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Movies that feel like Death Wish (2018)

If you loved Death Wish, the closest films we have are Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), The Outlaws (2017) and Darkland: The Return (2023). All three share Death Wish'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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

🍅 18% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Eli Rothkineticgrittytensecontemplativemelancholy
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 81%7.5drama · action · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: kidnapping and shootout

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Outlaws
2017 · dir. Kang Yun-sung
🍅 92%7.2action · crime · thriller

Common ground in both: police and detective

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Death Wish

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
6.3thriller · action

Common ground: vigilante

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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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%7action · crime · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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Kill Boksoon
2023 · dir. Byun Sung-hyun
🍅 79%6.6action · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

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Ambulance
2022 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 68%6.1thriller · action · drama

Both land tension and stillness at once

Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.

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Den of Thieves
2018 · dir. Christian Gudegast
🍅 42%7crime · thriller · action

Both are built on the same subject: detective

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

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

The same preoccupation in both: robbery

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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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
7.1action · crime · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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Colombiana
2011 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 29%6.4action · thriller · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 37%6.2action · thriller · drama

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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The Devil All the Time
2020 · dir. Antonio Campos
🍅 65%7.1crime · drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: gun

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

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