If You Liked Desperado, Watch These Next
Finished Desperado (1995) 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 Desperado, most of them are thriller, action, crime.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Killer Elite(2011)
6.3ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and thriller
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a…
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2.Once Upon a Time in Mexico(2003)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
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3.Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia(1974)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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4.The Evil That Men Do(1984)
5.8ActionAdventureCrimeAlso action and crime
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
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5.Sicario: Day of the Soldado(2018)
6.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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6.Man on Fire(2004)
7.5ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and thriller
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
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9.Code of Silence(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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11.The Quick and the Dead(1995)
6.6WesternActionDramaAlso action and thriller
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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12.Assault on Precinct 13(2005)
6.2ThrillerActionAdventureAlso thriller and action
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
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13.Extreme Prejudice(1987)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a crew of rogue soldiers descends upon the border town for an off-the-books mission, all roads lead to a…
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14.Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso 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 stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty…
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15.The Specialist(1994)
6.0ActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game…
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16.Touch of Evil(1958)
7.7CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
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17.The Way of the Gun(2000)
6.4ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
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18.Killing Them Softly(2012)
6.0CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
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19.American Sicario(2021)
5.9CrimeActionAlso crime and action
The story of the rise and fall of the first American-born drug lord in Mexico, this tale of power, money, greed and betrayal amongst rival members of the drug cartels finds American gangster Erik Vasquez scheming to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the…
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20.Assassins(1995)
6.5ActionAdventureCrimeAlso action and crime
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract…
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