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Peninsula

Initial release: July 15, 2020 (South Korea)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Production company: Next Entertainment World
Box office: $4.9 million
Screenplay: Yeon Sang-ho, Joo-Suk Park, Yong-jae Ryu

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.




Homefront

Initial release: November 27, 2013 (Canada)
Director: Gary Fleder
Box office: 51.7 million USD
Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Executive producers: Avi Lerner, Danny Lerner, Boaz Davidson,

After failing in a mission, a DEA agent decides to go to a small town with his nine-year-old daughter to live a peaceful life. However, things don't go as planned when he encounters a meth drug lord.




10 Cloverfield Lane

Initial release: March 8, 2016 (New York)
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Film series: Cloverfield
Budget: $13–15 million
Box office: 110.2 million USD

After an accident, Michelle finds herself in a bunker with Howard, a stranger who informs her that she is safe with him and the world outside is inhabitable. Left dazed, she decides to escape.




Dangerous Lies

Initial release: April 30, 2020
Director: Michael Scott
Music composed by: James Jandrisch
Language: English Language
Production companies: Netflix


When a wealthy elderly man dies and unexpectedly leaves his estate to his new caregiver, she's drawn into a web of deception and murder. If she's going to survive, she'll have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves.

A caregiver is drawn into a web of lies and murder after a wealthy elderly man dies and leaves his estate to her.





Trauma Center

Initial release: December 6, 2019 (USA)
Director: Matt Eskandari
Production company: Mandate Pictures, LLC
Screenplay: Paul Da Silva
Producers: Randall Emmett, George Furla, Luillo Ruiz, Mark Stewart

Alone and trapped in a locked-down hospital isolation ward overnight, an injured young woman must escape a pair of vicious killers who are after the only piece of evidence that can implicate them in a grisly murder: the bullet in her leg.

The Hunt

Initial release: March 11, 2020 (United Kingdom)
Director: Craig Zobel
Budget: 15 million USD
Screenplay: Damon Lindelof, Nick Cuse
Producers: Damon Lindelof, Jason Blum

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. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.



Nightmare Island

Initial release: February 6, 2020 (Nigeria)
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Budget: 7 million USD
Producers: Jeff Wadlow, Jason Blum
Production companies: Blumhouse Productions, Columbia Pictures


The enigmatic Mr Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort, but when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.

Rambo: Last Blood

Initial release: September 18, 2019 (Indonesia)
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Box office: $91.5 million
Budget: 50 million USD
Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone, Matt Cirulnick

Vietnam War veteran John Rambo tries to find some semblance of peace by raising horses on a ranch in Arizona. He's also developed a special familial bond with a woman named Maria and her teenage granddaughter Gabriela. But when a vicious Mexican cartel kidnaps Gabriela, Rambo crosses the border on a bloody and personal quest to rescue her and punish those responsible.

Bad Boys for Life

Initial release: January 7, 2020 (Berlin)
Directors: Bilall Fallah, Adil El Arbi
Budget: 90 million USD
Based on: Characters; by George Gallo
Producers: Will Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Doug Belgrad

Old-school cops Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett team up to take down the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. Newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department along with Mike and Marcus go up against the ruthless Armando Armas.

The Grudge (2020)

Initial release: December 31, 2019 (Indonesia)
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Budget: $10–14 million
Producers: Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Takashige Ichise
Production companies: Screen Gems, Stage 6 Films

A detective investigates a murder scene that has a connection to a case that her new partner handled in the past. The killings occurred in a haunted house that passes on a ghostly curse to those who dare enter it. Soon, the curse spreads to a terminally ill woman and her husband, and another unsuspecting couple who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Furie

Initial release: February 22, 2019 (Vietnam)
Director: Le-Van Kiet
Box office: 115,189,050,000 ₫
Production company: Studio 68
Language: Vietnamese

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home

Arizona


Initial release: August 24, 2018 (Brazil)
Director: Jonathan M. Watson
Screenplay: Luke Del Tredici
Music composed by: Joseph Stephens
Producers: Danny McBride, Dan Friedkin, Ryan Friedkin, Brandon James

Cassie is a single mother and real estate agent whose problems go from bad to worse when a disgruntled client kidnaps her.

Train to Busan

Initial release: July 2016 (South Korea)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Box office: $87–100 million
Film series: Seoul Station


A man (Gong Yoo), his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak in South Korea.

Piranha

Initial release: August 20, 2010 (Canada)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Film series: Piranha 3D
Featured song: Show Me the Way to Go Home
Budget: 24 million USD

Spring break turns gory when an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric, carnivorous fish into Lake Victoria, a popular waterside resort. Local cop Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) must join forces with a band of unlikely strangers -- though they are badly outnumbered -- to destroy the ravenous creatures before everyone becomes fish food.

It

Initial release: September 5, 2017 (Los Angeles)
Director: Andrés Muschietti
Box office: 700.4 million USD
Film series: It
Budget: 35 million USD

Seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine, are about to face their worst nightmare -- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children. Banding together over the course of one horrifying summer, the friends must overcome their own personal fears to battle the murderous, bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise.

Truth or Dare

Initial release: April 13, 2018 (USA)
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Box office: 95.2 million USD
Budget: 3.5 million USD
Producers: Jason Blum, Couper Samuelson

Olivia, Lucas and a group of their college friends travel to Mexico for one last getaway before graduation. While there, a stranger convinces one of the students to play a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare with the others. Once the game starts, it awakens something evil -- a demon which forces the friends to share dark secrets and confront their deepest fears. The rules are simple but wicked -- tell the truth or die, do the dare or die, and if you stop playing, you die.

Slender Man

Initial release: August 10, 2018 (Indonesia)
Director: Sylvain White
Box office: 51.7 million USD
Story by: Eric Knudsen
Producers: James Vanderbilt, Sarah Snow, Brad Fischer, Robyn Meisinger, William Sherak, Bradley J. Fischer

Small-town best friends Hallie, Chloe, Wren and Katie go online to try and conjure up the Slender Man -- a tall, thin, horrifying figure whose face has no discernible features. Two weeks later, Katie mysteriously disappears during a class trip to a historic graveyard. Determined to find her, the girls soon suspect that the legend of the Slender Man may be all too real.

Source Code

Initial release: March 28, 2011 (Hollywood)
Director: Duncan Jones
Box office: 147.3 million USD
Budget: 32 million USD (2011)
Screenplay: Ben Ripley.

Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a commuter-train explosion. The purpose of Colter's mission is to learn the identity of the bomber and prevent a similar catastrophe. As Colter lives Sean's final moments, he becomes more certain that he can prevent the first tragedy from occurring -- as long as he doesn't run out of time.


Mile 22

Initial release: August 16, 2018 (Singapore)
Director: Peter Berg
Budget: $35–60 million
Box office: 66.3 million USD
Languages: English, Indonesian, Russian

CIA operative James Silva leads a small but lethal paramilitary team on an urgent and dangerous mission. They must transport a foreign intelligence asset from an American embassy in Southeast Asia to an airfield for extraction -- a distance of 22 miles. Silva and the soldiers soon find themselves in a race against time as the city's military, police and street gangs close in to reclaim the asset.

Robin Hood

Initial release: November 21, 2018 (USA)
Director: Otto Bathurst
Box office: $82.2 million
Budget: 100 million USD
Production companies: Appian Way Productions, Summit Entertainment, Thunder Road Pictures, Safehouse Pictures.

Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) a war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance. Watch full movie: