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Movies that feel like Darkland: The Return (2023)

If you loved Darkland: The Return, the closest films we have are Mother's Day (2023), Metro (2013) and Soulcatcher (2023). All three share Darkland: The Return's tense and kinetic 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 Midnight Pulp and others, checked against today's data.

Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?

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Mother's Day
2023 · dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
5.3thriller · action

The same mix in both: tension, then momentum

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
3.7action · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Darkland: The Return does

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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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
6.3action · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%5.8action · adventure · thriller

Both are action through and through

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 Gray Man
2022 · dir. Joe Russo
🍅 45%6.5action · thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.

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

The action is handled with the same confidence

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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Angel Has Fallen
2019 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 38%6.4action · thriller

Thriller in the same key

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%6.2action · adventure · thriller

Both play action straight

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

Thriller approached the same way

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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