Movies like Mea Culpa (2014)
The best movies like Mea Culpa (2014) are The Stronghold (2021), Night Shift (2020) and Nothing to Declare (2010). If Mea Culpa hooked you with its action and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Stronghold (2021)7.3/10 from 1,462 votes
- NewestExit Protocol (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Stronghold (2021)Also in French
The Stronghold (2021)
Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight Shift (2020)
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his homeland. But when they find out about the truth, they have to make a difficult choice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisNothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisGo Fast (2008)
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisAntigang (2015)
As a rowdy team of detectives clashes with their disciplined new boss, they must catch a vicious band of robbers who are wreaking havoc on their city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisYamakasi (2001)
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying their techniques.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCash Out (2024)
Criminal mastermind Mason is about to execute the score of a lifetime when his lover and key member of his crew, Decker, takes the team down and reveals she’s an undercover Interpol agent. Heartbroken, Mason escapes and retires from the life of crime until his younger brother Shawn is out of his league taking on a big bank heist all on his own. Mason has no choice left but to come to the rescue, while Interpol brings Decker in hoping to unnerve him. Before the SWAT teams storm the bank, Mason must use every tool in his arsenal to not only escape with the prize, but also the love of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPoint Blank (2010)
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOverdose (2022)
Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBon Cop Bad Cop (2006)
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarauders (2016)
An untraceable group of elite bank robbers is chased by a suicidal FBI agent who uncovers a deeper purpose behind the robbery-homicides.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiamond 13 (2009)
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRogue City (2020)
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnything for Her (2008)
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurn Out (2018)
Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Code (2002)
Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMichel Vaillant (2003)
Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His success arouses admiration and envy. Ruth Wong, director of Team Leader, is determined to break his streak and avenge the memory of his father, founder of Leader. She is capable of anything to achieve her goal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Polar Bear (1998)
Four characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the car and escape as quickly as she can. Leo has become his client's target, having carried out a "contract" that unfortunately had already been cancelled. Fabian and Reza want to enjoy themselves without any money, bringing themselves into contact sooner or later with the police. Sooner or later all four will meet up in dramatic circumstances....
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeadhunters (2011)
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStolen (2012)
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOverdrive (2017)
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDealer (2014)
After giving up a life of cocaine trafficking, Dan is offered a chance to achieve his dream : moving to Australia with his daughter. He accepts the deal and starts a downward spiral sucking him back into 24 hours of hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
The Assault (2011)
December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Transporter (2002)
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prince (2014)
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisEarth and Blood (2020)
A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorder Hunters (2025)
After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous (2021)
A reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he discovers their role in his brother’s demise, he sets out on a relentless quest for vengeance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLights Out (2024)
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisExit Protocol (2025)
An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mea Culpa?
The closest matches to Mea Culpa are The Stronghold (2021), Night Shift (2020) and Nothing to Declare (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mea Culpa?
People who watched Mea Culpa most often go on to The Stronghold (2021), Night Shift (2020) and Nothing to Declare (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mea Culpa?
The Stronghold (2021), rated 7.3/10 by 1,462 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mea Culpa?
Exit Protocol (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Mea Culpa?
Yes: The Stronghold (2021), Night Shift (2020) and Nothing to Declare (2010).
How are movies similar to Mea Culpa chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mea Culpa, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.