Movies like Inferno (1983)
The best movies like Inferno (1983) are Escape to Victory (1981), The Beautiful Game (2024) and The Match (2021). If Inferno hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Inferno
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- Highest ratedEscape to Victory (1981)6.9/10 from 1,058 votes
- NewestAfterburn (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanThe Wild Soccer Bunch (2003)Also in German
Escape to Victory (1981)
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beautiful Game (2024)
A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Match (2021)
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrimsby (2016)
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI.D. (1995)
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemolition Man (1993)
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLooking for Eric (2009)
Middle-aged postman and football fan Eric Bishop struggles with his increasingly chaotic existence, but receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Éric Cantona.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinal Score (2018)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt's a Disaster (2013)
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Running Man (1987)
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfterburn (2025)
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOperation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wild Soccer Bunch (2003)
The school year is over and for a diverse group of carefree kids, soccer is king! These kids believe that they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than improving their game. "If you want to be cool, you should be wild." However, the relentless rain turns their field into a swamp, so they have to take an unexpected break. And when the sun finally comes, a gang of older, bigger and dumber boys has just taken over the field. They won't give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPorno (2019)
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOff the Grid (2025)
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Cloned Tyrone (2023)
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisGreener Grass (2019)
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Inferno?
The closest matches to Inferno are Escape to Victory (1981), The Beautiful Game (2024) and The Match (2021). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Inferno?
Start with Escape to Victory (1981), the closest match to Inferno.
What is the highest-rated movie like Inferno?
Escape to Victory (1981), rated 6.9/10 by 1,058 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Inferno?
Afterburn (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Inferno?
Yes: The Wild Soccer Bunch (2003).
How are movies similar to Inferno chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Inferno, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.