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Movies that feel likeThe Equalizer 3 (2023)

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

If you loved The Equalizer 3, the closest films we have are The Plagues of Breslau (2018), The Roundup: No Way Out (2023) and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024). All three share The Equalizer 3's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Dhurandhar (2025).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquakinetictensegritty
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Equalizer (2014) · The Equalizer 2 (2018)

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on grit more than on action

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

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Ballerina
2025 · dir. Len Wiseman
★ 6.8action · thriller · crimeMaxStarz

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

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KILL
2024 · dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
🍅 90%★ 7.4action · crime · thrillerHulu

Tense crime, and it commits to that

When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%★ 7action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Gritty action in both cases

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 37%★ 6.2action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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Ava
2020 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 18%★ 5.5action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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Dhurandhar
2025 · dir. Aditya Dhar
★ 8.3action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on tension more than on crime

In the early 2000s, an undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld, breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.

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John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 94%★ 7.6action · thriller · crimePrime Video

One thread runs through both: organized crime

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

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Cold Eyes
2013 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
★ 7.1crime · action · thriller

Another one that scratches it

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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Safe
2012 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 59%★ 6.5action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Both working the same thriller territory

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

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