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1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 712,059 | Gross: $83.47M
2. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Votes: 497,029 | Gross: $659.68M
3. Moonraker (1979)
PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel
Votes: 108,973 | Gross: $70.31M
4. Dr. No (1962)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 179,720 | Gross: $16.07M
5. Rambo (2008)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
Votes: 244,977 | Gross: $42.75M
6. Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna
Votes: 97,597 | Gross: $38.91M
7. Striking Distance (1993)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.
Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 45,612 | Gross: $23.80M
8. In Harm's Way (1965)
Approved | 165 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon
Votes: 10,362 | Gross: $4.20M
9. Black Book (2006)
R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Votes: 80,653 | Gross: $4.40M
10. To Have and Have Not (1944)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran
Votes: 38,067
11. Sea Patrol (2007–2011)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Following the crew of the patrol boat HMAS Hammersley, as they patrol the northern sea border of Australia. They have to deal with foreign fishermen poaching fish, smugglers and with political unrest in a neighbouring island state.
Stars: John Batchelor, Matthew Holmes, Lisa McCune, Kristian Schmid
Votes: 2,646
12. McHale's Navy (1962–1966)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War
The misadventures of a misfit PT boat crew during World War II.
Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine
Votes: 3,278
13. The Water Horse (2007)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Emily Watson, David Morrissey, Alex Etel, Bruce Allpress
Votes: 43,052 | Gross: $40.41M
14. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Task Force 141 faces its greatest threat yet - a newly aligned menace with deep, yet unknown, connections.
Director: Jeffrey Keith Negus | Stars: Alain Mesa, Barry Sloane, Ramon Fernandez, Claudia Doumit
Votes: 3,067
15. They Were Expendable (1945)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Votes: 9,276
16. American Renegades (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A team of Navy SEALs discover an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake of Nazi stolen Gold. An updated Kellys heroes.
Director: Steven Quale | Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Charlie Bewley, Sylvia Hoeks, Joshua Henry
Votes: 11,488
17. Missing in Action (1984)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, David Tress, Lenore Kasdorf
Votes: 16,597 | Gross: $22.81M
18. The Secret Invasion (1964)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes
Votes: 1,324
19. Night Ambush (1957)
Unrated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas
Votes: 1,986
20. McHale's Navy (1997)
PG | 108 min | Action, Comedy
A retired Navy officer returns to active duty, along with a group of misfit sailors, to battle his former nemesis.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, Ernest Borgnine, Debra Messing
Votes: 7,113 | Gross: $4.53M
21. Above Us the Waves (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,636
22. PT 109 (1963)
Approved | 140 min | Biography, Drama, War
President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin, James Gregory
Votes: 3,000
23. A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Approved | 152 min | Drama, Romance, War
An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
Directors: Charles Vidor, John Huston | Stars: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 2,920 | Gross: $11.00M
24. McHale's Navy (1964)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, War
The crazy crew of McHale decide to use their PT boat as an off-track betting parlor and run in to lots of trouble when they owe money to some marines and a horse they bought causes a Japanese sub to run aground.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn, Bob Hastings
Votes: 1,162
25. WaPo Bodensee (2017– )
Crime
A team of German maritime police solve crimes on and around Lake Constance.
Stars: Floriane Daniel, Wendy Güntensperger, Noah Calvin, Diana Körner
Votes: 64
26. The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Action, War
During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Wright to pick 12 condemned soldiers from the brig and parachute into occupied France where they must destroy a Nazi nerve gas facility and extricate the foreign scientists working there.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Vince Edwards, Bo Svenson
Votes: 1,228
27. Down River (2018)
70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 592
28. Coast Guard (1997–2016)
45 min | Crime, Drama
The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.
Stars: Michael Kind, Rüdiger Joswig, Elmar Gehlen, Andreas Arnstedt
Votes: 210
29. Hell Boats (1970)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, War
An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ronald Allen, Reuven Bar-Yotam
Votes: 538
30. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 905
31. Blood Vendetta (2024)
90 min | Action, War
Vietnam, 1968, João Cruz and his platoon are assigned to Da Nang when they are ambushed and taken prisoners by the VC forces, João Cruz will have to escape on his own since all his buddies were tortured and killed.
Director: Rui Constantino | Stars: Caleb Angel, Edward Bali, Darius Carver, Nolan Chase
Votes: 215
32. Northern Limit Line (2015)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, War
The movies follows the incident known as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
Director: Kim Hak-soon | Stars: Kim Mu-yeol, Jin Goo, Lee Hyun-woo, Lee Chung-Ah
Votes: 1,345 | Gross: $0.32M
33. Condemned! (1929)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer
Votes: 589
34. McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, War
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker poses as an Air Force pilot and sinks the Japanese fleet, without McHale.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Bob Hastings, Gary Vinson
Votes: 408
35. Doll Face (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Vivian Blaine, Dennis O'Keefe, Perry Como, Carmen Miranda
Votes: 573
36. Island Rescue (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Barry Jones
Votes: 379
37. The Tijuana Story (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Tijuana, a brave Mexican newspaper editor tries to expose the mob and the local official corruption at his own risk.
Director: László Kardos | Stars: Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes
Votes: 238
38. WaPo Berlin (2020– )
48 min | Crime
Jasmin Sayed, a commissioner who has lived in Germany for almost 30 years, is launching a new elite unit dedicated to the protection of Berlin's waters.
Stars: Sesede Terziyan, Hassan Akkouch, Christoph Grunert, Juri Padel
Votes: 45
39. Scribblenauts Unlimited (2012 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Fantasy
Maxwell must collect starites by helping people around the world in order to save Lily from turning into stone
Director: Jeremiah Slaczka
Votes: 165
40. Secret Enemies (1942)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Thriller
A lawyer becomes a government secret agent after an agent-friend of his is murdered, and discovers a nest of German spies operating out of a former client's hotel.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely, Charles Lang
Votes: 225
42. Sea Racketeers (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Step back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Weldon Heyburn, Jeanne Madden, Warren Hymer, Penny Singleton
Votes: 79
43. Blue Patrol (1974)
64 min | Family
A new teacher and her brother, appointed by the head of the fish supervision, come to the village located on the estuary. Despite the hidden resistance of fellow villagers, they manage to ... See full summary »
Director: Timur Zoloyev | Stars: Ivan Kozhukhar, Vladik Komarov, Yuri Paraskevich, Seryozha Zuikov
Votes: 18
44. The Torso Murder Mystery (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Mystery
Ted Healey, a British man, is employed in a factory which makes anti-submarine patrol boats fitted with a secret torpedo device. Healy is in the pay of the German Secret Service and his ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni, Romilly Lunge
Votes: 43
45. Babusca's Adventures (1973)
76 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
Directors: Gheorghe Naghi, Geta Doina Tarnavschi | Stars: Horia Zugravescu, Gabriel Nacu, Annelise Dan, Amza Pellea
Votes: 82
46. The Infantry Blues (1943)
4 min | Animation, Short
Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 176
47. Alarm in the Delta (1976)
74 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
During the 1970s a foreign smuggler is taking hostages and threatening to sabotage a river pumping station if he is not aided in his attempt to smuggle ancient artifacts out of Romania.Two young local boys foil his plans.
Director: Gheorghe Naghi | Stars: Ferenc Fábián, Dan Popescu, Sorin Vasiliu, Emanoil Petrut
Votes: 43
48. JFK: The Road to Camelot (2015 Video)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
John F. Kennedy's journey from the Senate to the White House is detailed in this collection of vintage documentaries. The John F. Kennedy Story (1958): Produced in conjunction with ... See full summary »
Stars: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa, Caroline Kennedy
49. Universal Newsreel (XXIII) (1945)
8 min | Documentary, Short
The entire newsreel, in a single segment, is devoted to the completion of the liberation of the Philippines from the forces of Imperial Japan, beginning with the final assault on those ... See full summary »
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Douglas MacArthur
50. Popular Science (I) (1943)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Marvels of technology: a mobile police command post; gymnasium with retractable floor; U.S. military landing barges and PT boats.
Stars: Gayne Whitman, Leonardo Keeler, Russell E. Oakes
Votes: 12