Movies Like Purgatory

If you liked Purgatory (1998), a war and tv movie movie directed by Aleksandr Nevzorov, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Best in Hell (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also war and action
Movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.
2
In August of 1944 (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also action and war
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
3
Missing in Action (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also action and war
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring…
4
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also war and tv movie
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
5
Attack on Darfur (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also war and action
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
6
Hamburger Hill (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also war and action
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They…
7
Granit (2021)
★ 7/10Also action and war
Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.
8
Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also action and war
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…
9
Rambo III (1988)
★ 6.2/10Also action and war
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but…
10
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also war and tv movie
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in…
11
The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also action and tv movie
When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute…
12
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also action and war
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his…
13
The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also action and war
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.
14
Rambo (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also action and war
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
15
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
★ 5.9/10Also action and tv movie
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
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Warhorse One (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also action and war
A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.
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Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also war and action
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
18
Testament of Youth (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also war
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing…
19
Silmido (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also action
On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of…
20
The Sea Wolves (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also war and action
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold…