Movies like Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort (1981) is a thriller movie directed by Walter Hill. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Predator (1987)
★ 7.6 · 9,588 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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2. The Hurt Locker (2008)
★ 7.2 · 6,417 votes · Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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3. 300 (2007)
★ 7.2 · 15,182 votes · Action, Adventure, War
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
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4. First Blood (1982)
★ 7.5 · 7,167 votes · Action, Thriller, Drama
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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5. Cube (1998)
★ 6.8 · 5,431 votes · Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
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6. Civil War (2024)
★ 6.8 · 4,646 votes · War, Action, Drama
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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7. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
★ 7.6 · 24,768 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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8. Dunkirk (2017)
★ 7.4 · 18,096 votes · War, Action, Drama
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.
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9. Children of Men (2006)
★ 7.6 · 8,196 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
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10. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
★ 7.4 · 18,891 votes · Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.
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11. Hungry (2026)
★ 6.8 · 312 votes · Horror, Thriller
A group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose after becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands.
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12. Becky (2020)
★ 6.3 · 770 votes · Thriller, Horror, Action
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
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13. Basic (2003)
★ 6.5 · 1,186 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
When a hurricane hits a US Army base on the edge of the Panama Canal, an elite covert operations team of US Army Rangers recruits are on a routine jungle training exercise that goes horribly awry. Only two recruits are rescued, one of which is badly injured, but both have different accounts regarding the fate of their leader, legendary and ruthless Army Ranger Drill Sergeant Nathan West, and the rest of their platoon. Tom Hardy, an ex-army Ranger turned maverick DEA agent is brought in to solve the mystery and uncover what really happened out there.
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14. You're Next (2013)
★ 6.6 · 2,785 votes · Horror, Thriller, Mystery
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
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15. Freelance (2023)
★ 6.4 · 1,211 votes · Action, Comedy
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.
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16. The Forever Purge (2021)
★ 6.9 · 2,753 votes · Action, Horror, Thriller
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
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17. Con Air (1997)
★ 6.8 · 4,905 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
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18. Hunting Season (2025)
★ 7.4 · 472 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
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