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Movies Like Kuruthipunal

If you liked Kuruthipunal (1995), a action and thriller movie directed by P. C. Sreeram, 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. 1Night 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…

  2. 2In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller

    When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

  3. 3Walking Tall: Lone Justice

    Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller

    In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…

  4. 4Wake 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…

  5. 5Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action and drama

    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…

  6. 6The Rookie

    The Rookie (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and drama

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…

  7. 7Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    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…

  8. 8Rampage: Capital Punishment

    Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.

  9. 9Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    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.

  10. 10Year of the Dragon

    Year of the Dragon (1985)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller

    In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized…

  11. 11Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and drama

    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…

  12. 12State Property

    State Property (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and drama

    A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream.

  13. 13Master

    Master (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and drama

    An alcoholic professor is sent to a juvenile school, where he clashes with a gangster, who uses the children of the school for criminal activities.

  14. 14Rise of the Footsoldier 3

    Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and drama

    In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.

  15. 15Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  16. 16Hobo with a Shotgun

    Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller

    A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…

  17. 17Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller

    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…

  18. 18The Substitute

    The Substitute (1996)

    ★ 7/10Also action and drama

    When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…

  19. 19The Corruptor

    The Corruptor (1999)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets…

  20. 20Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and 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…

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