Movies like Shadow Man (2006)
The best movies like Shadow Man (2006) are Belly of the Beast (2003), Game of Death (2010) and Avenger (2006). If Shadow Man 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 ratedMission: Impossible III (2006)6.8/10 from 7,977 votes
- NewestBlack Water (2018)Released 2018
Belly of the Beast (2003)
An ex-CIA agent returns to Thailand and reconnects with an old partner in order to rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisGame of Death (2010)
CIA agent Marcus is sent undercover to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has other plans and turns on him, and it's a fight to survive in a hospital and into the hedge fund vault.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisAvenger (2006)
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
3 Days to Kill (2014)
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSharpshooter (2007)
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Mercenary 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 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 thisToday You Die (2005)
A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Marksman (2005)
When Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear reactor, it’s up to a special ops marksman to rescue the hostages and prevent nuclear catastrophe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Expendables 3 (2014)
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMission: Impossible III (2006)
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Detonator (2006)
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDriven to Kill (2009)
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the life he once knew...with a vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPistol Whipped (2008)
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, he make s decision that will change his life - forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInto the Sun (2005)
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader with ties to the Chinese Tong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & 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 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 thisMission: Impossible II (2000)
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaximum Conviction (2012)
When former black ops operative Cross and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Cross realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorn to Raise Hell (2010)
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead. Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like this7 Seconds (2005)
When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWar (2007)
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 violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisxXx: State of the Union (2005)
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert.
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 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 action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisWake of Death (2004)
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStretch (2014)
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoomsday (2008)
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Shadow Man?
The closest matches to Shadow Man are Belly of the Beast (2003), Game of Death (2010) and Avenger (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Shadow Man?
People who watched Shadow Man most often go on to Belly of the Beast (2003), Game of Death (2010) and Avenger (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Shadow Man?
Mission: Impossible III (2006), rated 6.8/10 by 7,977 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Shadow Man?
Black Water (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Shadow Man?
Yes: Belly of the Beast (2003), Game of Death (2010) and Avenger (2006).
How are movies similar to Shadow Man chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Shadow Man, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.