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Movies Like The Skulls II

If you liked The Skulls II (2002), a action and thriller movie directed by Joe Chappelle, 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. 1Hounds of War

    Hounds of War (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller

    After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.

  2. 2Take Cover

    Take Cover (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller

    A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.

  3. 3Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…

  4. 4Border Hunters

    Border Hunters (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the…

  5. 5Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

    Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.

  6. 6Point Blank

    Point Blank (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.

  7. 7Finestkind

    Finestkind (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller

    Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.

  8. 8The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.

  9. 9The Hit List

    The Hit List (2011)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.

  10. 10Hellraiser

    Hellraiser (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

  11. 11Foxcatcher

    Foxcatcher (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

  12. 12Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team

    Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action and thriller

    When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ace Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly-formed Global Response & Intelligence Team – or G.R.I.T. – led by Colonel…

  13. 13Dangerous

    Dangerous (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he discovers their role in his brother’s…

  14. 14The Serpent and the Rainbow

    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the…

  15. 15Section 8

    Section 8 (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

  16. 16The Best Man

    The Best Man (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    Mercenaries seize control of a remote resort hotel during a wedding and it's up to the best man, the groom and their drunken best friend to stop the terrorists and save the hostages.

  17. 17The Specialist

    The Specialist (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also action and 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…

  18. 18Sniper: The Last Stand

    Sniper: The Last Stand (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and thriller

    To stop an arms dealer from unleashing a deadly superweapon, Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero are deployed to Costa Verde to lead a group of elite soldiers against an unrelenting militia. Taking an untested…

  19. 19Get Carter

    Get Carter (1971)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his…

  20. 20Insidious: The Red Door

    Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…

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