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Movies that feel like Cold Pursuit (2019)

If you loved Cold Pursuit, the closest films we have are The Killer (2023), El Infierno (2010) and The Punisher (2004). All three share Cold Pursuit's gritty 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.

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hans Petter Molandgrittykineticcontemplativedarkly funnyrelentless

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The Killer
2023 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 85%6.7crime · thriller

Both are working the same pair: dark comedy, revenge

The difference: Missing the momentum of Cold Pursuit

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
7.6action · crime · western

Common ground: drug dealer

The difference: None of the relentlessness Cold Pursuit is built on

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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The Punisher
2004 · dir. Jonathan Hensleigh
🍅 30%6.4action · crime · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.

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A Bittersweet Life
2005 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 100%7.5action · drama · crime

Both land grit and momentum at once

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

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In the Fade
2017 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 75%7.1drama · crime

The same mix in both: stillness, then relentlessness

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

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Scream VI
2023 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 77%6.4horror · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to horror than Cold Pursuit does

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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

The same preoccupation in both: drug dealer

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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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 66%6.3action · crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: gun battle

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

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

Gritty crime in both cases

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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Below Zero
2021 · dir. Lluís Quílez
🍅 86%6.2action · crime · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

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.

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Four Brothers
2005 · dir. John Singleton
6.8action · crime

Relentless drama, and it commits to that

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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