If You Liked Full Metal Jacket, Watch These Next
Finished Full Metal Jacket (1987) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Full Metal Jacket, most of them are drama, war.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
2.Hamburger Hill(1987)
6.6WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is…
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3.Apocalypse Now(1979)
8.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
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 Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into…
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4.The Last Full Measure(2020)
7.3DramaActionWarAlso drama and war
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the…
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5.Casualties of War(1989)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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6.We Were Soldiers(2002)
7.1ActionHistoryWarAlso war
The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Drang Valley, called "The Valley of Death." As Moore prepares for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, he delivers a stirring…
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7.Heartbreak Ridge(1986)
6.9WarDramaAlso war and drama
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.
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8.Born on the Fourth of July(1989)
7.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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11.The Killing Fields(1984)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells…
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12.Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019)
6.8WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a…
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14.The Yellow Birds(2018)
6.0WarDramaAlso war and drama
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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15.84 Charlie Mopic(1989)
6.3WarAlso war
An Army cameraman is embedded with a reconnaissance patrol and charts their mission across territory controlled by the North Vietnamese.
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16.Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk(2016)
6.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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17.Heaven & Earth(1993)
6.6HistoryWarDramaAlso war and drama
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 life, igniting the possibility of a future together.
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19.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)
5.8ActionWarDramaAlso war and drama
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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