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Movies Like Speeding Up Time

If you liked Speeding Up Time (1971), a action movie directed by John Evans, 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. 1Vendetta

    Vendetta (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    When his daughter is murdered, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands, setting out on a quest for retribution. After killing the street thug responsible for her death, he finds himself in the middle of a war…

  2. 2Section 8

    Section 8 (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

  3. 3Beckman

    Beckman (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    A contract killer, becomes the reverend of a LA church, until a cult leader and his minions kidnap his daughter. Blinded by vengeance, he cuts a bloody path across the city. The only thing that can stop him is his…

  4. 4Border Hunters

    Border Hunters (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    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…

  5. 5Lion Fist

    Lion Fist (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10Also action

    Martial arts fighter Joe goes to prison for four years and takes his wife's blame for a drug bust. After his release, he learns that his son needs expensive surgery because of a life-threatening tumor. Joe's only…

  6. 6The Shipment

    The Shipment (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action

    A former U.S. Navy Seal is forced to become the international criminal he once fought against when a powerful and violent drug cartel kidnaps his wife and daughter.

  7. 712 Rounds 3: Lockdown

    12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    Detective Shaw returns to active duty after the death of his partner. When he uncovers evidence linking his fellow officers to a murder, they frame him for a homicide he didn't commit. Trapped in his own precinct, Shaw…

  8. 8Oscar Shaw

    Oscar Shaw (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the…

  9. 9Run All Night

    Run All Night (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind…

  10. 10The Killer

    The Killer (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.

  11. 11Dangerous

    Dangerous (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    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…

  12. 12Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  13. 13The System

    The System (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also action

    When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.

  14. 14Run

    Run (1991)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

  15. 15Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action

    An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…

  16. 16Seized

    Seized (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action

    Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to…

  17. 17A Score to Settle

    A Score to Settle (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action

    A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.

  18. 18Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  19. 19Mexicali

    Mexicali (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also action

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

  20. 20Dead Man Down

    Dead Man Down (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action

    In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

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