20 best movies like Some Kind of Hero (1982)

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Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA

Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.

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: 5.1
Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, family, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:20

Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
Duration02:11

    Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

    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: 6.4
    Genredrama, crime, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.

    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: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:31

    Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Doc and his old buddies take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire. Along the way, the three men find themselves reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.

    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: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:08

    He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

    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: 6.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration01:46

    In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

      Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, adventure, family, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:37

      In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA

      West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.

      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: 6
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a high school teacher's dark secret.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:02

      A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA

      A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA, Luxembourg
      Duration02:00

      A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, drama, crime, military
      CountryRussia

      Vadim Uporov is desperate to escape from the Gulag. He tries and tries - again and again...

      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: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

      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: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

      In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:44

      Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, West Germany
      Duration01:47

      A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
      CountryWest Germany, USA
      Duration02:01

      "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA

      The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA

      Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA, Croatia, Mexico
      Duration01:40

      An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to escape to. Included among the prisoners is the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed to established a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every day. His nemesis is Lt. Robin Grey, the camp Provost who attempts to keep good order and discipline. He knows that King is breaking camp rules by bartering with the Japanese but can't quite get the evidence he needs to stop him. King soon forms a friendship with Lt. Peter Marlowe an upper class British officer who is fascinated with King's élan and no rules approach to life...

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Romania
      Duration01:43

      While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama, military, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris




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