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Plot Summary:
Sergeant Thomas Duncan takes his men behind enemy lines to recover a secret government fighter copter and its pilot, a secret weapon all his own. But once stationed in the dense jungle brush of Vietnam, their radio goes out all hope of contacting their home base is out, and it is up to Duncan and his men to get to the hook up point by the agreed time. A traitor in the home camp is sending messages to the enemy side; Duncan must hurry!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Brothers in Blood (1987)
Plot Summary:
Another war movie from Italy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 85%
Coyote Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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War Without End (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rambosploitation madness from director Teddy Page.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
Cobra Mission (1986)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Vietnam Texas (1990)
Plot Summary:
A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, cult film
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The Expendables (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to save the American hostages.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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There Is No 13 (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Devastator (1986)
Plot Summary:
This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Killzone (1985)
Plot Summary:
It turns awry for a Vietnam veteran with problems during an exercise at a survival camp, and he believes that he is back in Vietnam. He kills many of the leaders whom he believes is the Vietcong. The other participants venture out to find him and catch him before he injures or kills any more. The camp holds that against have no plans to capture him alive. Is this going out, he namely major problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rescue Team (1983)
Plot Summary:
Richard Harrison stars as a super tough CIA agent in this over-the-top action-packed Filipino jungle action flick. Bloody violence, a jungle full of bamboo death traps and some double crossing keeps things more than interesting and a definite must for fans of Filipino exploitation action.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Firehawk (1993)
Plot Summary:
During a daring mission in Vietnam, a helicoptor squadron is downed. While the soldiers try to escape capture by the Viet Cong, clues that the copter was sabotaged lead to brutal infighting, as they search for the traitor among them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Intrusion: Cambodia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag group is assembled for a secret mission into Cambodia, led by legendary special forces commando Richard Harrison.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Phantom Soldiers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been using US-made arms for massacring villages and killing unarmed civilians. Daniel goes out on his own into the jungles of Vietnam to find his brother and stop these killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Warbus (1985)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Thailand, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Operation Warzone (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad of U.S. troops seek out a mysterious agent hiding out in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam whom has classified documents that could win the war.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Jungle Heat (1985)
Plot Summary:
Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US is running low on drivers for their supplies so they bring in a new lot of recruits and have to train them to survive in the dangers of wartorn Vietnam. The recruits are trained briefly by an American officer but are quickly handed off to their South Vietnamese officers and are made to go out into the dangers of Vietnam without getting the protection they need by the Americans who are more concerned with withdrawing their own troops instead of protecting the South Vietnamese.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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A Mission to Kill (1992)
Plot Summary:
His activities in Viet Nam would be denied by the U S Government. Only two others providing similar service returned to the states. Now he's getting mental help in a military institution, escapes, and must be recaptured.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: cult film
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Point Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, serious, suspense
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Killer Instinct (1987)
Plot Summary:
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Kill Zone (1993)
Plot Summary:
An American colonel will pay any price to defeat the Viet Cong. When his unauthorized fighting force in Cambodia is discovered, he becomes a one man army, fighting a war of his own for a cause he knows is just.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Walking Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense, cult film
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Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local tough-girl Rosanna Boom, is dispatched by the CIA to recapture Jenkins and put a stop to his heroin-smuggling captors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, cult film
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Nam Angels (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Strike Commando (1987)
Plot Summary:
While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he escapes to continue his mission despite being hampered by a traitor in his own ranks.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, campy, cult film
Similar in 88%
Behind Enemy Lines (1986)
Plot Summary:
Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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White Ghost (1988)
Plot Summary:
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, serious, realistic, cult film
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Dune Warriors (1991)
Plot Summary:
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, perverse, psychotronic, independent film, neo western
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, cult film
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Missing in Action (1984)
Plot Summary:
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film