Top 20 movies like Pooka
Top 20 Movies like Pooka
- 1. The Square
- 2. Go Fast
- 3. Ong Bak 2
- 4. The Woods Have Eyes
- 5. Hero Wanted
- 6. Five Minutes of Heaven
- 7. When the Raven Flies
- 8. In the Shadow of the Raven
- 9. The General
- 10. Danny's Game
- 11. Aadai
- 12. A Trap
- 13. The Daughter of Emanuelle
- 14. John Wick
- 15. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- 16. Hurricane Bianca
- 17. Unspoken
- 18. The Nightingale
- 19. Cold in July
- 20. The Sparrow and the Tigress
1. The Square
Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.
It has an average vote of 6.13 on TMDB.
2. Go Fast (Go Fast)
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
3. Ong Bak 2 (องค์บาก 2)
Moments from death a young man is rescued by a renowned warrior. Realizing unsurpassed physical potential in the young boy he trains him into the most dangerous man alive. As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the vicious slave traders who enslaved him as a youth and the treacherous warlord who killed his father.
It has an average vote of 6.39 on TMDB.
4. The Woods Have Eyes
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun...
It has an average vote of 3.8 on TMDB.
5. Hero Wanted
Liam Case is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to impress the girl of his dreams, Liam plans an elaborate heist that will culminate with him jumping in to save the day at the last minute. When the day of the heist arrives, however, the plan takes an unexpected turn and Liam winds up in the hospital.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
6. Five Minutes of Heaven
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
It has an average vote of 6.144 on TMDB.
7. When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur)
Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
8. In the Shadow of the Raven (Í skugga hrafnsins)
Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...
It has an average vote of 5.567 on TMDB.
9. The General
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
It has an average vote of 6.727 on TMDB.
10. Danny's Game
Danny Bishop is a gambling prodigy. After exiling himself to prison, he returns to his brothers home only to find himself back in the game because of a large debt for his protection in prison. He cons a group of high stakes gamblers, including his vicious rival, Alex, to a tournament. The story is a delicate balance between the tension of the game and the strained relationship with his brother.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
11. Aadai (ஆடை)
A free-spirited girl gets the shock of her life when she finds herself naked in an abandoned building after a late-night party.
It has an average vote of 6.318 on TMDB.
12. A Trap (霧の旗)
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
13. The Daughter of Emanuelle
Emanuelle's daughter Pussy introduces her to her new lover and she suffers a flash of recognition.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
14. John Wick
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
It has an average vote of 7.431 on TMDB.
15. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
It has an average vote of 6.917 on TMDB.
16. Hurricane Bianca
A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Unspoken
A triptych of youth-oriented stories set in a small New Brunswick town. Follow Jeff and Kristine into the woods for a night of forbidden passion that ends in tragedy...Meet Jennifer, a tough-talking teen who winds up in a compromising situation when she shoplifts in a record store...Celebrate football hero Brian Mair's farewell at a feverish all-night house party where everyone is out to score and nothing is what it seems.
18. The Nightingale
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
It has an average vote of 7.089 on TMDB.
19. Cold in July
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
It has an average vote of 6.559 on TMDB.
20. The Sparrow and the Tigress
A young actor steps into the shadows of a Coney Island underworld where past, present, reality and fantasy collide.