Movies like The Expendables
24 films close to The Expendables (2010) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
mercenary · Action, Thriller, Adventure · with Dolph Lundgren and Jason Statham · Millennium Media
mercenary · Action, Thriller, Adventure · with Dolph Lundgren and Jason Statham · Millennium Media
Action, Thriller, Adventure · with Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren · Millennium Media
escape · Action, Thriller · Lionsgate
island, martial arts · Action, Thriller, Adventure · with Eric Roberts
rescue · Action, Thriller, Adventure
island, rescue · Action, Thriller, Adventure
Also Sylvester Stallone · mercenary · Action, Thriller · with Sylvester Stallone · Millennium Media
martial arts, mercenary · Action, Thriller, Adventure
sniper, martial arts · Action, Thriller, Adventure
martial arts · Action, Thriller, Adventure
rescue · Action, Thriller, Adventure · with Jason Statham
duringcreditsstinger, martial arts · Action, Thriller
mercenary · Action, Thriller, Adventure
Action, Thriller, Adventure · Lionsgate
Close on feel, same era · Action, Thriller, Adventure
drugs · Action, Thriller, Adventure
Close on feel, same era · Action, Thriller, Adventure
martial arts, mercenary · Action, Thriller
tattoo · Action, Adventure
rescue, martial arts · Action, Thriller
Close on feel, same era · Action, Thriller, Adventure
martial arts · Action, Thriller · with Jason Statham
island, escape · Action, Thriller, Adventure
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.