Movies tagged as "vietnam"

Air America [1990, USA ] starting from $1.99

The Few. The Proud. The Totally Insane.

Genres: Action, Comedy Actors: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant, Lane Smith, Art LaFleur, Ned Eisenberg, Marshall Bell, David Bowe, Burt Kwouk, Tim Thomerson, Harvey Jason, Sinjai Plengpanit, Natta Nantatanti, Directors: Roger Spottiswoode Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, "I'm used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don't even make the top ten." There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots.

Apocalypse Now [1979, USA ] starting from $1.99

The Horror. . . The Horror. . .

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War Actors: Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall Directors: Francis Ford Coppola, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Bat*21 [1988, USA ] starting from $1.99

Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.

Genres: Drama, War Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner, Erich Anderson, Joe Dorsey, Reverend Michael Ng, Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong, Don Ruffin, Scott Howell, Michael Raden, Timothy Fitzgerald, Stuart B. Hagen, Jeffrey Baxter Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, an expert in missile weaponry. Because of his knowledge, it is crucial to rescue him before the Vietcong get their hands on him. It's a very difficult task because the enemy is listening to Hambleton's radio transmissions. And he knows it...

Battle of Long Tan [2006, Australia ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Documentary Actors: Sam Worthington Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger's situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.

Big Wednesday [1978, USA ] starting from $1.99

Three friends. Twelve Turbulent Years. And One Day We All Must Face.

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell, Sam Melville, Darrell Fetty, Gerry Lopez, Hank Worden, Joe Spinell, Steve Kanaly, Barbara Hale, Fran Ryan, Dennis Aaberg, Reb Brown, Directors: John Milius Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The lives of some California surfers from the early '60s to the '70s.

Blind Fury [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

He may be blind but he don't need no dog.

Genres: Action Actors: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Rick Overton, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Charles Cooper, Meg Foster, Shô Kosugi, Paul James Vasquez, Julia González, Woody Watson, Alex Morris, Directors: Phillip Noyce Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Nick Parker was a Vietnam vet who got blinded during the war. He would be found by one of the local tribes. They would teach how to handle a sword. He would eventually become quite good with it. He would then return to the States and would visit an old Army buddy. When he gets there, he discovers that he and his wife are divorced. What they don't know is that he (his friend) was playing in a crooked casino in Vegas, and accumulated a large debt. The owner's willing to forget his debt, if he does something for him. His friend is a chemist and they want him to make some designer drugs, and in order to make sure he does it they try and kidnap his son. But lucky Nick is there, Nick saves his son but not his wife. He and the boy begin a road trip for Vegas to save his father, with the owner's people in pursuit.

Bobby [2006, USA ] starting from $1.99

He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.

Genres: Drama Actors: Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Born on the Fourth of July [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

A story of innocence lost and courage found.

Genres: Biography, Drama, War Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman, Anne Bobby, Samantha Larkin, Tom Berenger, Frank Whaley, Jerry Levine, Richard Panebianco, Rob Camilletti, Stephen Baldwin, Michael McTighe, Richard Haus, Directors: Oliver Stone Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Casualties of War [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

Even in war... murder is murder.

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War Actors: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Thuy Thu Le, Erik King, Jack Gwaltney, Ving Rhames, Dan Martin, Dale Dye, Steve Larson, John Linton, Vyto Ruginis, Al Shannon, Directors: Brian De Palma Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

Exterminator, The [1980, USA ] starting from $1.99

A one man army. A new kind of soldier in a new kind of war. [Video] [Australia]

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Cindy Wilks, Dennis Boutsikaris, Roger Grimsby, Judy Licht, Stan Getz, George Cheung, Directors: James Glickenhaus Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   When John Eastland's best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland's life in Vietnam and now it's time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name "The Exterminator."

Forrest Gump [1994, USA ] starting from $1.99

The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Rebecca Williams, Michael Conner Humphreys, Harold G. Herthum, George Kelly, Bob Penny, John Randall, Sam Anderson, Margo Moorer, Ione M. Telech, Christine Seabrook Directors: Robert Zemeckis, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

Full Metal Jacket [1987, USA ] starting from $1.99

Acclaimed by critics as the best war movie ever made

Genres: Drama, War Actors: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard, Arliss Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Tim Colceri, Jon Stafford, Bruce Boa, Ian Tyler Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle's torment and Joker's unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker's psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

Go Tell the Spartans [1978, USA ] starting from $1.99

Skirmishes, Ambushes And Boobytraps Explode Into The Most Savage War That Ever Scorched A Land

Genres: Drama, War Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, David Clennon, Evan C. Kim, John Megna, Hilly Hicks, Dolph Sweet, Clyde Kusatsu, James Hong, Denice Kumagai, Tad Horino, Directors: Ted Post Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.

Jacknife [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

Three buddies in Vietnam. Two survived. Only one is really alive.

Genres: Drama Actors: Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris, Sloane Shelton, Ivar Brogger, Michael Arkin, Tom Isbell, Kirk Taylor, Jordan Lund, Charles S. Dutton, Bruce Ramsay, Jessalyn Gilsig, George Gerdes, Josh Pais, Lois Dellar, Directors: David Hugh Jones Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

Karate Kid, Part III, The [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

First it was teacher to student. Then it was father to son. Now, it's man to man.

Genres: Action, Family, Sport Actors: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith, Martin Kove, Sean Kanan, Jonathan Avildsen, Randee Heller, Christopher Paul Ford, Pat E. Johnson, Rick Hurst, Frances Bay, Joseph V. Perry, Jan Triska, Diana Webster, Directors: John G. Avildsen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   After Daniel and Miyagi defeats the Cobra Kais, and after Miyagi humiliates their master, Kreese. All of his students desert him and he hasn't had any new ones. Kreese decides to close the dojo, he then goes to to his friend, Terry, who is also the dojo's owner, to turn the keys, and announces that he is leaving town. Terry decides to send him on a vacation and before he leaves, he tells Kreese that he is going to get Daniel and Miyagi. Part of his plan is to recruit a deadly karate fighter, Mike Barnes to fight Daniel in the tournament, he then pretends to be a friend of Kreese, who wants to "apologize" for Kreese disgraceful behavior. When Daniel's invited to participate in the Karate tournament that he won last year, Miyagi believes that it's not a priority. So Terry offers to train Daniel but in reality, he is putting Daniel through a gruelling training regimen as part of his plan. And Daniel's constantly being hounded by Barnes. Eventually all of the training that Terry puts Daniel through and Barnes' hounding, causes a rift between Daniel and Miyagi.