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Movies that feel like Don (2006)

If you loved Don, the closest films we have are Merantau (2009), Furie (2019) and The Abyss (2023). All three share Don's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hi-YAH and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Farhan Akhtarkineticcontemplativetense

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

Both land momentum and stillness at once

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

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

Both lean on momentum more than on drama

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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Cell 211
2009 · dir. Daniel Monzón
🍅 98%7.6action · thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Action built on tension, twice over

The difference: Missing the stillness of Don

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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Road House
2024 · dir. Doug Liman
6.2action · thriller · drama

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
6.3action · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

Contemplative action in both cases

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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The Fugitive
1993 · dir. Andrew Davis
🍅 96%7.8action · thriller · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

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The Rebel
2007 · dir. Charlie Nguyen
6.8action · drama

Action in the same key

In French ruled Vietnam in 1922, the French and Vietnamese officers plot to sniff out arch-rebel De Canh.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Both play thriller straight

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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

Both working the same drama territory

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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