Movies like Within Lies (2024)

Cave Rescue (2019)

When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)

Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden who died years ago.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama

Hunting 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 & drama

Primal: Tales of Savagery (2019)

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Tales of Savagery features a caveman and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

The 355 (2022)

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

40 Acres (2025)

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller

Stolen 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

Black Site (2022)

A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller

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

SAS: Red Notice (2021)

An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action

Silverton Siege (2022)

After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama

Dirt (2018)

In search of a lifeline for his struggling off road racing team, a man takes on a young car thief looking for a second chance, but as their worlds collide, they must struggle to forge a successful alliance.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action

The Enforcer (2022)

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama

The Double (2011)

The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama

Stowaway (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

Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)

When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama

The Perfect Weapon (1991)

Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)

Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that only he can master. Escaping the planet, he runs into the rogue smuggler Dagg and a pair of helpful droids and the princess, who all team up to return to the Mine-World with a plan to defeat Zygon and free Orin's enslaved people.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Trap House (2025)

An undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents' tactics and top-secret intel to do it.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller

Strings (2004)

The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his own designs on the throne.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama

The Osterman Weekend (1983)

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama

Replicant Eve (2015)

One night, a mysterious object falls from the sky in a flash of light. College student Ryo Kazama (Masahiro Inoue) rushes to the scene and finds a woman lying there who looks exactly like his classmate, Saya Saeki (Haruki Iwata), whom he has a crush on. However, the woman is not Saya, she's actually a military combat android bio-replicant named Eve, who has been released into the city due to a malfunction in a mysterious facility.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama

Pale Moon (2025)

During the Tang Dynasty, Prince Jian Li Yong conspired with the corrupt minister Ma Lifu to exploit the emperor's critical illness. They placed Crown Prince Li Chun under house arrest and seized control of the court, plotting a coup. General Lin Yan of the Imperial Guards and Chen Li, the chief constable of the Nine Gates, found themselves entangled in this dangerous conspiracy. Compelled to act alone, Lin Yan embarked on a perilous mission to rescue the imprisoned crown prince. Utilizing her extraordinary martial skills, she executed a daring nighttime prison break, narrowly escaping death in the process.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & drama

Help! I'm a Fish (2000)

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & drama

Urtajo (2025)

A toxic spill threatens the town of Urtajo: tackle the problem or cover it up? Javier will learn that not everything can be bought with money.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & drama

El Peor Mejor Día (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Suburban Commando (1991)

Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action

Graveyard of Horses (2022)

A frigid winter on the Mongolian steppe, an untimely snowstorm aggravated the lives of a pregnant herder and her 8-year-old daughter: the missing flock of sheep, the unborn child, the absent husband, traces of wolves...... everything led the mother and daughter to places they’ve never been.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

War and Peace (1956)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Slope (2020)

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama