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Movies that feel likeMission: Impossible III (2006)

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

If you loved Mission: Impossible III, the closest films we have are Quantum of Solace (2008), The Grey (2012) and Pathaan (2023). All three share Mission: Impossible III's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Rock (1996).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. J.J. Abramsepickinetictense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mission: Impossible (1996) · Mission: Impossible II (2000) · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) · Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Quantum of Solace
2008 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 63%★ 6.5adventure · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

A charmed agent's world upended when the enemy targets those he loves

The difference: Colder revenge-driven Bond, minus Hunt's family-of-choice camaraderie

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Survival stakes escalate relentlessly until there's no clear way out

The difference: Wilderness man-vs-nature ordeal, not espionage tradecraft and betrayal

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

An operative thought finished coming back for one more impossible job

The difference: Bollywood spectacle and musical set pieces, not Hunt's tactical grit

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Both lean on tension more than on adventure

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Epic action in both cases

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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The Expendables 3
2014 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · adventure · thriller

A past ally turned enemy forcing a reckoning with old loyalties

The difference: Grizzled ensemble machismo, not Hunt's tech-driven mission plotting

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

A deadly operative whose true skill set stays hidden until it's needed

The difference: A solo assassin's origin story, not a team-based rescue mission

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

One operative racing to stop history-altering villainy before it's too late

The difference: Period spy-origin story, not Hunt's modern black-ops toolkit

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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Skyscraper
2018 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 48%★ 5.8action · thriller · adventureRent or buy

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

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