Movies like Armed (2018)
The best movies like Armed (2018) are The Painter (2024), Lights Out (2024) and Run & Gun (2022). If Armed 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 ratedRoad House (2024)6.9/10 from 3,330 votes
- NewestTake Cover (2024)Released 2024
The Painter (2024)
An ex-CIA operative is thrown back into a dangerous world when a mysterious woman from his past resurfaces. Now exposed and targeted by a relentless killer and a rogue black ops program, he must rely on skills he thought he left behind in a high-stakes game of survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · 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: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRun & Gun (2022)
After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, he finds himself wounded and on the run from ruthless assassins who will stop at nothing to get what he has. Now, with the lives of his loved ones hanging in the balance and danger at every turn, Ray’s only hope is to draw upon his violent past to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTake Down (2016)
Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMohawk (2018)
A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisChase (2019)
A hitman must prove his loyalty to his mentor and best friend, while his girlfriend wants to leave the business behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Black 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 thisMomentum (2015)
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisErased (2012)
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Man Standing (2011)
Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnapped. With no alternative, Abby must resort to her long-dormant lethal skills to save her spouse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Eliminators (2016)
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegacy (2020)
While on a hunting trip in the isolated wilderness, a father and his adopted teenage son are turned into the prey of unknown assailants. They are unexpectedly joined in their fight for survival by a stranger who reveals the disturbing truth about the son's biological father, an international crime lord, and why that crime lord has sent trained assassins to kill the teenager.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaughter of the Wolf (2019)
Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to claim her inheritance. Her son is then kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang led by a mysterious figure known only as “Father”.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hunter's Prayer (2017)
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHollow Point (2019)
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBent (2018)
On his latest private investigation, a shamed former cop connects a murder case to a government conspiracy involving rogue agents from a top spy agency.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTake Cover (2024)
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRide (2018)
A night in Los Angeles becomes a psychological war for survival when an Uber driver, James, and his passenger, Jessica, pick up Bruno, who is charismatic but manipulative.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRelentless (2018)
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Cut to the Chase (2017)
An ex-con sets out in search of his kidnapped sister through the criminal underbelly of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Snatched (2024)
When a dangerous criminal from her past breaks out of prison, a former CIA agent must tap back into her lethal skills to protect her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Swelter (2014)
Ten years after their casino heist, four escaped convicts trace their former partner to a desert town, where he is now a lawman with no memory of his criminal past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKill Switch (2017)
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRoad House (2024)
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHounds of War (2024)
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChief of Station (2024)
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
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 thisSection 8 (2022)
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hit List (2011)
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Armed?
The closest matches to Armed are The Painter (2024), Lights Out (2024) and Run & Gun (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Armed?
People who watched Armed most often go on to The Painter (2024), Lights Out (2024) and Run & Gun (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Armed?
Road House (2024), rated 6.9/10 by 3,330 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Armed?
Take Cover (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Armed?
Yes: The Painter (2024), Lights Out (2024) and Run & Gun (2022).
How are movies similar to Armed chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Armed, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.