50 Movies Like John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View John Wick: Chapter 4 details →Chad Stahelski's 2023 action-crime-thriller pushes the assassin saga toward its endgame, with the bounty on John Wick climbing as he hunts a way to defeat the shadowy High Table. Before he can win his freedom, he must confront a new adversary whose global alliances turn old friends into enemies. This is precision-choreographed gunplay staged as a kind of dance, built for viewers who prize kinetic combat, striking locations and world-building over dialogue. Newcomers can follow the broad strokes, but longtime fans of the franchise will get the fullest reward. If relentless, stylized violence is what you seek, this delivers exactly that.
If you loved John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) by Chad Stahelski, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are The Man from Nowhere, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to John Wick: Chapter 4
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with John Wick: Chapter 4 in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Chad Stahelski
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 · Chad Stahelski
Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Quentin Tarantino
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vo
In common: Action · Crime
Sicario
2015 · Denis Villeneuve
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.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · Stefano Sollima
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Transporter
2002 · Corey Yuen
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 aliv
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Quentin Tarantino
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, ch
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Ong-Bak
2003 · Prachya Pinkaew
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Transporter 2
2005 · Louis Leterrier
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy dire
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Mechanic
2011 · Simon West
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Hard Target
1993 · John Woo
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of r
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Foreigner
2017 · Martin Campbell
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car b
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Raid
2012 · Gareth Evans
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to ev
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Transporter 3
2008 · Olivier Megaton
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with th
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Dirty Harry
1971 · Don Siegel
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Police Story 2
1988 · Jackie Chan
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 · Isaac Florentine
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for clean
In common: Action · Crime
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006 · Isaac Florentine
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to
In common: Action · Crime
Blood and Bone
2009 · Ben Ramsey
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
In common: Action · Crime
The Protector
2005 · Prachya Pinkaew
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman
In common: Action · Crime
Payback
1999 · Brian Helgeland
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months a
In common: Action · Crime
Double Impact
1991 · Sheldon Lettich
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a
In common: Action · Crime
Rumble in the Bronx
1995 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, K
In common: Action · Crime
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Frank Miller
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Beekeeper
2024 · David Ayer
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Ballerina
2025 · Len Wiseman
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Furious 7
2015 · James Wan
Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · Quentin Tarantino
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
In common: Action · Crime
The Equalizer 3
2023 · Antoine Fuqua
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friend
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
From Paris with Love
2010 · Pierre Morel
James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Equalizer 2
2018 · Antoine Fuqua
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.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Extraction 2
2023 · Sam Hargrave
Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Fate of the Furious
2017 · F. Gary Gray
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Bad Boys for Life
2020 · Bilall Fallah
Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando A
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Point Break
1991 · Kathryn Bigelow
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Crank
2006 · Brian Taylor
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unl
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Wanted
2008 · Timur Bekmambetov
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Crank: High Voltage
2009 · Mark Neveldine
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Transporter Refueled
2015 · Camille Delamarre
The fast-paced action movie is again set in the criminal underworld in France, where Frank Martin is known as The Transporter, because he is the best driver and mercenary money can buy. In this instal
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Wild Card
2015 · Simon West
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Taken 2
2012 · Olivier Megaton
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Blackhat
2015 · Michael Mann
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stak
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Night Comes For Us
2018 · Timo Tjahjanto
After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Memory
2022 · Martin Campbell
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skil
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Under Siege
1992 · Andrew Davis
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's coo
In common: Action · Thriller
Desperado
1995 · Robert Rodriguez
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. Wit
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Hard Boiled
1992 · John Woo
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Specialist
1994 · Luis Llosa
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. Whe
In common: Action · Thriller
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Breaking Bad
2008 · Michelle MacLaren
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023 · Kazutaka Yamanaka
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s m
Avatar: The Last Airbender
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In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
