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Movies that feel likeBallerina (2025)

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

If you loved Ballerina, the closest films we have are Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024), The Roundup: No Way Out (2023) and KILL (2024). All three share Ballerina's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Plagues of Breslau (2018).

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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In poster
🍅 90%★ 6.9action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

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 Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Gritty action in both cases

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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KILL
2024 · dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
🍅 90%★ 7.4action · crime · thrillerHulu

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

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The Equalizer 3
2023 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 76%★ 6.8action · thriller · crimeMaxHulu

Crime built on tension, twice over

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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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Dhurandhar
2025 · dir. Aditya Dhar
★ 8.2action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

In the early 2000s, an undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld, breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.

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Ava
2020 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 18%★ 5.5action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

Both are working the same pair: assassin, female assassin

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

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Facing El Chapo
2026 · dir. Chava Cartas
★ 6.7crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Two Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.

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The Mechanic
2011 · dir. Simon West
🍅 54%★ 6.5action · thriller · crimeParamount+

One thread runs through both: training

Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: assassin

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 Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

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 · thrillerNetflix

Thriller in the same key

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Ballerina 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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