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Movies that feel like Transporter 3 (2008)

If you loved Transporter 3, the closest films we have are Taken 2 (2012), In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) and Colombiana (2011). All three share Transporter 3'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 Netflix Standard with Ads, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

πŸ… 40% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Olivier Megatonkinetictensegrittyromantic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Transporter (2002) Β· Transporter 2 (2005)

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Taken 2
2012 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 22%β˜… 6.2action Β· crime Β· thriller

Olivier Megaton working the same nerve twice

The difference: Not nearly as romantic as Transporter 3

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 Β· dir. Yuen Woo-ping
β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: martial arts and detective

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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Colombiana
2011 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 29%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Olivier Megaton directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Transporter 3 does

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

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Taken 3
2014 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 13%β˜… 6thriller Β· action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: detective

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

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Lethal Weapon 4
1998 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 54%β˜… 6.6action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both are working the same pair: police, action hero

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.

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

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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The Outlaws
2017 Β· dir. Kang Yun-sung
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2action Β· crime Β· thriller

Common ground: police

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

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Fast & Furious
2009 Β· dir. Justin Lin
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6.5action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both land momentum and tension at once

When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And the two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Action built on grit, twice over

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

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Bad Boys for Life
2020 Β· dir. Bilall Fallah
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.5thriller Β· action Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: police chase

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

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The Raid 2
2014 Β· dir. Gareth Evans
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.9action Β· crime Β· thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

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Crank: High Voltage
2009 Β· dir. Mark Neveldine
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.1action Β· thriller Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

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