Movies like Maximum Conviction (2012)
The best movies like Maximum Conviction (2012) are Hunt to Kill (2010), Chain of Command (2015) and Absolution (2015). If Maximum Conviction hooked you with its action and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHomefront (2013)6.9/10 from 4,017 votes
- NewestAbsolution (2024)Released 2024
Hunt to Kill (2010)
U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes is a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, the rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisChain of Command (2015)
After finding his brother murdered after returning from duty, Webster searches for the perpetrators, but discovers a conspiracy that cuts deep inside the U.S. government.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbsolution (2015)
When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a dangerous mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, running a human trafficking operation, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnd of a Gun (2016)
A former DEA agent and American expat living in France saves a woman being attacked in a parking lot and gets involved in a plot to steal two million dollars from a drug lord.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Package (2013)
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisDamage (2009)
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTactical Force (2011)
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Assassin (2017)
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShadow Man (2006)
Rogue operatives within the C.I.A. smuggle a lethal virus out of the U.S. and use ex-intelligence officer Jack Foster (Seagal) as their courier. Unaware of the plot he's involved in, Jack takes his daughter on a trip to Europe, where she's kidnapped by a mysterious foreign agent. Now to save her and take down her kidnappers, Jack must blast his way into the shadowy world of international espionage, where enemies lurk at every corner and friends can turn on you in an instant!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeized (2020)
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Dangerous Man (2009)
After serving 6 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to a cop killing by Chinese mafia, who have a kidnapped girl and a bag of drug money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisOne in the Chamber (2012)
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMercenary for Justice (2006)
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisForce of Execution (2014)
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is forced to pay the price of his failure: banishment in the city that he almost once ruled. But a war is brewing for the soul of the city between Alexander, a cold-blooded gangster known as 'The Iceman" (Rhames) and a merciless Mexican cartel. Hurst, with the help of an ex-con restaurant owner (Trejo) who has a few hidden moves of his own, will rediscover his own will to survive the coming conflict and to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like this6 Bullets (2012)
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisContract to Kill (2016)
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisKill Chain (2020)
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisBullet to the Head (2012)
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Water (2018)
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisActs of Violence (2018)
When his fiancee is kidnapped by human traffickers, Roman and his ex-military brothers set out to track her down and save her before it is too late. Along the way, Roman teams up with Avery, a cop investigating human trafficking and fighting the corrupt bureaucracy that has harmful intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisHomefront (2013)
Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Salazar (2017)
An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Good Man (2014)
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with an old foe, and giving him one more chance to reconcile his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Expendables (2010)
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInterrogation (2016)
After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as they fight to protect thousands of lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOutcast (2014)
A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel brother, who seeks their deaths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Losers (2010)
On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men join forces with a mysterious operative named Aisha to hunt down their enemy and even the score.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAccident Man (2018)
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbsolution (2024)
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe System (2022)
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Maximum Conviction?
The closest matches to Maximum Conviction are Hunt to Kill (2010), Chain of Command (2015) and Absolution (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Maximum Conviction?
People who watched Maximum Conviction most often go on to Hunt to Kill (2010), Chain of Command (2015) and Absolution (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Maximum Conviction?
Homefront (2013), rated 6.9/10 by 4,017 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Maximum Conviction?
Absolution (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Maximum Conviction?
Yes: Hunt to Kill (2010), Chain of Command (2015) and Absolution (2015).
How are movies similar to Maximum Conviction chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Maximum Conviction, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.