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Movies that feel like The Foreigner (2017)

If you loved The Foreigner, the closest films we have are The Beekeeper (2024), The Legend of Zorro (2005) and Mutiny (2026). All three share The Foreigner's kinetic and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Campbellkinetictensegrittyrelentlessparanoid
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The Beekeeper
2024 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 71%6.3action · crime · thriller

Both land momentum and tension at once

One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

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The Legend of Zorro
2005 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 27%6action · adventure · western

Both are Martin Campbell's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

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Mutiny
2026 · dir. Jean-François Richet
6.4action · thriller

The same mix in both: relentlessness, then paranoia

The difference: None of the grit The Foreigner is built on

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

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The Furious
2026 · dir. Kenji Tanigaki
🍅 98%7.7action · crime · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.

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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%6.6action · crime · thriller

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%6.9action · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: martial arts

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Foreigner does

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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

Gritty action in both cases

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

Thriller built on relentlessness, twice over

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

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 55%6.2action · drama · thriller

Both rooted in London

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

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

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

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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