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Movies Like Art of Deception

If you liked Art of Deception (2019), a action and thriller movie directed by Richard Ryan, 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. 1Chief 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…

  2. 2Off 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…

  3. 3Hunting 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…

  4. 4Canary Black

    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…

  5. 5Section 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.

  6. 6Dangerous

    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…

  7. 7The November Man

    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.

  8. 8Erased

    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.

  9. 9Kandahar

    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…

  10. 10Exit 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.

  11. 11Safe House

    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…

  12. 12Unlocked

    Unlocked (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when…

  13. 13Malone

    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.

  14. 14Zip 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…

  15. 15My Spy The Eternal City

    My Spy The Eternal City (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action

    JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.

  16. 16Border 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…

  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. 18Lights 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.

  19. 19The 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.

  20. 20King of Killers

    King of Killers (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.

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