20 best movies like The Wages of Fear (1953)

List of the best movies like The Wages of Fear (1953): Sorcerer, The Divide, Black Sea, The Grey, The Hunter, Rider on the Rain, The Ghost and the Darkness, Le Cercle Rouge, Heli, Centurion.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, USA
Duration01:50

    A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

      An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:44

      Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:59

      A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:50

      Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration02:14

      When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryMexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
      Duration01:45

      Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:37

      Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:48

      British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryIndia

      A pleasant road trip takes a nightmarish turn for gemologist Sunny George when he meets with an accident. As his life hangs in the balance on the edge of a cliff in the middle of nowhere, Sunny must not only contend with the great adversity he is in, but the adversaries lurking in the shadows as well.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

      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: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:04

      Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryNorway, Germany, Sweden, France, Finland

      Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
      CountryGermany, South Africa, USA
      Duration01:30

      A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryNorway
      Duration01:23

      Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless killer thieves. The only one spared is 19 year old Signe. She is taken prisoner, and the gang brings her back to their camp. Here, she soon learns that they have a fate worse than death in store for her, and realises that her only hope is to escape.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain, Romania, Russia, France
      Duration01:57

      Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryWest Germany, France, Italy

      Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryIran, Germany
      Duration01:30

      In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Brazil, Germany
      Duration01:54

      Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

      Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryFrance, Canada
      Duration01:52

      In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen Quebec.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:55

      After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as the attempt to crack the safe's combination.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryThailand, France

      A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryAustralia, Colombia, United Kingdom
      Duration02:13

      A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
      CountryChina
      Duration02:01

      At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, history
      CountrySpain, France, Italy
      Duration02:31

      A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.

      Markimdb: 1.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:15

      When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration02:07

      Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryAustria
      Duration01:48

      Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration01:34

      Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada, France, Portugal, Italy
      Duration01:45

      Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:43

      Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:50

      How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountrySpain

      A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
      Duration02:05

      A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain, France, Canada

      A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genredrama, adventure, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:40

      A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryGermany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:38

        As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover — stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountrySpain, France
        Duration01:36

        A virtuous monk descends to the depths of sin and depravity after Satan sends an unholy temptress to lead him astray.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration01:56

        The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:35

        Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the embassy, have news on her whereabouts until a photo appears of Sara in a mining town. Apparently, Sara is being held captive by The Hawk, the fearsome rebel leader who controls the mafias behind the prized mineral coltan.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryAustralia

        An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.




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