Regret to Inform (1999), The Fog of War (2003), First Blood (1982), Black Dynamite (2009), Hi, Mom (1970), The War at Home (1996), The 'Burbs (1989), Dead Presidents (1995) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Vietnam Vet movies.
Storyline: In 1943, the United States tests an anti-radar system to make the U.S. Navy ships invisible to the enemy. Dr. James Longstreet uses his experiment in the destroyer escort USS Eldridge that disappears from Philadelphia. The sailors David Herdeg and his best friend Jim Parker are projected to 1984, where they meet Allison Hayes. They unsuccessfully try to contact their base and out of the blue Jimmy disappears in a hospital. Allison helps David to visit Jimmy's wife Pamela, but Jimmy refuses to see him. Now David's only hope is meeting Dr. James Longstreet to learn what to do. Will he be well succeeded?
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, thrilling, passionate, new york city, vietnam war, underdog, pursuit ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Part-Indian foot fighter Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) defends coeds against outlaw bikers in a California town.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, teen girl, sheriff, biker, district attorney, deputy, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Buck Matthews (Gary Busey) is a former Vietnam veteran/ex-con recently released from the state prison. He returns to the small Midwest town where he grew up only to discover the place overrun by a large motorcycle gang bent on causing trouble. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his young daughter, Buck finds himself all alone. The corrupt town sheriff (Seymour Cassel) is unsympathetic and unwilling to help Buck (because the sheriff is under control of the biker gang leader Blade (William Smith). So, Buck decides to take matters into his own hands, With the help from a fellow Vietnam vet, Deputy J.B. Deveraux (Yaphet Kotto), as well as Buck's former cell-mate, a drug kingpin living in Miami, Buck arms himself to the teeth and wages a one-man war against the motorcyclists to destroy them once and for all.—matt-282
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, vietnam vet, wife, daughter, biker, sheriff, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns he tries to live a peaceful life in his cabin and resume dating his girlfriend, Sally. Meanwhile, a vicious cult let by Sam Raimi, who believes he is Jesus Christ, has been slaughtering people and doing blood sacrifices. When Stryker finds Sally gone, and her grandfather, Otis, used as a human dartboard, Stryker brings together his army buddies, gives them a stash of guns from under his bed, destroy an outhouse, and create a war zone not unlike Vietnam to destroy the evil cult.—Scott Hutchins <scottandrewh@home.com>
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, warrior, charles manson, american soldier, hero, psychopath, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mara, the wife who wants more... Jake, the lover she wants more of... Donny, the husband the war almost destroyed... Reed, the stranger who answers everyone's darkest prayers. Mara and Donny are the ideal couple, young, rich and attractive. Only the horrible nightmares of Vietnam that haunt Donny flaw their perfect life. The fury of artillery, the screams of the wounded, and the ominous putt-putt of choppers rage within him and suddenly, there is blood everywhere...Betrayal, deceit and murder ignite the tension. Is that only a backfire, or is someone firing back?—Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, drifter, wealthy woman, gold digger, sister, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Kreese, his life in tatters after his karate school was defeated by Daniel and Miyagi, visits Terry Silver, a Vietnam War comrade. Terry is a ruthless businessman and martial arts expert, and he vows to help Kreese gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, and reestablish Cobra Kai. Upon returning from Okinawa, Daniel and Miyagi discover that their apartment building has been demolished, which brings Miyagi out of work. Going against Miyagi's wishes, Daniel uses his college funds to realize Miyagi's dream of opening a bonsai tree shop, and becomes a partner in the bonsai business.
Plot Keywords: martial arts master, instructor, martial artist, young man, girlfriend, vietnam vet, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Air traffic controller Max Fiedler is unhappy with his career and his second marriage. An exposure to toxic waste gives him the power of telekinesis. He comes to a crossroads at a beachhouse he shares with his wife, his ex, and a voodoo priestess.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>
Plot Keywords: air traffic controller, girlfriend, vietnam vet, ex-wife, author, amusing, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) is a Vietnam vet who, having been back in the states for a few years, just can't get the hang of civilian life. Feeling marginalized and misunderstood, he decides to return to Vietnam. His hope is that he'll find purpose in his life if he can locate the child that he fathered with a Vietnamese woman years before. Knowing only that he child has green eyes, his search proves difficult, and stirs up many old memories of the war.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, government agent, orphan, brooding, uneasy, sad, saigon, vietnam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Dianna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists. Filmed in Louisiana. Nicholas Roeg ("Don't Look Now"), the original director, was replaced by Elliott Silverstein after five days of shooting. Music by Elmer Bernstein.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, wife, rapist, killer, husband, dark, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, drug dealer, gangster, brash, confident, suspenseful, mental institution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of American college students embark on an expedition looking for gold in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Their dreams quickly unravel when an unplanned detour leaves the group lost and wandering where many before them have mysteriously vanished without a trace. A terrifying night-time encounter makes them realize they are not alone. Tensions mount, as echoes of the Vietnam War follow their every step through the battle-ravaged jungle. Will they find a way out, or will they become the latest victims of a savage and bloody war? M.I.A. A Greater Evil reignites burning questions that remain unanswered from one of the most controversial wars of the 20th century.
Plot Keywords: college students, soldiers, vietnam vet, chilling, disheartening, dark, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this semi-fictionalized account of the origins of the Black Panthers, Vietnam vet Judge (Kadeem Hardison) returns to his hometown of Oakland to find it beset by violence and police discrimination against African-Americans. Judge's friend Cy tells him about a vigilante group that's organizing against the police and introduces him to its leaders, Bobby (Courtney B. Vance) and Huey (Marcus Chong). Judge joins the movement but is soon beset by police pressure to inform against Huey.
Plot Keywords: vigilante, j. edgar hoover, cop, double agent, vietnam vet, friend, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex-commando urban policeman (Lorenzo Lamas) must escape from a mental hospital to fight drug dealers.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, drug dealer, gangster, brash, confident, suspenseful, mental institution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a group of Vietnam vets holds up a bank in downtown Los Angeles, the cops close in fast, apprehending all of them except for Jack Murdock (Bo Svenson). Jack drops his cut of the money into a mailbox and, coming back later, finds he has to wait until midnight for a postman to unlock it. He lingers nearby and meets neighborhood girl Mary Jane (Cybill Shepherd) who saw him stash the loot. She wants a cut, and Jack reluctantly agrees, unaware that she's not the only one who saw him.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, bank robber, drug addict, blackmailer, pretty woman, tense, amusing ...
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