Movies like Red Sands (2009)
The best movies like Red Sands (2009) are War Pigs (2015), Carnage Park (2016) and The Devil's Double (2011). If Red Sands hooked you with its action and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Devil's Double (2011)6.7/10 from 637 votes
- NewestAzrael (2024)Released 2024
War Pigs (2015)
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarnage Park (2016)
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil's Double (2011)
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOutpost: Black Sun (2012)
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOutpost (2008)
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBloodsuckers (2005)
A captain leads a team of commandos searching for vampires in the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOffspring (2009)
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisJarhead 3: The Siege (2016)
Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWarHunt (2022)
1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends a squad of his bravest soldiers on a rescue mission to retrieve the top-secret material the plane was carrying, led by Sergeants Brewer and Walsh. They soon discover hanged Nazi soldiers and other dead bodies bearing ancient, magical symbols. Suddenly their compasses fail, their perceptions twist and straying from the group leads to profound horrors as they are attacked by a powerful, supernatural force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrankenstein's Army (2013)
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014)
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuburban Gothic (2014)
An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful ghost that's been terrorizing their town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHusk (2011)
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisS&Man (2006)
A filmmaker ventures into the dark world of underground horror exploring the genre through interviews with scream queens, scholars, and one auteur whose snuff film series seems all too real.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil's Rock (2011)
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & war
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeathwatch (2002)
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & war
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mark of Cain (2007)
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war
Charlie's Farm (2014)
Four friends head into the Australian Outback to investigate an urban legend about Charlie's Farm, where legend has it that an angry mob killed a sadistic family, and encounter a demented giant with a big thirst for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFeast III: The Happy Finish (2009)
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. Along the way they get help from a karate expert.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisAntibirth (2016)
In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDog Soldiers (2002)
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJug Face (2013)
When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gravedancers (2006)
After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMohawk (2018)
A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Creek (2009)
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSoldiers of the Damned (2015)
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHell Hath No Fury (2021)
Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for themselves.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath Machine (1995)
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDaylight's End (2016)
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAzrael (2024)
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Red Sands?
The closest matches to Red Sands are War Pigs (2015), Carnage Park (2016) and The Devil's Double (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Red Sands?
People who watched Red Sands most often go on to War Pigs (2015), Carnage Park (2016) and The Devil's Double (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Red Sands?
The Devil's Double (2011), rated 6.7/10 by 637 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Red Sands?
Azrael (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Red Sands?
Yes: War Pigs (2015), Carnage Park (2016) and The Devil's Double (2011).
How are movies similar to Red Sands chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Red Sands, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.