Movies like Behind Enemy Lines
If Behind Enemy Lines's mix of sniper, war crimes and bosnia and herzegovina stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Behind Enemy Lines'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: sniper, combat, mass grave · Also drama and war
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 Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: war crimes, rescue mission · Also action and war · From the same decade (2000s)
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Directed by Joseph Kosinski · 131 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: u.s. navy, aircraft carrier · Also action and drama
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates…
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Protector
2026 · Directed by Adrian Grünberg · 90 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: rescue mission · Also action and thriller
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
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American Sniper
2014 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sniper · Also war and action
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history.
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Land of Bad
2024 · Directed by William Eubank · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: behind enemy lines · Also action and war
When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation.
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Commando
1985 · Directed by Mark L. Lester · 90 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: rescue mission · Also action and thriller
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped.
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The Wall
2017 · Directed by Doug Liman · 90 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: sniper · Also war and thriller
An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
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Bat★21
1988 · Directed by Peter Markle · 105 min6.3
Why you'll like itWith Gene Hackman · Also action and war
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back.