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Movies that feel like Ronin (1998)

If you loved Ronin, the closest films we have are Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), Fast Five (2011) and The Gentleman Thief (2026). All three share Ronin's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC+ Amazon Channel and AMC+ Roku Premium Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Frankenheimerkinetictensegrittyplayful

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If Ronin hit the spot, these will too

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Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · dir. Dominic Sena
🍅 25%6.5action · crime · thriller

Heist runs into shootout in each of them

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.

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Fast Five
2011 · dir. Justin Lin
🍅 77%7.3action · thriller · crime

Both built around heist

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

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The Gentleman Thief
2026 · dir. Randall Emmett
5.8action · crime · thriller

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 2020s show

A retired master thief must protect his impulsive brother from disaster when a 100 million dollar yacht heist spirals into a dangerous web of deception. Old foes emerge as the stakes rise, forcing him to use every trick he knows to stay alive.

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Con Air
1997 · dir. Simon West
🍅 59%6.9action · thriller · crime

Both keep circling back to shootout

The difference: Missing the play of Ronin

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

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The Transporter
2002 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 53%6.8action · crime · thriller

France is the engine of both

Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

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Ong-Bak
2003 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 85%7.1action · crime · thriller

Gritty action in both cases

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 84%8action · crime · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

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Point Break
1991 · dir. Kathryn Bigelow
🍅 68%7.3action · thriller · crime

Tense crime, and it commits to that

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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Hard Target
1993 · dir. John Woo
🍅 63%6.2action · thriller · crime

Mercenary sits at the heart of each

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

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Hard Boiled
1992 · dir. John Woo
🍅 92%7.7action · thriller · crime

Action with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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Police Story 2
1988 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 84%7.1action · crime · thriller

Both trade on momentum more than on being thriller

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Fast & Furious 6
2013 · dir. Justin Lin
🍅 71%7action · thriller · crime

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries; Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

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