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Movies that feel likeThe Fugitive (1993)

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

If you loved The Fugitive, the closest films we have are Don (2006), Run Lola Run (1998) and First Blood (1982). All three share The Fugitive'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 Haywire (2011).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrew Daviskinetictensecontemplative
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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
★ 7.2action · drama · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

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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Run Lola Run
1998 · dir. Tom Tykwer
🍅 93%★ 7.6action · drama · thrillerHulu

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

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First Blood
1982 · dir. Ted Kotcheff
🍅 86%★ 7.7action · thriller · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: escape

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Common ground: life on the run

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Captain Phillips
2013 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 93%★ 7.8action · drama · thriller

Drama built on tension, twice over

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

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

Action with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Hitman
2007 · dir. Xavier Gens
★ 6.2action · thriller · dramaPrime VideoStarz

Kinetic thriller in both cases

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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Snitch
2013 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 57%★ 6.4action · drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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.

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

Same instincts, 18 years apart

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

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 60%★ 7.6action · thrillerHulu

The same preoccupation in both: flashback

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Fugitive for an angle of its own

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

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