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Movies that feel likeRoad House (2024)

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

If you loved Road House, the closest films we have are Twisters (2024), Furie (2019) and Blood Father (2016). All three share Road House'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 Don (2006).

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

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

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

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

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

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

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%★ 5.8action · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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

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

Both are built on the same subject: fighting

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

Cut from the same action cloth

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 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 23%★ 6.1action · thrillerNetflix

Both are thriller through and through

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Hunter Killer
2018 · dir. Donovan Marsh
🍅 38%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

Action in the same key

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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The Gray Man
2022 · dir. Joe Russo
🍅 45%★ 6.5action · thrillerNetflix

Both working the same thriller territory

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.

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