Best movies like No Rest for the Wicked
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to No Rest for the Wicked? Provide your expertise to navigate others to films and tv series you've previously watched that might also engage them. Assist in expanding the group of people raising videos between each other. We value your participation!
Plot Summary:
Father William is an ambitious Catholic priest and former Vietnam veteran sucked into a world of crime, drugs, and duplicity. He investigates the murder of an old army buddy of his which leads him to a mysterious femme fatal, named Angelica. She draws him into a world of surreal weirdness while helping him look for his friend's killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
Best tv shows and movies like No Rest for the Wicked (1998):
Similar in 81%
The Expendables (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to save the American hostages.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
There Is No 13 (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 76%
Ultraviolet (1992)
Plot Summary:
A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, independent film
Similar in 88%
War Dog (1987)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting hero gets involved in uncovering a super soldier terrorist group that has brainwashed his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bloody, independent film
Similar in 82%
The Devastator (1986)
Plot Summary:
This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Killzone (1985)
Plot Summary:
It turns awry for a Vietnam veteran with problems during an exercise at a survival camp, and he believes that he is back in Vietnam. He kills many of the leaders whom he believes is the Vietcong. The other participants venture out to find him and catch him before he injures or kills any more. The camp holds that against have no plans to capture him alive. Is this going out, he namely major problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Rescue Team (1983)
Plot Summary:
Richard Harrison stars as a super tough CIA agent in this over-the-top action-packed Filipino jungle action flick. Bloody violence, a jungle full of bamboo death traps and some double crossing keeps things more than interesting and a definite must for fans of Filipino exploitation action.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Firehawk (1993)
Plot Summary:
During a daring mission in Vietnam, a helicoptor squadron is downed. While the soldiers try to escape capture by the Viet Cong, clues that the copter was sabotaged lead to brutal infighting, as they search for the traitor among them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
Intrusion: Cambodia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag group is assembled for a secret mission into Cambodia, led by legendary special forces commando Richard Harrison.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Born Killer (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged and homicidal escaped convicts terrorize a group of survivalists engaged in a paint-ball war.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
Similar in 76%
Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dave is a bad cop fighting a deadly heroin addiction while working a case deep inside the mafia. After killing numerous drug dealers and even undercover police officers for the mob, he is kept from his money for trivial reasons. As his drug problem gets worse, and Dave sinks deeper into a murderous lifestyle, he runs from the city to live with an old friend. But Dave can't hide for long, and he is soon lured back to town in a dangerous war to get his money back from the men that wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
Checkmate (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Federation's Boss must call their best agent out of a bedroom romp with a gentleman because the USA, Russia, Britain and France, are under the menace of an atomic weapon carried by their very own super secret joint satellite.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 90%
Warbus (1985)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 86%
Gypsy (1990)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 75%
Baja Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootout, and flee into Mexico with the drug money while being chased by two hit men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 85%
Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
Plot Summary:
David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years later, when David's wife Gail and daughter Kim are killed by a group of terrorists led by Ali Aboud, in a massacre at an airport in Rome, Italy, David is devastated. Going against his faith, David sets out to find and kill Ali Aboud.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Beyond Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden agenda, who do you trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 81%
The Unspeakable (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Alice Redmond is required to go deep undercover in an effort to trap number one suspect Darren Metlick, she gets very close to the edge. Her superiors push her past the point of no return because they need additional evidence to make their case air tight. Alice is having an affair with a fellow officer Don Holroyd and his sexual appetite closely resembles that of the hacker, so she has some experience in the dark side.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 84%
Dead End City (1988)
Plot Summary:
The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: hood, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Stray (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, detective
Similar in 82%
Operation Warzone (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad of U.S. troops seek out a mysterious agent hiding out in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam whom has classified documents that could win the war.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 83%
Search and Destroy (1979)
Plot Summary:
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murders of his former Army pals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
Similar in 81%
Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 88%
Masterblaster (1987)
Plot Summary:
Regional finalists of the Masterblaster paintball competition gather together at the national championship for a chance at the title and fifty thousand dollars in cash. The competition turns deadly when someone stops playing games and starts taking lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Chaos Factor (2000)
Plot Summary:
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 84%
Off Limits (1988)
Plot Summary:
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, detective, retro, neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, surprise ending, erotic
Similar in 88%
A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, political thriller, independent film, student film
Similar in 84%
Ambush (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of which they have never seen.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 88%
Missing in Action (1984)
Plot Summary:
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 86%
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Plot Summary:
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cult classic, realistic, black and white, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, political thriller