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10 Best Movies Like Cold Forest

If you loved Cold Forest, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Running on Empty

Running on Empty

1988★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's ...

#2
Platoon

Platoon

1986★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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....

#3
Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

1979★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and el...

#4
Abduction

Abduction

2019★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, ...

#5
The Return

The Return

2022★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought...

#6
The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

1971★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cold Forest for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an...

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