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Movies that feel likeMother's Day (2023)

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.

If you loved Mother's Day, the closest films we have are Furie (2019), Haywire (2011) and Twisters (2024). All three share Mother's Day's tense and kinetic 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).

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

Common ground: child kidnapping

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mother's Day does

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

The same mix in both: tension, then momentum

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

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Twisters
2024 · dir. Lee Isaac Chung
🍅 75%★ 6.5action · thrillerHulu

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Mother's Day does

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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

Action built on momentum, twice over

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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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
★ 3.7action · thrillerNetflix

Both are thriller through and through

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

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

Action in the same key

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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

Cut from the same action cloth

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

Both know what they want from thriller

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

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

Action of the same temperament

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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