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Movies that feel like Blood Father (2016)

If you loved Blood Father, the closest films we have are Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Furie (2019) and Haywire (2011). All three share Blood Father's kinetic and tense 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 Hi-YAH and others, checked against today's data.

An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-François Richetkinetictensecontemplativeplayful

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 81%7.5drama · action · thriller

Jean-François Richet directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the play of Blood Father

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

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

Both land momentum and tension at once

The difference: Not nearly as playful as Blood Father

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

Both lean on stillness more than on action

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

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

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

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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Sleepless Night
2011 · dir. Frédéric Jardin
🍅 97%6.6drama · thriller

Drama built on play, twice over

Vincent, a police officer, and his partner Manuel steal a large amount of cocaine from José Marciano, a ruthless crime lord who is quick to seek revenge, endangering Vincent's life, career and family.

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

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Contemplative thriller in both cases

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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Dhoom 2
2006 · dir. Sanjay Gadhvi
🍅 93%6.6drama · action · thriller

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Blood Father does

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, 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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Homefront
2013 · dir. Gary Fleder
🍅 42%6.5action · thriller

The same two preoccupations: drug dealer, and parents and children

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Both are action through and through

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

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