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Movies that feel likeMechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

If you loved Mechanic: Resurrection, the closest films we have are Kung Fu Jungle (2014), Sixty Minutes (2024) and Triple Frontier (2019). All three share Mechanic: Resurrection's kinetic and gritty 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).

πŸ… 28% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Dennis Ganselkineticgrittytenseepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Mechanic (2011)

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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 Β· dir. Teddy Chan
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crimePrime Video

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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Sixty Minutes
2024 Β· dir. Oliver Kienle
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.7action Β· adventure Β· crimeNetflix

The same mix in both: tension, then scale

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mechanic: Resurrection does

Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

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Triple Frontier
2019 Β· dir. J.C. Chandor
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5action Β· thriller Β· crimeNetflix

Kinetic action in both cases

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

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Patriots Day
2016 Β· dir. Peter Berg
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.3action Β· crime Β· dramaPrime Video

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.

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Crank: High Voltage
2009 Β· dir. Mark Neveldine
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.1action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Trades the scale of Mechanic: Resurrection for an angle of its own

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

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

Kinetic adventure, and it commits to that

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

The same two preoccupations: assassin, and killer

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

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Point Break
2015 Β· dir. Ericson Core
πŸ… 12%β˜… 5.3action Β· adventure Β· crime

Action built on scale, twice over

A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

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Ava
2020 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 18%β˜… 5.5action Β· thriller Β· crimePrime VideoPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 Β· dir. Edward Zwick
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.2action Β· thriller Β· crimePrime VideoParamount+

One thread runs through both: murder

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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Operation Condor
1991 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.2action Β· adventure Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Hired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.

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Ballerina
2025 Β· dir. Len Wiseman
β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· crimeMaxStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: assassin

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

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