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10 Best Movies Like 72 Hours

If you loved 72 Hours, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Code 8

Code 8

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a cons...

#2
Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

2010★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do s...

#3
Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad

2016★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops ...

#4
The Substitute

The Substitute

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute...

#5
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

2013★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. ...

#6
Code 8 Part II

Code 8 Part II

2024★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 72 Hours for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop....

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