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Movies that feel likeDiamonds Are Forever (1971)

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

If you loved Diamonds Are Forever, the closest films we have are The Warriors (1979), True Lies (1994) and Haywire (2011). All three share Diamonds Are Forever'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 Air Force One (1997).

πŸ… 64% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Guy Hamiltonkinetictense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) Β· From Russia with Love (1963) Β· Goldfinger (1964) Β· Thunderball (1965) Β· You Only Live Twice (1967) Β· On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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The Warriors
1979 Β· dir. Walter Hill
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5action Β· thrillerNetflix

Both land momentum and tension at once

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

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True Lies
1994 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.3action Β· thrillerHulu

Both are working the same pair: spy, secret agent

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1990s show

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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Haywire
2011 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 80%β˜… 5.8action Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: secret agent

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

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Air Force One
1997 Β· dir. Wolfgang Petersen
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.6action Β· thriller

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

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The Hunt for Red October
1990 Β· dir. John McTiernan
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5action Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

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Die Hard 2
1990 Β· dir. Renny Harlin
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.2action Β· thrillerHulu

Kinetic action in both cases

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

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Thunderbolt
1995 Β· dir. Gordon Chan
β˜… 6.3action Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

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Metro
2013 Β· dir. Anton Megerdichev
β˜… 6.4action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both working the same action territory

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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Hunter Killer
2018 Β· dir. Donovan Marsh
πŸ… 38%β˜… 6.6action Β· thrillerPrime Video

The same thriller instincts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Darkland: The Return
2023 Β· dir. Fenar Ahmad
β˜… 6.3thriller Β· action

Both know what they want from action

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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Mile 22
2018 Β· dir. Peter Berg
πŸ… 23%β˜… 6.1action Β· thrillerNetflix

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.

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No Escape
2015 Β· dir. John Erick Dowdle
πŸ… 46%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· actionPrime Video

Cut from the same action cloth

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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