Movies like Distant Thunder
If Distant Thunder's mix of suicide, vietnam and homelessness stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Distant Thunder's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 117 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: suicide, vietnam · From the same decade (1980s)
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.
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The Deer Hunter
1978 · Directed by Michael Cimino · 183 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: suicide, vietnam
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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Apocalypse Now
1979 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 147 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: vietnam
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret…
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First Blood
1982 · Directed by Ted Kotcheff · 93 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: vietnam · From the same decade (1980s)
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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Heaven & Earth
1993 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 140 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: vietnam
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new…