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Movies that feel like Pathaan (2023)

If you loved Pathaan, the closest films we have are War (2019), Ashfall (2019) and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025). All three share Pathaan's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Siddharth Anandkineticepictense
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War
2019 Β· dir. Siddharth Anand
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.6action Β· thriller Β· adventure

Both are Siddharth Anand's work, and they rhyme

Khalid, entrusted with the task of eliminating former soldier turned rogue Kabir, engages in an epic battle with his mentor who taught him everything.

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Ashfall
2019 Β· dir. Kim Byung-seo
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.2action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Both land momentum and scale at once

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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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 Β· dir. Christopher McQuarrie
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1action Β· thriller Β· adventure

One thread runs through both: spy

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity β€” which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe β€” with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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The King's Man
2021 Β· dir. Matthew Vaughn
πŸ… 41%β˜… 6.3action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: spy

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Mother's Day
2023 Β· dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
β˜… 5.3thriller Β· action

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Missing the scale of Pathaan

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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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 Β· dir. Christopher McQuarrie
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Kinetic adventure in both cases

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his missionβ€”not even the lives of those he cares about most.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.2drama Β· action Β· history

Both lean on scale more than on thriller

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Pathaan does

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 Β· dir. Antonin Baudry
β˜… 6.9thriller Β· action Β· adventure

Action built on tension, twice over

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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No Time to Die
2021 Β· dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· adventure

Kinetic adventure, and it commits to that

Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

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Soulcatcher
2023 Β· dir. Daniel Markowicz
β˜… 3.7action Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, 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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Darkland: The Return
2023 Β· dir. Fenar Ahmad
β˜… 6.3thriller Β· action

Action of the same temperament

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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Anna
2019 Β· dir. Luc Besson
πŸ… 33%β˜… 6.7action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Epic adventure in both cases

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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