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Movies that feel like Run All Night (2015)

If you loved Run All Night, the closest films we have are The Square (2008), Crank (2006) and The Equalizer 2 (2018). All three share Run All Night's gritty 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

🍅 59% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serrakineticgrittytenserelentless

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The Square
2008 · dir. Nash Edgerton
🍅 86%6.7crime · drama · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: revenge and murder

The difference: Reviewed even better

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

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Crank
2006 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 62%6.9action · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: hitman

Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

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The Equalizer 2
2018 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 52%6.7action · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: revenge

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.

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Desperado
1995 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 71%7.1thriller · action · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hitman

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

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The Equalizer
2014 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 61%7.3thriller · action · crime

Both land momentum and grit at once

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

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Below Zero
2021 · dir. Lluís Quílez
🍅 86%6.2action · crime · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then relentlessness

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

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The Man from Nowhere
2010 · dir. Lee Jeong-beom
🍅 100%7.7action · thriller · crime

Kinetic action in both cases

A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.

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Blue Ruin
2014 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 96%7.1crime · thriller

Common ground: murder

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Run All Night

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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Extraction 2
2023 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 79%7action · thriller · crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 89%7.4action · thriller · crime

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

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John Wick
2014 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 87%7.5action · thriller

Action with a pulse of relentlessness, in both cases

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
6.9action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

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