Movies like Basic

Basic (2003) is a action movie directed by John McTiernan. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

1. Con Air (1997)
★ 6.8 · 4,906 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Movies like Con Air →
2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
★ 6.6 · 1,765 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Movies like Clear and Present Danger →
3. Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017)
★ 6.4 · 387 votes · Action
For the first time, Brandon Beckett, Richard Miller and Sgt. Thomas Beckett join forces in Colombia to take down a brutal drug cartel. When a deadly sniper with advanced, never-before-seen weaponry targets local Special Agent Kate Estrada, our elite team is in for the ultimate battle in this explosive, game-changing action thriller.
Movies like Sniper: Ultimate Kill →
4. Sicario (2015)
★ 7.4 · 9,970 votes · Action, Crime, Thriller
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.
Movies like Sicario →
5. Blood Diamond (2006)
★ 7.6 · 8,608 votes · Drama, Thriller, Action
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Movies like Blood Diamond →
6. Triple Frontier (2019)
★ 6.3 · 3,677 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Movies like Triple Frontier →
7. The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7.0 · 532 votes · Action, Crime, Drama
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
Movies like The Enforcer →
8. Southern Comfort (1981)
★ 6.8 · 375 votes · Thriller, Action
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Movies like Southern Comfort →
9. The Mechanic (2011)
★ 6.5 · 3,746 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
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 - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
Movies like The Mechanic →
10. Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8 · 1,327 votes · Action, Thriller, War
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Movies like Kandahar →

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Movies like Basic

Basic (2003) is a action movie directed by John McTiernan. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

1. Con Air (1997)
★ 6.8 · 4,906 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Movies like Con Air →
2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
★ 6.6 · 1,765 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Movies like Clear and Present Danger →
3. Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017)
★ 6.4 · 387 votes · Action
For the first time, Brandon Beckett, Richard Miller and Sgt. Thomas Beckett join forces in Colombia to take down a brutal drug cartel. When a deadly sniper with advanced, never-before-seen weaponry targets local Special Agent Kate Estrada, our elite team is in for the ultimate battle in this explosive, game-changing action thriller.
Movies like Sniper: Ultimate Kill →
4. Sicario (2015)
★ 7.4 · 9,970 votes · Action, Crime, Thriller
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.
Movies like Sicario →
5. Blood Diamond (2006)
★ 7.6 · 8,608 votes · Drama, Thriller, Action
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Movies like Blood Diamond →
6. Triple Frontier (2019)
★ 6.3 · 3,677 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Movies like Triple Frontier →
7. The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7.0 · 532 votes · Action, Crime, Drama
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
Movies like The Enforcer →
8. Southern Comfort (1981)
★ 6.8 · 375 votes · Thriller, Action
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Movies like Southern Comfort →
9. The Mechanic (2011)
★ 6.5 · 3,746 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
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 - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
Movies like The Mechanic →
10. Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8 · 1,327 votes · Action, Thriller, War
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Movies like Kandahar →

1. Con Air (1997)

2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)

3. Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017)

4. Sicario (2015)

5. Blood Diamond (2006)

6. Triple Frontier (2019)

7. The Enforcer (2022)

8. Southern Comfort (1981)

9. The Mechanic (2011)

10. Kandahar (2023)

Related lists

1. Con Air (1997)

2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)

3. Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017)

4. Sicario (2015)

5. Blood Diamond (2006)

6. Triple Frontier (2019)

7. The Enforcer (2022)

8. Southern Comfort (1981)

9. The Mechanic (2011)

10. Kandahar (2023)

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