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Movies that feel likeBlood Father (2016)

An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.

If you loved Blood Father, the closest films we have are Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Plane (2023) and Furie (2019). All three share Blood Father'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 Don (2006).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-François Richetkinetictensecontemplative
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hi-YAH

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 81%★ 7.5drama · action · thriller

Jean-François Richet directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Blood Father does

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

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Plane
2023 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 79%★ 6.5action · adventure · thrillerRent or buy

The same hand behind both of them: Jean-François Richet

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Blood Father does

After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both land momentum and tension at once

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.

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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%★ 5.8action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Blood Father

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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No Escape
2015 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 46%★ 6.8thriller · actionPrime Video

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
★ 7.2action · drama · thrillerNetflix

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

DCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
★ 6.4action · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic action in both cases

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

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Snitch
2013 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 57%★ 6.4action · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: parents and children

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

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Homefront
2013 · dir. Gary Fleder
🍅 42%★ 6.5action · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: drug dealer

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
★ 6.3thriller · action

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?

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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
★ 6.7action · drama · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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Hunter Killer
2018 · dir. Donovan Marsh
🍅 38%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

Both know what they want from action

Untested American submarine commander, Capt. Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns a secret Russian coup is in the offing, a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Glass must coordinate with an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters, rescue the kidnapped Russian president, and hopefully prevent World War III.

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