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Movies Like Act of War

If you liked Act of War (1998), a action movie directed by Robert Lee, 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. 1Trap House

    Trap House (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    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…

  2. 2The Best Man

    The Best Man (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    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.

  3. 3Stowaway

    Stowaway (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…

  4. 4Slash/Back

    Slash/Back (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

  5. 5Code 8 Part II

    Code 8 Part II (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

  6. 6Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    After 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…

  7. 7The Marine 5: Battleground

    The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.

  8. 8Hostile Takeover

    Hostile Takeover (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action

    Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.

  9. 9Seized

    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…

  10. 10The 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.

  11. 11Misdirection

    Misdirection (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action

    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…

  12. 12Hunting Grounds

    Hunting Grounds (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action

    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…

  13. 13The Commuter

    The Commuter (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

  14. 14Hounds of War

    Hounds of War (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.

  15. 15Shade

    Shade (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action

    Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…

  16. 16Welcome to Sudden Death

    Welcome to Sudden Death (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap…

  17. 17Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    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.

  18. 18Toy Soldiers

    Toy Soldiers (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action

    After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their…

  19. 19Never Back Down: Revolt

    Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.

  20. 20Icefall

    Icefall (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and…

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