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Movies that feel like Unhinged (2020)

If you loved Unhinged, the closest films we have are Ava (2020), The Plagues of Breslau (2018) and Kill Boksoon (2023). All three share Unhinged'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

🍅 49% Rotten Tomatoes6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Derrick Bortekinetictensegritty
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Ava
2020 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 18%5.5action · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%6crime · action · thriller

Both land momentum and tension at once

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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Kill Boksoon
2023 · dir. Byun Sung-hyun
🍅 79%6.6action · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: single mother

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Unhinged does

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%7action · crime · thriller

Both lean on grit more than on action

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 · dir. Isaac Florentine
🍅 100%6.1action · crime · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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🍅 90%6.9action · crime · thriller

Tense crime, and it commits to that

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

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The Outlaws
2017 · dir. Kang Yun-sung
🍅 92%7.2action · crime · thriller

Gritty action in both cases

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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Premium Rush
2012 · dir. David Koepp
🍅 75%6.5crime · action · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

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Hitman: Agent 47
2015 · dir. Aleksander Bach
🍅 8%5.7action · crime · thriller

Different title, same corner of the shelf

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

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The Last Stand
2013 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 61%6.3action · crime · thriller

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts.

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Safe
2012 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 59%6.5action · crime · thriller

Thriller in the same key

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

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From Paris with Love
2010 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 37%6.4action · crime · thriller

Crime of the same temperament

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.

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