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Movies that feel like Snitch (2013)

If you loved Snitch, the closest films we have are Angel Has Fallen (2019), Merantau (2009) and 3 Days to Kill (2014). All three share Snitch's kinetic and tense 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 Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ric Roman Waughkineticcontemplativetense
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Angel Has Fallen
2019 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 38%6.4action · thriller

Ric Roman Waugh directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the stillness of Snitch

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.

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

Both are built on the same subject: drugs

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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3 Days to Kill
2014 · dir. McG
🍅 27%6.2action · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then stillness

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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

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

Kinetic drama in both cases

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

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

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

Action built on tension, twice over

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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Blood Father
2016 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 89%6.4action · thriller · drama

Common ground: parents and children

An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.

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

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

Thriller built on stillness, 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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The Gray Man
2022 · dir. Joe Russo
🍅 45%6.5action · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: agent

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.

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Road House
2024 · dir. Doug Liman
6.2action · thriller · drama

A 2020s answer to the same itch

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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