Ex special forces movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant ex special forces movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with ex special forces, violence, murder, revenge, explosion, danger, gunfight, shot in the chest, shootout and pistol plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ex special forces: Re: Born (2016), Army of One (2020), Triple Frontier (2019), The Foreigner (2017), The 2nd (2020), New Life (2020), Operation Red Sea (2018), Extraction (2020), Search and Destroy (2020), Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021).

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 6.0
 2K
Re: Born (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past decides to unleash once again his beast within to stand up for what he cares about.
Style: intense, exciting, captivating, perverse, anime
Plot: one against many, swat team, one man army, legend, special agent, assassin, secret service, fight, warrior, battles, rogue agent, criminal ...
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 4.5
 6K
Army of One (2020)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker stumbles onto a Cartel's compound. Her husband's killed and she's left for dead. The Cartel made two mistakes, killed her husband and left her alive. They won't live to make another.
Style: suspense, brutal, suspenseful, intense, cliffhanger ...
Plot: master warrior, female soldier, one woman army, backwoods, one man army, left for dead, tough heroes, danger, behind enemy lines, cruelty, criminal's revenge, fight ...
Place: alabama
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 6.5
 145K
Triple Frontier (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, greed, ex special forces, drug lord, friendship, violence, ex soldier, murder, escapades, robbery, survival, jungle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south america, usa, peru, colombia, andes mountains ...
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 7.0
 123K
The Foreigner (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, harsh, independent film, political ...
Plot: revenge, terrorism, bomb, tough guy, one against many, ira, hand to hand combat, justice, ex special forces, battles, terrorist, martial arts ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: united kingdom, ireland, afghanistan, iraq, northern ireland ...
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 3.8
 9K
The 2nd (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Secret-service agent Vic Davis is on his way to pick up his estranged son, Sean, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. His son's friend Erin Walton, the daughter of Supreme Court ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: computer cracker, cia agent, danger, secret agent, fight, murder, chase, kidnapping, rescue, gunfight, group of criminals, cia ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: los angeles
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 7.2
 2K
New Life (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Adam is an ex-special forces solider who is hired to work as a bodyguard for Yasmine,Tymor's wife.
Style: tense, captivating, romantic, disturbing
Plot: bodyguard, romantic triangle, love triangle, new job, love affair, protector, star crossed lovers, ex soldier, family problems, social problems, in love, relationship problems ...
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Operation Red Sea (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China, Morocco, Hong Kong
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist ...
Style: exciting, breathtaking, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex special forces, chinese army, ship, nuclear, law enforcement, terrorism, war, military, save the day, arms dealer, group of criminals, stereotypes ...
Place: somalia, china, morocco
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 6.8
 260K
Extraction (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord…
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, action thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: manly, chick flick
Plot: mercenary, rescue mission, one against many, kidnapping, one man army, ex special forces, machismo, tough guy, death threat, swat team, jungle, child ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: india, bangladesh, australia, mumbai india
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Search and Destroy (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a battle with infamous Ukrainian Arms Dealer Igor Rodin, John is discharged from the army. Three years later he is approached by his old General ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: commando, submarine, one man army, one against many, sniper, mission, terrorist group, attempted murder, race against time, revenge, rescue, arms dealer ...
Place: eastern europe, africa
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: cia, one man army, terrorism, murder, soldier, navy, diver, police, mission, revenge, prison, swat team ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: syria, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., north carolina ...
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American Assassin (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
Style: psychotronic, action adventure, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: cia, terrorism, counter terrorism, terrorist, terrorist plot, one against many, revenge, mentor, spy, training, kickboxing, government agent ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: london, turkey, italy, rome italy, virginia ...
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 4.6
 1K
Sharpshooter (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, betrayal, sniper, conspiracy, on the run, danger, save the day, special agent, race against time, manhunt, rivalry, undercover ...
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 6.2
 77K
Hummingbird (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, redemption, gangster, ex military, haunted by the past, homeless, tough heroes, revenge, mafia, fight scenes, weapons, vigilante ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, london, afghanistan
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To Kill a Beaver (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man returns home after a long time. The house is in a bad shape, ruined with graffiti on walls, but it doesn't stop him from staying in. The man has an aim that requires complex preparations. The house has however already a new inhabitants ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, hot
Plot: getting home, relationship problems, ex military, love and romance, in love, love interest, relationships, ex soldier, fall in love, love affair, ex special forces, confronting the past ...
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 4.6
 861
Off-Piste (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An ex-SAS recluse, living in the mountains of France to escape a traumatic past, is hunted down by those who's lives he has destroyed.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, anger, snow, winter, sniper, murder, swat team, ex special forces, manhunt, life is a bitch, threat, redemption ...
Place: alps, france
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, political, realistic, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, cia, espionage, military, 9/11, special forces, manhunt, al qaeda, islamic terrorism, propaganda, terrorist plot, investigation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2011 ...
Place: middle east, pakistan, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan ...
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 6.8
 148K
The Creator (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who ...
Style: futuristic, epic, tension, psychotronic, light ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, ex special forces, space station, interracial marriage, u.s. army, future war, husband wife relationship, technology, human versus robot, secret laboratory, space shuttle ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 21st century
Place: asia, tokyo, los angeles
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 7.8
 18K
Pennyworth (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne, Bruce's billionaire father, in 1960s London.
Style: exciting, tense, bleak, retro, atmospheric ...
Plot: coup d'etat, superhero, cia agent, murder, good versus evil, loss of loved one, violence, batman, chase, army, woman with a gun, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, united kingdom, east end london
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The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ex-Navy SEAL, Michael Adams, (Matthew Reese) was captured during a raid to free Japanese prisoners from a North Korean prison camp. He endures the North Koreans torture for three years -- seen only as flashbacks -- then released back into ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: secret service agent, female agent, vendetta, violence, political prisoner, tragic hero, conspiracy, chase, husband wife relationship, tragic past, female assassin, dark hero ...
Time: 2000s
Place: korea, north korea
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.
Style: buddy comedy, entertaining, tense, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: tough guy, car, brother and sister, terrorism, secret organization, chase, speed, fight, martial arts, chases and races, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future
Place: usa, tower bridge london, moscow russia, london, los angeles ...
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 7.7
 631K
Taken (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, teens, date night ...
Plot: kidnapping, one man army, revenge, vigilantism, human trafficking, secret service, chase, vengeance, cia, father daughter relationship, violence, dark hero ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, north america
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 4.7
 36K
The Marine (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.
Style: road movie, exciting, action packed, entertaining, light ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: marines, kidnapping, hostage, chase, heroes, spouse in danger, daring rescue, danger, kidnapped, escapades, muscleman, revenge ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two, 21st century
Place: usa, rome italy, south carolina, iraq, europe
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 6.1
 195K
6 Underground (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
Style: suspense, entertaining, action adventure, action thriller, exciting ...
Plot: chase, mission, female spy, anti heroine, female warrior, teamwork, fight, brutality, courage, deception, vigilante, machismo ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, year 2017
Place: italy, las vegas, florence, paris france, afghanistan ...
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 4.2
 706
Rage (2017)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his last connection to humanity, a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, slasher ...
Plot: gang war, ex special forces, violence, drug dealer, revenge, criminal, smuggler, criminal's revenge, gang, confronting the past, criminal gang, drug lord ...
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 7.0
 144K
Extraction II (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Tasked with extracting a family who is at the mercy of a Georgian gangster, Tyler Rake infiltrates one of the world's deadliest prisons in order to save them. But when the extraction gets hot, and the gangster dies in the heat of battle, his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: rescue, assassin, mercenary, violent, heroes, combat, army, exploration, survival, blood, revenge, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: vienna, armenia, austria, georgia
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 5.6
 46K
The Mother (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: assassin, conspiracy, mother and daughter, daughter, fight, danger, female protagonist, killer, hitman, murderer, female killer, ex special forces ...
Time: 2020s
Place: cincinnati ohio, havana cuba, alaska, illinois
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London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
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 5.4
 2K
Foxtrot Six (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Escalating climate change is turning the world economy upside down. With crops dying and food price spiking, FOOD has replaced oil as the world's most valuable commodity. Among the very few lands still left fertile, Indonesia is quickly rising ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: squad, military, swat team, showdown, teamwork, political intrigue, political conspiracy, agent, power struggle, special agent, fight for supremacy, political unrest ...
Time: 2010s, 2030s, year 2019, future, 21st century
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 6.8
 78K
Boss Level (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death.
Style: ambiguous ending, intense, funny, futuristic, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: time loop, repeated event, one against many, tough guy, time travel, time traveler, dying repeatedly, trapped, martial arts, hitman, end of the world, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 5.8
 43K
The Gunman (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his ...
Style: intense, suspense, exciting, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, chase, hitman, agent as target, gangster, gunfight, undercover, danger, conspiracy, home invasion, betrayal, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006, year 2014, 21st century
Place: south africa, europe, barcelona, london, africa
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