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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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Spyder (1988)
Plot Summary:
Filipino war flick.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film, cult film
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Final Mission (1984)
Plot Summary:
When his family are murdered Vietnam War veteran, Vince Deacon, tracks down the man responsible for the murders and to get his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Crime, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, 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
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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
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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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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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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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Tigershark (1987)
Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Emmett Alston.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 98 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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Fist of Glory (1991)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam. The last days of the war. A crack squad of Army special forces commandos led by Johnny Reynolds undertakes an unauthorized combat mission behind enemy lines with disasterous results.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Quiet Cool (1986)
Plot Summary:
This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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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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Field of Fire (1991)
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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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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American Commandos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end up in a world of hurt. They try robbing his beloved gas station, and then they go after his family. Big mistake.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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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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No Rest for the Wicked (1998)
Plot Summary:
Father William is an ambitious Catholic priest and former Vietnam veteran sucked into a world of crime, drugs, and duplicity. He investigates the murder of an old army buddy of his which leads him to a mysterious femme fatal, named Angelica. She draws him into a world of surreal weirdness while helping him look for his friend's killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent 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 Annihilators (1985)
Plot Summary:
Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of the gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, hood, independent 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
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Angels from Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
Mike (Tom Stern), a biker, returns to California after serving in Vietnam. He uses his war-hero experience to organize a new, united super outlaw gang. When one member is shot by police because he killed a girl at a pot orgy, an all-out cop vs. biker war results. Music by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and the Lollipop Shoppe.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Plot Summary:
Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, nostalgic, cult film
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The Last American Soldier (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jungle action from the glorious period of Rambo ripoffs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult classic, funny, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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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 2: The Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic