20 best movies like G.I. Samurai (1979)

List of the best movies like G.I. Samurai (1979): Samurai Commando Mission 1549, Edge of Tomorrow, Fantastic Four, Battle of Los Angeles, Ender's Game, The 25th Reich, Battleship, American Warships, War of the Dead, Spectral.

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Markimdb: 5
Genrefantastic, action
CountryJapan
Duration01:30

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.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:53

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration02:40

    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.

    Markimdb: 1.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:25

    In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Japan, Hong Kong
    Duration02:05

      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.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, military
      CountryUSA

      When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Lithuania, Italy
      Duration01:26

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, Hungary
      Duration01:59

        A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:40

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
        CountryJapan
        Duration02:18

        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.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
        CountryNetherlands
        Duration02:25

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure, history
        CountryChina, Hong Kong
        Duration02:01

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
        Duration02:06

        When a kid accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled female scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        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 -

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

        Markimdb: 1.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA

        Set on an island in an undisclosed location, a top secret U.S. government program to create genetically modified super soldiers goes awry when the unstable test subjects escape from their holding cells and wreak havoc.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:15

        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.

        Markimdb: 2.9
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:37

        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.'

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA, China

        After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        The American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes commanded by Robert Mitchum, detects a German U-Boat, commanded by Curt Jürgens, resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, military
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration01:20

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:53

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:08

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        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.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
        CountryRussia

        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...

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:16

        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.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUnited 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.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.

        Markimdb: 8.4
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:36

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:37

        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.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
        Duration01:30

        A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Singapore
        Duration01:28

        Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        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.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Italy
        Duration01:34

        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.




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