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Movies that feel likeCaptain Phillips (2013)

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

If you loved Captain Phillips, the closest films we have are The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Body of Lies (2008) and Don (2006). All three share Captain Phillips' kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Furie (2019).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul Greengrasskineticcontemplativetense
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The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 81%★ 7.7action · drama · thrillerNetflixStarz

The same hand behind both of them: Paul Greengrass

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: terrorism

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
★ 7.2action · drama · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

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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Blood Father
2016 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 89%★ 6.4action · thriller · drama

Action built on tension, twice over

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

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

Kinetic drama, 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 · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, 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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Snitch
2013 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 57%★ 6.4action · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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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3 Days to Kill
2014 · dir. McG
🍅 27%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerStarz

Kinetic drama in both cases

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.

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Hitman
2007 · dir. Xavier Gens
★ 6.2action · thriller · dramaPrime VideoStarz

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

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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San Andreas
2015 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 48%★ 6.1action · drama · thriller

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

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Run Lola Run
1998 · dir. Tom Tykwer
🍅 93%★ 7.6action · drama · thrillerHulu

Drama of the same temperament

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

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