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Movies that feel likeDon (2006)

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.

If you loved Don, the closest films we have are Furie (2019), Haywire (2011) and Blood Father (2016). All three share Don'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 Infernal Affairs II (2003).

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then stillness

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

Tense action in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Don does

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

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Blood Father
2016 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 89%★ 6.4action · thriller · drama

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

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Body of Lies
2008 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 55%★ 7action · drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 · dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
🍅 75%★ 7.2action · thriller · crimeMax

Tense action, and it commits to that

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

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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Cold Eyes
2013 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
★ 7.1crime · action · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Don does

Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
★ 6.3action · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Mother's Day
2023 · dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
★ 5.3thriller · actionNetflix

Both play action straight

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

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The Abyss
2023 · dir. Richard Holm
★ 5.3thriller · drama · actionNetflix

Drama in the same key

As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground mine.

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

Thriller approached the same way

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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