Good obscure war/action movies?

[Diesel McBadass]

I know theres awesome movies out here that dont get exposure.

Recently watched the raid:redemption, like the most badass action movie of all time, and watched 9th company, an excellent war film. What else is there out there?

[saddlebum]

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

[PBCounty]

Not a war movie, but set in WW1: Deathwatch.

[fnfalman]

Recently watched the raid:redemption, like the most badass action movie of all time,

That movie was pretty badass.

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

The Gunny was the best part in the whole movie.

For good obscure action movies, it's pretty hard to beat a lot of the Hong Kong action/gangster movies. A good example is Kill Zone starring Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung. Of course, everybody dies at the end.:supergrin:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478024/

Stalingrad is a good obscure war movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

[raven11]

i'm a big fan of foreign war movies, I get to see a different perspective of the same conflict

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegukgi_%28film%29

The Front line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Front_Line_%282011_film%29

Assembly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_%28film%29

Days of Glory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Glory_%282006_film%29

Ambush (Rukajärven tie)
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ambush_%28Rukaj%C3%A4rven_tie%29

and this might not be as obscure

"Letters from Iwo Jima"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_Iwo_Jima

[ChuteTheMall]

Downfall

Inglourious Basterds

Field of Honor

M*A*S*H

The Great Raid

We Were Soldiers

The Best Years Of Our Lives

Stalag 17

[MrKandiyohi]

Downfall

Inglourious Basterds

Field of Honor

M*A*S*H

The Great Raid

We Were Soldiers

The Best Years Of Our Lives

Stalag 17

Field of Honor is the only obscure movie in that list. I will check on that one.

[fnfalman]

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegukgi_%28film%29

Very intense flick.

Days of Glory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Glory_%282006_film%29

That was an interesting flick. Those bunch of dudes also made a bunch of other movies about Algerians living in france and became mobsters.

Ambush (Rukajärven tie)
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ambush_%28Rukaj%C3%A4rven_tie%29

I'm going to have to find this one.

[HollowHead]

Give A Midnight Clear a try. As for the best car chase ever filmed, Night Of The Juggler fits the bill. HH

[The Fist Of Goodness]

Spartan with Val Kilmer wasn't bad. Kilmer plays a member of a Military unit based along the lines of Delta Force (Eric Haney was involved in the production).

It has similarities (writing, dialog) to The Unit (David Mamet directed both), but is darker and grittier.

It was reccomended to me by some special operations vets.

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[Bill Powell]

One called Fireball Forward, killed by its own name. Fireballl Forward was a radio call sign and a pretty good movie.


One call The Bridge, about a bunch of teen aged Hitler Youth soldiers resisting the American advance ot a bridge.

[jeager]

Russian pic:
Come and See

[fnfalman]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920458/

Flame & Citron is a good WWII war/resistance movie too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007387/

The Front Line is another good Korean War movie. Not as good as Tae Guk Gi but damn good.

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Blessed by Fire is an Argentinian movie on the Falklands War that I enjoyed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483831/

Lebanon is an Israeli war movie about the Lebanon conflict from a tanker's view.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/

Waltz with Bashir is also another excellent Israeli war movie - except that it's a cartoon.

[droidfire]

mean guns.

100 Assassins. 1,000 Weapons. 10,000,000 Dollars. Only One Can Survive.

Christopher Lambert, Ice-T

Worth seeing at least a dozen times a year.

[BuckeyePPC]

55 Days in Peking.. about the boxer rebellion. Skip by the stupid love story.

Lost Battalion with Rick Shroeder. WWI

Pork Chop Hill Korean War.

Not a war, per se, but Raid: Redemption is totally awesome.

[blk69stang]

Battleground. Best "classic" WWII flick ever, but not terribly obscure (now available on Netflix instant watch).

And not a war or action movie (quite so much) is "Ahh! Zombies!". It's a zombie movie told from the perspective of the zombies. Infected by a military "supersoldier" drug, they become unkillable but also move in ultra-slow motion. To each other, they seem normal, and to them the rest of the world is "infected" by something that makes them move really fast. But to the rest of the world, the zombies are the slow, foot-dragging groaning type you'd expect. (They're not really groaning unintelligibly, they're just talking really slow, like a record or cassette tape that's dragging). Funny flick, with a few zombie-movie action sequences.

[AK_Stick]

The Beast.

[2-8 Marine]

Waterloo, Zulu Dawn, King and Country, Breaker Morant, British flicks but very entertaining. Yeah, I like the older wars and conflicts . . .

[tsmo1066]

Russian Film: Brest Fortress

Watch it in Russian, with subtitles. Don't watch the English-dubbed version.

Ditto Downfall. Excellent German movie with the best portrayal of Hitler I have ever seen. Watch it subtitled though, do not bother with the crappy dubbed version.

[Dennis in MA]

The Beast.

Oooh. Forgot about that one. Good flick.

[The Fist Of Goodness]

Battleground. Best "classic" WWII flick ever, but not terribly obscure (now available on Netflix instant watch).

And not a war or action movie (quite so much) is "Ahh! Zombies!". It's a zombie movie told from the perspective of the zombies. Infected by a military "supersoldier" drug, they become unkillable but also move in ultra-slow motion. To each other, they seem normal, and to them the rest of the world is "infected" by something that makes them move really fast. But to the rest of the world, the zombies are the slow, foot-dragging groaning type you'd expect. (They're not really groaning unintelligibly, they're just talking really slow, like a record or cassette tape that's dragging). Funny flick, with a few zombie-movie action sequences.

Battleground is one of my favorite war movies. It focuses on a platoon of Glider Infantry (101st) during the seige at Bastogne.

The Zombie move sounds pretty funny. Ill check it out.

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[arclight610]

Glory

[fnfalman]

Battleground is one of my favorite war movies. It focuses on a platoon of Glider Infantry (101st) during the seige at Bastogne.

The Zombie move sounds pretty funny. Ill check it out.

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Battleground was a very well known movie back in its day. My favorite war flick of all time, as is Hamburger Hill, but then I am biased - Rendezvous With Destiny!!!

[M2 Carbine]

Not a war movie as such, but an excellent movie.
Taking Chance

[countrygun]

I see somebody else mentioned "Breaker Morant" so I'll go back a bit further

"The Devil's Brigade"

"Cockleshell Heros"

"Back to Bataan"

"Sgt York"

"Murphy's War"

"Hell in the Pacific"

"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"

[Rabbi]

I dont think it is obscure but it never seemed to take off and I thought it was a great movie:

Bat 21

A lot of movies I like have already been put on the table but two that I didnt see yet and is a "must see" (10 times) is:

Sergeant York and Bridge on the River Kwai

[Rabbi]

Not a war movie as such, but an excellent movie.
Taking Chance

Yeah, that was a tough movie to watch...but extraordinary all the same.

[GlocknSpiehl]

Here are some of my favorites, tho not all may be obscure, with trailors if I could find them:

"Cross of Iron" http://youtu.be/Zd20mV0ydFw

"Das Boot" http://youtu.be/LMj0_wCn6jM Watch it in German with subtitles! Saw it with my dad, who was in US Subs during WWII and made 7 war patrols against the Japanese. He said it was very faithfull to what it is like on subs.

"Ran" by Akira Kurosawa http://youtu.be/AbbfDntoRRk A movie you must see before you die.

"The Big Red One" http://youtu.be/Z7jwYpAM6RU

"Is Paris Burning?" No trailer, just a short clip from the film http://youtu.be/wVlOldOZX4U

"The Bridge at Remagen" http://youtu.be/D94sC5mJHEY

"To Hell and Back" http://youtu.be/Olyf5v_TYUE

[tsmo1066]

Found it!

here's a good trailer for Brest Fortress.

Official Movie Trailer Brest Fortress - YouTube

[RWBlue]

The Battle of Algiers

And What was the movie made about WWI by the Third Riech? I saw it years ago and thought it was very good. In German with subtitles.

[AZLawDawg]

84 Charlie MoPic

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19890428/REVIEWS/904280301/1023

[Bilbo Bagins]

The Trench - a British WWI movie filmed almost entirely inside the trench.

Memphis Belle - WWII bomber and its crew

Gallipoli - An early early Mel Gibson Movie about Aussie soldiers in WWI.

Paths of Glory - WWI movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and staring Kurt Douglas.


Hamburger Hill - A lesser known Vietnam movie that came out around the same time as Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.

Uncommon Valor - Not techinically a War movie. Its about a band of vets that go into Vietnam to rescue American POWs. I don't want to give too much away, but they resort to using WWII weapons, which is just neat to see.

Final Conflict - Again not really a war movie, but weird in a sense that a 1980's era Aircraft carrier goes back in time to a few days before the Pearl Harbor attack.

[Rabbi]

Final Conflict - Again not really a war movie, but weird in a sense that a 1980's era Aircraft carrier goes back in time to a few days before the Pearl Harbor attack.

That movie was "The Final Countdown"

It could have been epic but it was "meh" because it just set up a great movie but did not deliver. For some reason, I always wanted to see a special effects knockout of a movie where we go fight WWII with our modern military.

[Dalton Wayne]

My Way great WWII film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/plotsummary

My Way Trailer Official HD (2012) - YouTube

[BuckeyePPC]

If you like horses, you'll probably like The Lighthorseman about NZ mounted infantry and Turks in WWI.

There was a strange WWII movie called Castle Keep.

[HexHead]

That movie was "The Final Countdown"

It could have been epic but it was "meh" because it just set up a great movie but did not deliver. For some reason, I always wanted to see a special effects knockout of a movie where we go fight WWII with our modern military.

Well, there was that scene with the very short dogfight between a pair of Tomcats and a couple of Zeros.

To the OP, Sahara, but you want the Humphrey Bogart version, not the Jim Belushi one.

Bridges at Toko-Ri is one of my favorites. As was They Were Expendable and who doesn't love William Bendix in Guadalcanal Diary? And you don't want to miss Harry Morgan in God is my Co-pilot. Another great WWIi film was The Purple Heart. Or for that matter, The Hasty Heart.

Hardy Kruger was great in The One that Got Away. As was Clifton Webb in The Man who Never Was. Listen for the dog's name in The Dam Busters. And good God man, don't miss Sink the Bismark!

Damn, I almost forgot The Enemy Below.

[RWBlue]

To the OP, Sahara, but you want the Humphrey Bogart version, not the Jim Belushi one.
.

"You want water come and get it."

[J_Rico]

Kelly's Heroes - Mixed comedy and action well. Check out the US sniper with a 91/30.

[Batesmotel]

The Blue Max
Shout at the Devil
Paths of Glory
Passage to Marseilles

[Jay9928]

When Trumpets Fade.

Forgotten battle in WW2
http://images.moviepostershop.com/when-trumpets-fade-tv-movie-poster-1998-1010475876.jpg (http://images.moviepostershop.com/when-trumpets-fade-tv-movie-poster-1998-1020475876.jpg)

[eaglefrq]

Fail-Safe

[ChuteTheMall]

And What was the movie made about WWI by the Third Riech? I saw it years ago and thought it was very good. In German with subtitles.

I dunno:dunno:

But here's a brief scene from Nation's Pride

Inglourious Basterds - A Scene from "Nations Pride" (1944) - YouTube

:whistling:

[Line Rider]

Attack Force Z

[NH Trucker]

Bravo Two-Zero


It's about a British SAS unit in the first Gulf War.


Another good one featuring the SAS, though more of a counter-terrorism movie than a war flick is The Final Option. It's from the early 80's. I remembered seeing it when I was a kid, and found it a while back on Netflix. I don't know if it's still on there or not, but I haven't found it on DVD anywhere.

[Bren]

If you like foreign war movies, I once watched "R-Point" all the way through. Korean horror movie about the Vietnam war. Pretty strange and no worse than some of the crap recommended in this thread.

Bravo Two-Zero

That is a good one and you can stream it from Netflix. Pretty accurate to the book - can't go wrong with Sean Bean.

Which reminds me - I think you can get the "Sharpe" series from Netflix - sort of loosley similar to Rifleman Dodd, starring Sean Bean as a British soldier fighting the French in Spain in 180_. Tjhe first one is called "Sharpe's Rifles."

Which reminds me of the author of Rifleman Dodd, The African Queen, etc., C.S. Forester - If you really want some serious adventure at a quality level higher than you normally get from even big budget movies - certainly better than Master & Commander - check out the 6 or so Horatio Hornblower movies from A&E. Nothing can live up to Forester's books, of course, but they're very, very close.

The older Captain Hornblower with Gregory Peck sn't as good, iunless you just like old movies.

[mikeivan]

Not really obscure, just old, but a favorite of mine: "Run Silent, Run Deep"

I like to watch "Zulu" and then "Zulu Dawn" together, great, mostly true story and on location photography.

Steve McQueen made a strange war movie: "The War Lover", he reminded me of someone with whom I no longer associate.

[DreamWeaver88]

Give A Midnight Clear a try.

I was just about to suggest that one. Great movie.

DW

[wjv]

Not Obscure but. .

Twelve O'Clock High (movie - not the tv series)

2 Academy awards + Dean Jagger

[longhair]

"The King of Hearts", a WWI war movie is good one.
"The Seven Samurai"

[The Fist Of Goodness]

Not really obscure, just old, but a favorite of mine: "Run Silent, Run Deep"

I like to watch "Zulu" and then "Zulu Dawn" together, great, mostly true story and on location photography.

Steve McQueen made a strange war movie: "The War Lover", he reminded me of someone with whom I no longer associate.

Run Silent, Run Deep was a great movie. The book was even better.

The War Lover: did McQueen play a B17 pilot in that one?

This is a great thread BTW. I am going to have to pull some of these out and re-watch them (Bridge at Remagen is first. I haven't watched that one in years).

[mikeivan]

Run Silent, Run Deep was a great movie. The book was even better.

The War Lover: did McQueen play a B17 pilot in that one?

This is a great thread BTW. I am going to have to pull some of these out and re-watch them (Bridge at Remagen is first. I haven't watched that one in years).

"Deeply troubled" is the best description I can give, a haunting performance by one of my favorite actors.

[robin303]

You guys pretty much nailed them all. Rabbi beat me on Bat 21. DOnt remember if it was mentioned but "The One That Got Away".
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_One_That_Got_Away/70093762?trkid=2361637

[Dawolf]

Audie Murphy in the Red badge of courage (1951).

[Agent6-3/8]

"Raid on Rommel" with Richard Burton is a good one.

Not what I'd truly call obscure, but "Where Eagles Dare", The Guns of Navarone", and "Force 10 From Navarone" have long been favorites of mine.

[CBennett]

The Winter War and Stalingrad were not bad.

[Annoyedgrunt]

Flat Top

Wing and a Prayer

Those two are about the air war in the Pacific, during WW2. Excellent footage of F-6's, F-4's etc flying ops from aircraft carriers, and shooting down "meatballs" (zeroes).

Battle of Britain - Self explanatory; the undermanned RAF's desperate plight of keeping the Luftwaffe at bay during the early years of WW2.

I like war movies with fighter planes. :cool:

[Dennis in MA]

Anyone mention Gallipoli yet? Mel was good in that one.

[vikingsoftpaw]

They were Expendable.

The Best Years of our Lives.

[tsmo1066]

"Raid on Rommel" with Richard Burton is a good one.


Another great Richard Burton war movie is The Wild Geese, about a British Merc unit that gets betrayed on a mission in Africa.

Great flick!

[Diesel McBadass]

the front line is netflix instant, watching it now

[RWBlue]

Five Graves to Cairo

[GlockN]

Red Dawn

[fnfalman]

The Boys of Company C - see The Gunny when he was but a staff sergeant DI.

[ranger88]

"Dogs of War" with Christopher Walken. Love that movie...

[2-8 Marine]

"A Bridge Too Far" is a pretty good movie but one of the best I've ever seen is "The Bofers Gun". The entire movie takes place in a British Army Guard Shack . . . while not a shoot um up "War Movie" per se, the tension and drama is riviting.

[RedsoxFan4Lyfe]

Saints and Soldiers

A good movie and not widely known of. Check it out.

[badge315]

Tears of the Sun

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314353/

Dog Soldiers (British troops on a training exercise vs. werewolves.) :supergrin:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/

[Averageman]

Can't reccomend "Cross of Iron" enough, it is exceptional; but how can you go wrong with James Coburn acting and Sam Peckinpah Driecting?
Exceptional WWII at the Eastern Front Flick. T34's chrashing through the trench and wire, close combat and ambush's. Not exceptional, but not bad acting, but great special effects and weapons work overall three and and a half stars.

When Coburn say's "Come, let me show you where the Iron Cross Grows." You know that Captain doesn't have a hope in hell.

[Patchman]

Cross of Iron (already mentioned)

The Blue Max (WWI)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 w/ Ernest Borgnine) (WWI)

[RWBlue]

Empire of the Sun

[Patchman]

Objective: Burma (with Errol Flynn)

The Bridge at Toko-Ri (Korean war)

There was another Korean war movie I only remember scenes of. No title or who starred in it.

Zulu (1964; Anglo-Zulu War)

March or Die (1977 w/ Gene Hackman; French Foreign Legion)

[Droid noob]

Enemy at the Gates (about a famous russian sniper) think Jude Law plays the main character.

Boondock Saints 1 & 2! Not a war movie, but funny and good plot. Don't think either movie saw the theaters, but it has a nice following.

[RWBlue]

I am amazed at the GT members who don't know the meaning of "obscure". So far there is only one film I can not remember seeing.

[Fisherman]

Ditto "Taking Chance" as an After War movie. Different and really moving. "In Harm's Way", as well. :fishing:

[RWBlue]

Sergeant York 1941 version.
Beau Geste 1939 version

[Glen]

Air Force & Wake Island are two forgotten WW2 era gems.


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[Patchman]

Oh yes, I forgot about Wake Island.

[Razor]

Not obscure nor a movie, but Band of Brothers is good.:tongueout:



Seriously, for some reason I really like Purple Hearts with Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd. Possibly because it helped me score quite a bit in my younger days...:thumbsup:

[RWBlue]

A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

[RWBlue]

Found it.....

The Steel Helmet (1951)
A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

[RWBlue]

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

[Mr Spock]

Tagged

[HollowHead]

The Battle of Algiers


Anyone who doesn't understand why Iraqis and Afghanis are planting IEDs needs to watch this one. HH

[50 Cent]

Tears of the Sun

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314353/

Dog Soldiers (British troops on a training exercise vs. werewolves.) :supergrin:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/

I remember renting that movie one Sunday night 'cause it was one of the last on the shelves and I just read some of the description but I was bored and grabbed it.

It was only when it really got going did I realize the "training exercise" I saw on the cover was leavened with werewolves AND it was about British soldiers in the predicament :rofl:

But it had Sean Pertwee as the platoon's leader, giving a great understated performance.Especially since his men THROUGHOUT the movie griped about not being able to watch the nights scoccer game Germany vs Britain. They seemed more annoyed about that than facing WW's.

Some of the stuff was funny...like when they were barricaded in the cottage and one of the privates was excited because "...this is just like Rorke's Drift..." :supergrin:

[Brucev]

Castle Keep.

The Eagle Has Landed.

[RWBlue]

A Walk in the Sun (1945)

[MstrPara]

The Anderson Platoon (French Documentary)

Go Tell The Spartans

And, not necessarily a WAR movie, "Who Dares Wins"; marketed in the US as "The Final Option". Awesome, loosely based on the SAS operation at the Iranian embassy in London in 1980......supposedly used actual SAS badassery in the film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dares_Wins_(film)

[professorpinki]

Not so obscure:
Restrepo (documentary), Generation Kill (miniseries)

[NH Trucker]

And, not necessarily a WAR movie, "Who Dares Wins"; marketed in the US as "The Final Option". Awesome, loosely based on the SAS operation at the Iranian embassy in London in 1980......supposedly used actual SAS badassery in the film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dares_Wins_(film)


I mentioned that one earlier. That is a really good one. I remembered seeing it when I was a kid (my father loved it), and I saw it on Netflix a while ago. Still just as good as I remembered.

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[MstrPara]

I mentioned that one earlier. That is a really good one. I remembered seeing it when I was a kid (my father loved it), and I saw it on Netflix a while ago. Still just as good as I remembered.

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Missed it! Loved that movie, and haven't been able to locate a copy. Netflix streaming doesn't work over here, may have to search out the Brit release.

[HexHead]

Hitchcock's Lifeboat. And Saboteur for that matter. My two favorites of all his films.

And Orson Welles film, The Stranger, with him, Edward G Robertson, Loretta Young and a young Richard Long.

[NH Trucker]

Missed it! Loved that movie, and haven't been able to locate a copy. Netflix streaming doesn't work over here, may have to search out the Brit release.



It's all good. Lots of badassery in that one for sure. I'm just glad I'm not the only one here who has seen it!

Good luck searching for it. If you are able to find a copy of it somewhere, let me know because I would love to get it on DVD.


Who Dares Wins - SAS Raid - YouTube

[Fisherman]

Has "Men of the Fighting Lady" been mentioned? :fishing:

[RWBlue]

bump...

[Glen]

The Wild Geese


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[MC]

The Odd Angry Shot, about the Australian SAS in Vietnam.

[AZLawDawg]

84 Charlie MoPic, great film, but one I will never, ever watch again.

[Hauptmann6]

The Winter War AKA Talvisota

A finnish movie about the Russo Finnish war. Very good and they broke out the warehouses. Real old tanks.

[427]

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

The Counterfeit Traitor

Fixed Bayonets

Kokoda

Kippur

Escape from Sobibor

Nine Lives

Murphy's War

The Lost Battalion

Shot Through the Heart

Savior

[fitz4609]

Company Nine
Russian film of USSR troops in Afghanistan
Streaming on Net Fix

Dogs of War

[byf43]

I dont think it is obscure but it never seemed to take off and I thought it was a great movie:

Bat 21




Agreed!!!! Bat 21 was incredibly good!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:




Attack Force Z

Glad to see this made the list!!!!!
REALLY good movie!!!!!!