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Plot Summary:
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
Plot Summary:
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, satirical
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Iron Eagle IV (1995)
Plot Summary:
While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, romantic, sexy, feel good
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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Human Shield (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, bleak, serious, cult film
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Soar Into the Sun (2012)
Plot Summary:
After he performs a dangerous dare-devil stunt at an air show, South Korean Air Force pilot Tae-hun is kicked out of the elite Black Eagles flying team and transferred to a combat unit where he immediately comes into conflict with ace pilot Cheol-hui. He makes friends with the other pilots in the unit and falls in love with the beautiful Se-young, who is in charge of maintenance, but his antics soon cause the entire unit to be suspended from duty. When a North Korean MIG fighter threatens, the group is called back into a gripping dogfight that leaves one comrade dead and another missing. Cheol-hui and Tae-hun join forces to rescue their missing friend and prevent a catastrophic war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, emotional, serious, tense, captivating, realistic
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Death Before Dishonor (1987)
Plot Summary:
Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational, clever, unusual plot structure
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Sky Fighters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Les Chevaliers du ciel (English: Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo – of Astérix fame, which was also made into a hugely successful TV series from 1967 to 1969 making Tanguy and Laverdure, the two main heroes, part of popular Francophone culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Iron Eagle (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, sincere, fast, surprise ending
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Fire Birds (1990)
Plot Summary:
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a cartel leader, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting, suspense, independent film, double entendre, dark comedy, sexy
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Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Black Thunder (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the top secret prototype of the Nova Stealth fighter has been stolen, the Pentagon launches big alarm; the plane shouldn't come into hostile hands.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, black comedy
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Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
Plot Summary:
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Israel
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Blue Max (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexy, clever, brutal, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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The Delta Force (1986)
Plot Summary:
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) has been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, funny, action thriller, independent film, rough, serious, realistic
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Torpedo Bombers (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Mosquito Squadron (1969)
Plot Summary:
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Soldiers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close quarter combat and a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Eagles Over London (1969)
Plot Summary:
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014)
Plot Summary:
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, perverse, bleak
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, romantic, clever, feel good
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Bat*21 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, harsh, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, sentimental, light
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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Aces High (1976)
Plot Summary:
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Fortress (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
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Flyboys (2006)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, exciting, realistic, factual, epic, suspenseful, period piece, historical drama, rough, serious
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 646000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, entertaining, saga, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, epic, emotional, sad, predictable
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: epic, factual, talky, intense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, political, patriotic
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Memphis Belle (1990)
Plot Summary:
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, emotional, rough, serious, inspirational, suspense, intense, period piece, realistic
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Plot Summary:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, patriotic, dieselpunk, spectacular, sincere, serious, black comedy
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Red Tails (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action packed, historical drama, retro, disgusting, uplifting