Movies like A Hard Place
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A Hard Place (2025)
3K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of criminals on the run in a cold, winter forest find themselves caught in the middle of an ancient feud between the monsters that rule the day and the creatures that rule the night.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspense, dark fantasy, grim, crime thriller, bleak, noir, ambiguous ending
Plot:
forest, survival, supernatural, isolation, desperation, survival horror, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, man versus nature, violent, folk horror, snow, graphic violence, apocalypse, gang, winter, cold, murder, gory, country, creature, supernatural horror, group, bound and gagged
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Most similar movies to A Hard Place
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, dark and grim films with plots about survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, violent, cat and mouse, revenge and survival horror mostly in Horror, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like A Hard Place: Craving (2023), Delivery Run (2024), Tethered (2022), Uncontained (2025), Whiteout (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After a drug deal goes south, four heroin addicts barricade themselves in a country bar as the cops close in. Withdrawal sets in, further complicating their hostage situation, while a secret one of them is hiding could destroy them all.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, creature feature, heroin addict, hostage situation, deathtrap, drug dealer, drug deal, trap, threat, drug, problem ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A food delivery driver gets caught in a deadly chase in the icy Minnesota wilderness, pursued by a crazed snowplow driver for unknown reasons, facing life-threatening situations and forced to outsmart his relentless pursuer alone.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, dark, road movie
Plot:
winter, survival, chase, isolation, cat and mouse, desperation, man versus nature, cold, stalker, violent, improv, underdog ...
Place:
minnesota, north america
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, supernatural horror, supernatural, isolated house, blind man, isolation, remote location, paranormal phenomena, creature feature, survival horror, survival, blindness ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wintry forests of North America, a mysterious drifter struggles to protect an abandoned boy and his little sister from an infection that turns people into a feral-like state.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, grim, bleak
Plot:
survival horror, survival, infected, forest, isolation, post apocalyptic, loneliness, winter, infection, slow burn, man versus nature, stranded ...
Similarity:
62%
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974
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After escaping a Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.
Style:
brutal, tense, intense, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, escape, winter, man versus nature, struggle for survival, cold, wilderness, desperation, snowstorm, isolation, betrayal, violent ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a drug epidemic ravages the city, Detective Grant Pierce decides to take matters into his own hands, going undercover to infiltrate the infamous "Trap House": a madman's meth lab outfitted with lethal and sadistic booby traps.
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, crime thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, gang, meth lab, criminal, bandit, gunfight, crime solving, police detective, fighting crime, homicide detective, criminal's revenge ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pursued by her stepmother for eternal beauty, Snow White flees into a terrifying forest and aligns with seven bloodthirsty dwarves - cold-blooded assassins with a knack for brutal killings. Her spirit is tested in this grim fairy tale.
Style:
dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, forest, assassin, revenge, macabre, graphic violence, violent, moral ambiguity, betrayal, visceral, anti hero, murder ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Woodmen follows three individuals who find themselves in a fight for their lives as they attempt to escape from a clan of feral humans that call the Great Smoky Mountains home. Together, they battle the cunning and elusive adversary that wants ...
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, fast paced, brutal ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, fear, backwoods, survival, isolation, escape, forest, savage, violent, isolated community, cat and mouse, chase ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A double-dealing member of an elite group of hit men becomes the ultimate target when his organization discovers his deceit.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, dark, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, assassin, double agent, conspiracy, contract killing, murder, manhunt, revenge, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, survival, paranoia ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After successfully defeated the black-suited ghost, Yak must now set out on another journey to find Yee, his youngest sister who has been kidnapped by a cult. Yak and his partner Sergeant Paphan are forced to enter a fearsome cursed village.
Style:
suspense, tense, bleak, mystical, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, folk horror, macabre, haunting, ghost, superstition, occult, survival, remote village, isolation, possession, rescue mission ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows a group of male hunters who regularly lure women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only to discover that they are the hunted, but this time they mess with the wrong girls and must deal with the consequences.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
hunting, survival game, survival, survival horror, gory, women, group, manhunt, bloody violence, carnage, struggle for survival, hunter ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A chilling tale of a city being tormented by a mysterious killer. Everywhere the citizens turn, they uncover more body parts. The only ones who can possibly capture the demented madman are a pair of homicide cops who play by their own rules.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, killing, serial murder, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, murder, murderer, killing spree, police procedural, crime scene ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 1590, Coronado dispatched a division of one thousand men to find El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. Those men were never seen again. While searching some Baja peninsula caves as part of an archeological expedition, a university professor and ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
skeleton, supernatural being, desert, supernatural, curse, undead, survival horror, el dorado, treasure hunt, lost city, exploration, isolation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Far from civilization, in a frozen forest on an inhospitable mountainside, a group of researchers is attacked by an unidentified figure. The sole survivor, a young biologist, takes refuge in the isolated cabin of a mysterious man.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
survival horror, isolation, killing, murder, murderer, sole survivor, forest, problem, threat, survival, paranoia, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
43%
271
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When raw gold is discovered deep in the woods, a group of gold hunters arrive to mine it. Several neighbors in the area witness the hunters by chance and find themselves in danger. Among the witnesses, hunter Ki-sung risks his life to protect the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, brutal ...
Plot:
murder, hunting, survival, greed, forest, struggle for survival, murder witness, threat, witness, murderer, witnessing a crime, treasure hunt ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
42%
2K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Charismatic Nolan Bentley wakes up in the middle of a remote forest, tied to a tree with no recollection of how he got there. With his time relentlessly running out, a mysterious stranger appears and he must finally reckon with the demons of his ...
Style:
suspense, mysterious, psychological thriller, tense, dark ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, mysterious stranger, forest, memory loss, amnesia, isolation, survival, confrontation, trauma, paranoia, dark past, escape ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of soldiers are ordered to hold a bridge during a zombie outbreak, but what lives underneath the bridge, proves to be even more deadly.
Style:
tense, dark, suspense, grim
Plot:
zombie, military, survival, soldier, underground, creature, combat, sacrifice, desperation, isolation, siege, mutant ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, experiment gone awry, danger, confined, murder, student, chaos, zombie, military, violence, fear, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A mysterious darkness has swallowed the earth. While running from blood-thirsty creatures, a group of six strangers are mysteriously drawn to an old movie theatre. Thinking themselves safe, they attempt to come to grips with the chaos happening to ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, survival, post apocalyptic, survivor, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, creature, desperation, invasion, creature feature ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A small town widow faces a grisly confrontation with her would-be extortionists.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, intense, dark, grim ...
Plot:
danger, threat, extortion, revenge, small town, survival, isolation, confrontation, vigilante, justice, grief, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
37%
267
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
brutal, tense, suspense, dark, slasher
Plot:
creature feature, monster, government conspiracy, survival horror, survival, mysterious stranger, gory, camping trip, violent, military, isolation, chase ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
Style:
demonic, suspenseful, intense, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
demon, apocalypse, occult, possession, supernatural, investigation, rescue mission, survival, urban, panic, police procedural, family drama ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
blackmail, murder, one last job, on the run, redemption, killing, struggle for survival, bandit, haunted by the past, confronting the past, criminal, secret past ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of wayward teens at a wilderness boot camp must fight for their lives against the attacks of a ruthless blood-sucking alien. The attacks begin after they discover a strange "orb" in the middle of the desert. With no communication, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, alien, team, danger, hunting, deadly creature, survival horror, struggle for survival, supernatural, brutality, teenager, isolation ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A hooded monk appears and massacres an army unit. In a secret facility researchers unlock time and pull a dinosaur into the present. The cult leader merges with the beast to create a fiery hot killing machine. A local priest's faith is tested ...
Style:
intense, bloody, tense, sinister, grim ...
Plot:
dinosaur, supernatural, creature feature, supernatural horror, travel, religion, occult, revenge, graphic violence, gory, possession, exorcism ...
Similarity:
36%
238
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two brothers live alone in a shack in the woods, trying to overcome their abusive past. But when a girl is killed nearby, fearing retribution from the townspeople, they cover up her death, kidnap the only witness and embark on a murderous journey.
Style:
brutal, tense, crime thriller, bloody, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sheriff, murder, violent, kidnapping, small town, revenge, bullying, cover up, brothers, trauma, moral ambiguity, witness ...
Similarity:
35%
86
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In this terrifying tale, a young couple goes on a desperate search for their daughter who's disappeared without a trace into the nearby woods -- the same woods that have recently claimed and released the mutilated bodies of several animals. ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
monster, missing child, family tragedy, man versus nature, violence, guilt, paranoia, cover up, isolation, parents, creature feature, desperation ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dr. David Stone is a scientist with a special interest in legends about the Okaloosa wilderness, where a violent, man-like beast is said to dwell, and where many campers have disappeared over the years. When local moneyman Milton St. John offers to ...
Style:
suspense, sinister, tense, atmospheric, grim ...
Plot:
bigfoot, creature feature, cryptid, forest, survival, isolation, investigation, man versus nature, expedition, folklore, revenge, survival horror ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Troubled father Leon takes son camping in Appalachia. Local cult summons evil Hangman demon. Son goes missing. Leon must confront cult, monster to find him amid rising body count.
Style:
atmospheric, demonic, religious horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, supernatural, monster, missing child, ritual, woods, isolation, occult, rescue mission, trauma, small town, guilt ...
Place:
appalachia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster. As Sgt. Dash tries to keep the peace at the local police station, the explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain that dissolves the flesh of anyone trapped in it. Even worse, it causes ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
zombie, police station, police, zombie outbreak, disaster, police officer, zombie attack, natural disaster, massive explosion, acid, survival horror, survival ...
Place:
long island
Similarity:
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