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Movies Like I Am a Hero

If you liked I Am a Hero (2016), a action and horror movie directed by Shinsuke Sato, 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. 1GANTZ:O

    GANTZ:O (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also action and drama

    After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.

  2. 2The Driver

    The Driver (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and action

    After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons…

  3. 3The Hunt

    The Hunt (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and horror

    Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport…

  4. 4Battle Royale

    Battle Royale (2000)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and action

    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

  5. 5Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato

    Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and action

    In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains. Half a year after the events of the original TV series, the heroes of…

  6. 6Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend

    Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)

    ★ 6/10Also action and horror

    Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000…

  7. 7Parasyte: Part 2

    Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)

    ★ 7/10Also horror and action

    Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

  8. 8Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu

    Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and action

    One day, Koyomi Araragi encounters the horrifying vampire, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade A.K.A. the "King of Apparitions." He saves the fatally wounded Kiss-shot by offering his blood at the expense of his…

  9. 9The Battery

    The Battery (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror

    In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball…

  10. 10Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and action

    As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who…

  11. 11Bird Box

    Bird Box (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama

    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.

  12. 12Samurai Reincarnation

    Samurai Reincarnation (1981)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and horror

    After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a…

  13. 13Gantz

    Gantz (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and action

    After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

  14. 14X

    X (1996)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and horror

    It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best…

  15. 15Resident Evil: Death Island

    Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)

    ★ 7.3/10Also action and horror

    In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing…

  16. 16Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Dead (2004)

    ★ 7.1/10Also horror and action

    A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

  17. 17Tokyo Ghoul

    Tokyo Ghoul (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also action and drama

    A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.

  18. 18Ichi the Killer

    Ichi the Killer (2001)

    ★ 7/10Also action and horror

    As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

  19. 19Planet Terror

    Planet Terror (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and action

    Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors…

  20. 20Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also action and horror

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

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