Movies like Send Help
If Send Help's mix of bullying, role reversal and survival stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Send Help's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Long Walk
2025 · Directed by Francis Lawrence · 108 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: bullying, survival, survival horror · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2020s)
In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
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They Will Kill You
2026 · Directed by Kirill Sokolov · 94 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: survival, survival horror · Also comedy and horror · From the same decade (2020s)
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip…
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The Hunt
2020 · Directed by Craig Zobel · 90 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: survival, survival horror · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2020s)
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.
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28 Years Later
2025 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 115 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: survival, survival horror · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he…
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Bugonia
2025 · Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos · 119 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: comedy horror · Also thriller and comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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The Martian
2015 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 141 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: survival, struggle for survival
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet.
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The Killer's Game
2024 · Directed by J.J. Perry · 106 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: comedy thriller · Also comedy and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself.
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Dead Sea
2024 · Directed by Phil Volken · 88 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: survival horror · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.