Movies Like Katana
If you liked Katana, a action and thriller movie directed by Jeremy Zag, 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.
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Lights Out (2024)
★ 7/10Also action and thrillerA 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.
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Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thrillerAfter 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…
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Falcon Rising (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also actionChapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.
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Section 8 (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thrillerAfter avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
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Border Hunters (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thrillerAfter 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…
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American Yakuza (1993)
★ 5.8/10Also action and thrillerWhen Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia…
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerAfter learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
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Darc (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thrillerTo bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.
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Seven Snipers (2026)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerWhen a former elite sniper is hunted down by the ruthless warlord who once held her captive, she must fight to the death to protect the daughter she has raised in hiding, on a remote Australian farm.
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Hunting Grounds (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thrillerDesperate 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…
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Zip Wire (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also action and thrillerWhen her ground-breaking pharmaceutical discovery is stolen and partner murdered, researcher Amy must face her fear of heights to escape nefarious attackers, with the only path to salvation being a treacherous aerial…
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Hounds of War (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thrillerAfter a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
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The Hit List (2011)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA 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.
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Point Blank (2019)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA 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.
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Female Fight Squad (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also actionA former fighter reluctantly returns to the life she abandoned in order to help her sister survive the sadistic world of illegal fighting and the maniac who runs it.
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Dangerous (2021)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA 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…
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The Best Man (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thrillerMercenaries 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.
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Exit Protocol (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thrillerAn 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.
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Embattled (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also actionThe eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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Shadow Master (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also action and thrillerAfter being slain by a group of criminals, a man is reborn with animal-like superpowers and makes it his mission to right the wrongs of his city.