Movies like Battleground 2012

If you like "Battleground" you are looking for tense, suspenseful and serious movies about / with survival, isolation, danger, deathtrap, haunted by the past, rivalry and disagreement themes of Action, Horror and Thriller genre shot in Canada.
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Battleground (2012)
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Battleground (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The war in Vietnam is announced to finish. American troops are withdrawn and the relief of peace echoes through the air. However, as the calm after the storm spreads a sigh of relief, there is something unsettling amidst the forests of North Michigan. A disturbed war veteran remains, but he lives for one reason only - to kill. What would happen if six ruthless men stumbled across him in the eerie deserted forest, after their mass bank-robbery leaves them running from the law with three million dollars? Would they be better off facing the cells of prison or can they escape from the murderer out to get them…?
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, isolation, danger, deathtrap, haunted by the past, rivalry, disagreement, woods, on the run, violence, murder, shaolin, master warrior, one man army, violent content, forest, vietnam veteran, killing, manhunt, bank robbery, graphic violence, off the grid, deadly, off the road, in the woods ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, michigan

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Most similar movies to Battleground

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and tense films with plots about danger, deadly, survival, violence, murder, confined and woods mostly in Thriller, Horror and Action genres. Some movies like Battleground: War Games (2010), After Effect (2012), The Bucks County Massacre (2010), Trail of Blood (2011), Blood Money (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: mountain, skiing, isolation, deadly creature, survival, danger, bigfoot, friendship, supernatural, snow, winter, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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War Games (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target and no one is safe.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: danger, survival, soldier, good versus evil, woods, buddies, rivalry, escapades, survival horror, struggle for survival, murder, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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After Effect (2012)
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: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, survival, confined, danger, chaos, murder, student, zombie, violence, military, violent content, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: found footage, vampire, danger, woods, survival, manhunt, violence, murder, massacre, serial killer, travel, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Trail of Blood (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, mentally unstable, partner, murder, woods, serial killer, manhunt, survival, violence, violence spree, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
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43%
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Blood Money (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, danger, rivalry, violence, smuggling, drug cartel, triad, martial arts, master warrior, one man army, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, china
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39%
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Body Armour (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: assassin, hitman, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, vengeance, heroes, profanity, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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37%
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: monster, dangerous animal, curses spells and rituals, danger, survival, murder, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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HazMat (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, mentally unstable, murder, crazy, survival, danger, manhunt, isolation, violence, found footage, jack the ripper, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
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The Forest (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, profanity, woods, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.7
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Feed the Gods (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two brothers return to a small mountain town in search of their long lost parents only to discover that the place has a monstrous taste for tourists.
Style: suspense, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: monster, bigfoot, danger, woods, confined, survival, deathtrap, murder, violence, escape, redneck, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Lost Samaritan (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police corruption, danger, special agent, frame up, on the run, dishonesty, chases and races, survival, murderous pair, violent content, night ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, haunted by the past, sniper, childhood trauma, confined, stalking, woods, survival, murder, manhunt, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, crime gone awry, survival, on the run, chase, disorder, danger, escapades, chases and races, isolation, drug dealing, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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30%
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Stash House (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: survival, stash, danger, couples, rivalry, trapped, gangster, showdown, smuggling, new house, escapades, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Abducted (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: danger, captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, survival, violence, murder, wrestling, kidnapped, escape, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Trigger Man (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
Style: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, mumblecore ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, on the run, danger, wilderness, manhunt, woods, redneck, hunting, sniper, violent content, escapades, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: delaware, usa
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30%
Valley of the Sasquatch (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing their home following a devastating tragedy, a father and son are forced to move to an old family cabin. Neither reacts well to being thrown into this new world. The son's attempts to relate to his father are complicated when two ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, creature feature, murder, hunting, camping, survival, father son relationship, danger, relocation, isolation, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: creature, small town, deadly creature, danger, family relations, survival, woods, showdown, violence, resistance, rivalry, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Night Crew (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Plot: motel, survival, crew, savage, desert, gang, siege, rivalry, danger, death, violence, armed forces ...
Place: usa
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Enemies Closer (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, reluctant partners, survival, violence, rivalry, danger, woods, partner, illegal drugs, betrayal, gang, strong violent content ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
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Throttle (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, psychopath, confined, rivalry, isolation, on the run, frame up, master criminal, stalking, danger, automobile, die hard ...
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Desecrated (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man's land. They soon find that the caretaker's dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, isolation, buddies, mysterious character, ranch, struggle for survival, danger, violence, heiress, youth, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Terror Experiment (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: zombie, bio weapon, survival, plague, violence spree, chaos, danger, confined, experiment gone awry, contamination, isolation, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Superfire (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forest fire, disaster, forces of nature, survival, save the day, hidden identity, heroes, disorder, danger, apocalypse, firefighter, natural disaster ...
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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26%
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88 (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: memory loss, vengeance, on the run, stripper, danger, time travel, violence, revenge, woman with a gun, bad girl, diner, shooting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Travellers (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Four friends set out on a motorcycle adventure weekend, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and urban lifestyles. After bartering with a local land owner for a place to set up camp, they spend the night reminiscing over their wasted ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, survival, haunted by the past, captivity, danger, confined, woods, wilderness, buddies, escapades, friendship, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Don't Let Him In (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, danger, isolation, countryside, couples, murder, fear, violence, travel, violent, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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