The Last Picture Show (1971), Big Fish (2003), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Pickup on South Street (1953), Thank You for Smoking (2005), MASH (1970), Gods and Monsters (1998), The Young Philadelphians (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Korean War movies.
Storyline: Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: summer, title spoken by character, character name in title, based on novel, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Plot Keywords: coffee, brushing teeth, dysfunctional family, bartender, neighbor, father in law son in law relationship, search ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphroditic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it.
Plot Keywords: profanity, police detective, bible, crisis of faith, satan, fictional war, apocalypse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During an evacuation in the waning days of the Korean War, three American soldiers retrieve an enemy airman and take him prisoner aboard the civilian ship returning them to their lines. When an order comes down from their superiors to kill the prisoner, the sergeant in charge, Briscoe, orders his men, Dennison and Hackett, to carry out the execution. But first one and then the other refuse to follow the order. A tense stand-off ensues between the seemingly heartless sergeant and his conscience-stricken men.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: korean war, pow, based on novel, pilot, american soldier, ship, order ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin, a widowed physician from mainland China. As the pair fall in love, they encounter disapproval from both her family and his friends about their interracial romance. Although the film was a commercial success upon release, the casting of Jones in an Asian role has since been criticized.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: korean war, tragic love, bare chested male, tragic event, hong kong, blockbuster, cigarette smoking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II and contacts singer/dancer Dixie Leonard for help. They become the perfect team and tour from North Africa to the Pacific to perform for "the boys." They continue their work after the war, but when Eddie fires author Silver for getting involved in McCarthy's campaign, Dixie also turns away from him.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: singer, entertainer, dancer, korean war, song, singing, concert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mac's plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. His neighbors have built a home for Mac and his devoted wife and their three children. Now he has an offer to test pilot new Sabre Jets. His wife is uneasy but knows she cannot ground her man.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: death of friend, war hero, world war two, three word title, military police, parachute, mother daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: orphanage, colonel, biblical quote, pregnant woman, sculptor, sergeant, candy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: independent film, winter, farmhouse, racism, racial issues, racial slur, stretcher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then the Korean War begins, and the Greer family starts to worry: kid brother Jack, courting the lovely daughter of the draft board chairman, is next on the list. A character study examining American attitudes of that era.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: military draft, father son relationship, conscience, connecticut, college student, beer, basic training ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.—WesternWildcard
Plot Keywords: submarine, world war two, u.s. navy, survivor, u.s. military, naval officer, guilty conscience ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes in Ryker's innocence and pleads for a new trial.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: nco, commanding officer, lawyer, defector, traitor, u.s. army, year 1950 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Jangsari Landing Operation, 772 student soldiers - whose average age was 17 and who received just 2 weeks of boot camp training - were tossed into Korean War effort in order to pave the way for Incheon Landing Operation, which turned the tide of war.—AnonymusB
Plot Keywords: korea, cousin, shot in the back, shot to death, shot repeatedly, ambush, punched in the face ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops? This movie was filmed mostly on location at Fort Bliss, Texas in El Paso.—Vincent Merlaud <merlaud@studi.mathematik.hu-berlin.de>
Plot Keywords: love interest, military, u.s. army, korean war, hero, war hero, blood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron. In flashbacks, he recalls the arrival of the squadron, led by Executive Officer Joe Rodgers, and the campaigns in which the squadron participated and its desperate fight for survival prior to the climax of the war.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: airplane shot down, u.s. military, killed in action, world war two, u.s. navy, naval officer, aerial combat ...
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