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Movies that feel like 3 Days to Kill (2014)

If you loved 3 Days to Kill, the closest films we have are Snitch (2013), Haywire (2011) and Furie (2019). All three share 3 Days to Kill's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. McGkineticcontemplativetense
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Snitch
2013 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 57%6.4action · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then stillness

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%5.8action · thriller · drama

Tense action, and it commits to that

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%6.3action · drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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.

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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
6.7action · drama · thriller

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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Cell 211
2009 · dir. Daniel Monzón
🍅 98%7.6action · thriller · drama

Both lean on tension more than on action

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
7.2action · drama · thriller

Kinetic drama in both cases

DCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.

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The Abyss
2023 · dir. Richard Holm
5.3thriller · drama · action

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground mine.

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Hitman
2007 · dir. Xavier Gens
6.2action · thriller · drama

Another one that scratches it

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

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Road House
2024 · dir. Doug Liman
6.2action · thriller · drama

Drama approached the same way

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

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Mile 22
2018 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 23%6.1action · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: central intelligence agency (cia)

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as 3 Days to Kill

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.

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Body of Lies
2008 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 55%7action · drama · thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

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No Escape
2015 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 46%6.8thriller · action

Common ground: family

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

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