If You Liked Sudden Impact, Watch These Next
Finished Sudden Impact (1983) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Sudden Impact, most of them are thriller, crime, action.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Equalizer 2(2018)
6.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.
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2.Dead Man Down(2013)
6.2ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and action
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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3.Death Wish II(1982)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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4.Righteous Kill(2008)
5.9CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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5.Mechanic: Resurrection(2016)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.
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6.Out of Exile(2023)
6.5ThrillerDramaActionAlso thriller and drama
Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
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7.The Devil You Know(2022)
6.7ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s…
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8.Violent Ends(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the…
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9.The Dead Pool(1988)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.
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10.The Public Eye(1992)
6.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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11.Savage Streets(1984)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who assaulted her deaf-mute sister.
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12.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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13.The Grissom Gang(1971)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.
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14.Black Site(2022)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
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15.Shot Caller(2017)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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16.Until Death(2007)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso 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.
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17.The Enforcer(2022)
7.0ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
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19.The International(2009)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the…
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20.Vice Squad(1982)
6.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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