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Films like Parker.

Parker (2013) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Safe House (2012) poster
1. Safe House2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hummingbird (2013) poster
2. Hummingbird2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Extraction (2020) poster
3. Extraction2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011) poster
4. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Ice Road (2021) poster
5. The Ice Road2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Escape Plan (2013) poster
6. Escape Plan2013

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bourne Legacy (2012) poster
7. The Bourne Legacy2012

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Erased (2012) poster
8. Erased2012

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Four Brothers (2005) poster
9. Four Brothers2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Gray Man (2022) poster
10. The Gray Man2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Punisher: War Zone (2008) poster
11. Punisher: War Zone2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Condemned (2007) poster
12. The Condemned2007

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Parker’s neighbours — where are yours?

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