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Films like Triple Threat.

Triple Threat (2019) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, 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.

Xtreme (2021) poster
1. Xtreme2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Killer (2022) poster
2. The Killer2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Seized (2020) poster
3. Seized2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Close Range (2015) poster
4. Close Range2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Falcon Rising (2014) poster
5. Falcon Rising2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Point Blank (2019) poster
6. Point Blank2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) poster
7. Northmen: A Viking Saga2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hard Target 2 (2016) poster
8. Hard Target 22016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Acts of Vengeance (2017) poster
9. Acts of Vengeance2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ninja (2009) poster
10. Ninja2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sleepless (2017) poster
11. Sleepless2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Shrapnel (2023) poster
12. Shrapnel2023

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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