Movies Like Unlocked

If you liked Unlocked (2017), a action and thriller movie directed by Michael Apted, 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
Erased (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
2
Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…
3
Canary Black (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the…
4
The Gray Man (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
5
Safe House (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
Trapped in a high-security safe house after a terrorist attack in downtown Los Angeles, six government agents realize they must survive not just the enemy outside, but the potential traitor among them.
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Zip Wire (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also action and thriller
When 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…
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
One Ranger (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
9
Malone (1987)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.
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Safe House (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thriller
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough…
11
Criminal (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also action
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up…
12
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country…
13
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.
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Mile 22 (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an…
15
Anna (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also action and thriller
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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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.
17
Art of Eight Limbs (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller
Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
18
The Ghost Writer (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
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The November Man (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
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Bastille Day (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that…