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Movies that feel like Road House (2024)

If you loved Road House, the closest films we have are Don (2006), Furie (2019) and The Abyss (2023). All three share Road House'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, Amazon Prime Video and Hi-YAH and others, checked against today's data.

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

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

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

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

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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

Both are built on the same subject: fighting

The difference: Missing the stillness of Road House

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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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%5.8action · thriller · drama

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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

Contemplative action in both cases

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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Hitman
2007 · dir. Xavier Gens
6.2action · thriller · drama

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

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Body of Lies
2008 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 55%7action · drama · thriller

A 2000s answer to the same itch

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

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Cell 211
2009 · dir. Daniel Monzón
🍅 98%7.6action · thriller · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on action

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 60%6.5action · comedy · drama

Doug Liman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Road House does

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.

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San Andreas
2015 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 48%6.1action · drama · thriller

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

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