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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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Final Reprisal (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant David Callahan leads a task force of U.S. Marines on a failed mission. Five years later, working as an adviser to Thai Special Forces, he is forced to return to the Vietnamese P.O.W. camp he escaped years before, to fight a deadly duel.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 85%
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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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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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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The Last Blood (1983)
Plot Summary:
A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, cult film
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Nam's Angels (1970)
Plot Summary:
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, 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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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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Ten Zan - Ultimate Mission (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story in short: Some kind of evil people, have found out a way to extract bodily fluids from the base of the brain of unsuspecting victims. This fluid is then used for some reason or another. A couple of western heroes have to stop this in true 80's action style, big explosions and violence ensue.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, North Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Eastern Condors (1987)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook up with a trio of female freedom fighters and a happy go lucky martial artist named 'Rat'. The entire group is captured by the VC because one of them is a double agent, but they escape, cross an un-crossable bridge, and get to the secret base just ahead of the VC. By this point nearly all of the original group is dead, and it's up to Tung and Rat to fight the VC's leader, a bizarre giggling man who's lightning fast with martial arts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, grindhouse, bleak, fast, eighties
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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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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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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, rough, disturbing, perverse, cult film