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Movies Like Death Row Girls

If you liked Death Row Girls (2004), a action and thriller movie directed by Sadaaki Haginiwa, 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. 1Lights Out

    Lights Out (2024)

    ★ 7/10Also 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.

  2. 2Section 8

    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.

  3. 3The Escapist

    The Escapist (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and thriller

    Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an…

  4. 4Exit Protocol

    Exit Protocol (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller

    An 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.

  5. 5Off the Grid

    Off the Grid (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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…

  6. 6The Hit List

    The Hit List (2011)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A 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.

  7. 7Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  8. 8Border Hunters

    Border Hunters (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    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…

  9. 9Bad Boys

    Bad Boys (1983)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile…

  10. 10Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    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…

  11. 11Dangerous

    Dangerous (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    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. 12Escape Plan

    Escape Plan (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and thriller

    Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to…

  13. 13The 355

    The 355 (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.

  14. 14Brute Force

    Brute Force (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller

    Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…

  15. 15The System

    The System (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also action and thriller

    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.

  16. 16Hunting Grounds

    Hunting Grounds (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller

    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…

  17. 17Point Blank

    Point Blank (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    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.

  18. 18Nowhere to Run

    Nowhere to Run (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and thriller

    Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

  19. 19Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and…

  20. 20Zip Wire

    Zip Wire (2026)

    ★ 7.5/10Also 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…

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