The Thin Red Line
1998 History, Drama, WarThe story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Movies like The Thin Red Line
Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to The Thin Red Line. Explore films such as Saving Private Ryan, Windtalkers, and The Longest Day, around the themes of battle, tropical island, jungle. Other notable keywords include guadalcanal and hill.
#1
Saving Private Ryan
Synopsis:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Barry Pepper
#2
Windtalkers
Synopsis:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Nicolas Cage,
Peter Stormare
Plot:
navajo indian,
year 1944,
saipan,
military,
japanese army,
japanese soldier,
arizona,
tortoise,
semper fi,
bigotry
...
#3
The Longest Day
Synopsis:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Starring:
Arletty,
Jean-Louis Barrault,
Richard Burton
#4
Fury
Synopsis:
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Starring:
Michael Peña,
Jason Isaacs,
Brad Pitt
Plot:
battle,
tank,
battlefield,
world war two,
combat,
year 1945,
1940s,
nazi,
behind enemy lines,
american soldier
...
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#5
Black Hawk Down
Synopsis:
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Starring:
Jason Isaacs,
William Fichtner,
Ewen Bremner
Plot:
somalia,
u.s. army,
gunfight,
peacekeeper,
chaos,
somali,
u.s. soldier,
combat,
street shootout,
corpse
...
#6
Platoon
Synopsis:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Starring:
Keith David,
Johnny Depp,
Willem Dafoe
#7
Wonder Woman
Synopsis:
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Starring:
Robin Wright,
Ewen Bremner,
Danny Huston
Plot:
anti war,
world war one,
matriarchy,
superhero,
princess,
1910s,
invulnerability,
airplane chase,
wartime,
superhuman speed
...
#8
The Lost City of Z
Synopsis:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Starring:
Sienna Miller,
Tom Holland,
Angus Macfadyen
Plot:
jungle,
based on true story,
based on book,
explorer,
journey,
raft,
archaeology,
husband wife relationship,
travel,
tribe
...
#9
Hellboy
Synopsis:
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
Starring:
Sophie Okonedo,
Daniel Dae Kim,
David Harbour
Plot:
demon,
based on comic,
superhero,
magic,
sorceress,
death,
wizard,
reboot,
based on graphic novel,
violence
...
#10
Battle of Britain
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Christopher Plummer,
Michael Caine,
Ian McShane
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#11
1917
Synopsis:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
Starring:
George MacKay,
Dean-Charles Chapman,
Mark Strong
Plot:
world war one,
long take,
death,
rat,
race against time,
british soldier,
trench,
mud,
tunnel,
cherry blossom
...
#12
Midway
Synopsis:
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
Starring:
Woody Harrelson,
Dennis Quaid,
Ed Skrein
Plot:
world war two,
explosion,
fire,
warplane,
naval uniform,
u.s. military,
dying young,
pacific ocean,
automatic gunfire,
bomb
...
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#13
American Sniper
Synopsis:
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. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, w…
Starring:
Sienna Miller,
Bradley Cooper,
Kyle Gallner
Plot:
assassin,
iraq,
sniper,
mercenary,
violence,
american soldier,
exploitation,
racial slur,
infidelity,
gay slur
...
#14
All Quiet on the Western Front
Synopsis:
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.
Starring:
Louis Wolheim,
Lew Ayres,
John Wray
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#15
12 Strong
Synopsis:
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Starring:
Chris Hemsworth,
Michael Shannon,
Michael Peña
#16
We Were Soldiers
Synopsis:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Starring:
Clark Gregg,
Chris Klein,
Jsu Garcia
Plot:
battle,
soldier,
vietnam war,
helicopter,
reporter,
based on true story,
french soldier,
french military,
wound,
battalion
...
#17
The Last Samurai
Synopsis:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Starring:
Timothy Spall,
Hiroyuki Sanada,
Ken Watanabe
Plot:
historically inaccurate,
alcoholic,
prostitute,
white savior,
drunkenness,
bowing,
emperor,
war hero,
ninja,
katana sword
...
#18
Dunkirk
Synopsis:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Starring:
Fionn Whitehead,
Damien Bonnard,
Aneurin Barnard
Plot:
world war two,
1940s,
soldier,
beach,
evacuation,
military,
army,
yacht,
sinking ship,
survival
...
#19
Apocalypse Now
Synopsis:
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 enemy territory.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Harrison Ford,
Martin Sheen
Plot:
vietnam,
vietnam war,
jungle,
insanity,
secret mission,
anti war,
u.s. army,
severed head,
army,
cambodia
...
#20
The Monuments Men
Synopsis:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, h…
Starring:
John Goodman,
Cate Blanchett,
Matt Damon
Plot:
art,
1940s,
world war two,
1970s,
year 1945,
year 1943,
year 1944,
mine,
map,
cigarette smoking
...