Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "american-in-asia"

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 710,581 | Gross: $83.47M

2. Lost in Translation (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 489,343 | Gross: $44.59M

3. Platoon (1986)

R | 120 min | Drama, War

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David

Votes: 439,685 | Gross: $138.53M

4. The Hangover Part II (2011)

R | 102 min | Comedy

Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha

Votes: 534,901 | Gross: $254.46M

5. Sayonara (1957)

Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Romance

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, James Garner

Votes: 7,718 | Gross: $26.30M

6. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryô Kase

Votes: 170,086 | Gross: $13.76M

7. Colossal (2016)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 69,194 | Gross: $3.02M

8. House (1985)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll

Votes: 29,990 | Gross: $19.44M

9. The Green Berets (1968)

G | 142 min | Drama, War

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

Directors: Ray Kellogg, John Wayne, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray

Votes: 13,879 | Gross: $21.71M

10. O.K. (1970)

80 min | Drama, War

A four-man US fire-team on patrol seizes a dying young Vietnamese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. One soldier refuses to take part and reports the incident.

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Gustl Bayrhammer, Hartmut Becker, Rolf Castell, Wolfgang Fischer

Votes: 206

11. Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, War

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard

Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $4.02M

12. Never So Few (1959)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, War

During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen

Votes: 3,420

13. The Quiet American (1958)

TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll

Votes: 2,102

14. Objective, Burma! (1945)

Approved | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias

Votes: 5,548

15. Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982–1983)

60 min | Adventure

Pith-helmeted Buck is a Great White Hunter who here (unlike the real one from the 1940s) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all kinds of bad guys in pre-war Malaya.

Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Clyde Kusatsu, Ron O'Neal, John A. Zee

Votes: 465

16. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, War

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton

Votes: 2,113

17. Men in War (1957)

Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine

Votes: 2,999

18. The Steel Helmet (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, War

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards

Votes: 4,737

19. Tokyo Joe (1949)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 2,693

20. Trade of Innocents (2012)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A couple grieving the loss of their own daughter set out to rescue young girls sold into the sex slave trade.

Director: Christopher M. Bessette | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley, Trieu Tran

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.02M

21. One Minute to Zero (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War

During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training the South Korean army and he's tasked with evacuating American civilians from the war zone.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw

Votes: 833

22. Malaya (1949)

Passed | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by smuggling it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,445

23. Jack London (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, War

Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport

Votes: 448

24. Passion Flower (1986 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 96 min | Crime, Drama

The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Barbara Hershey, Nicol Williamson, John Waters

Votes: 121

25. Horror Stories 2 (2013)

95 min | Horror

In an insurance company, Se-young, who has a power to see people's past and read their minds. Mr.Park, Se-Young's boss, assumes that she has some kind of special power, decides to test her ... See full summary »

Directors: Sung-ho Kim, Jung Bum-shik, Hwi Kim, Kyu-dong Min | Stars: Jung In-sun, Kim Ji-won, Baek Jin-hee, Sung Jun

Votes: 421

26. God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)

Passed | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

During WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Dane Clark, Alan Hale

Votes: 680

27. Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War

Army Master Sergeant Hugh O'Reilly is stationed in Japan after World War II. He hates the Japanese. He meets a pretty young Japanese woman, an interpreter for the Army, and through her ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Murphy | Stars: Aldo Ray, Philip Carey, Dick York, Chuck Connors

Votes: 149

28. The Anderson Platoon (1967)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, History, War

The director, a French veteran of the Indochina war (La 317e Section), returned to follow a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam in 1966. The ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Joseph B. Anderson, Stuart Whitman

Votes: 383

29. 100 Missions: Surviving Vietnam (2020)

44 min | Documentary, History, War

During the Vietnam War, US Air Force pilots who flew 100 combat missions could go home. The tension built relentlessly as they survived each sortie. This is the story of the survivors and the fallen.

Stars: Robin Olds, Michael Hankins, Ed Rasimus, Karl Richter

Votes: 62

30. Taking Fire (2016)

206 min | Documentary, War

Soldiers recount their experiences in one of the worst places of Afghanistan through helmet cameras and testimony years after their tour.

Stars: Kevin Conroy, J.J. McCool, Kyle Boucher, Ken Shriver

Votes: 319

31. This Is Korea! (1951)

Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, War

Director John Ford's documentary about the beginnings of the Korean War, after North Korenn troops invaded South Korea and battled U.S., South Korean and United Nations forces. Notable in ... See full summary »

Director: John Ford | Stars: Ward Bond, Edward A. Craig, Allan Dwan, John Ireland

Votes: 204

32. Stopover Tokyo (1957)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.

Director: Richard L. Breen | Stars: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott

Votes: 325

33. A Place in Hell (1969)

107 min | War

After the U.S. defeat in the Philippines, Madison leads a rag-tag group of U.S. soldiers against the Japanese occupiers. In this WW II drama, the Japanese set an island trap for the American troops.

Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Guy Madison, Maurice Poli, Hélène Chanel, Sandro Pizzochero

Votes: 125

34. Korean War in Color (2001 Video)

Documentary

Color footage includes: The Inchon Invasion The rise and fall of Seoul The Naktong river campaign Winter at the Choisin reservoir The 1st Marine Division in action Flame throwers in action ... See full summary »

Votes: 73

35. Battle for Korea (2001 TV Movie)

110 min | Documentary, History, War

A detailed military history of the Korean War and preceding events, from 1945 to 1953.

Star: Gavin MacFadyen

Votes: 24

36. Richard Nixon's Visit to China, 1972 (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

This historical film in color from the CIA Film Library covers President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing and the Great Wall in China.

Star: Richard Nixon

37. The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960–1961)
Episode: Adventure on Happiness Street (1961)

30 min | Drama

As countless old and sick people are forced to leave Red China, they seek medical help from a small free clinic run by an American in Hong Kong. He's running out of needed medicine, but a ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Lew Ayres, Robert Culp, Allen Jung

Votes: 36

38. Muhammad Ali (2021)
Episode: Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016) (2021)

94 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Muhammad shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in Zaire, regaining the heavyweight title and becoming the most famous man on earth, before completing the trilogy with his old foe, Joe Frazier, in the 'Thrilla in Manila'.

Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Wole Soyinka, Salim Muwakkil, Gerald Early, Todd Boyd

Votes: 92

39. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023– )
Episode: Aftermath (2023)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Cate travels to Japan to get answers about her father and uncovers a shocking secret. Keiko, Lee, and Billy pursue a theory about Titans.

Director: Matt Shakman | Stars: Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto

Votes: 3,409

40. Story Time with Fat Jew (2015– )
Episode: Landmarks (2016)

TV-MA | Animation

As a privileged kid taken on great vacations, Fat Jew had a goal: to masturbate at famous historical sites around the globe. Yes, hes jerked off at the pyramids of Egypt.