20 movies like Punisher: War Zone, ordered by similarity : The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day(2009), Shotgun Stories(2007), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974), Hell or High Water(2016), Badlapur(2015), Run All Night(2015), The Taking of Pelham 123(2009), Max Payne(2008), Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For(2014), The Oath(2016), 21 Bridges(2019), 36(2004) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA|Canada|Germany
2008
107 Minutes
Ray Stevenson Dominic West Doug Hutchison Colin Salmon Wayne Knight Dash Mihok Julie Benz Stephanie Janusauskas T.J. Storm Keram Malicki-Sanchez
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Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
2009
115 Minutes
Sean Patrick Flanery Norman Reedus Judd Nelson Billy Connolly Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez Julie Benz Peter Fonda David Della Rocco Robert Cochrane Marley Jr. Brian Mahoney
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The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn that their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, they go back to Boston to bring justice to those responsible and avenge the priest.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA
1974
104 Minutes
Walter Matthau Robert Shaw Martin Balsam Héctor Elizondo Earl Hindman James Broderick Dick O'Neill Lee Wallace Tom Pedi Beatrice Winde Jerry Stiller
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In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Katy Mixon Dale Dickey Kevin Rankin
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A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2015
123 Minutes
Varun Dhawan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Huma Qureshi Yami Gautam Divya Dutta Vinay Pathak Radhika Apte
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An innocent man turns brutal when his family gets killed in a bank robbery and one of the perpetrators escapes. 15 years later, he begins his deadly game of vengeance.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
2015
114 Minutes
Liam Neeson Ed Harris Joel Kinnaman Common Boyd Holbrook Genesis Rodriguez Vincent D'Onofrio Bruce McGill Lois Smith Patricia Kalember Beau Knapp
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Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA|UK
2009
106 Minutes
Denzel Washington John Travolta John Turturro Luis Guzman James Gandolfini Michael Rispoli Frank Wood John Benjamin Hickey Gary Basaraba Ramon Rodriguez Gbenga Akinnagbe
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Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Drama, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Crime
USA|Canada
2008
99 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Mila Kunis Beau Bridges Chris "Ludacris" Bridges Chris O'Donnell Donal Logue Amaury Nolasco Kate Burton Olga Kurylenko Rothaford Gray Joel Gordon
police detective russian mobster femme fatale partner security head sister dark thrilling gripping new york city street precinct house pharmaceutical company tattoo parlor warehouse murder vigilantism wrongfully accused supernatural conspiracy
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
2014
101 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Robert Rodriguez Jessica Alba Josh Brolin Joseph Gordon-Levitt Rosario Dawson Bruce Willis Eva Green Powers Boothe Dennis Haysbert Ray Liotta
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Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Iceland|UK|Germany
2016
110 Minutes
Hera Hilmar Baltasar Kormákur Gísli Örn Garðarsson Ingvar Sigurdsson Þorsteinn Bachmann Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir Þorsteinn Gunnarsson Margrét Bjarnadóttir Ágúst Bjarnason
surgeon daughter drug dealer father criminal intense melodramatic suspenseful thrilling gory brooding reykjavík, iceland criminal underworld family home drug addiction family crime desperation father/daughter relationship rise
A troubled father, working as a doctor, decides to go to extreme measures for saving his daughter from a devastating influence of her boyfriend, a drug dealer.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
China|USA
2019
99 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Sienna Miller J.K. Simmons Stephan James Taylor Kitsch Keith David Alexander Siddig Louis Cancelmi Victoria Cartagena Gary Carr Morocco Omari
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An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
Crime, Drama, Action
France
2004
105 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Gérard Depardieu André Dussollier Roschdy Zem Valeria Golino Daniel Duval Catherine Marchal Francis Renaud Guy Lecluyse Alain Figlarz Vincent Moscato
police officer partner boss criminal gangster suspenseful emotional intense paris police station france street car apartment promotion robbery investigation sabotage competition crime
2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
Action, Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Belgium
2014
135 Minutes
Jean Dujardin Gilles Lellouche Céline Sallette Mélanie Doutey Benoît Magimel Guillaume Gouix Bruno Todeschini Féodor Atkine Moussa Maaskri Pierre Lopez Eric Collado
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A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.
Action
USA
1966
105 Minutes
Adam West Burt Ward Cesar Romero Lee Meriwether Burgess Meredith Frank Gorshin Alan Napier Neil Hamilton Stafford Repp Madge Blake Reginald Denny
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The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA|France|Italy|UK|Germany
2003
111 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Charlize Theron Edward Norton Seth Green Jason Statham Yasiin Bey Franky G. Donald Sutherland Gawtti Olek Krupa
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After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|UK
2002
118 Minutes
Al Pacino Robin Williams Hilary Swank Maura Tierney Martin Donovan Nicky Katt Paul Dooley Jonathan Jackson Larry Holden Katharine Isabelle
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Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2000
170 Minutes
Sunil Shetty Suman Ranganathan Sushmita Sen Namrata Shirodkar Sharad S. Kapoor Anupam Kher Gulshan Grover Mukesh Rishi Sharat Saxena Govind Namdeo Johnny Lever
husband wife lover brother sister adulterer brooding melodramatic bleak india mumbai, india small town city infidelity marriage murder rape crime love triangle forbidden love
An honest and diligent man's life turns upside down after making an enemy in a ruthless mafia gang after he saves a girl from being molested by them.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2009
94 Minutes
Steven Seagal Luce Rains Liezl Carstens Arron Shiver Kevin Wiggins Trine Christensen Rio Alexander Jessica Williams
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Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2017
155 Minutes
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A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.
Drama, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
USA
2015
92 Minutes
Rob Lowe Burt Reynolds Noel Gugliemi Kwesi Boakye Ken Davitian James Jurdi Jessica Clark Logan Fahey
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Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.