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Movies that feel like Headshot (2016)

If you loved Headshot, the closest films we have are The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Man on Fire (2004) and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). All three share Headshot's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

πŸ… 73% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Timo Tjahjantokinetictensecontemplativecerebralrelentless
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If Headshot hit the spot, these will too

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The Bourne Supremacy
2004 Β· dir. Paul Greengrass
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.7action Β· drama Β· thriller

Amnesia sits at the heart of each

The difference: None of the relentlessness that defines Headshot

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

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Man on Fire
2004 Β· dir. Tony Scott
πŸ… 39%β˜… 7.7action Β· drama Β· thriller

Both keep circling back to revenge

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

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Rambo: Last Blood
2019 Β· dir. Adrian GrΓΌnberg
β˜… 6.1action Β· thriller Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

The difference: Missing the ideas of Headshot

After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper MarΓ­a, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

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Fist of Fury
1972 Β· dir. Lo Wei
β˜… 7.2drama Β· action Β· thriller

The same two preoccupations: martial arts, and brutality

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 1970s show

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

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San Andreas
2015 Β· dir. Brad Peyton
πŸ… 48%β˜… 6.1action Β· drama Β· thriller

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

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Merantau
2009 Β· dir. Gareth Evans
β˜… 6.7action Β· drama Β· thriller

Martial arts is the engine of both

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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Haywire
2011 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 80%β˜… 5.8action Β· thriller Β· drama

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

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

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Captain Phillips
2013 Β· dir. Paul Greengrass
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8action Β· drama Β· thriller

Both trade on momentum more than on being thriller

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 Β· dir. Matt Reeves
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· action Β· drama

Drama built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Plays it as science fiction more than Headshot does

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

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Kickboxer
1989 Β· dir. Mark DiSalle
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· drama

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

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White House Down
2013 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.3action Β· drama Β· thriller

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

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Bloodsport
1988 Β· dir. Newt Arnold
πŸ… 48%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· drama

Kinetic drama in both cases

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

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