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Movies Like Basse tension

If you liked Basse tension (1992), a movie directed by Yves Buclet, 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. 1Run All Night

    Run All Night (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind…

  2. 2Mr. Right

    Mr. Right (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.

  3. 3Murder by Contract

    Murder by Contract (1958)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

  4. 4Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

  5. 5The Killer's Game

    The Killer's Game (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must…

  6. 6D-Railed

    D-Railed (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.

  7. 7Bullet Train

    Bullet Train (2022)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal…

  8. 8John Wick

    John Wick (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

  9. 9Narrow Margin

    Narrow Margin (1990)

    ★ 6.4/10

    An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they…

  10. 10Dust Bunny

    Dust Bunny (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.

  11. 11Prizzi's Honor

    Prizzi's Honor (1985)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley…

  12. 12Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets…

  13. 13Silver Streak

    Silver Streak (1976)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his…

  14. 14The Driver

    The Driver (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons…

  15. 15The Hit List

    The Hit List (2011)

    ★ 6/10

    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.

  16. 16The Jackal

    The Jackal (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of…

  17. 17The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  18. 18Tough Guys

    Tough Guys (1986)

    ★ 6/10

    Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new…

  19. 19The Commuter

    The Commuter (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

  20. 20The Three Stooges

    The Three Stooges (2012)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the…

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