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Movies that feel like The Chaser (2008)

If you loved The Chaser, the closest films we have are Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), The Raid 2 (2014) and The Dark Knight (2008). All three share The Chaser'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 YouTube TV, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

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If The Chaser hit the spot, these will too

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 Β· dir. Quentin Tarantino
πŸ… 84%β˜… 8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both land grit and tension at once

The difference: None of the unease that defines The Chaser

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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The Raid 2
2014 Β· dir. Gareth Evans
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.9action Β· crime Β· thriller

Gore sits at the heart of each

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

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The Dark Knight
2008 Β· dir. Christopher Nolan
πŸ… 94%β˜… 9.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Crime built on momentum, twice over

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

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Sicario
2015 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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The Raid
2012 Β· dir. Gareth Evans
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.6action Β· thriller Β· crime

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

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Fast & Furious 6
2013 Β· dir. Justin Lin
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both trade on momentum more than on being crime

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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Con Air
1997 Β· dir. Simon West
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.9action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both circle psychopath and serial killer

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 β€œworst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as β€œpure 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 β€” genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 Β· dir. Chad Stahelski
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty thriller in both cases

Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

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Taken 2
2012 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 22%β˜… 6.2action Β· crime Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: kidnapping

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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Transporter 2
2005 Β· dir. Louis Leterrier
β˜… 6.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both keep circling back to kidnapping

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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Ong-Bak
2003 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Action with a pulse of tension, 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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Cold Eyes
2013 Β· dir. Kim Byung-seo
β˜… 7.1crime Β· action Β· thriller

Kinetic crime in both cases

Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.

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