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Movies that feel likeKill Boksoon (2023)

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.

If you loved Kill Boksoon, the closest films we have are The Roundup: No Way Out (2023), Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) and KILL (2024). All three share Kill Boksoon'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 Branded to Kill (1967).

πŸ… 79% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Byun Sung-hyunkineticcontemplativetensegritty
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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 Β· dir. Lee Sang-yong
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.6action Β· crime Β· thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

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

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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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
2024 Β· dir. Soi Cheang
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9action Β· crime Β· thrillerPrime Video

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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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KILL
2024 Β· dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· thrillerHulu

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

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 Plagues of Breslau
2018 Β· dir. Patryk Vega
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6crime Β· action Β· thrillerNetflix

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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Dhurandhar
2025 Β· dir. Aditya Dhar
β˜… 8.2action Β· crime Β· thrillerNetflix

Gritty drama 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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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.2action Β· crime Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

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Facing El Chapo
2026 Β· dir. Chava Cartas
β˜… 6.7crime Β· action Β· thrillerNetflix

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

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Cold Eyes
2013 Β· dir. Kim Byung-seo
β˜… 7.1crime Β· action Β· thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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Branded to Kill
1967 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· crime Β· action

Two things both keep coming back to: assassin and hitman

The difference: 56 years apart, and the 1960s show

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 Β· dir. Anurag Kashyap
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Action approached the same way

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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Hitman: Agent 47
2015 Β· dir. Aleksander Bach
πŸ… 8%β˜… 5.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Common ground: assassin

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crimeMax

Both are thriller through and through

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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