The best R. Lee Ermey’s drama movies

R. Lee Ermey

R. Lee Ermey

24/03/1944- 15/04/2018
Today we present the best R. Lee Ermey’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best R. Lee Ermey’s movies.
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Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now
8.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/08/1979
  • Character: Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
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.

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/06/1987
  • Character: Gny. Sgt. Hartman
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/12/1995
  • Character: Clyde Percy
A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who, in his last days, forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality, as she accompanies him to his execution.

Sommersby

Sommersby
6.3/10
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning
7.8/10
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/10/1995
  • Character: Conventioneer
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Willard

Willard
6.1/10
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.

The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea
7/10
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Murder in the First

Murder in the First
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/01/1995
  • Character: Judge Clawson
Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.

Taking Sides

Taking Sides
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicWar
  • Release: 01/01/2001
  • Character: General Wallace
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

Skipped Parts

Skipped Parts
6.2/10
A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

Scenes of the Crime

Scenes of the Crime
5.7/10
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.

Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts
5.7/10
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.

Solstice

Solstice
5.3/10
While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.

Prefontaine

Prefontaine
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/01/1997
  • Character: Bill Bowerman
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Weapons of Mass Distraction
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/11/1997
  • Character: Billy Paxton
As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own to destroy each other's reputations.

Love Is a Gun

Love Is a Gun
4.9/10
A model causes an obsessed police photographer to lose his girlfriend and become a murder suspect.

Soul of the Game

Soul of the Game
7.3/10
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

83 Hours 'Til Dawn
5.6/10
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.

The Chaos Factor

The Chaos Factor
4.6/10
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.

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