Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "military-discharge"

1. Taxi Driver (1976)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks

Votes: 921,786 | Gross: $28.26M

2. The Contractor (2022)

R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A discharged U.S. Special Forces sergeant, James Harper, risks everything for his family when he joins a private contracting organization.

Director: Tarik Saleh | Stars: Chris Pine, Gillian Jacobs, Sander Thomas, Toby Dixon

Votes: 28,843

3. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryô Kase

Votes: 170,148 | Gross: $13.76M

4. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels

Votes: 101,333 | Gross: $31.56M

5. Tigerland (2000)

R | 101 min | Drama, War

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry

Votes: 43,372 | Gross: $0.14M

6. Bedtime Story (1964)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy

Two scam artists preying on women for their money clash in a Mediterranean hot spot. Will the cultured, high-class con artist come out on top, or will the rough small-change scammer rise to win the wager?

Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman

Votes: 2,359 | Gross: $6.54M

7. Sonny (2002)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama

An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.

Director: Nicolas Cage | Stars: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 4,576 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Bitter Rice (1949)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone

Votes: 4,883

9. Stolen Kisses (1968)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale

Votes: 15,111

10. The Great Impostor (1960)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 1,711

11. The Long Haul (1957)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson

Votes: 993

12. Bombers B-52 (1957)

Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War

Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Votes: 919

13. A Separate Peace (2004 TV Movie)

R | 92 min | Drama, War

Strong friendship between students slowly turns into bitter rivalry with fatal consequences.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow

Votes: 659

14. Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995 TV Movie)

91 min | Biography, Drama

The true story of a decorated officer's legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena

Votes: 1,192

15. Zombie ja Kummitusjuna (1991)

88 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the ... See full summary »

Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Silu Seppälä, Marjo Leinonen, Matti Pellonpää, Vieno Saaristo

Votes: 1,125

16. Task Force (1949)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, War

As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,189

17. Let There Be Light (1980)

Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary, War

A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Walter Huston, Benjamin Simon

Votes: 2,027

18. Munro (1961)

9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.

Director: Gene Deitch | Stars: Howard Morris, Seth Deitch, Marie Deitch, Jules Feiffer

Votes: 595

19. Angelos (1982)

R | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.

Director: Giorgos Katakouzinos | Stars: Michalis Maniatis, Dionysis Xanthos, Katerina Helmy, Vasilis Tsaglos

Votes: 430

20. The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter

Votes: 270

21. Crazylegs (1953)

Approved | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs, James Millican

Votes: 193

22. What Am I Bid? (1967)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Pat Hubbard (Leroy VanDyke), following his San Diego discharge from the Navy, is on a bus returning to the family ranch in Phoenix Arizona, and has a stop-over in Hollywood. He goes to the ... See full summary »

Director: Gene Nash | Stars: Leroy VanDyke, Kristin Harmon, Stephanie Hill, Bill Craig

Votes: 16

23. The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (2011)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History

The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don't ask, don't tell» where sexual orientation was a "non-talk" policy in the American forces, leading to 13.368 getting kicked out before 2011.

Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Mike Mullen, John McCain

Votes: 225

24. Smithy (1924)

Not Rated | 24 min | Comedy, Short

After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds employment at a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon... See full summary »

Directors: George Jeske, Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, William Gillespie, Jack Ackroyd

Votes: 244

25. Laban kung laban (1986)

84 min | Action, Drama

Jilted by his girlfriend for a guy her parents approve of, a young man joins forces with an older man avenging his brother's death in fighting their community's Powers That Be.

Director: Romy Suzara | Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Beth Bautista, Ronaldo Valdez, Liz Alindogan

26. A Hitch in Time (1955)

6 min | Animation, Short

A US Air Force pilot, about to be discharged, talks with a gremlin about the reasons for either re-entering civilian life, or extending their terms of service.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 132

27. The Big Valley (1965–1969)
Episode: The Buffalo Man (1967)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Convict labor is used at the ranch during harvest time. The men are treated sadistically by their guard, especially an ex-slave who served in a special unit during the Civil War.

Director: Joe Mazzuca | Stars: Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans

Votes: 89

28. The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956–1957)
Episode: The Army Game (1956)

Drama

Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Paul Newman, Edward Andrews, Philip Abbott, George Grizzard

Votes: 19

29. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Undertaken (2006)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

A funeral handyman is found dead underneath a parked car in Paterson, New Jersey. Although a medical examiner rules the death an accident, three years of investigation and a second autopsy prove it was murder.

Director: Michael Jordan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Jovis DePognon, Richard Falcone, Diane Haines

Votes: 72

30. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler (2010)

46 min | Documentary, Crime

Raised amidst extreme family violence and honed within reform school and the U.S. Army, Albert DeSalvo would become The Boston Strangler.

Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Christopher Slade, F. Lee Bailey, Gregg Barrack, Steve Delaney

Votes: 23

31. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021)

TV-14 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard: How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way ... See full summary »

Director: Jamila Ephron | Stars: Eliza Briggs, Nathaniel Briggs, Mary James Cottrell, Joseph A. DeLaine Jr.

Votes: 106

32. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: The Wounded Platoon (2010)

TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, News

Frontline investigates the violence, depression, and stress exhibited by a platoon of Iraq War veterans whose members who have committed murder, assault, and suicide.

Director: Daniel Edge | Stars: Robert Alvarez, Jose Barco, Bruce Bastien, George Brandt

Votes: 41

33. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

34. Pan Am (2011–2012)
Episode: Eastern Exposure (2011)

TV-PG | 41 min | Drama, History, Romance

After a last minute change sends the crew on a flight to Rangoon, a routine courier mission for Kate turns harrowing as she struggles to make a drop by the deadline. Meanwhile, Maggie takes... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse

Votes: 301

35. Valor (2017–2018)
Episode: Costs of War (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama

Nora is ready to confess despite the consequences. Ian is blindsided by an ugly truth.

Director: Gregory Prange | Stars: Christina Ochoa, Matt Barr, Charlie Barnett, Nigel Thatch

Votes: 104

36. Barry (2018–2023)
Episode: What?! (2019)

TV-MA | 34 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Barry's patience is put to the test when a figure from Sally's past arrives in LA. Gene gets a pleasant surprise and encourages Barry to believe that change is possible.

Director: Liza Johnson | Stars: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan

Votes: 5,145