20 best movies like Wanted (2008)


List of the best movies like Wanted (2008): Grindhouse, The Gunman, The Courier, Heist, Kill 'em All, Momentum, Arsenal, Next, Hot Pursuit, The Package.

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration03:11

    Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:24

    Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they survive this, they will have to confront Snakehead: the lethal, deranged top dog who will stop at nothing to kill 'em all!

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Africa, USA
    Duration02:04

    When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:01

    After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:58

    When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA

    A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Spain, Malta
    Duration00:29

    Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when a long-time girl friend is murdered.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:13

      Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, India, Luxembourg
      Duration01:32

      After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance, Canada, USA
      Duration01:16

      Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryIndia
      Duration01:40

      After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genreaction, thriller, short, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:08

      MORTAL KOMBAT: REBIRTH is a short film released by Kevin Tancharoen (Director) in 2010. It was originally made as a proof of concept for Tancharoen's pitch to Warner Brothers for a reboot movie franchise. This 8-minute short features an intricate fight scene choreographed by Larnell Stovall. It also reintroduces classic Mortal Kombat characters, including: Jax (Michael Jai White), Sonya Blade (Jeri Ryan), Johnny Cage (Matt Mullins), Scorpion (Ian Anthony Dale), Baraka (Lateef Crowder) and Shang Tsung (James Lew).

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop, it's too late to walk away. Meanwhile, an offbeat police detective races to decode the string of slayings before more blood is spilled.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:25

      Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
      Duration02:26

        An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Deadly Impact follows hard-nosed cop Thomas Armstrong (Flanery) whose life was shattered when he became the helpless target of a mastermind murderer. Returning home after a much-needed break, Armstrong joins the FBI to seek revenge and help track down the same killer that threatened his existence, however this time the assassin is back to terrorize not just a single person, but the entire city.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:11

        The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Mason is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really twisted when Mason discovers the group isn't after wild animals -- they're after him.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration01:58

        In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
        Duration02:04

        Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        Along with crime-fighting partner Robin and new recruit Batgirl, Batman battles the dual threat of frosty genius Mr. Freeze and homicidal horticulturalist Poison Ivy. Freeze plans to put Gotham City on ice, while Ivy tries to drive a wedge between the dynamic duo.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
        Duration01:58

        An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:10

        A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryThailand
        Duration01:34

        Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryJapan, USA
        Duration01:30

        A young man, Kazuya Mishima, wakes up alone in an unfamiliar hotel room without any recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tormented by flashes of his past and by the face of an ominous stranger. The next thing he knows, Kazuya is ambushed and kidnapped by an underground crime organization and, soon after, turned into a ruthless assassin. During a mission to assassinate a man named Brian Fury, Kazuya finds that his target harbors clues to his true identity. With the help of Fury and a female assassin, Kazuya follows the clues, leading him to the lab of his reoccurring flashbacks. Here, he will finally confront his past and the ominous man of his nightmares - Heihachi Mishima, face the ultimate betrayal, and Ieam the truth about who, and what, he really is. TEKKEN 2: KAZUYA’S REVENGE is non-stop action from the first scene to the last.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:17

        The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, crime
        CountryCanada, USA, Luxembourg
        Duration01:37

        Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:57

        A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:51

        After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.




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