The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.

Across the Universe

2007

English

7.3

♡ 57

53%

Julie Taymor Director

Dylan Baker as Mr. Carrigan - Lucy's Father

Linda Emond as Mrs. Carrigan - Lucy's Mother

Nikky Smedley as Sergeant

Salma Hayek as Singing Nurse

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

Full Metal Jacket

1987

English

8.2

♡ 309

90%

Stanley Kubrick Director

Tim Colceri as Doorgunner

Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy

Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence

Sal Lopez as T.H.E. Rock

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.

Point Man

2018

English

4.0

♡ 12

82%

Phil Blattenberger Director

William Shannon Williams as Colonel Abraham

Stephen Stanton as Elevator Passenger

Joshua Dela Cruz as NLF Boatman

Brandon Oakley as Pvt. Paulson

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.

Flight of the Intruder

1991

English

5.8

♡ 24

23%

John Milius Director

Rosanna Arquette as Callie

Willem Dafoe as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole

Brad Johnson as Lt. Jake' Cool Hand' Grafton

Ving Rhames as McRae

U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.

Blind Fury

1989

English

6.3

♡ 33

53%

Phillip Noyce Director

Charles Cooper as Cobb

Meg Foster as Lynn Devereaux

Noble Willingham as MacCready

Rick Overton as Tector Pike

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Spy Game

2001

English

7.1

♡ 93

64%

75%

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

cia

Crime

israeli–palestinian conflict

palestinian-israeli conflict

terrorist

Thriller

vietnam war

Tony Scott Director

Matthew Marsh as Dr. William Byars

Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth Hadley

Brad Pitt as Tom Bishop

Benedict Wong as Tran

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.

The Holdovers

2023

English

7.9

♡ 120

97%

boston, massachusetts

Alexander Payne Director

Kelly AuCoin as Hugh Cavanaugh

Michael Provost as Jason Smith

Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb

Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987

English

7.3

♡ 74

90%

Barry Levinson Director

Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer

Forest Whitaker as Edward Garlick

Noble Willingham as Gen. Taylor

Richard Edson as Pvt. Abersold

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 humor.

Oh, Canada

2024

English

5.6

♡ 13

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Paul Schrader Director

Peter Benson as Benjamin Chapman

Uma Thurman as Emma / Gloria

Richard Gere as Leo Fife

Penelope Mitchell as Sloan Ambrose / Amy

Jacob Elordi as Young Leo Fife

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

China Gate

1957

English

6.2

♡ 5

50%

Samuel Fuller Director

James Hong as Charlie

George Givot as Cpl. Pigalle

Angie Dickinson as Lucky Legs

Lee Van Cleef as Maj. Cham

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.

The Post

2017

English

7.2

♡ 680

88%

74%

Action

based on a true story

Steven Spielberg Director

Zach Woods as Anthony Essaye

Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee

Jesse Plemons as Roger Clark

Sarah Paulson as Tony Bradlee

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.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

English

8.0

♡ 2

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Dieter Dengler as Self

Eugene Deatrick as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

Born on the Fourth of July

1989

English

7.2

♡ 69

84%

76%

Action

based on a true story

Biography

Drama

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

vietnam veteran

vietnam war

War

Oliver Stone Director

Willem Dafoe as Charlie

Raymond J. Barry as Mr. Kovic

William Baldwin as Platoon - Vietnam

Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic

Brian Tarantina as Vet #2 - Miami Convention

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.

Platoon

1986

English

8.1

♡ 160

89%

Oliver Stone Director

Keith David as King

Johnny Depp as Lerner

Francesco Quinn as Rhah

Willem Dafoe as Sgt. Elias

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.

Love and Honor

2013

English

5.7

♡ 8

Danny Mooney Director

Teresa Palmer as Candace

Austin Stowell as Dalton Joiner

Liam Hemsworth as Mickey Wright

Chris Lowell as Peter

When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

House

1985

English

6.1

♡ 49

63%

Steve Miner Director

Richard Moll as Big Ben

Michael Ensign as Chet Parker

Steven Williams as Cop #4

George Wendt as Harold Gorton

Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.