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Movies that feel likeJohn Wick (2014)

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

If you loved John Wick, the closest films we have are The Villainess (2017), Jawan (2023) and The Equalizer (2014). All three share John Wick's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ghajini (2008).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chad Stahelskikinetictenserelentless
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Peacock Premium

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) · John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) · John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

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The Villainess
2017 · dir. Jung Byung-gil
🍅 85%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

An assassin built by a syndicate turns on everything that made her

The difference: Wilder camerawork and messier plotting — style spikes over polish

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
★ 6.9action · thrillerNetflix

A wronged man turns spectacular violence into public reckoning

The difference: Bollywood-scale melodrama with songs and a political streak

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

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The Equalizer
2014 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 61%★ 7.3thriller · action · crimeNetflix

A retired lethal professional choosing precise, righteous violence

The difference: Vigilante procedural, methodical not balletic

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

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Ballerina
2023 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 91%★ 6.3action · thrillerNetflix

One thread runs through both: revenge

Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 53%★ 7.5action · drama · thriller

Revenge as a chain reaction that consumes everyone it touches

The difference: Anguished and slow — violence that hurts instead of thrills

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

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Man on Fire
2004 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 39%★ 7.7action · drama · thrillerStarz

A hollowed-out killer given one bond worth burning the world for

The difference: Frenetic Tony Scott editing and a long fuse before the fire

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

An aging hitman's past comes due over one long, violent night

The difference: Scrappier and grimmer — craft gives way to desperation

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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Ghajini
2008 · dir. A. R. Murugadoss
🍅 53%★ 7.4action · romance · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A man suffering from anterograde amnesia as a result of a violent attack in the past sets out to avenge his girlfriend's death with the aid of photographs, notes and tattoos all over his body.

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Crank
2006 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 62%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

One man in perpetual motion, fighting his way to the finish line

The difference: A deliberate joke of a movie — trashy where Wick is elegant

Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

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Furious 7
2015 · dir. James Wan
🍅 81%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Vengeance driving elaborate, physics-optional action

The difference: Family-first ensemble, tone sunnier

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.

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Killer Elite
2011 · dir. Gary McKendry
🍅 26%★ 6.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Professional killers bound by codes, hunted by their own kind

The difference: Convoluted plotting — the cat-and-mouse outruns its logic

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

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Ong Bak 2
2008 · dir. Tony Jaa
🍅 49%★ 6.2adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than John Wick does

Tien, the son of Lord Sihadecho — a murdered nobleman — is taken under the wing of Chernang, a renowned warrior and leader of the Pha Beek Krut.

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