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US Navy themed films

by belizefootball • Created 11 years ago • Modified 10 years ago
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  • Lee Perkins and Donal Thoms-Cappello in The Red Machine (2009)

    1. The Red Machine

    20091h 24mNot Rated
    6.1 (276)
    Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device that the Japanese military is using to encode its top-secret messages. During the mission, which is complicated by the spy's dark past in Tokyo, the two discover that they are pawns in a larger game. Together, they devise an intricate but risky scheme to outwit the people trying to use them.
    DirectorsStephanie ArgyAlec BoehmStarsLee PerkinsDonal Thoms-CappelloMeg Brogan
  • The Final Countdown (1980)

    2. The Final Countdown

    19801h 43mPG51Metascore
    6.7 (29K)
    A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
    DirectorDon TaylorStarsKirk DouglasMartin SheenKatharine Ross
  • Denzel Washington and Derek Luke in Antwone Fisher (2002)

    3. Antwone Fisher

    20022hPG-1362Metascore
    7.3 (40K)
    Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
    DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonDerek LukeJoy Bryant
  • Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci in Tears of the Sun (2003)

    4. Tears of the Sun

    20032h 1mR48Metascore
    6.6 (135K)
    A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
    DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsBruce WillisCole HauserMonica Bellucci
  • Code Name: Geronimo (2012)

    5. Code Name: Geronimo

    20121h 30mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.7 (11K)
    A group of Navy SEALs comes to learn the identity of their target: Osama bin Laden.
    DirectorsJohn StockwellPaulette Victor LiftonStarsCam GigandetJenny GabrielleAnson Mount
  • Jason Cottle, Nick Gomez, Gonzalo Menendez, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Alex Veadov, Ailsa Marshall, Ajay James, Ernest Manson, Callaghan, Weimy, Dave, Derrick Van Orden, Duncan Smith, Mikey, Jesse Cotton, Ray Mendoza, Rorke Denver, Billy, and Katelyn in Act of Valor (2012)

    6. Act of Valor

    20121h 50mR40Metascore
    6.4 (73K)
    An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.
    DirectorsMike McCoyScott WaughStarsAlex VeadovRoselyn SanchezNestor Serrano
  • Ken Gamble and Jeremy Daniel Davis in SEAL Team VI (2008)

    7. SEAL Team VI

    20081h 39mR
    2.4 (616)
    Inspired by actual events: This heroic saga depicts an elite counter-terrorism team's black ops incursion into Iraq four days prior to Operation: Desert Shield and the harrowing consequences its members faced when their covert mission was compromised.
    DirectorMark C. AndrewsStarsJeremy Daniel DavisKen GambleZach McGowan
  • Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, and Emmanuelle Arsan in The Sand Pebbles (1966)

    8. The Sand Pebbles

    19663h 2mApproved
    7.5 (17K)
    In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsSteve McQueenRichard AttenboroughRichard Crenna
  • Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Men of Honor (2000)

    9. Men of Honor

    20002h 9mR56Metascore
    7.2 (129K)
    Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through diving training, the racist Master Chief sets out to make Carl's journey as difficult as possible.
    DirectorGeorge Tillman Jr.StarsCuba Gooding Jr.Robert De NiroCharlize Theron
  • Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in Top Gun (1986)

    10. Top Gun

    19861h 49mPG50Metascore
    7.0 (529K)
    The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.
    DirectorTony ScottStarsTom CruiseTim RobbinsKelly McGillis
  • Nancy Allen and Michael Paré in The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    11. The Philadelphia Experiment

    19841h 42mPG44Metascore
    6.1 (17K)
    A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
    DirectorStewart RaffillStarsMichael ParéNancy AllenEric Christmas
  • Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)

    12. Philadelphia Experiment II

    19931h 37mPG-13
    4.5 (2.3K)
    In the sci-fi thriller The Philadelphia Experiment the sole survivor of a wartime experiment is catapulted 41 years into the future and must race to save the world as we know it. It's now 10 years later--1993.
    DirectorStephen CornwellStarsBrad JohnsonMarjean HoldenGerrit Graham
  • Demi Moore in G.I. Jane (1997)

    13. G.I. Jane

    19972h 5mR62Metascore
    6.0 (91K)
    Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsDemi MooreViggo MortensenAnne Bancroft
  • Bud Abbott, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, and The Andrews Sisters in In the Navy (1941)

    14. In the Navy

    19411h 26mApproved
    6.7 (3.3K)
    Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to get a picture of him to prove he's Russ Raymond. Tommy's friends, Pomeroy Watson and Smokey Adams,help him while Pomeroy writes love letters to Patty Andrews. But because Smokey makes Pomeroy lie about himself in the letters, and when Patty comes to the Navy base, she's furious at Pomeroy. When Pomeroy, Smokey, Tommy and the Andrews sisters set sail for Hawaii, Pomeroy discovers there's a tomato in the potato locker, and she's been snapping shots of Tommy the whole trip. Whether Pomeroy's proving that 7 x 13 = 28 - three different ways, having Smokey help him play ship captain for Patty, or falling out of his hammock, it's an Abbott and Costello classic.
    DirectorArthur LubinStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloDick Powell
  • Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973)

    15. The Last Detail

    19731h 44mR86Metascore
    7.5 (30K)
    Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
    DirectorHal AshbyStarsJack NicholsonRandy QuaidOtis Young
  • Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (1992)

    16. A Few Good Men

    19922h 18mR62Metascore
    7.7 (303K)
    A military lawyer intends to prove that two US Marines charged with murdering a fellow Marine were only following their base commander's orders.
    DirectorRob ReinerStarsTom CruiseJack NicholsonDemi Moore
  • Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide (1995)

    17. Crimson Tide

    19951h 56mR66Metascore
    7.4 (131K)
    On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger-happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
    DirectorTony ScottStarsGene HackmanDenzel WashingtonMatt Craven
  • Below (2002)

    18. Below

    20021h 45mR55Metascore
    6.1 (25K)
    The crew of a U.S. Navy submarine in World War II rescues survivors from a sunken ship, only to face a series of mysterious deaths and supernatural occurrences.
    DirectorDavid TwohyStarsBruce GreenwoodDavid CrowMatthew Davis
  • Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (1979)

    19. Apocalypse Now

    19792h 27mR94Metascore
    8.4 (743K)
    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert Duvall
  • Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, and Josh Lucas in Stealth (2005)

    20. Stealth

    20052h 1mPG-1335Metascore
    5.1 (57K)
    Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.
    DirectorRob CohenStarsJosh LucasJessica BielJamie Foxx
  • Battleship (2012)

    21. Battleship

    20122h 11mPG-1341Metascore
    5.8 (264K)
    A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
    DirectorPeter BergStarsAlexander SkarsgårdBrooklyn DeckerLiam Neeson
  • Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot, Morgan York, Kegan Hoover, Logan Hoover, Bo Vink, and Luke Vink in The Pacifier (2005)

    22. The Pacifier

    20051h 35mPG30Metascore
    5.6 (104K)
    Having recovered from wounds received in a failed rescue operation, Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids' house.
    DirectorAdam ShankmanStarsVin DieselBrittany SnowMax Thieriot
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Adams in The Master (2012)

    23. The Master

    20122h 18mR86Metascore
    7.1 (192K)
    A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by a cult and its charismatic leader.
    DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsJoaquin PhoenixPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy Adams
  • Too Young the Hero (1988)

    24. Too Young the Hero

    19881h 40mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.7 (594)
    The true story of Calvin Graham who at the age of twelve, but looking quite a lot older, succeeded in joining the navy during World War II. In spite of his young age, he received a Purple Heart for his bravery in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. When he reported back to his unit after leave, his world collapsed. Due to a misunderstanding he is reported as a deserter, which is the start of a real nightmare.
    DirectorBuzz KulikStarsRicky SchroderJon DeVriesDebra Mooney
  • Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

    25. Behind Enemy Lines

    20011h 46mPG-1349Metascore
    6.4 (117K)
    A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.
    DirectorJohn MooreStarsGene HackmanOwen WilsonGabriel Macht

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