Movies like Hunting Grounds (2025)
The best movies like Hunting Grounds (2025) are Apex (2026), Protector (2026) and Taken (2008). If Hunting Grounds hooked you with its action and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedProtector (2026)8.4/10 from 648 votes
- NewestInfiltrate (2026)Released 2026
Apex (2026)
A grieving woman pushing her limits on a solo adventure in the Australian wild is ensnared in a twisted game with a cunning killer who thinks she's prey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisProtector (2026)
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTaken (2008)
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGirl With a Gun (2023)
Follows a woman who after her parents are killed learns about a troubling family history that pushes the boundaries of what a person will go to avenge those they love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Seven Snipers (2026)
When a former elite sniper is hunted down by the ruthless warlord who once held her captive, she must fight to the death to protect the daughter she has raised in hiding, on a remote Australian farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKate (2021)
A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead of Winter (2025)
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Mary Sue (2025)
A corrupt senator arranges for the murder of his biggest liability, his erratic burnout stepdaughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural talent as an untouchable killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Avarice (2022)
Kate, a gifted archer, is on vacation with her family when they are ambushed by a team of mercenaries in a vicious home invasion. Kate’s husband and daughter are abducted during the violent onslaught, and she must rely on her archery skills to defeat their captors and save her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisHunting Season (2025)
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKidnap (2017)
A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeppermint (2018)
A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLou (2022)
A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevenge (2017)
Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExterritorial (2025)
When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Guest (2014)
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShe Rides Shotgun (2025)
Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her how to fight and survive—and she teaches him the true meaning of unconditional love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNobody (2021)
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHunting Emma (2017)
Emma le Roux just wants to go home for the holidays. Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma. She's made the trip to her father's farm a thousand times. Piece of cake. But not today. Today she will cross paths with members of a violent drug syndicate. Everything starts falling apart, and fast. At first they were driven by hate and revenge. Suddenly, it's survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAva (2020)
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMisdirection (2026)
A desperate couple have pulled off a string of high-end break-ins to pay off a mob debt. When they attempt to rob their latest victim, they find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The tables are turned and the hunters become the hunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Her King (2023)
After the courthouse is hijacked by Black Caesar, brother of Sean Samuels, who has just been sentenced, Judge Jaeda King must rely on her strength and skills to find a way to end the standoff, save the hostages, and make her escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Dominique (2024)
Dominique, a well-trained assassin, flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, Dominique must decide whether to protect herself or an innocent family that has taken her in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfiltrate (2026)
In a city overrun by crime, government Agent Lily Chen is forced to choose between her duty and her family when her husband is kidnapped, and she’s blackmailed into assassinating high-level criminals to save him. As she delves deeper into the criminal underworld, Lily’s relentless pursuit of justice unravels a web of corruption, leading to a final, life-altering decision that will change her world forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Run Hide Fight (2021)
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStone Cold Fox (2025)
In this '80s-set revenge story, the defiant Fox breaks out of an abusive commune in search of her family. But when the queenpin kidnaps her little sister and sends a crooked cop after her, Fox has no choice but to infiltrate the very place she escaped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarjacked (2011)
A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gates (2026)
Three friends on a road trip witness a murder inside a gated community, only to become trapped and hunted by its residents as suspicion, fear and a sinister patriarch threaten to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWynonna Earp: Vengeance (2024)
Wynonna Earp is coming home to battle her greatest foe yet: a psychotic seductress hellbent on revenge against her... and everyone she loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Pretty Lethal (2026)
A troupe of ballerinas find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to a dance competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hunting Grounds?
The closest matches to Hunting Grounds are Apex (2026), Protector (2026) and Taken (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hunting Grounds?
People who watched Hunting Grounds most often go on to Apex (2026), Protector (2026) and Taken (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hunting Grounds?
Protector (2026), rated 8.4/10 by 648 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hunting Grounds?
Infiltrate (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hunting Grounds?
Yes: Apex (2026), Protector (2026) and Taken (2008).
How are movies similar to Hunting Grounds chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hunting Grounds, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.