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Movies that feel like The Villainess (2017)

If you loved The Villainess, the closest films we have are John Wick (2014), Mutiny (2026) and Nobody (2021). All three share The Villainess's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jung Byung-gilkinetictenserelentless

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If The Villainess hit the spot, these will too

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John Wick
2014 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 87%7.5action · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

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Mutiny
2026 · dir. Jean-François Richet
6.5action · thriller

Both built around one man army

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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Nobody
2021 · dir. Ilya Naishuller
🍅 83%7.4action · thriller

Assassin sits at the heart of each

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of The Villainess

Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.

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Extraction
2020 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 67%6.8action · thriller

Both keep circling back to one man army

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

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The Bourne Legacy
2012 · dir. Tony Gilroy
🍅 56%6.6action · thriller

Assassin is the engine of both

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

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Atomic Blonde
2017 · dir. David Leitch
🍅 79%6.7action · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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Olympus Has Fallen
2013 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 49%6.5action · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

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Angel Has Fallen
2019 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 38%6.4action · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.

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Escape Plan
2013 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 50%6.7action · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

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Homefront
2013 · dir. Gary Fleder
🍅 42%6.5action · thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being thriller

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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The Gray Man
2022 · dir. Joe Russo
🍅 45%6.5action · thriller

Cut from the same action cloth

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.

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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 89%7.4action · thriller · crime

Both built around revenge

The difference: Plays it as crime more than The Villainess does

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

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