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Movies Like Greater Threat

If you liked Greater Threat (2008), a action and crime movie directed by Ray O'Neill, 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. 1The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also action and crime

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  2. 2Welcome to the Punch

    Welcome to the Punch (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

  3. 3The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…

  4. 4Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    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…

  5. 5In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and crime

    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.

  6. 6The International

    The International (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and crime

    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…

  7. 7Wire Room

    Wire Room (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also action and crime

    New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to…

  8. 8The System

    The System (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also action and crime

    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.

  9. 9How to Rob a Bank

    How to Rob a Bank (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and crime

    Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

  10. 10Trap House

    Trap House (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and crime

    An undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their…

  11. 11Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger…

  12. 12Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and crime

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

  13. 13Point Blank

    Point Blank (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    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.

  14. 14One Mile: Chapter Two

    One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and crime

    Former special forces operative Danny is forced back onto a remote island when a violent, secretive community takes revenge by abducting his daughter Alex, launching a relentless hunt against enemies prepared for his…

  15. 15The Double

    The Double (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and crime

    The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the…

  16. 16Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and crime

    Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

  17. 17Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  18. 18Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday

    Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father…

  19. 19Misdirection

    Misdirection (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    A desperate couple have pulled off a string of high-end break-ins to pay off a mob debt. When they attempt to rob their latest victim, they find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The tables are…

  20. 20Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and crime

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

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