Highest-Rated Movies about 'Laos', Sort by Popularity
River (2015), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Rescue Dawn (2006), Air America (1990), Uncommon Valor (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Laos movies.
#1. River (2015)
Storyline: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman.
Plot Keywords: volunteer, doctor, american man, gripping, dark, gritty, laos ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Storyline: In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: pilot, villager, soldier, filmmaker, inspiring, powerful, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Rescue Dawn (2006)
Storyline: In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisoners and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.
Plot Keywords: pilot, prisoner, survivor, military officer, prisoner of war, thrilling, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Air America (1990)
Storyline: Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Plot Keywords: pilot, cia agent, viet cong, soldier, madcap, brash, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!#5. Uncommon Valor (1983)
Storyline: Col. Cal Rhodes (Gene Hackman), a retired Marine officer, holds out hope that his son, believed to be a prisoner of war in Laos, is still alive. Despite the government's refusal to help Rhodes, he assembles a group to find and rescue his son, including skilled soldiers such as Wilkes (Fred Ward) and Sailor (Randall "Tex" Cobb). Funded by MacGregor (Robert Stack), a wealthy executive also looking for his son, Rhodes leads his men on a dangerous mission into the jungles of Laos.
Plot Keywords: colonel, marine, soldier, prisoner of war, gutsy, tense, texas ...
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