Movies Like Lights Out

If you liked Lights Out (2024), a action and thriller movie directed by Christian Sesma, 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
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…
2
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.
3
Exit Protocol (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller
An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.
4
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…
5
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…
6
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also action and 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…
7
Hunting Grounds (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns…
8
King of Killers (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.
9
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.
10
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.
11
Zip Wire (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also action and thriller
When her ground-breaking pharmaceutical discovery is stolen and partner murdered, researcher Amy must face her fear of heights to escape nefarious attackers, with the only path to salvation being a treacherous aerial…
12
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.
13
One Ranger (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
14
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.
15
Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also action
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
16
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…
17
Protector (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also action and thriller
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
18
Fast Track: No Limits (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
Four young thrill-seekers race cars on the streets of Germany.
19
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.
20
Absolution (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…