Movies like Burial (2022)
The best movies like Burial (2022) are Ghosts of War (2020), Late Phases (2014) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). If Burial hooked you with its thriller and war, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedInglourious Basterds (2009)8.2/10 from 25,133 votes
- NewestLucky Strike (2026)Released 2026
Ghosts of War (2020)
A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLate Phases (2014)
When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInglourious Basterds (2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & war
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOverlord (2018)
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & war
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 horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Vessel (2020)
Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & war
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrench 11 (2017)
In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island (2021)
During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & horror
Sisu (2022)
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWer (2013)
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmukade (2026)
Thailand, 1941 — a handful of Japanese soldiers and their prisoners are trapped in a cursed mine. As tensions between enemies reach a breaking point, they are forced to confront a terrifying, ancient monster lurking in the shadows.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Operation Blood Hunt (2024)
Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marines units stationed there in 1944, said to be at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. Upon speaking with the island’s inhabitants, they soon discover the Marines had actually been massacred by a group of Lycanthropes, known to most as WEREWOLVES.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bunker (2001)
In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLucky Strike (2026)
A wounded American soldier fights to survive behind enemy lines during WWII's Battle of the Bulge against the Germans, relying on his instinct, spy craft and a hand-radio to evade capture and find his way back to his unit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNovember (2017)
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Appearance (2018)
Mateho, an officer of the Inquisition and rational man of science, visits a remote monastery to investigate a bizarre murder of a monk. And you guessed it: something evil is afoot. But is the terror man-made or the result of witchcraft?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisValkyrie (2008)
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWildling (2018)
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnother WolfCop (2017)
An alcoholic cop experiences blackouts and starts turning into a werewolf when the full moon appears in the sky.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOperation Undead (2024)
Inexperienced Thai soldiers battle a growing undead menace in this gruesome survival horror. A Japanese military experiment that turns men into monsters escapes containment, it’s up to these troops to save their nation from annihilation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWerewolf (2019)
Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Samurai (2014)
Jakob, a young policeman from a remote village, has his world unhinged when a stranger in a dress emerges from the forest and begins killing villagers with a sword.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBunker (2023)
Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDecision Before Dawn (1951)
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both war & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Burial?
The closest matches to Burial are Ghosts of War (2020), Late Phases (2014) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Burial?
People who watched Burial most often go on to Ghosts of War (2020), Late Phases (2014) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Burial?
Inglourious Basterds (2009), rated 8.2/10 by 25,133 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Burial?
Lucky Strike (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Burial?
Yes: Ghosts of War (2020), Late Phases (2014) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
How are movies similar to Burial chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Burial, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.