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Movies that feel likeCasino Royale (2006)

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

If you loved Casino Royale, the closest films we have are Mission: Impossible III (2006), The Rock (1996) and The Grey (2012). All three share Casino Royale's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pathaan (2023).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Campbellepickinetictense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) · From Russia with Love (1963) · Goldfinger (1964) · Thunderball (1965) · You Only Live Twice (1967) · On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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Mission: Impossible III
2006 · dir. J.J. Abrams
🍅 73%★ 6.9adventure · action · thrillerParamount+

A ruthless broker villain who makes the spy game feel personal

The difference: Team gadgetry over lone-wolf grit — the bruises don't linger

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

A British spy's tradecraft put to work in one desperate operation

The difference: Loud Bay bombast — wisecracks and fireballs over cold precision

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Steel-nerved men tested past their limits, no rescue coming

The difference: No spies, no glamour — a bleak wilderness ordeal about mortality

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

A burned agent presumed dead who claws his way back to the mission

The difference: Full Bollywood maximalism — physics and plausibility optional

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Both land scale and momentum at once

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Tense adventure in both cases

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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The Expendables
2010 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 41%★ 6.4thriller · adventure · action

Hard men doing dirty jobs in a world that spends them freely

The difference: A meathead reunion tour — nostalgia standing in for tension

Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Terror plots against heads of state, answered with blunt force

The difference: Charmless and grinding — the craft that makes Bond sing is gone

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

Old-world espionage with tailored suits and real historical stakes

The difference: Tonal whiplash — grim war drama one scene, cartoon the next

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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Skyscraper
2018 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 48%★ 5.8action · thriller · adventureRent or buy

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

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