Movies like Bushwick (2017)
The best movies like Bushwick (2017) are Covid-19: Invasion (2021), Aftermath (2024) and Assault on VA-33 (2021). If Bushwick hooked you with its thriller and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrain to Busan (2016)7.8/10 from 8,916 votes
- NewestRun Hide Fight: Infidels (2026)Released 2026
Covid-19: Invasion (2021)
Rex and his men aim to kill the homeless people living in a local deserted school hoping it'll slow an ultra-deadly strand of COVID. Now, outnumbered 100 to 1, Hap must save his little sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Aftermath (2024)
A returning war veteran, stricken with PTSD, gets trapped with his teenage sister on Boston's Tobin Memorial Bridge when a heavily armed group of ex-military revolutionaries take everyone hostage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAssault on VA-33 (2021)
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSafe House (2025)
Trapped in a high-security safe house after a terrorist attack in downtown Los Angeles, six government agents realize they must survive not just the enemy outside, but the potential traitor among them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Crab (2022)
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRed Dawn (2012)
A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo Escape (2015)
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrain to Busan (2016)
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConcrete Utopia (2023)
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTower Block (2012)
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisExtraction (2020)
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Raid (2012)
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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
Run Hide Fight: Infidels (2026)
When radical Islamist terrorists hijack a liberal college's pro-Palestine encampment, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard, and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
The Siege at Thorn High (2025)
Edwin promised to his sister on her deathbed to find her son she gave up a long time ago. Edwin's quest brought him to become a substitute teacher in Duri High School, Jakarta, a school for juvenile delinquents. There he must face the most violent students to find his nephew. When he eventually finds the boy, a city-wide riot erupts and Edwin is trapped in the school with the cruel kids out for his blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChildren of Men (2006)
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Silence (2019)
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunting Grounds (2025)
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Quiet Place (2018)
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBird Box (2018)
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDie Hard (1988)
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarter (2022)
Carter, who awakens two months into a deadly pandemic originating from the DMZ that has already devastated US and North Korea. He who has no recollections of his past finds a mysterious device in his head, and a lethal bomb in his mouth. A voice in his ears gives him orders to avoid getting killed and he's thrown into a mysterious operation while the CIA and North Korean coup chase him close.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreenland (2020)
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Breathe (2016)
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlackout (2022)
A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter the Pandemic (2022)
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a global airborne pandemic has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and only the young and immune have endured as scavengers. For Ellie and Quinn, the daily challenges to stay alive are compounded when they become hunted by the merciless Stalkers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisFear the Invisible Man (2023)
A young British widow shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible. As his isolation grows and his sanity frays, he schemes to create a reign of wanton murder and terror across the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Division: Agent Origins (2016)
A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City on Black Friday, and one by one, basic services fail. Within weeks, society collapses into chaos, and the government activates The Division, a classified unit of self-supporting agents. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, Division agents are trained to operate independently of command when all else fails. Four newly activated agents must serve as civilization's last line of defense after a man-made virus devastates New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Bushwick?
The closest matches to Bushwick are Covid-19: Invasion (2021), Aftermath (2024) and Assault on VA-33 (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Bushwick?
People who watched Bushwick most often go on to Covid-19: Invasion (2021), Aftermath (2024) and Assault on VA-33 (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like Bushwick?
Train to Busan (2016), rated 7.8/10 by 8,916 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Bushwick?
Run Hide Fight: Infidels (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Bushwick?
Yes: Covid-19: Invasion (2021), Aftermath (2024) and Assault on VA-33 (2021).
How are movies similar to Bushwick chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Bushwick, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.