Movies Like Firebase (2017)

Firebase is a 2017 action, horror, science fiction, war film from Neill Blomkamp with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Rakka and God: Serengeti.

Action Horror Science Fiction War

Rakka

2017

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.

7.0

MagicScore

God: Serengeti

2017

God presides over a prehistoric tribe.

6.7

MagicScore

Zygote

2017

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

7.0

MagicScore

Kapture: Fluke

2017

Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.

6.0

MagicScore

Gdansk

2017

First in a series of medieval giants. Inspired by the artwork of Jakub Różalski.

5.3

MagicScore

God: City

2018

God presides over a modern metropolis.

6.2

MagicScore

The Big Shave

1967

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.

6.9

MagicScore

Primitive War

2025

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

6.7

MagicScore

Platoon

1986

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Bullet in the Head

1990

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

First Blood

1982

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

7.5

MagicScore

#12

The Last Full Measure

2020

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

We Were Soldiers

2002

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

2019

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

6.7

MagicScore

#16

R-Point

2004

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

Hamburger Hill

1987

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

6.6

MagicScore

#18

Bat★21

1988

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Uncommon Valor

1983

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

China Gate

1957

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Firebase?

The top films similar to Firebase by MovieMagicScore are Rakka (7.0), God: Serengeti (6.7), Zygote (7.0). Each shares action/horror/science fiction/war themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Firebase worth watching?

Firebase holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 158 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Firebase?

Firebase (2017) is a action, horror, science fiction, war film directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Steve Boyle, Nic Rhind, Robert Hobbs.

Where can I find more recommendations like Firebase?

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About movies like Firebase

This ranked list pairs Firebase (2017), a action and horror and science fiction and war film from Neill Blomkamp, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Steve Boyle take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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