Movies like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013)
The best movies like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013) are Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998), Wake of Death (2004) and Seized (2020). If A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day hooked you with its adventure and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)7.7/10 from 278 votes
- NewestHunting Season (2025)Released 2025
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisWake of Death (2004)
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeized (2020)
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStolen Girl (2025)
In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally abducted children who promises to help her find Amina in exchange for her collaboration.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGold (2022)
In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInterceptor (2022)
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPilgrimage (2017)
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Northman (2022)
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisValhalla Rising (2010)
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMortal (2020)
A young boy must discover the origins of his extraordinary powers before he is captured by authorities hell-bent on condemning him for an accidental murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 13th Warrior (1999)
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHounds of War (2024)
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Legion (2020)
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Man Down (2021)
After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, a special forces soldier abandons his duty and becomes a hermit in the Nordic wilderness. Years later, a wounded woman appears on his doorstep. She's escaped from a lab and her pursuers believe her blood is the key to a worldwide cure. He's hesitant to get involved, but all doubts are cast aside when he discovers her pursuer is none other than Commander Stone, the man that murdered his wife some years ago.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrimeval (2007)
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024)
When an evil contractor goes to extreme measures to evict a testy tenant who is standing in the way of his new project, he fails to take into account that this seemingly harmless old woman is a trained killer and will do anything to protect her beloved home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGod Is a Bullet (2023)
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStowaway (2022)
A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and takes matters into her own hands.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiver Wild (2023)
Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTai-Chi Master (1993)
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRing of the Nibelungs (2004)
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWickie the Mighty Viking (2009)
One morning our little Viking village of Flake is raided by frightening looking spooky demons who kidnap all the children… except for Wickie, who was stuck in a tree trying to use a kite to learn to fly.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisNorthmen: A Viking Saga (2014)
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fallen (2016)
A band of battle-tested Vikings escort home their injured king when they meet an out of this world warrior for they could never have been prepared to fight.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & action
Son of the Mask (2005)
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnter the Dragon (1973)
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRadioactive Cannibal Vikings from Hell (2007)
In a near future, four criminal psychotics divides themselves from society in a road trip of random ultra violence upon anyone that crosses them. Their violent nature soon forces them into the Swedish country-roads on their flight from the police. What they don't know is that their murderous joy-ride soon will turn into a desperate fight for their lives as they end up in a village that have been cut off from the rest of the world since the age of the Vikings, and where the government have disposed radioactive waste that has turned the villagers into mutated, cannibalistic monsters! And this is a fight our band of outlaws are not sure to win.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
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What are the best movies like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day?
The closest matches to A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day are Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998), Wake of Death (2004) and Seized (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day?
Start with Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998), the closest match to A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day.
What is the highest-rated movie like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day?
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995), rated 7.7/10 by 278 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day?
Hunting Season (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day?
Yes: Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998), Wake of Death (2004) and Seized (2020).
How are movies similar to A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.