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Movies that feel like The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

If you loved The Long Kiss Goodnight, the closest films we have are The Bourne Identity (2002), The Transporter (2002) and Con Air (1997). All three share The Long Kiss Goodnight's kinetic 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 Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 Β· dir. Doug Liman
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.8action Β· mystery Β· thriller

Amnesia runs into escape in each of them

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as The Long Kiss Goodnight

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spyβ€”but who does he work for?

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The Transporter
2002 Β· dir. Corey Yuen
πŸ… 53%β˜… 6.8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both built around martial arts

The difference: None of the twists that defines The Long Kiss Goodnight

Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

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

Gritty where it counts, kinetic underneath

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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Inferno
2016 Β· dir. Ron Howard
πŸ… 23%β˜… 6.2mystery Β· thriller Β· action

Amnesia sits at the heart of each

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

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

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

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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Hard Target
1993 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense crime, and it commits to that

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

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Salt
2010 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.5action Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both circle hostage and spy

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. She goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"

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Police Story 2
1988 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both trade on grit more than on being action

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Se7en
1995 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 84%β˜… 8.6crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery built on twists, twice over

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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

Tense crime in both cases

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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Point Break
1991 Β· dir. Kathryn Bigelow
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty action, and it commits to that

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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