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Movies Like The Brave

If you liked The Brave (2019), a action and thriller movie directed by William Kaufman, 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. 1Until Death

    Until Death (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

  2. 2Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…

  3. 3Kiss of the Dragon

    Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and crime

    Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.

  4. 4Exit Wounds

    Exit Wounds (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he…

  5. 5The Shepherd: Border Patrol

    The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and crime

    A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.

  6. 6Night Train

    Night Train (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller

    Mother Holly McCord is driven to extremes to save the life of her young son. Even if it means hauling black market drugs in her souped-up truck, with the Feds in hot pursuit. With two bounties on her head and her son’s…

  7. 7Rise 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.

  8. 8Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American…

  9. 9Dark Angel

    Dark Angel (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and thriller

    Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap…

  10. 10Crown Vic

    Crown Vic (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and action

    One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets…

  11. 11Traffic

    Traffic (2000)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller and crime

    An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated…

  12. 12Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction (1994)

    ★ 8.5/10Also thriller and crime

    A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip…

  13. 13Wake of Death

    Wake of Death (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the…

  14. 14Al 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…

  15. 15The 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…

  16. 16The Boondock Saints

    The Boondock Saints (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also action and thriller

    Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As…

  17. 17Cop Land

    Cop Land (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller

    Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…

  18. 18The Salton Sea

    The Salton Sea (2002)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his…

  19. 19Out for Justice

    Out for Justice (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and crime

    Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.

  20. 20Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and crime

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

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