Special Forces Movies

Special Forces Movies
List of the best special forces movies selected by our site visitors: Battle: Los Angeles, Uri: The Surgical Strike, Battleship, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Lone Survivor, Zero Dark Thirty, Special Forces, The Raid, Doom, Predator.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

    The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:24

    Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Japan, Hong Kong
    Duration02:05

      When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential his brother, and his fiancée's father, Admiral Shane, expect of him.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA, Malta, Morocco
      Duration02:20

      An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

      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: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration02:37

          A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, drama, military
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:44

            Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genreaction, thriller, crime
            CountryIndonesia, USA
            Duration01:36

            Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany
            Duration01:53

            A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Mexico
            Duration01:44

            Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genreaction, thriller, adventure
            CountryUSA, Germany, Bulgaria, China, Spain
            Duration01:43

              Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genredrama, crime
              CountryKazakhstan
              Duration01:40

              Against the backdrop of a conflict between former friends, and now a soldier and a prisoner, events break out that will make them make a difficult choice. This choice changed the history and attitude to true heroism.

              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: 6.8
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryRussia, France, Armenia
                Duration01:49

                When a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genreaction, drama, military, history
                CountryRussia, Serbia
                Duration02:31

                1999, Serbia is bombed and Kosovo region is left for plunder by bandits under command of Albanian warlord, Smuk. The removal of the human organs take place within the territories bandits have taken, the robberies, mass assassinations and genocide. Russian intelligence officer Bek Ethoev and former paratrooper turned mercenary Andrey Shatalov head a small detachment tasked with the dangerous mission to stop the terrorism, recapture the airfield used by the bandits and rescue Shatalov's love interest Yasna, who was captured to be harvested for organs, like the rest of the Serbian prisoners.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:21

                  Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of Cuba. But the real fireworks result when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sexy sister.

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

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

                  Markimdb: 4.9
                  Genreaction, thriller, crime
                  CountrySweden

                  A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigation takes them in a dangerous direction that proves to have unforeseen consequences. The hunt for the robbers is intense and their methods become more refined and terrifying. Klara ends up in the line of fire, both literally and figuratively, and the investigation takes her in a direction that she could never have imagined.

                  Markimdb: 5.9
                  Genrecomedy
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:31

                  The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

                  Markimdb: 5.8
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                  CountryFrance, Belgium
                  Duration01:25

                  Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

                  Markimdb: 6.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:32

                  Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

                  Markimdb: 4.8
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
                  CountryAustralia
                  Duration01:27

                  A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

                  Markimdb: 5.2
                  Genreaction, crime
                  CountryRussia

                  Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory owner. But Nikita and his group of highly trained fighters get more than they bargained for when it turns out the factory is actually owned by a dangerous warlord connected to the Russian military. By the time the 'hostile takeover' is complete, Nikita reveals that he has orchestrated his own secret mission to take personal revenge on the most dangerous man in Russia.

                  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: 6.1
                  Genreaction, thriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Bahrain
                  Duration01:35

                    Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.

                    Markimdb: 3.4
                    Genreaction
                    CountryUnited Kingdom

                    A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.

                    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: 5.7
                      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
                      CountryJapan
                      Duration03:00

                      Ken Kaneki (Masataka Kubota) is a university student. He becomes injured by Rize, a human eating ghoul. Ken is saved from the ghoul when a steel frame falls on Rize. They are both sent to the hospital. Ken receives an organ transplant from Rize and becomes a half ghoul.

                      Markimdb: 6
                      Genreaction, thriller
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:04

                      When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.

                      Markimdb: 6.6
                      Genreaction, thriller, crime
                      CountrySpain
                      Duration01:03

                      Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a few hours to gather together a large amount of cash: if he doesn't, his car will blow up.

                      Markimdb: 6.8
                      Genreaction, thriller, crime
                      CountryFrance, USA, Germany
                      Duration01:32

                        Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

                        Markimdb: 4.6
                        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, crime
                        CountryUSA

                        Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable life. All this changes when an alien that's been held a secret military installation excapes by taking over the body of one of the base employees. Amanda finds the fugitive alien and decides to help it hide from the government agents chasing it, a seemingly easy task, as the alien must change host bodies every few days. Will she be able to help her new companion make a clean getaway?

                        Markimdb: 6.6
                        Genreaction, drama, military
                        CountryUSA, Australia
                        Duration02:12

                        As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

                        Markimdb: 6
                        Genrefantastic, action
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:42

                        An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

                        Markimdb: 3.5
                        Genreaction
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:30

                        The Tactical Neutralization Team, or T.N.T., is a squad of elite soldiers sent on top-secret, near-suicidal missions around the world. After one of their missions ends in failure, team member Alex decides he's had enough of the special-op life and calls it quits. His commanding officer, however, doesn't want the security risk of a former member walking around, so he assigns another member of the team to hunt down Alex and retire him permanently.

                        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: 4.8
                        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: 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: 5.6
                        Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:48

                          When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he must somehow complete to save the life of the woman he loves.

                          Markimdb: 6.2
                          Genreaction, thriller
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:30

                          Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

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