Movies like Peppermint
If Peppermint's mix of coma, widow and cemetery stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Peppermint's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Equalizer
2014 · Directed by Antoine Fuqua · 132 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: fbi, revenge, vigilante · Also thriller and action · From the same decade (2010s)
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand…
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Frailty
2002 · Directed by Bill Paxton · 100 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: fbi, grave, flashback
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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Sicario
2015 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 122 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: fbi, revenge · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Death Sentence
2007 · Directed by James Wan · 105 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: revenge, hospital · Also action and thriller
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no…
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Harry Brown
2009 · Directed by Daniel Barber · 103 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: vigilante, hospital · Also thriller and action
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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War
2007 · Directed by Philip G. Atwell · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: fbi, revenge · Also action and thriller
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a…
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Now You See Me 2
2016 · Directed by Jon M. Chu · 129 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: fbi, revenge, vigilante · From the same decade (2010s)
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off…
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The Dead Zone
1983 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coma, flashback
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.
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The Equalizer 2
2018 · Directed by Antoine Fuqua · 121 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
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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Black and Blue
2019 · Directed by Deon Taylor · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
Rookie cop Alicia West, an Army veteran, inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from…
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Street Kings
2008 · Directed by David Ayer · 109 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: alcoholism · Also action and thriller
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the…
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Close Range
2015 · Directed by Isaac Florentine · 80 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: drug cartel · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.