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Movies that feel likeWanted (2008)

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.

If you loved Wanted, the closest films we have are Crank (2006), Extraction 2 (2023) and Elle (2016). All three share Wanted's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Below Zero (2021).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Timur Bekmambetovkinetictensegrittymelancholyrelentless
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Crank
2006 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 62%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

A hitman racing against the clock in a hyper-stylized action rush

The difference: A poison countdown gimmick, not a hidden fraternity of assassins

Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

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Extraction 2
2023 · dir. Sam Hargrave
🍅 79%★ 7action · thriller · crimeNetflix

Relentless, brutally staged action built around a single elite operative

The difference: A hostage-rescue mission, no secret guild pulling the strings

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

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Elle
2016 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 91%★ 7.1drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: death of father

The difference: Easier on the momentum than Wanted

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

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The Equalizer
2014 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 61%★ 7.3thriller · action · crimeNetflix

A quiet man's hidden lethal skill unleashed against corrupt forces

The difference: A vigilante-for-hire premise, not inheriting a secret bloodline

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

A stylized hitman navigating corruption and betrayal on his own terms

The difference: Border cartel politics, no hidden fraternity pulling the strings

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

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Below Zero
2021 · dir. Lluís Quílez
🍅 86%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Relentless, claustrophobic action built around a single desperate fight

The difference: A prisoner-transport siege, no assassin fraternity or hidden legacy

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 6.6action · crime · thriller

A hitman's past catching up with him in one long, relentless night

The difference: A father-son survival story, not a secret assassin brotherhood

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

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Fast X
2023 · dir. Louis Leterrier
🍅 56%★ 5.7action · crime · thrillerPeacock

Big, relentless action chaos fueled by betrayal and revenge

The difference: A sprawling car-family saga, not one office worker's awakening

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.

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The Foreigner
2017 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 66%★ 7action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

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

A stylish assassin pulled back into a secret organization's grip

The difference: Underworld code-of-honor rules, not a fraternity of hidden killers

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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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

A disgraced fighter finding purpose through violent, relentless payback

The difference: A cop's redemption arc, not an office worker discovering hidden powers

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 84%★ 8action · crime · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

The difference: Trades the melancholy of Wanted for an angle of its own

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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