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Movies that feel like Mother's Day (2023)

If you loved Mother's Day, the closest films we have are Soulcatcher (2023), Furie (2019) and Darkland: The Return (2023). All three share Mother's Day's tense and kinetic 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 Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mateusz Rakowicztensekinetic
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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
3.7action · thriller

Tense where it counts, kinetic underneath

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

Common ground: child kidnapping

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mother's Day 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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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
6.3thriller · action

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

Tense thriller in both cases

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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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
6.3action · thriller

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%5.8action · adventure · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

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

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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%4.8action · thriller

The same action instincts

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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

Both know what they want from 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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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 · dir. Anurag Kashyap
🍅 91%8.2action · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: gang

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%7action · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: gangster

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%6crime · action · thriller

The action is handled with the same confidence

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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