20 movies like Contraband, ordered by similarity : Into the Blue(2005), Beast of Burden(2018), Tiger Zinda Hai(2017), Pound of Flesh(2015), Captain Phillips(2013), John Wick: Chapter 2(2017), Jungle(2017), The Wave(2015), Proud Mary(2018), Lethal Weapon(1987), Miss Bala(2019), SPL 2: A Time for Consequences(2015) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|France
2012
110 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Kate Beckinsale Ben Foster Giovanni Ribisi Caleb Landry Jones Diego Luna J.K. Simmons David O'Hara Bill Lucking Lukas Haas Jackson Beals
security guard brother-in-law drug lord best friend wife smuggler gritty thrilling suspenseful new orleans panama ship hospital port cargo ship smuggling debt one last job drugs organized crime
To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2005
110 Minutes
Paul Walker Jessica Alba Scott Caan Ashley Scott Josh Brolin James Frain Tyson Beckford Dwayne Adway Gill Montie Ramon Saunders Chris Taloa
diver friend drug dealer club owner drug lord childhood friend thrilling suspenseful sultry tense intense bahamas shipwreck club car ocean ship diving sunken treasure drug smuggling
A group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
89 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Grace Gummer Pablo Schreiber Robert Wisdom César Pérez David Joseph Martinez Renée Willett Ashton Tatum
drug smuggler drug enforcement agent drug trafficker pilot sick wife police officer tense intense suspenseful thrilling solemn emotional doctor's office airplane field hotel house runway drug cartel drug smuggling
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
India
2017
165 Minutes
Salman Khan Katrina Kaif Paresh Rawal Angad Bedi Jay-Jay Botha Erdal Besikçioglu Zachary Coffin Najmeddin AlHadad Pradeep Rawat Casey Shannon Kumud Mishra
spy agent terrorist nurse thrilling confident engaging suspenseful iraq austria hospital terrorism rescue abduction husband/wife relationship rescue pursuit quest adventure 21st century
When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Canada
2015
104 Minutes
Jean-Claude Van Damme Darren Shahlavi Terese Cilluffo John Ralston Kevin Lee Charlotte Peters Aki Aleong Jason Tobin Brahim Achabbakhe Mike Leeder
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A man's heroic attempt to help a woman in distress ends up with him waking up the next day without a kidney and plotting his revenge.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2013
133 Minutes
Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdirahman Faysal Ahmed Mahat M. Ali Michael Chernus Corey Johnson Max Martini Chris Mulkey Yul Vazquez
navy seal captain wife seaman hostage gunman dark emotional tense intense somalia coast cargo ship boat airport lifeboat hijacking kidnapping rescue terrorism
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Italy|Hong Kong|Canada
2017
122 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Common Laurence Fishburne Riccardo Scamarcio Ruby Rose Lance Reddick Peter Stormare Bridget Moynahan Franco Nero John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin widower dog enemy crime boss murderer soldier guard criminal thrilling tense suspenseful engaging gripping intense united states italy art museum city catacombs
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Australia|Colombia|UK
2017
115 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Alex Russell Thomas Kretschmann Joel Jackson Lily Sullivan Jacek Koman Yasmin Kassim Luis Jose Lopez Angie Milliken Joey Vieira Paris Moletti
survivor adventurer explorer teacher stranger friend bleak thrilling intense suspenseful gripping jungle bolivia amazon israel adventure near-death experience friendship lost survival
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
Norway|Sweden
2015
105 Minutes
Kristoffer Joner Ane Dahl Torp Jonas Hoff Oftebro Edith Haagenrud-Sande Fridtjov Såheim Laila Goody Arthur Berning Herman Bernhoft Eili Harboe Silje Breivik Håkon Moe
geologist family wife scientist thrilling suspenseful emotional shocking intense gripping norway mountain tsunami earthquakes catastrophe fear danger family adventure pursuit
Although anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
88 Minutes
Taraji P. Henson Billy Brown Jahi Di'Allo Winston Neal McDonough Margaret Avery Xander Berkeley Rade Serbedzija Erik LaRay Harvey Danny Glover Adobuere Ebiama Owen Burke
assassin gang leader young boy drug dealer gang member drug lord brutal brash thrilling gripping unrestrained cool boston apartment office car hotel warehouse drug trafficking crime ring
Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1987
109 Minutes
Mel Gibson Danny Glover Gary Busey Mitchell Ryan Tom Atkins Darlene Love Traci Wolfe Jackie Swanson
police detective partner criminal daughter prostitute wife tense gritty gutsy los angeles household police station nightclub investigation suicide dangerous assignment drug trafficking organized crime friendship mystery
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Mexico|USA
2019
104 Minutes
Gina Rodriguez Ismael Cruz Cordova Anthony Mackie Cristina Rodlo Matt Lauria Aislinn Derbez Ricardo Abarca Damián Alcázar Thomas Dekker
friend kidnapper police officer drug lord henchman drug enforcement agent tense thrilling suspenseful gripping mexico nightclub interrogation room car office kidnapping drug trade drug trafficking ransom gangs
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Sports & Fitness
2015
120 Minutes
Tony Jaa Jing Wu Jin Zhang Louis Koo Simon Yam Ken Lo Philip Keung Jun Kung Aaron Chow Babyjohn Choi
undercover cop prisoner gang members prison guard daughter thrilling gritty suspenseful tense prison thailand hong kong crime pursuit 2010s
When his cover gets blown, a Hong Kong cop (Wu Jing) lands in a Thai prison where the warden (Zhang Jin) works with a criminal mastermind (Louis Koo) to harvest organs.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Kate Bosworth Tyler Hoechlin Sonoya Mizuno Lance E. Nichols Lance Reddick Jeff Chase David Dastmalchian Laura Cayouette Dana Gourrier Brad Leland Thomas Francis Murphy
gang member traveler murderer gang leader partner survivor brutal thrilling gripping unrestrained wild suspenseful post-apocalyptic wasteland house car store road suburb post-apocalypse travel
In the weeks following an apocalyptic event, a husband and wife venture across the countryside inhabited by deadly factions in search of safety, and must work together as they are pushed to the breaking point in order to survive.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Norway|China|Canada|USA|France
2019
118 Minutes
Liam Neeson Tom Bateman Tom Jackson Emmy Rossum Domenick Lombardozzi Julia Jones John Doman Laura Dern Raoul Trujillo William Forsythe Benjamin Hollingsworth
driver son drug lord henchman vigilante wife tense brutal emotional thrilling confident mountain garage mansion hotel shop revenge mysterious deaths drugs drug trade
A grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2017
155 Minutes
crime boss gangster smuggler police officer rival religious person brooding fascinating powerful shocking suspenseful thrilling house india police station jail illegal activity alcohol prohibition crime
A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1988
131 Minutes
Bruce Willis Alan Rickman Bonnie Bedelia Reginald VelJohnson Alexander Godunov Paul Gleason William Atherton Hart Bochner
police officer hostage terrorist rival wealthy man thrilling gritty suspenseful intense office los angeles car elevator christmas party skyscraper robbery party christmas showdown explosion
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
South Korea
2016
118 Minutes
Gong Yoo Ma Dong-seok Woo-sik Choi Eui-sung Kim Su-an Kim Myung-sin Park Soo-jung Ye Gwi-hwa Choi
workaholic daughter ex-wife train passenger zombie brutal shocking thrilling suspenseful frightening raw train south korea train station train travel zombie movies horror survival father/daughter relationship adventure
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|China|France|USA
2018
121 Minutes
Gerard Butler Gary Oldman Common Michael Nyqvist Linda Cardellini Zane Holtz Caroline Goodall Alexander Diachenko Michael Gor Yuri Kolokolnikov Toby Stephens
submarine officer soldier navy seal russian minister tense suspenseful thrilling submarine pentagon white house office base camp ship political coup submarine navy mission war quest
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2016
87 Minutes
Steven Seagal Jade Ewen Florin Piersic Jr. Jonathan Rosenthal Alexandre Nguyen Claudiu Bleont Jacob Grodnik Andrei Ciopec Crina Ene
ex-dea agent drug lord young woman villain enforcer security guard brash thrilling unrestrained tense striking brutal france money robbery attempt fighting drug trade seduction crime quest
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2015
123 Minutes
Varun Dhawan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Huma Qureshi Yami Gautam Divya Dutta Vinay Pathak Radhika Apte
mother son father partner wife robber brash confident dark emotional gritty intense india house car apartment police station vengeance tragic death bank robbery
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.