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Movies that feel likeHeart of the Beast (2026)

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.

If you loved Heart of the Beast, the closest films we have are Carry-On (2024), Swades (2004) and In America (2003). All three share Heart of the Beast's hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pathaan (2023).

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Carry-On
2024 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 87%★ 6.5thriller · actionNetflix

Both land tension and hope at once

The difference: Trades the scale of Heart of the Beast for an angle of its own

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

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Swades
2004 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 90%★ 8.2dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: inspirational

The difference: Easier on the scale than Heart of the Beast

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama

Both are built on the same subject: inspirational

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Heart of the Beast does

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Gran Turismo
2023 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
★ 7.1adventure · drama · actionMaxHulu

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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King of New York
1990 · dir. Abel Ferrara
🍅 72%★ 6.9thriller · crime

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
★ 6.5drama

Hopeful thriller in both cases

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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Blood and Bone
2009 · dir. Ben Ramsey
★ 6.7action · crime · thrillerStarz

Thriller built on tension, twice over

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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The Tomorrow War
2021 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 51%★ 6.6action · science fiction · adventurePrime Video

One thread runs through both: military

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%★ 8drama

Hopeful adventure, and it commits to that

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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The Last Witch Hunter
2015 · dir. Breck Eisner
🍅 17%★ 5.9action · adventure · fantasy

A streak of scale through both

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

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Like Stars on Earth
2007 · dir. Aamir Khan
🍅 93%★ 8.3drama

A 2000s cousin in spirit

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

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