Movies Like Twilight's Last Gleaming

If you liked Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), a thriller movie directed by Robert Aldrich, 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
Starship Troopers (1997)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against…
2
Mine (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous…
3
Broken Arrow (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only…
4
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he…
5
The Peacemaker (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her…
6
Elevation (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to…
7
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
8
The Quiet Earth (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
9
War Machine (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller
On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.
10
Color Out of Space (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the…
11
Sphere (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate…
12
The Specialist (1994)
★ 6/10Also thriller
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent…
13
Just Before Dawn (1981)
★ 6/10Also thriller
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest…
14
The Dog Stars (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through…
15
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
16
Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
17
Red Dawn (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
18
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear…
19
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
20
Odd Thomas (2013)
★ 7/10Also thriller
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.