Movies like Werewolf (2019)
The best movies like Werewolf (2019) are Prisoner of War (2025), The Alamo (1960) and Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951). If Werewolf hooked you with its horror and war, these 28 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedPressure (2026)7.7/10 from 538 votes
- NewestPressure (2026)Released 2026
Prisoner of War (2025)
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong prove him to be a formidable opponent.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Alamo (1960)
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCaptain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPressure (2026)
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDunkirk (2017)
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMidway (2019)
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKhartoum (1966)
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKokoda (2006)
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVexanthrone (2024)
A loner artist, exiled from the art community for creating a sculpture deemed too offensive, embarks on a bizarre odyssey of art, flesh, decomposition, and spiritual ascension. Vexanthrone details the mental and physical difficulties of the creative process in an experimental and surreal fashion that mixes arthouse sensibilities with gross-out body horror.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Metamorphosis (2007)
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Altered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGinger Snaps (2000)
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Neanderthal Man (1953)
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Reptile (1966)
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wasp Woman (1959)
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisJunior (2011)
A pimple-faced 13-year-old tomboy starts morphing in bizarre ways after catching stomach flu.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerpent's Lullaby (2014)
A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Meta (2020)
On the eve of Senior Prom, Artie unexpectedly gets his period just moments before making his way to stage for prom court nominations. With this startling event, he erupts into a metamorphosis that mirrors the emotional and physical transformation of the trans masculine experience and explores trans dysphoria.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Ring Neck (2024)
David misses his ring-necked dove. It was his pet, his solace, and to remember the little creature he loved, he insists on adding its ashes to ink for a memorial tattoo. As the bird’s empty cage looms in his apartment and he goes about his daily work as a music engineer, the tattoo becomes infected. Avoiding the comfort of his girlfriend for weeks, his grief will soon take over his body in the most unusual way
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
964 Pinocchio (1991)
While wandering around Japan, defective sex cyborg Pinocchio encounters Kyoko, another amnesiac burdened with a terrible secret tied to her amnesia. Together, they strive to rebuild their lives in a world where memory has become obsolete.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRubber's Lover (1996)
After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMetamorphosis (1990)
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt's rolling like a tomato (2024)
After mysteriously turning into a tomato, Israël must survive to his family and colleagues.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
MOUSE (2024)
In the wake of her parent's divorce, Ivy struggles with comparisons to her mother, and suffers a misguided animalistic treatment from her father. Slowly, the distinction of her own humanity becomes unclear.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Antihuman (2017)
A young woman returns to the secluded, abandoned psychological research facility where her deceased mother once worked. Accompanied by three friends, she discovers that the ghosts of the past have found their way to the present when the hospital's legacy of experimentation and madness tears away all known bounds of time, memory and space.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Antiviral (2012)
Syd March is employed at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Werewolf?
The closest matches to Werewolf are Prisoner of War (2025), The Alamo (1960) and Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951). Below are 25 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Werewolf?
Start with Prisoner of War (2025), the closest match to Werewolf.
What is the highest-rated movie like Werewolf?
Pressure (2026), rated 7.7/10 by 538 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Werewolf?
Pressure (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Werewolf chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Werewolf, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.