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Movies that feel like Below Zero (2021)

If you loved Below Zero, the closest films we have are The Villainess (2017), Run All Night (2015) and Sixty Minutes (2024). All three share Below Zero's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lluís Quílezkineticgrittytenserelentless
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The Villainess
2017 · dir. Jung Byung-gil
🍅 85%6.6action · thriller

Both are working the same pair: revenge, excited

The difference: None of the grit Below Zero is built on

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%6.6action · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

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Sixty Minutes
2024 · dir. Oliver Kienle
🍅 67%5.7action · adventure · crime

Both are built on the same subject: excited

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Below Zero

Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
6.9action · thriller

Both land momentum and tension at once

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

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The Furious
2026 · dir. Kenji Tanigaki
🍅 98%7.7action · crime · thriller

Gritty and relentless in the same breath

After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.

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Extraction 2
2023 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 79%7action · thriller · crime

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%6.9action · thriller · crime

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Below Zero does

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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Furious 7
2015 · dir. James Wan
🍅 81%7.1action · crime · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.

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Fast X
2023 · dir. Louis Leterrier
🍅 56%5.7action · crime · thriller

Both lean on relentlessness more than on action

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.

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The Equalizer 2
2018 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 52%6.7action · thriller · crime

Kinetic crime in both cases

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.

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Blue Ruin
2014 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 96%7.1crime · thriller

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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The Square
2008 · dir. Nash Edgerton
🍅 86%6.7crime · drama · thriller

Tense crime in both cases

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.

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