Movies like The Grey
The Grey (2012) is a action movie directed by Joe Carnahan. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Expendables 2 (2012)
★ 6.4 · 7,367 votes · Action, Adventure, Thriller
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
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2. 127 Hours (2010)
★ 7.1 · 8,344 votes · Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
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3. Insomnia (2002)
★ 7.0 · 5,588 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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4. Memento (2000)
★ 8.2 · 16,897 votes · Mystery, Thriller
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
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5. Iron Man (2008)
★ 7.7 · 28,986 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
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6. War Machine (2026)
★ 7.5 · 2,591 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.
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7. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
★ 6.6 · 1,935 votes · Thriller, Action
A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
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8. The Dog Stars (2026)
★ 6.6 · 310 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
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9. The Hunter (2011)
★ 6.7 · 749 votes · Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
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10. Mad Max 2 (1981)
★ 7.4 · 4,346 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
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11. Commando (1985)
★ 6.8 · 3,327 votes · Action, Adventure, Thriller
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
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12. Lord of the Flies (1990)
★ 6.4 · 675 votes · Adventure, Drama, Thriller
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
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13. Deliverance (1972)
★ 7.3 · 1,899 votes · Drama, Adventure, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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14. 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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