight in underground combats. He meets Sandy, a young and beautiful prostitute who shares his same desire: forget the pain and begin their lives from zero. But Mark's past will catch up to him, putting in danger Sandy, his escape plan, and all the people who surround him.
It has an average vote of 4.4 on TMDB.
3. Young Fugitives
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
4. Hannibal Brooks
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Pulgasari (불가사리)
In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
6. Bone
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
7. Catfight
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
It has an average vote of 5.516 on TMDB.
8. Julie & Julia
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
It has an average vote of 6.695 on TMDB.
9. The Deep End
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
It has an average vote of 6.104 on TMDB.
10. The Man Outside
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded a Russian defector. The embittered ex-agent combines forces with another operative to deliver a top Russian secret police official for a price. Before he can deliver the Russian, a trail of corpses and double crosses changes his plans. When his partner who concocted the scheme is murdered, MacLean returns the check to the CIA. They offer him his old job back, but the proud man refuses.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Pu-239
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
12. The Fallen Sparrow
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
13. Men Behind the Sun (黑太陽731)
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
It has an average vote of 6.124 on TMDB.
14. Journeys from Berlin/1971
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
15. A Sister (Une sœur)
A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
16. Monos (Monos)
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
It has an average vote of 6.673 on TMDB.
17. The Samurai in Autumn (Јесен самураја)
Vladica lost the only thing that mattered to him - an amateur karate championship. Now he's back in his home town looking for a job, love and redemption.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
18. Afgan: The Soviet Experience
During the 1980s, Russia fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan. Shot by a Western crew, the 40 minute film includes footage of combat missions with the Spetsnaz elite units, helicopter gunship pilots from a Kabul-based Air Assault Unit flying missions, the patrolling of the Salang mountain pass and the military hospital in Kabul. Soviet General Lev Serebrov referred to the making of the film as "An experiment in glasnost".
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. Red King, White Knight
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
20. Into the Fire
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
