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Movies that feel likeSisu (2022)

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

If you loved Sisu, the closest films we have are Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023), Rambo (2008) and Operation Red Sea (2018). All three share Sisu's kinetic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shadow (2018).

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jalmari Helanderkineticbleaktense
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.5war Β· action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic and bleak in the same breath

After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must return to the war zone and repay his debt.

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Rambo
2008 Β· dir. Sylvester Stallone
πŸ… 38%β˜… 7action Β· thriller Β· war

Action built on tension, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.

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Operation Red Sea
2018 Β· dir. Dante Lam Chiu-yin
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.6action Β· thriller Β· warPrime Video

Kinetic war in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Sisu does

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

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Shadow
2018 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7action Β· warPrime Video

Both lean on bleakness more than on thriller

The difference: Trades the tension of Sisu for an angle of its own

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

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Badland Hunters
2024 Β· dir. Heo Myeong-haeng
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6action Β· adventure Β· thrillerNetflix

Tense action, and it commits to that

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

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Greyhound
2020 Β· dir. Aaron Schneider
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7war Β· action Β· dramaApple TV+

One thread runs through both: world war ii

The difference: Easier on the tension than Sisu

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 Β· dir. Stefano Sollima
πŸ… 45%β˜… 5.8action Β· thriller Β· warPrime Video

War with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

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Black Crab
2022 Β· dir. Adam Berg
πŸ… 53%β˜… 5.7action Β· thrillerNetflix

Thriller with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

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Balkan Line
2019 Β· dir. Andrey Volgin
β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· warPrime Video

Both play action straight

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8action Β· drama Β· war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Stalingrad
2013 Β· dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.7war Β· action Β· drama

Both know what they want from war

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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District B13
2004 Β· dir. Pierre Morel
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1action Β· thriller Β· science fictionPrime Video

Tense thriller in both cases

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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