Tags: movies similar to G.I. Samurai (1979) - full list
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | fantastic, action |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:30 |
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, adventure |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:53 |
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure |
Country | USA, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:40 |
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, adventure |
Country | USA, Japan, Hong Kong |
Duration | 02:05 |
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential his brother, and his fiancée's father, Admiral Shane, expect of him.
Mark | imdb: 4.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure |
Country | USA, Lithuania, Italy |
Duration | 01:26 |
Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military |
Country | USA |
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | fantastic, action, adventure, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine that was once defeated thousands of years ago. The order that awaited it's return must now lead a small group of soldiers to destroy it once and for all.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 02:18 |
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | Netherlands |
Duration | 02:25 |
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, fantasy, drama, adventure, history |
Country | China, Hong Kong |
Duration | 02:01 |
Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:32 |
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together they take on the forces of Ruechang... Written by Zorteper -
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:22 |
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | USA, Japan |
Duration | 02:15 |
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes, who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Mark | imdb: 2.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an imaginative scrap metal worker (Richard Roundtree), Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war...if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear. "You all be cool now," the good-guy hero tells two crime victims he rescues. There'll be a lot of thrillin' before Steel himself can start chillin.'
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, military |
Country | USA |
International Flight 42 is on course, when all of a sudden a massive and weird storm crops up around the plane. This sends the plane back in time to the year 1940- smack dab in the middle of WWII! Now, the crew and passengers must not only find a way back to their time, but fight off the Axis powers.
Mark | imdb: 3.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA, Japan |
Duration | 01:20 |
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, drama |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:53 |
By the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:08 |
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
Mark | imdb: 3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:21 |
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:20 |
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.
Mark | imdb: 3.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military |
Country | Russia |
Very little time has passed since the beginning of World War II. The young captain of the ship receives a crucial task - to deliver a secret cargo. But besides this, prisoners are brought on board. During swimming, convicts riot. At the same time, an enemy aircraft is circling the ship. In this difficult moment, the crew of the ship have to join forces with the prisoners, because this is the only way to resist death...
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:16 |
In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.
Mark | imdb: 4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:36 |
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:37 |
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller |
Country | United Kingdom, South Africa |
Duration | 01:30 |
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | fantastic, action |
Country | USA |
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
Mark | imdb: 3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
A fanatical animal rights activist releases giant pythons into the Everglades, believing the wild animals should be set free. When they start decimating the native animal population, an over-zealous park ranger feeds experimental steroids to wild alligators so they can fight back. The giant pythons and gargantuan alligators go on a killing spree, and it is now left up to the two feuding women to put aside their differences to put a stop to the creatures and the destruction.
Mark | imdb: 3.1 |
Genre | fantastic, action |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:24 |
After the American Army shot down a UFO in 1947, generations of elite commandos were secretly trained to deal with the aliens' feared return. However, the extra-terrestrials never came back and the elite force was disbanded. Sixty-six years after the Roswell crash, the aliens are invading Earth and only the over-the-hill retired commandos can stop them.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, adventure |
Country | USA, Italy |
Duration | 01:34 |
A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.