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Movies that feel likeBlack Crab (2022)

To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

If you loved Black Crab, the closest films we have are Badland Hunters (2024), Sisu (2022) and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023). All three share Black Crab's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Operation Red Sea (2018).

πŸ… 53% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Adam Bergkinetictensebleak
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Badland Hunters
2024 Β· dir. Heo Myeong-haeng
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6action Β· adventure Β· thrillerNetflix

Common ground: life after the end

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Black Crab does

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

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Sisu
2022 Β· dir. Jalmari Helander
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.9action Β· war Β· thrillerRent or buy

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.5war Β· action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Bleak action in both cases

After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must return to the war zone and repay his debt.

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Operation Red Sea
2018 Β· dir. Dante Lam Chiu-yin
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.6action Β· thriller Β· warPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

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Rambo
2008 Β· dir. Sylvester Stallone
πŸ… 38%β˜… 7action Β· thriller Β· war

Action built on tension, twice over

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.

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Shadow
2018 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7action Β· warPrime Video

Bleak thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the tension of Black Crab for an angle of its own

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 Β· dir. Stefano Sollima
πŸ… 45%β˜… 5.8action Β· thriller Β· warPrime Video

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

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Gamer
2009 Β· dir. Brian Taylor
πŸ… 29%β˜… 5.7action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

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Balkan Line
2019 Β· dir. Andrey Volgin
β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· warPrime Video

Both work the same bleakness

The difference: Easier on the tension than Black Crab

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

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Stalingrad
2013 Β· dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.7war Β· action Β· drama

Both are action through and through

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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The Omega Man
1971 Β· dir. Boris Sagal
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.4science fiction Β· action Β· drama

One thread runs through both: life after the end

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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The 6th Day
2000 Β· dir. Roger Spottiswoode
πŸ… 40%β˜… 6action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

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