25 Best Movies Like The Raid You Need to Watch
One of the best action movies of all time, The Raid, has a sequel, The Raid: Redemption. But, if you have watched both movies, you are probably hungry for more. Well, we have you covered with our list of the best movies like The Raid you need to watch next.
We have all sorts of movies on this list, mostly martial arts action movies, but some are a bit more thriller movies. Whichever you choose, we are certain you won’t be disappointed, because all of the movies on our list are very similar to The Raid and its sequel.
Extraction (2020)
Tyler Rake is an experienced mercenary who embarks on an extremely dangerous rescue mission. His target? The kidnapped son of a notorious criminal. But in the ruthless world of arms dealers and drug dealers, Tyler will find something he didn’t expect.
The Foreigner (2017)
At the heart of the plot is humble London restaurant owner Quan, whose long-buried past erupts with a vengeance when his only loved one – his teenage daughter – is killed in a mindless politically motivated terrorist attack.
In his search for the people responsible for the act, he enlists the help of the Irish Deputy Minister, Liam Hennessy, an unfit government official whose troubled past comes to light. When Quan gets into a political game of cat and mouse with Hennessy, both must face their pasts while trying to find the killers.
The Mechanic (2011)
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a machine – an elite assassin of strict order, with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. This job requires professional perfection and complete detachment, and Bishop is the best at it.
However, when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is killed, Bishop is very much in a bind. He sets himself the next task – he wants to see those responsible for that murder dead. The mission gets complicated when Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster) arrives with the same revenge goal and the intention to learn Bishop’s trade.
Bishop has always acted alone, but he cannot turn his back on Harry’s son. A systematic killer takes an impulsive student under his wing and a deadly mentorship is born. In search of the final target, they are threatened by scams, and those who should solve problems become problems themselves.
6 Underground (2019)
This team is not just an ordinary team of secret agents and operatives. They are people who have decided to fake their own deaths so they can change their futures and do what works best for each of them.
Their leader is an enigmatic man codenamed “One” (Reynolds) whose sole mission is to ensure that his colleagues are never remembered, but solely for their (good) deeds.
The Expendables (2010)
Barney Ross (Stallone) has nothing to lose. Fearless and emotionally empty, he is the leader, sage and strategist of this tight-knit fringe alliance. He is bound only to his truck, a seaplane and a team of loyal modern warriors. His team consists of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), a former member of the Special Air Force, who excels at everything with a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), master of close combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) has known Barney for ten years and is a long-barreled weapons specialist; Toll Road (Randy Couture) is skilled at demolition and is considered the brains of the group, and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) is a combat veteran and expert sniper, who is fighting his own demons.
When a mysterious man offers Barney a job no one else wants, he and his team of mercenaries embark on a seemingly routine mission: overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the dictator of the small island nation of Vilena, and prevent years of violence and death among the population. On a reconnaissance mission in Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet contact Sandra (Giselle Itie), an activist with a dark secret.
They also meet their true enemy; former CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his supporter Paine (Steve Austin). When things go wrong, Barney and Christmas have to leave Sandra behind, condemning her to death.
Obsessed with this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena, rescue the prisoner and complete the task they started. And maybe to save his own soul.
Polar (2019)
Mikkelsen plays an ex-assassin known as the “Black Kaiser,” who, like John Wick, finally settles into a relatively normal life until his past catches up with him and begins to haunt him. A new generation of assassins (including Vikings’ Katheryn Winnick) answers the call, trying their best to kill him and kidnap his neighbor (Vanessa Hudgens) along the way.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
Darius Kincaid is the most wanted hitman in the world, and top bodyguard Michael Bryce is tasked with protecting him. Of course, nothing goes according to plan because Darius is Bryc’s sworn enemy. The two have been looking at each other for years, and now they must be inseparable.
When they come together, an incredible car chase, bizarre boat escapades and an encounter with a ruthless bloodthirsty Eastern European dictator begin.
Hitman (2007)
A genetically engineered elite assassin, known as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant), carries out murders under the orders of a mysterious organization. Always infallible, Agent 47 is the most famous assassin in the world.
The ruthless executioner has a new task – to execute the Russian head of state Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), but due to several of the president’s doubles, Agent 47 fails to find the right target. He soon finds himself on the wanted list of the CIA, Interpol and agent Mike Whittier (Dougray Scott), who is in charge of apprehending him. Meanwhile, the mysterious Russian prostitute Nika (Olga Kurylenko) enters the Agent’s life and awakens feelings in him that he had never known before.
The Equalizer (2014)
In “The Righteous,” two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington stars as McCall, a former Special Forces commando who faked his own death to spend the rest of his life in peace in Boston. However, after he voluntarily returns from retirement to rescue a young girl, Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), he finds himself face to face with violent Russian mobsters.
As time goes on and as he fights against those who mercilessly and brutally attack the powerless and weaker than himself, the desire for justice is reborn in McCall. If someone has a problem and if that problem is difficult for that person to overcome and if there is no one else to turn to, McCall will come to the rescue… because he is the Righteous One.
The Transporter (2002)
The rules are simple. The rules are firm. But not unbreakable, as the great Jason Statham will show us in this action thriller! Ex-soldier Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives alone in France, where he runs a private business as a transporter, a hired criminal whose specialty is transporting packages and passengers, no questions asked.
Working exclusively according to the rules and never breaking them, Martin gained a reputation as the most reliable man for such a job, so he was hired by an American criminal known as Wall Street (Matt Schulze), who sends the Chinese woman Lai (Shu Qi) across the border in a huge bag. However, due to several unexpected circumstances, Frank learns what or, rather, who he is driving and soon finds himself in the position of Lai’s protector, head in danger from Wall Street’s mercenaries.
At a pace that does not slow down until the very end, action and criminal scenes alternate with love vents, and even the most experienced viewer cannot guess in which direction the plot will develop further. The main weapon of the film is the undisputedly excellent Jason Statham in the role of Frank Martin, an actor who in the years after filming “Transporter” rose to the top of popularity and not only in the action genre.
Crank (2006)
Cheva Chelios (Jason Stratham) is awakened from his sleep by an unexpected call. He’s hungover, he can’t even move, and his heart almost stops beating. On the other end of the line, he hears the voice of the scoundrel Ricky Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo), who reveals that he poisoned him in his sleep and has only one hour to live. It turns out that Chev is a hitman, a freelancer, for the largest mafia organization on the West Coast. A well-established job the night before got complicated, as Chev let his target escape with the intention of quitting being a contract killer and starting a new life with his girlfriend Eve.
Now Chev must move to stay alive: the only way to prevent the effects of the poison that will stop his heart is to keep his adrenaline levels high at all times. As the clock ticks down, Chelios draws attention on the streets of Los Angeles, clashing with anyone who gets in his way. He must save Eve from danger, stay a few steps ahead of his enemies and find an antidote that will save his life.
Like a dizzying ride full of surprises and excitement, elaborated in the manner of fierce classics of the genre in which the unstoppable main character spreads chaos in a personal mission alone against everyone, “Acceleration” will take you from the very beginning to an action stunt that will not slow down until the very end. At its heart, a full-blooded action film, “Acceleration” will surprise us with a coherent story and delight all fans of the genre with surprising moves of the film camera and great editing, i.e. genius shots.
2 Guns (2013)
Two US agents from two different government agencies are undercover and accidentally investigate each other, leading them to steal money from the mob. However, it is only afterward that they realize that the mob actually tricked them into stealing $50 million from the CIA.
Headshot (2016)
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
John Wick (2014)
After burying his wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan), who died of an illness, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) upon returning home receives a special, final gift from his wife – a sweet puppy Daisy, which he adores from that moment on because it gives him comfort.
John and Daisy are having a pleasant day driving around until at a gas station Wick meets three Russian gangsters, whose leader Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) insists that Wick sell him a car, a classic 1969 Ford Mustang. John refuses the offer, and the gang follows him home that night, attacks, steals the car and kills Daisy. The reckoning and revenge will be merciless. Soon it will not matter what was done, but to whom it was done.
The Night Comes for Us (2018)
The film is based on a top organized crime enforcer (Taslim) who decides to turn his back on his former life as a killer to rescue a young girl. The crime syndicate sends in a rising gang prospect (Uwais) and legions of thugs to eliminate the enforcer and the young girl.
The Gunman (2015)
Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) is a former member of the special forces, and today, in his later years, he has become a mercenary. As part of a team paid for by a corporation, Terrier is in the Congo working as an operative on covert projects.
Meanwhile, Terrier falls in love with Annie (Jasmine Trinca), a doctor at the local hospital. Although the country is torn apart by civil war, multinational companies do not agree to the exploitation of the mining industry. The minister is ready to declare the contracts of the mining companies invalid and start new negotiations, so the multi corporations hire Terrier and his team to liquidate the minister. Terrier completes the task quickly and efficiently, flees the country and leaves Annie behind.
The Punisher (2004)
Frank Castle (Tom Jane) has looked death in the eye many times in his life. He managed to survive and finally tried to live a normal life, with his wife Maria (Samantha Mathis) and son Will (Marcus Johns). However, the criminal Howard Saint (John Travolta) kills his entire family and seriously injures him! Realizing that the law is not enough, Frank embarks on his revenge mission…
Oldboy (2003)
Dae-su Oh (Choi Min-Sik) is a young clerk from Seoul who has a good family and a more or less settled life. However, one day, at the end of the eighties, he is kidnapped while walking down the street and spends fifteen full years imprisoned in a small, dark room, with a television set as his only contact with the outside world, without getting any answers as to who did it and why.
Although he tried many times to escape and even kill himself, it didn’t work out, he decides to stay cool and wait for the day when he will be freed. One day it comes true, Dae-su Oh is free, and when he was released from captivity, he received a cell phone through which he communicates with an unknown man who suggests to him where and how he could track down his tormentors…
The Outrage (2010)
The Chairman is the head of the Sanno-kai crime family, the most powerful organization in the Japanese underworld. His right-hand man is Ikemoto, who handles most of the day-to-day work in the gang. Chairman’s greatest enemy is Murase.
The Chairman is convinced that Ikemoto has become too friendly with Murase and wants the two to stop hanging out. Wanting to allay the Chairman’s suspicions, Ikemoto orders Otomo, one of the mechanics, to relay a few “reminders” to the other gang that they are on opposite sides.
Otomo’s act is the cause of a series of cruel conflicts and betrayals. It doesn’t take long, and several yakuza clans hungry for power and wealth start a bloody campaign. Rival bosses battle to rise up the hierarchy by planning and forming short-lived alliances. In this world of corruption, there are no heroes, only the fight of the bad.
Hard Boiled (1992)
When a mafia group kills his partner in a spectacular showdown, unscrupulous policeman “Tequila” Yuen (Yun-Fat Chow) embarks on a revenge mission.
Along the way, he meets Tony (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), a policeman who has been working undercover at the top of the mafia for a long time, so he is no longer sure which side of the law he is on. Despite many mutual disagreements, “Tequila” and Tony join forces in the fight against criminals, which culminates in an unforgettable confrontation in the maternity ward.
Die Hard (1988)
New York police officer John McClane (B. Willis) travels to Los Angeles to visit his wife Holly (B. Bedelia) who has achieved a successful career at the multinational company Nakatomi. McClane arrives in L.A. on Christmas Day and has no idea that the events that follow will disrupt his meeting with his family because at the same time a group of German terrorists, led by Hans Gruber, occupy the building.
President Nakatomi Tagaki is killed, and the employees become Gruber’s hostages. McClane will go into action to free the hostages. One of the terrorists is killed and McClane takes over his walkie-talkie to communicate with the police. One of the employees at the corporation is interested in McClane’s wife Holly and tries to connect with Gruber by getting McClane to turn himself in. At the same time, two FBI agents take the lead and order the entire block to be blacked out…
Dredd (2012)
In the city of the future, whose streets are patrolled by protectors of the law known as Judges, a new, the extremely dangerous drug has appeared – “Slo Mo”. Dredd, an experienced judge who has become the fear and terror of the underworld, joins forces with a young recruit to destroy forever the source of the drugs that threaten his city.
District B13 (2004)
In Paris in 2010, a high wall separates the infamous 13th arrondissement from the rest of the city, making it impossible for anyone to enter or leave it. In one district of the district, which is a hotbed of crime, ex-criminal Leito (D. Belle) is doing his best to keep drug lords and dealers away from his neighborhood.
When he kidnaps and destroys the drugs of Taha Bemamud (B. Naceri), he finds himself the target of Bemamud’s revenge, who kidnaps his sister Lola (D. Verissimo-Petit). In a confrontation with an aggressive criminal and his men, Leito manages to outwit his opponents and bring Bemamud to the police station, believing that he will receive a just punishment. But he soon faces a corrupt inspector (A. Rimoux) who arrests him and frees Bemamud.
Six months later, police officer Damien Tomaso (C. Raffaelli) is tasked with entering District 13 and finding the neutron bomb stolen by Bemamud’s men led by the cruel K2 (T. D’Amario). They intend to activate the bomb in the city within 48 hours, and Damien’s task is to free Lola together with Leita and thwart the criminals’ plans…
The Matrix (1999)
A retired software professional leads a double life. He spends his nights in front of his computer where, under the pseudonym Neo, he becomes a hacker trying to discover something he himself is not sure exists. After he comes into contact with Morpheus, a legendary hacker whom the government claims is a terrorist, he is pursued by the police led by the dangerous agent Smith (H. Weaving).
Morpheus reveals to him that he is part of the matrix, which is an illusion of the world, that is, a virtual reality that computers have been using for centuries to control the enslaved human race. Morpheus is the leader of a small group of people who have learned the truth and are trying to start a war for liberation from the computers. A new hope awakens in them, because according to legend, the Chosen One is coming – the only one who will be able to stand up to the machines. Everything indicates that Neo could be the one.
Merantau (2009)
The film showcases the Minangkabau tradition of “Merantau”, a rite of passage where a man leaves his home to pursue a career or gain experience outside of the village, a culture where inheritance is largely matriarchal. It showcases Yuda who leaves his village in hopes of teaching Silat in Jakarta, only to be sidetracked as he attempts to save a girl from being kidnapped.
The film showcases a style of Silat known as “Silek Harimau” (Tiger Silat). It also features actors Donny Alamsyah and Alex Abbad who, along with Uwais and Ruhiyan, would later appear in Evans’ subsequent films in The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014).
