Top 20 movies like Deadly Nam
Top 20 Movies like Deadly Nam
- 1. Platoon
- 2. Good Morning, Vietnam
- 3. Born on the Fourth of July
- 4. Rain
- 5. Hamburger Hill
- 6. Rescue Dawn
- 7. Uncommon Valor
- 8. Air America
- 9. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
- 10. Mickey Never Came Back
- 11. Bullet in the Head
- 12. Coordinates of Death
- 13. The Veteran
- 14. Casualties of War
- 15. The Quiet American
- 16. We Were Soldiers
- 17. Soldier Warriors
- 18. The Forgotten
- 19. Full Metal Jacket
- 20. Spy Game
1. Platoon
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
2. Good Morning, Vietnam
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humour.
It has an average vote of 7.309 on TMDB.
3. Born on the Fourth of July
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
It has an average vote of 7.009 on TMDB.
4. Rain
A German Shepherd Dog named Rain is trained to fight in the Vietnam War and his intelligence and courage in the face of adversity wins the respect and loyalty of his platoon.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
5. Hamburger Hill
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
It has an average vote of 6.563 on TMDB.
6. Rescue Dawn
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
It has an average vote of 6.948 on TMDB.
7. Uncommon Valor
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
It has an average vote of 6.215 on TMDB.
8. Air America
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, 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.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
9. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
10. Mickey Never Came Back
A soldier in the Vietnam war must test his morality between his country and his friends.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Bullet in the Head (喋血街頭)
Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
12. Coordinates of Death (Координаты смерти)
The story of a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk during the Vietnam War.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
13. The Veteran
Thirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
14. Casualties of War
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
It has an average vote of 7.145 on TMDB.
15. The Quiet American
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
16. We Were Soldiers
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
It has an average vote of 7.139 on TMDB.
17. Soldier Warriors
The American army sends a group of unscrupulous convicts on a life or death mission to locate and destroy a radio station in the heart of the Vietcong.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
18. The Forgotten
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
19. Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
It has an average vote of 8.134 on TMDB.
20. Spy Game
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
It has an average vote of 6.916 on TMDB.
