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Movies that feel like Nikita (1990)

If you loved Nikita, the closest films we have are Anna (2019), The Tourist (2010) and Kickboxer (1989). All three share Nikita's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luc Bessonkinetictenseromantic

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

The same hand behind both of them: Luc Besson

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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 Tourist
2010 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 20%6action · thriller · romance

Both rooted in Venice

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Nikita does

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

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Kickboxer
1989 · dir. Mark DiSalle
🍅 36%6.4action · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

The difference: Missing the romance of Nikita

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
6.3action · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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The Hunt for Red October
1990 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 88%7.5action · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

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The Warriors
1979 · dir. Walter Hill
🍅 88%7.5action · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

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True Lies
1994 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 77%7.3action · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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Air Force One
1997 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 78%6.5action · thriller

Action approached the same way

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

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Die Hard 2
1990 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 68%7.2action · thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

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Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · dir. Guy Hamilton
🍅 64%6.5action · thriller

The action is handled with the same confidence

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

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Speed
1994 · dir. Jan de Bont
🍅 95%7.3action · thriller

Both working the same thriller territory

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Action in the same key

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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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