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Movies that feel likeJohn Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

If you loved John Wick: Chapter 2, the closest films we have are The Equalizer (2014), Crank (2006) and Furious 7 (2015). All three share John Wick: Chapter 2'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 The Villainess (2017).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chad Stahelskikinetictensegrittyrelentless
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: John Wick (2014) · John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) · John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

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

A quiet expert pulled back into violence he had walked away from

The difference: Slower burn and grimmer — no underworld glamour, no dark wit

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

Nonstop forward motion, a hitman with no time to breathe

The difference: Manic and trashy — chaos where the source is choreographed

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

Set pieces built for craftsmanship, momentum that never stalls

The difference: Family sentiment and cars — no lonely, ritualised code of honour

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

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Extraction 2
2023 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 79%★ 7action · thriller · crimeNetflix

One near-unkillable operator carving through a criminal underworld

The difference: Rescue-mission plumbing, no mythology — the world stays generic

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

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Desperado
1995 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 71%★ 7.1thriller · action · crimePrime Video

A mythic gunman walking into rooms and clearing them with style

The difference: Cheaper 90s pulp — swagger and guitar cases over worldbuilding

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

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Below Zero
2021 · dir. Lluís Quílez
🍅 86%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerNetflix

A siege of relentless pressure with one capable man at the center

The difference: One frozen van and moral murk — small-scale, subtitled Spanish

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

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

A worn hitman fighting through the underworld he helped build

The difference: One grim night, no glamour — sloppier action, more regret

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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The Man from Nowhere
2010 · dir. Lee Jeong-beom
🍅 100%★ 7.7action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

A quiet man with a lethal past cutting through an entire syndicate

The difference: A child's rescue gives it heart — heavier and more upsetting

A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.

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The Furious
2026 · dir. Kenji Tanigaki
🍅 98%★ 7.7action · crime · thrillerStarz

Bone-hard martial arts driven by one man's refusal to stop

The difference: Raw and desperate — a father's rage, not a professional's calm

After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 84%★ 8action · crime · thriller

Common ground in both: martial arts and revenge

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: martial arts

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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

An assassin bound to a shadowy agency, fighting to get free

The difference: Wilder camera, messier story — the plot knots between fights

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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