English movies about special forces

List of the best English movies about special forces selected by visitors to our site: One Shot, Killer Elite, Blitz, The Kill Team, Hummingbird, Eye in the Sky, Tenet, Attrition, The Courier, Age of Heroes.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Genreaction, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

An elite squad of Navy SEAL's, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
Duration01:56

    Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:37

    A tough, renegade cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, biography
    CountrySpain, USA, United Kingdom

    When Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic Sergeant, he considers reporting them to higher-ups. However, the heavily-armed and increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear that he'll be the next target.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:40

      Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:20

      A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
      CountryThailand, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA

      When a Thai girl with mythical powers goes missing, Axe and his old team unite in attempts to bring her back.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration02:18

      A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:35

      When a stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed criminals during a major sporting event, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save both the daughter of a fallen comrade and the huge crowd unaware of the danger.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, South Africa, Germany
      Duration01:45

        A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, drama
        CountryFrance, United Kingdom
        Duration01:58

        A french police unit that try to stop a group of criminals.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        The film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew begins to understand that not all of them will escape and a fight for survival ensues.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        When a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, India

        To revenge his past, Aakash Rana plants bomb in a train endangering lives of 500 passengers.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genreaction, drama, military
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

          Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, action, comedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:37

          The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

          Markimdb: 3
          Genrethriller, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:34

          In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:40

          A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrethriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:35

          The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredocumentary, music, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          From award-winning director Mat Whitecross and featuring extensive unseen archive footage, Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed, and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrecomedy, crime, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Set in late-1970's Dundee, Schemers is based on writer-producer David McLean’s early years in the music business. After a run in with a local gangster, a fledgling promoter and his two friends raise their ambitions to booking major bands in order to escape their debt.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, comedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:28

          Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat Swindon - and all before they can so much as collect their toothbrushes. Staying undercover doesn’t prove easy…

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
          Duration02:08

          Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

          Markimdb: 3.5
          Genrecomedy, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:33

          When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt School Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out - all because he is trying to save the very school which he has always professed to hate!

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, short
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:20

          Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

          Markimdb: 3
          Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration02:29

          Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:40

          Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
          Duration01:40

          Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:51

          A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genredrama, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France
          Duration02:21

          Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:50

          Musical film about the trials and tribulations of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end of year show.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
          Duration02:27

          Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium

          Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:01

          A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:45

          Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:05

          A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:30

          Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:41

          Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:46

          19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
          Duration01:30

          Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.




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