Vietnam movies are fantastic

List of the best Vietnamese science fiction movies selected by visitors to our site: A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, Monsoon, The Post, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Last Days in Vietnam, Just to Be Sure, All the Way, Alice's Restaurant, Tunnel Rats, Some Kind of Hero.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, family
CountryUSA

Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Kit can’t remember much of his native Vietnam. When he returns to the Land of the Golden Star for the first time in over thirty years, he takes in his local surroundings as any Western tourist would, and the environment is as exotic as the language is incomprehensible. The aim of Kit’s travels – to find a place to scatter his parents’ ashes – thus becomes part of a journey back to his roots and to the discovery of his identity, which external circumstances have rendered ambiguous and complex.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:31

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, military, history
CountryUSA

A man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:06

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryCanada, Germany

During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, military
CountryFrance

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Daryll Deever is a janitor in an office building in New York, and a big fan of TV news reporter, Tony Sokolow. When a rich man is murdered in Daryll's building, Tony comes to cover the story and Daryll introduces himself to her. Thinking he may know something about the crime, Tony pursues him, and in order to keep seeing her, he pretends that he does. As the two of them play this game, the killers are watching, assuming that Daryll and Tony both know more about the crime than they do.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:43

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountryUSA

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
CountryHong Kong
Duration02:16

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, documentary, military, biography
CountryGermany, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:20

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?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
CountryChina, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration02:16

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight."

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later they continue their work but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthy's campaign and is being fired by Eddie, Dixie turns away from him, too.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, comedy, military
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration02:01

    Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes but, unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration01:30

    A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryAustralia

    Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:14

    At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take on the war. While Dickerson attempts to censor Cronauer's broadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationship with a Vietnamese girl named Trinh, who shows him the horrors of war first-hand.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, comedy, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:35

    A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:34

    John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return—the jungles of Vietnam.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genreaction
    CountryUSA

    A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, military
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:05

    Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960s.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryHong Kong, USA
    Duration02:05

    Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska this remake of the 1984 original (based on Stephen King's 1977 short story) centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who worship an entity known as He Who Walks Behind The Rows, which had years earlier manipulated the children into killing every adult in town.




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