20 movies like Primal, ordered by similarity : The Inglorious Bastards(1978), John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum(2019), John Wick: Chapter 2(2017), The Bourne Identity(2002), The A-Team(2010), Angel Has Fallen(2019), The Hunter's Prayer(2017), Brawl in Cell Block 99(2017), The Philly Kid(2012), Hidden Assassin(1995), The Raid 2(2014), Brothers ... Blood Against Blood(2015) ...
Action
USA
2019
97 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Famke Janssen Kevin Durand LaMonica Garrett Michael Imperioli Tom Walker Rey Hernandez Drake Shannon Braulio Castillo Jr. Sewell Whitney
big game hunter collector assassin political prisoner shipmate government agent thrilling intense confident gripping outback zoo cargo ship assassination attempt capture prison break survival escape discovery pursuit
Frank's caught wildlife in the Brazilian jungle incl. a 400 lbs. white jaguar. He ships it on the same ship as an arrested assassin. The assassin breaks free and frees the animals.
War, Action
1978
93 Minutes
Bo Svenson Fred Williamson Ian Bannen Peter Hooten Jackie Basehart Michel Constantin Debra Berger Raimund Harmstorf Michael Pergolani
soldier deserter thief assassin prisoner lieutenant intense confident gutsy thrilling dark patriotic france world war ii prison break dangerous mission captivity nazism friendship adventure
Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2019
131 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Halle Berry Ian McShane Laurence Fishburne Mark Dacascos Asia Kate Dillon Lance Reddick Tobias Segal Anjelica Huston Saïd Taghmaoui Jerome Flynn
assassin hitman goon love interest partner thrilling intense gripping confident cool unrestrained new york city apartment street grand central station times square bounty assassination attempt on the run fight to the death
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.
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
USA|Germany|Czech Republic|France
2002
113 Minutes
Matt Damon Franka Potente Chris Cooper Clive Owen Brian Cox Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Gabriel Mick Walton Goggins Josh Hamilton Julia Stiles Orso Maria Guerrini
jason bourne girlfriend assassin government official killer amnesiac gripping thrilling intricate intense europe bank car government offices italy on the run identity memory loss pursuit government agents
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
Action, Adventure
USA|UK
2010
118 Minutes
Liam Neeson Bradley Cooper Jessica Biel Quinton "Rampage" Jackson Sharlto Copley Patrick Wilson Gerald McRaney Henry Czerny Yul Vazquez Brian Bloom Maury Sterling
agent soldier military officer mercenary assassin intelligence officer thrilling tense gripping amusing iraq prison desert mexico airplane skyscraper betrayal blackmail escape iraq war
A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2019
121 Minutes
Gerard Butler Morgan Freeman Frederick Schmidt Danny Huston Piper Perabo Ori Pfeffer Nick Nolte Rocci Williams Tim Blake Nelson Jada Pinkett Smith Michael Landes
secret service agent u.s. president captor fbi agent assassin morgan freeman intense frenetic gripping rousing thrilling emotional lake fishing boat prison woods tunnel capital city assassination attempt framed
Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Germany|Spain|USA
2017
91 Minutes
Sam Worthington Odeya Rush Allen Leech Amy Landecker Martin Compston Verónica Echegui
assassin killer young woman murderer damsel in distress tycoon thrilling tense suspenseful gritty europe office building basement on the run big city home assassination plot assassination attempt escape allegiance
An assassin helps a young woman avenge the death of her family.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2017
132 Minutes
Vince Vaughn Jennifer Carpenter Don Johnson Marc Blucas Thomas Guiry Udo Kier Rob Morgan Geno Segers Fred Melamed Dan Amboyer Pooja Kumar
boxer mechanic wife drug trafficker police officer inmate brutal bleak rousing tense unrestrained gritty house prison car boat interrogation room yard prison drug trade
A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
Action, Crime, Drama
USA
2012
94 Minutes
Wes Chatham Devon Sawa Sarah Butler Neal McDonough Lucky Johnson Chris Browning Adam Mervis Bernard Hocke Ava Bogle Eric Scott Woods Michael Jai White
best friend young man robber police officer prisoner murderer bleak brutal disturbing engaging gripping suspenseful louisiana prison baton rouge, la. cage friendship relationships prison fighting
A former NCAA champion wrestler, paroled after ten years in prison, agrees to a series of cage fights to save a friend's life and is asked to do the impossible - lose.
Action
Czech Republic|UK|France|Spain
1995
89 Minutes
Dolph Lundgren Maruschka Detmers Assumpta Serna Gavan O'Herlihy John Ashton Simón Andreu Pablo Scola Petr Drozda
ambassador us marshal cuban murder victim assassin czech tense thrilling suspenseful patriotic confident united states mysterious deaths assassination investigation rivalry politics adventure discovery pursuit
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Crime, Sports & Fitness, Drama, Action
Indonesia|USA
2014
148 Minutes
Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian Arifin Putra Oka Antara Tio Pakusadewo Alex Abbad Julie Estelle Cok Simbara Cecep Arif Rahman Very Tri Yulisman Ryuhei Matsuda
son gangster family member undercover cop inmate kingpin brash brooding chilling prison office police station jakarta, indonesia building drug house undercover operations crime family fighting prison
Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
Action, Drama
India|USA
2015
156 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Sidharth Malhotra Jackie Shroff Jaqueline Fernandes
fighter young man brother father son thrilling gripping intense house bungalow prison brotherhood brother relationship family relationships rivalry rivalry rise fall quest pursuit
Two estranged, street-fighting brothers square off against each other in a mixed martial arts tournament.
Action
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Ron Perlman Famke Janssen Peter Facinelli Richard Dreyfuss Jacqueline Bisset Guy Burnet Marta Milans Ned Eisenberg
agent hit man love interest crime boss victim villain brash brutal uneasy tense thrilling brooklyn house restaurant bathroom apartment home assassination crime syndicate love
An aging hitman's last job goes sideways, forcing him to redeem himself.
Comedy, Action
USA|Switzerland
2015
96 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Kristen Stewart Topher Grace Connie Britton Walton Goggins John Alberto Leguizamo Bill Pullman Tony Hale Stuart Greer Michael Papajohn Monique Ganderton
stoner cia agent girlfriend assassin amusing confident cool gripping suspenseful thrilling small town convenience store parking lot neighborhood apartment building air force base comic books assassination cia transformation
A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Action
2015
100 Minutes
Lambert Wilson Guillaume Gouix Franck Gastambide François Arnaud Laurent Lucas Gabrielle Lazure Pierre Lebeau Hedi Rian Virginie Ledoyen
gang members hostage child young woman gang leader bleak brash brutal chilling confident dark frenetic frightening gripping intense melodramatic shocking suspenseful tense thrilling
After a bank job goes wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
China|USA
2018
94 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Dave Bautista Curtis Jackson Jaime King Jesse Metcalfe Huang Xiaoming Lydia Hull Baylee Curran Ashley Cusato Vincent Young Tyler Jon Olson
operative kidnapper team leader teammate prisoner prison guard brutal brooding gripping thrilling prison cell yard prison break kidnapping rescue crime ring prison rescue revenge
Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
India
1999
174 Minutes
Shah Rukh Khan Twinkle Khanna Rakhee Amrish Puri Prem Chopra Deepak Tijori Johnny Lever Deepshika Neeraj Vora
detective agent chief minister assassin henchman love interest amusing hilarious fascinating gripping india city house bungalow restaurant street mistaken identity assassination attempt assassination plot confusion
A small time detective is mistaken as a CBI agent and gets embroiled in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
France|Germany|Taiwan|Canada|USA|UK
2014
88 Minutes
Scarlett Johansson Morgan Freeman Min-sik Choi Amr Waked Julian Rhind-Tutt Pilou Asbæk Analeigh Tipton Nicolas Phongpheth Jan Oliver Schroeder Luca Angeletti
boyfriend drug smuggler student thug captor neurologist confident cool intense apartment bedroom car cell airplane street drug trafficking super powers brain tissue survival escape
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
USA|China|France|Norway|UK
2018
147 Minutes
Tom Cruise Henry Cavill Ving Rhames Simon Pegg Rebecca Ferguson Sean Harris Angela Bassett Michelle Monaghan Alec Baldwin Vanessa Kirby Wes Bentley
cia agent assassin secret agent spy arms dealer terrorist thrilling suspenseful tense gripping helicopter truck cliff basement base camp italy weapons terrorism undercover operations secret mission
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Action, Adventure
Australia|South Africa|USA
2015
120 Minutes
Tom Hardy Charlize Theron Nicholas Hoult Hugh Keays-Byrne Josh Helman Nathan Jones Zoë Kravitz Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Riley Keough Abbey Lee Courtney Eaton
survivor tyrant rebel loner gang leader gang member bleak brash intense thrilling gripping wild fortress road truck battlefield desert canyon apocalypse rebellion
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.