Korean war veteran movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant korean war veteran movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, interesting and suspense films and TV shows about / with korean war veteran, violence, dialogue, brutality, cigarette smoking, death, storytelling, murder, police officer and chase plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as korean war veteran: Gran Torino (2008), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Masters of the Universe (1987), The Mule (2018), Outbreak (1995), I'm Charlie Walker (2022), Rebel Ridge (2024), Badlands (1973), The Island (1980).
Best films
New films
| Absolute Power (1997) | 6.7 | |
| Outbreak (1995) | 6.6 | |
| Tube (2003) | 5.5 | |
| Rebel Ridge (2024) | 6.8 | |
| Queen & Country (2014) | 6.2 |
List of korean war veteran movies
857K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, suspense, harsh ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, veteran, revenge, racism, old man, elderly, prejudice, car, war veteran, gangster, gunfight ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, manipulation, nightmare, senator, cold war era, communism, korean war, election ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1962, 50s, year 1952
Place:
new york, north korea, china, washington d.c., korea ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Style:
realistic, dark comedy, harsh, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
military, war, marine, boot camp, platoon, soldier, justice, male bonding, old man, fistfight, ex husband ex wife relationship, tough guy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
north carolina, caribbean, vietnam
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
Style:
independent film, exciting, cult classic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, spy, assassin, vigilante, kung fu, conspiracy, korean war veteran, race against time, soldier, hitman, espionage, mentor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., korea
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner ...
Style:
cult classic, crying, surprise ending, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, good versus evil, sword fight, evil man, time travel, inventor, violence, supernatural power, medieval, skeleton, female warrior, warrior ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
new jersey
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167K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. ...
Style:
road movie, crime drama, exciting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
old man, drug cartel, drug smuggling, drug, dea, drug crime, pickup truck, mexican drug cartel, police, driver, cartel, mountain ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, 2010s, year 2005, year 1958
Place:
mexico, texas, chicago, el paso texas, south america ...
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
epidemic, plague, virus, quarantine, bio weapon, monkey, catastrophe, disaster, medical, infection, deadly virus, disease ...
Time:
jurassic, future, 60s, year 1967, 90s ...
Place:
africa, utah, northern california, usa, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic independence, and a chance for him to be his own boss. Charlie Walker would soon find out how naive ...
Style:
disturbing, semi autobiographical, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, racial discrimination, interracial relations, biopic, determination, underdog, political unrest, direction and purpose, coping, civil rights, black man, ambition ...
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
police corruption, small town, drug overdose, police, basement, chinese restaurant, fight, chinese immigrant, payback, injustice, punched in the face, destroying evidence ...
Place:
louisiana, north america
Is relevant?
84K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Style:
road movie, sexy, surreal, visual, art house ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, killing spree, crime spree, road trip, father daughter relationship, lovers on the run, killer, murder, on the run, violent, true crime, landscape ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1959, year 1973 ...
Place:
south dakota, montana, usa, wyoming
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, rough, cult classic ...
Plot:
island, kidnapping, pirate, rescue, ship, violence, insanity, father son relationship, brainwashing, captive, boy, escape ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
caribbean, miami, new york
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Style:
black and white, existential, retro, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison escape, chase, friendship, truck, modern west, on the run, escape, wilderness, idealism, small town, cowboy, anarchist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 1950s, 60s, year 1952 ...
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, california, texas
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot:
wilderness, decapitation, group of friends, murder, doctor, river, burned alive, blindness, characters murdered one by one, death, death of brother, death of friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style:
road movie, humorous, action thriller, captivating, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, heist, chase, on the road, treasure hunt, buddies, car chase, friendship between men, robbery, bank robbery, preacher, hidden money ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place:
montana, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their ...
Style:
neo noir, black and white, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, true crime, execution, serial killer, home invasion, trial, killer, death sentence, death row, u.s. mexico border, cell mate, murder of family ...
Time:
50s, year 1967, year 1965, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
kansas, kansas city, america, usa, las vegas ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, grindhouse, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, violence, revenge, vengeance, rape, police, gunfight, architect, gang, female nudity, hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, honolulu hawaii, new york state ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style:
disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, courtroom drama, mental institution, mental health, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, price of justice, hospital, prodigy ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, year 1957, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place:
florida, usa, oklahoma, miami, korea
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style:
black comedy, absurd, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bowling, dialogue, mistaken identity, slacker, hippie, weed, marijuana, great dialogue, laziness, dream, twists and turns, heart attack ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place:
los angeles, iraq, america, arizona, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, making love, friendship, love, youth, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, adolescence vs adulthood, homecoming, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1954, year 1997, 50s
Place:
indianapolis indiana, usa, chicago, indiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America's atomic weapons research. Truck jockey Charlie Morrison (Forrest Tucker) volunteers for a last-ditch, suicide scheme to lure them into a trap, baited with a vital shipment of ...
Style:
road movie, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
car, carsploitation, trucker, automobile, plutonium, korean war veteran, chase, soldier, terrorism, bar fight, truck driver, machine gun ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
las vegas, arizona, nevada
Is relevant?
920
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three ...
Style:
sitcom, retro, not serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, military, korean war veteran, partner, lifestyle, society, workplace, couple relations, buddies, doctors and patients, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
missouri, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, ...
Plot:
animal rescue, professional, single woman, cemetery, widow, climate, veterinary clinic, strong female lead, land, farming, drought, korean war veteran ...
Place:
australia, south australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The melodrama of a failing, aging movie star who takes up with an ambitious masseur who takes her home only to show off in front of his former girl friend and her powerful father.
Style:
southern gothic, captivating, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
age-gap relationship, basement, ambition, actor's life, aging, prodigal son, alcoholic, manipulation, couples, lifestyle, unlikely couple, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
128K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, meditative ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, aging, elderly, confronting the past, on the road, relationships, old age, obsessive quest, character study, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, nebraska, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
war buddy, free spirit, drunkenness, bus, new year's eve party, new year's eve, coffee, hitchhiker, age difference, young love, older man younger woman relationship, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, beautiful scenery, power of love, closeted homosexual, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, writers, dying, death of mother, summer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style:
touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, drug addiction, african american, storytelling, racism, solace, black girl, anti racism ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, alabama ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gangster, hitman, soldier, dishonesty, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, chase, drug dealing, corrupt politician ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1969
Place:
australia, sydney australia, chicago, asia, vietnam ...
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