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10 Best Movies Like The Forgotten

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

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#1
Platoon

Platoon

1986★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action. 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....

#2
Missing in Action

Missing in Action

1984★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts supersta...

#3
First Blood

First Blood

1982★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 agains...

#4
Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier

1992★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the fa...

#5
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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
Bat★21

Bat★21

1988★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forgotten for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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...

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