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Movies that feel likexXx (2002)

Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.

If you loved xXx, the closest films we have are Sixty Minutes (2024), Patriots Day (2016) and Kung Fu Jungle (2014). All three share xXx's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Operation Condor (1991).

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Sixty Minutes
2024 · dir. Oliver Kienle
🍅 67%★ 5.7action · adventure · crimeNetflix

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2020s show

Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

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Patriots Day
2016 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 80%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: tension, then grit

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.

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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 · dir. Teddy Chan Tak-Sam
🍅 74%★ 6.4action · thriller · crimePrime Video

Kinetic action in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of xXx for an angle of its own

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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Operation Condor
1991 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 71%★ 7.2action · adventure · crime

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Hired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.

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The Protector
2005 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 53%★ 7action · crime · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.

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Spy Game
2001 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 64%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: cold war

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

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Mechanic: Resurrection
2016 · dir. Dennis Gansel
🍅 28%★ 5.8action · crime · thriller

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

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Point Break
2015 · dir. Ericson Core
🍅 12%★ 5.3action · adventure · crime

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

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The Perfect Storm
2000 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
★ 6.5drama · adventure · action

Both lean on stillness more than on action

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

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Colombiana
2011 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 29%★ 6.4action · thriller · crime

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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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Need for Speed
2014 · dir. Scott Waugh
🍅 23%★ 6.4action · crime · drama

Crime built on tension, twice over

The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.

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Gangster Squad
2013 · dir. Ruben Fleischer
🍅 30%★ 6.7crime · drama · action

Different title, same corner of the shelf

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

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