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Movies that feel like Metro (2013)

If you loved Metro, the closest films we have are Furie (2019), Mother's Day (2023) and Thunderbolt (1995). All three share Metro's kinetic and tense 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.

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

The same preoccupation in both: train

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Metro does

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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Mother's Day
2023 · dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
5.3thriller · action

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
6.3action · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
3.7action · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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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Unstoppable
2010 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 87%6.8action · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: train

When a massive, unmanned locomotive roars out of control, the threat is more ominous than just a derailment. The train is laden with toxic chemicals, and an accident would decimate human life and cause an environmental disaster. The only hope of bringing the train to a safe stop is in the hands of veteran engineer Frank Barnes, and young conductor Will Colson, who must risk their lives to save those in the runaway's path. Inspired by true events.

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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
7.2action · drama · thriller

Both play action straight

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.

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Runaway Train
1985 · dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
🍅 84%7.2action · thriller · drama

Common ground: train accident

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

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Homefront
2013 · dir. Gary Fleder
🍅 42%6.5action · thriller

The same action instincts

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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Riders of Justice
2020 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 96%7.5action · comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: train accident

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

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