Best movies like Lost at War
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Plot Summary:
This is a Twilight Zone type story that involves five soldiers out on a mission. And they soon find themselves stuck in a foxhole in an apparently deserted camp. Then strange things begin to happen. For one they are surrounded by strange creatures shrouded in black who do not fire on them or attempt to hurt them in any way but still they stay out there watching, almost as if waiting for something. And this, along with other things that happen, cause these men to question weather they are alive or dead. And that is where their struggle begins. Exploring the age old question of fate and if it is something that is written in stone or is it something we as people can affect. One by one, four of these five men give in to fate as it were and walk off into the woods never to be seen again, but Captain Jason Briggs will not give up for any reason and in the end it is up to him alone to fine out if he can truly change his own fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Future Zone (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to 'Future Force' has John Tucker's son traveling back in time 30 years to save his father from being killed by thugs he is currently pursuing back in 1990.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, neo western
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Deadliest Prey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Deadly Prey. Colonel Hogan is still alive and just getting out of prison on parole, some 28 years later. But he has only one thing in mind and that is revenge on Mike Danton. So once again, Hogan puts together a group of mercenaries, has Danton kidnapped, and the games begin. Only this time Hogan is funded by a huge internet company in exchange for broadcasting the hunting of Danton over the internet, worldwide. For Hogan, winning is everything. Proving that there can only be one best and that it is him. What he had not thought of is that he isn’t the only one who had twenty eight years to get pissed off. Because now Mike Danton is pissed off and that means few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Invasion Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Every Time I Die (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey - discovering his own true identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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Painted in Blood (2022)
Plot Summary:
Malik, an aspiring painter, takes a job as a security guard at an art museum to make extra cash. However things quickly become terrifying when the figure inside one of the paintings starts speaking to him and walking around at night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 85%
The Final Sanction (1990)
Plot Summary:
After war breaks out between the U.S. and Russia, the two countries decide to settle the conflict by putting its two best warriors into an arena in a fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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The Watcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and that someone -- or something -- is determined to drive them out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Higher Power (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world – or destroy it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Lightning Strikes (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rural sheriff (Kevin Sorbo) faces a seemingly impossible battle when he is forced to defend his small town from a demon riding bolts of lightning and causing mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aleister (2015)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple seeks a fresh start to their lives by moving into an upper scale New England community. While settling in, they discover many disturbing secrets and acts connected to an infamous Satanic Cult which took place inside their very own home. They soon realize... they're not living alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ghosts of the Ozarks (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vikrant Rona (2022)
Plot Summary:
Almost half a century ago, a remote village in the middle of a tropical rain forest starts witnessing a series of unexplainable events which they attribute to the supernatural. Vikrant Rona, An eccentric police officer, is assigned to solve the mystery. A mysterious game unfolds where everyone in the village is a potential victim and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: kannada, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Guardian (2001)
Plot Summary:
With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. Now, Kross must race against time to stop the destruction, battle his own demons and come to grips with his destiny as he discovers that his reality has been mapped by a power much greater than himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense
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The Unlit (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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It Watches (2016)
Plot Summary:
Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ominous sounds and experiencing strange occurrences throughout the house that lead him to believe he is not alone, and that someone, or something is in the house with him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Secrets of the Summer House (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Reaptown (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this supernatural horror film, Carrie Baldwin is freed from prison under the conditions of a work-release program in Reaptown, Nevada. As she struggles to find her missing sister while working the night shift as a security guard for the Reaptown Railway Museum, Carrie soon finds herself in the presence of evil. Could the Railway hold the clues to her sister's mysterious disappearance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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House of the Disappeared (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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Convergence (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Walls finds himself in a modern day Dante world, passing back and forth between the present and the future. Surrounded by the residents seeking redemption, Ben is left with the task to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: allegory, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Ghosthunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of their own loses his wife and daughter at the hands of a serial killer, a team of ghost hunters is determined to capture the spirits of the loved ones so their spirits can finally rest in peace. But as the team goes deeper into the house, the ghosts become more hostile, and the group discovers the true secrets of the house and its murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, serious, psychological, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 86%
Deadly Prey (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Alien Siege (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an alien spacecraft destroys Washington, D.C., the residents of a small town must fight off a unit of alien soldiers on the hunt for the President of the United States and the mysterious device he's carrying after his escape chopper crash lands nearby.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disgusting
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WarHunt (2022)
Plot Summary:
1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends a squad of his bravest soldiers on a rescue mission to retrieve the top-secret material the plane was carrying, led by Sergeants Brewer and Walsh. They soon discover hanged Nazi soldiers and other dead bodies bearing ancient, magical symbols. Suddenly their compasses fail, their perceptions twist and straying from the group leads to profound horrors as they are attacked by a powerful, supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Supercroc (2007)
Plot Summary:
A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, independent film, scary, serious, surprise ending
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House of Darkness (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, the supernatural thriller "House of Darkness" recounts the mysterious case of a San Francisco family who claimed that a dark force was responsible for the tragic events that unfolded. Trying to save their struggling marriage Kelly (Sara Fletcher, "Adulthood"), her husband Brian (Gunner Wright, "J. Edgar") and their daughter Sarah (Mykayla Sohn, "The Chosen") move to a rural farmhouse in search of some serenity. Unbeknownst to them, nearly every family that has lived in the house has suffered some form of tragedy, dating back nearly 100 years. Shortly after their arrival, Kelly begins to sense that her husband’s behavior is growing increasingly strange and violent. Kelly also comes to discover the voices she’s hearing echoing through the halls, are not coming from her daughter. Will Kelly and her family be the next victims of the dark forces in the house?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Mourning (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mysterious