Movies Like The Anarchists

If you liked The Anarchists (2000), a action and thriller movie directed by Yu Young-sik, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Age of Shadows (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also action and thriller
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and…
2
Dangerous (2021)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
A reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he discovers their role in his brother’s…
3
Border Hunters (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the…
4
Lights Out (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also action and thriller
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
5
Hunting Grounds (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns…
6
Hounds of War (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
7
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
8
Section 8 (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
9
Gangnam Blues (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
Jong-dae and Yong-ki make a living by picking up paper and empty bottles. Both then join different gangster clan and becomes involved in a struggle of political interests over development in Gangnam, Seoul.
10
Protector (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also action and thriller
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
11
The Best Man (2023)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
Mercenaries seize control of a remote resort hotel during a wedding and it's up to the best man, the groom and their drunken best friend to stop the terrorists and save the hostages.
12
Assassination (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also action and thriller
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings…
13
Exit Protocol (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller
An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.
14
In the Blood (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
15
Harbin (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also action and thriller
In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan's prime minister during their quest for independence.
16
The Hit List (2011)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
17
Phantom (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller
In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.
18
Point Blank (2019)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
19
King of Killers (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.
20
My Way (2011)
★ 7.9/10Also action
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story…