Movies like Iron Eagle II

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Iron Eagle II (1988)
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Iron Eagle II (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
Style: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: aviation, airplane, air force, cold war, fighter jet, military, army, flying, colonel, war on terror, u.s. air force, air attack, battles, aerial combat, pilot, atomic bomb, war, heroes, undercover, chases and races, rivalry, political intrigue, danger, military life, race against time ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east, iraq, russia
Keyword: russian

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Most similar movies to Iron Eagle II

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about military, soldier, heroes, danger, battles, aviation and escapades mostly in Action, Drama and War genres. Some movies like Iron Eagle II: Top Gun (1986), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Soar Into the Sun (2012), Fortress (2012), Flyboys (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Top Gun (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night, manly, kids ...
Plot: fighter pilot, aviation, pilot, u.s. navy, fighter jet, officers and cadets, airplane, flying, aerial combat, cold war, u.s. military, aviator ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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100%
Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
Style: independent film, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aerial combat, military, aviation, airplane, female bodybuilder, female fighter, world war two, female fight, violence, chase, woman with a gun, war on terror ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: peru, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
Style: realistic, entertaining, saga, uplifting, twisted ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: fighter pilot, fighter plane, warplane, u.s. navy, u.s. military, aerial combat, aircraft carrier, test pilot, fighter jet, sniper, aviation, leadership ...
Time: 2020s, year 1969, year 1986, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, mojave desert, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Iron Eagle IV (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aerial combat, military, aviation, terrorism, biological warfare, flying, airplane, chase, u.s. air force, colonel, training, conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Iron Eagle (1986)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted ...
Style: light, exciting, realistic, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, manly
Plot: air force, airplane, rescue, fighter jet, fighter plane, military, brutality, colonel, desert, parent child relationship, pilot, daring rescue ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Soar Into the Sun (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After he performs a dangerous dare-devil stunt at an air show, South Korean Air Force pilot Tae-hun is kicked out of the elite Black Eagles flying team and transferred to a combat unit where he immediately comes into conflict with ace pilot ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: military, fighter jet, aerial combats, rivalry, fall in love, daring rescue, heroic mission, against the rules, friendship, danger, soldier, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fortress (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: bomber, aerial combats, world war two, airplane, soldier, battles, military life, heroic mission, leadership, flying, aviation, war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Flyboys (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Style: harsh, exciting, realistic, factual, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: war, world war one, aerial combat, airplane, fighter pilot, aviation, zeppelin, vengeance, biplane, fight scenes, great war, love story ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Blue Max (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style: retro, exciting, realistic, serious, sex comedy
Plot: world war one, ambition, aviation, fighter plane, fighter pilot, military, biplane, chivalry, airplane shot down, soldier, german army, great war ...
Time: year 1966, 1910s, year 1916
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Memphis Belle (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, bomber, military, war, soldier, battles, friendship, aerial combat, airplane, u.s. air force, heroic mission, luftwaffe ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: europe, america, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Delta Force (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes ...
Style: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, funny ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, martial arts, special forces, explosions, cannon, commando, violence, war on terror, hostage, aviation, patriotism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel, athens greece, beirut lebanon, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, bomber, pilot, fighter pilot, combat, bombing, aviation, fighter jet, fighter plane, evil ...
Time: year 1991, 70s
Place: vietnam, europe, china, asia, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Fire Birds (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aviation, justice, heroic mission, danger, tough heroes, against the odds, daring rescue, save the day, military, death, flying, airplane ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: colombia, iraq, south america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 10K
Bat*21 (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a ...
Style: realistic, suspense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, survival, rescue, aviation, danger, against the odds, friendship, soldier, daring rescue, battles, jungle ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
American Soldiers (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, war, american soldier, battles, danger, soldier, state affairs, good versus evil, confined, escapades, heroes ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Death Before Dishonor (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and ...
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, female assassin, kidnapping, revenge, hostage, u.s. embassy, photographer, exploitation, muslim, die hard, war on terror ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: middle east, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mosquito Squadron (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, aviation, raf, world war, military, flying, aeroplane, space, zeppelin, wartime, luftwaffe, aerial combat ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century
Place: england, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Aces High (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: world war one, aviation, fighter pilot, military, great war, war, aerial combat, luftwaffe, world war two, world war, flying, revolutionary ...
Time: 1910s, year 1976, year 1917, 20th century
Place: england, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team ...
Style: serious, bleak, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: arab israeli conflict, politics, military, uninhibited rivalry, violence spree, soldier, vengeance, state affairs, political unrest, murder, death, conflict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, turkey, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Sky Fighters (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Les Chevaliers du ciel (English: Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fighter pilot, fighter plane, aviation, military, terrorism, aerial combats, air force, betrayal, heroic mission, false accusation, rescue, save the day ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Human Shield (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, danger, terrorism, heroes, military, battles, confined, special agent, state affairs, brother brother relationship, rescue mission, revenge ...
Time: 90s, year 1985, year 1990
Place: iraq, middle east, iran, jordan, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, marine, rescue, military, battles, save the day, leadership, heroic mission, race against time, escapades, danger, rivalry ...
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Black Thunder (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the top secret prototype of the Nova Stealth fighter has been stolen, the Pentagon launches big alarm; the plane shouldn't come into hostile hands...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, airplane, danger, save the day, undercover, escapades, rivalry, female warrior, pilot, invisibility, die hard, world war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: navy seal, taliban, military, male nudity, battles, heroic mission, wartime life, against the odds, soldier, danger, heroes, terrorism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Red Tails (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Style: epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, fighter pilot, airplane, war, interracial relations, aerial combats, military life, black history, discrimination, african american, soldier, military base ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2012, year 1944, year 1942
Place: europe, cuba, italy, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Israel
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: israeli, war on terror, machine gun, judaism, secret mission, aviation, dictator, dictatorship, conservative, struggle, conflict, raf ...
Time: 70s
Place: israel, middle east, uganda, paris france, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Torpedo Bombers (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot: soviet army, aviation, world war two, world war, navy, air force, allies, ocean, battles, danger, heroes, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Eagles Over London (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Style: macaroni combat, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: luftwaffe, world war two, soldier, combat, world war, revolution, freedom, revolutionary, struggle, revolutionary war, evacuation, superior officer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, england, france, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
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9th Company (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, rough, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, death, basic training, officers and cadets, friendship, soldier, war in afghanistan, ambush, military life, wartime life, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1988
Place: afghanistan, ukraine, soviet union, russia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Battle of Britain (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, spectacular ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, aerial combat, luftwaffe, air battle, fighter pilot, raf, british history, battles, fighter plane, world war, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: london, poland, england, english channel, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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