50 Movies Like The Expendables (2010) You Need to Watch Next
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 lo
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If you loved The Expendables (2010) by Sylvester Stallone, 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 Ninja Assassin, The Man with the Golden Gun, DOA: Dead or Alive. 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.
50 Movies Similar to The Expendables
Ninja Assassin
2009 · James McTeigue
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very ex
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Guy Hamilton
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so s
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
DOA: Dead or Alive
2006 · Corey Yuen
Four beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament join forces against a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior trained by martial-arts masters. Tina Armstrong is
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Walking Tall
2004 · Kevin Bray
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
In common: Action · Adventure
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
Mile 22
2018 · Peter Berg
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the host
In common: Action · Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011 · Brad Bird
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Expend4bles
2023 · Scott Waugh
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the ta
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Hunter Killer
2018 · Donovan Marsh
Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground to prevent a war.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Jason Bourne
2016 · Paul Greengrass
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
GoldenEye
1995 · Martin Campbell
When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The Expendables 2
2012 · Simon West
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an u
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Anna
2019 · Luc Besson
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The Expendables 3
2014 · Patrick Hughes
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 so
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Commando
1985 · Mark L. Lester
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fi
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The Rock
1996 · Michael Bay
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons exp
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Plane
2023 · Jean-François Richet
After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passenge
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Goldfinger
1964 · Guy Hamilton
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to ra
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Counterattack
2025 · Chava Cartas
When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a criminal group.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Octopussy
1983 · John Glen
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The World Is Not Enough
1999 · Michael Apted
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time th
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
A View to a Kill
1985 · John Glen
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. Jam
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
American Assassin
2017 · Michael Cuesta
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 a
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
For Your Eyes Only
1981 · John Glen
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The Three Musketeers
2011 · Paul W. S. Anderson
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the Fren
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Skyscraper
2018 · Rawson Marshall Thurber
Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
The 355
2022 · Simon Kinberg
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the wo
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Killer Elite
2011 · Gary McKendry
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret militar
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Hanna
2011 · Joe Wright
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys ac
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Ashfall
2019 · Kim Byung-seo
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Blacklight
2022 · Mark Williams
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highe
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Retribution
2023 · Nimród Antal
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back sea
In common: Action · Adventure · Thriller
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 · Guy Ritchie
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens t
In common: Action · Adventure
Cyborg
1989 · Albert Pyun
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
In common: Action · Adventure
Fist of Fury
1972 · Lo Wei
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.
In common: Action · Thriller
In Hell
2003 · Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
In common: Action · Thriller
Game of Death
1978 · Robert Clouse
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
In common: Action · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Thriller
Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to
In common: Action · Adventure
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 · Thriller
Die Hart
2023 · Eric Appel
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull i
In common: Action · Thriller
The Delta Force
1986 · Menahem Golan
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is
In common: Action · 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 · Thriller
The Karate Kid
2010 · Harald Zwart
12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural dif
In common: Action · Adventure