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- Bourne’s world blends implausible action with realism, sharp cynicism, and a focus on modern spy tech.
- Intelligent scripts and well-developed characters are essential for movies like Jason Bourne.
- The best movies like Jason Bourne blend intriguing characters with intense, gritty fight scenes.
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While Matt Damon’s action hero was able to establish himself as a unique protagonist in the spy genre, there are other movies like Jason Bourne movies that capture the same thrilling and intelligent feel. There have been four Jason Bourne movies, including a spinoff, The Bourne Legacy, and the short-lived TV show Treadstone. While these entries range in quality, the franchise’s hallmarks have been established with a grounded and visceral examination of the modern spy world paired with intense action sequences courtesy of the titular hero whose strategic thinking is matched by his fighting skills.
Bourne’s world balanced the implausible with realism, its technology felt real, and its cynicism was sharp and intriguing. To be counted as one of the best movies like Jason Bourne, a film needs more than just well-choreographed martial arts and must offer something for fans of espionage and engaging dialogue to chew on. Whether they’re playing super spies or complex criminals, many actors have found ways to create intelligent and deadly characters who would work well with Jason Bourne or would be a formidable match for him.
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15 Hanna (2011)
A Young Girl Fights For Her Freedom From the CIA
Hanna (2011)
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Director Joe Wright Release Date April 7, 2011 Studio(s) Focus Features , Neunte Babelsberg Film , Holleran Company , Sechzehnte Babelsberg Film Writers Seth Lochhead , David Farr Cast Saoirse Ronan , Eric Bana , Cate Blanchett , Tom Hollander , Olivia Williams
While Jason Bourne is a highly trained secret agent who saw his own country betray him, Hanna is a story about a young woman at the start of her training. Directed by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice), Saoirse Ronan stars as Hanna Heller, a 15-year-old whose father lives with her in rural northern Finland. They are in hiding because the CIA wants her dad killed for leaving them, which makes his story very similar to that of Bourne. However, this is more than a country turning its back on its own agents.
David Farr created a Hanna spinoff series for Prime Video.
In Hanna, it is the daughter who takes up the fight. The CIA wants her as a new agent, and they won’t take no for an answer. Just like in the Jason Bourne movies, Hanna has legitimate fighting skills and can eliminate hoards of other trained agents. Both also have some strong women in the roles of the government heads who want to bring them in (Joan Allen in Bourne and Cate Blanchett in Hanna). Hanna was positively reviewed by critics and also spawned a television show on Prime Video.
14 Shooter (2007)
A U.S. Marine Sniper Is Framed For Murder
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Director Antoine Fuqua Release Date March 23, 2007 Studio(s) Paramount Pictures Distributor(s) Paramount Pictures Writers Antoine Fuqua Cast Mark Wahlberg , Kate Mara , Danny Glover , Antoine Fuqua
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Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) created his own action thriller based on a soldier that the American government turned on in Shooter. In this movie, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine sniper who retires from active duty after a mission goes wrong and results in the death of a CIA officer. However, when he is enlisted to help stop a potential presidential assassination attempt, things go wrong because it is a setup. Bob is framed for assassinating Ethiopian Archbishop Desmond Mutumbo.
Ryan Phillippe stars in a TV version of Shooter.
This leads the U.S. government to set up a manhunt to bring down the sniper. Like in the Jason Bourne movies, Bob Lee Swagger has a skill set that puts him on a level above his hunters, and he turns the tables quickly. It also plays the same game as the Bourne movies, with the sniper figuring out a way to put the men who betrayed him in a spot where he can exact his revenge and clear his name in the end.
13 Three Days Of The Condor
A CIA Analyst Survives A Massacre In His Department
Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
Director Sydney Pollack Release Date August 1, 1975 Studio(s) Dino De Laurentiis Company , Paramount , Tom Ward Enterprises , Wildwood Enterprises Writers Lorenzo Semple Jr. , David Rayfiel Cast Robert Redford , Faye Dunaway , Cliff Robertson , Max Von Sydow , John Houseman
The one thing that Jason Bourne had going for him was that he was a highly trained assassin, and that put him in a unique spot to defend himself and kill all the trained mercenaries sent after him. That was not what happened in Three Days of the Condor, although the stories remain similar. In this Sydney Pollack movie, Robert Redford stars as a CIA analyst who leaves to get lunch for his co-workers, only to come back and find that a group of armed men entered and killed everyone there.
Joe has to then run for his life, and when he calls the CIA for help, they show up and attempt to kill him. Joe realizes that the CIA ordered the assassination of one of their own offices, and then they frame Joe for the murders. When the CIA head who tried to kill him is assassinated, Joe realizes no one is safe. Three Days of the Condor is a blueprint for espionage movies, and having Joe as an analyst and not a trained killer makes it even scarier. However, the twists and turns are very reminiscent of the Bourne movies.
12 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Tom Clancy’s Famous Spy Embarks On His First Mission In Russia
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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Director Kenneth Branagh Release Date January 17, 2014 Cast Chris Pine , Kenneth Branagh , Kevin Costner Runtime 105minutes
Chris Pine became the fourth actor to play Jack Ryan on the big screen in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Younger and even more inexperienced than previous iterations of the Tom Clancy hero, Pine’s Jack Ryan certainly shares far more of Bourne’s brains than he does his brawn, but that doesn’t mean that Shadow Recruit shuns action set-pieces. Sent to Russia to spy on a ruthless villain (Kenneth Branagh), Ryan fights more with his words than his fists in the movie.
However, Pine’s verbal sparring matches with Branagh, who also directed the film, are electrifying, and it all builds to an explosive finale. Ryan has always been a more human protagonist in the spy genre, and this origin story cements that. The movie shows that Jack Ryan is a lot like Jason Bourne, even if the two men take care of their problems differently. All the Jack Ryan movies compare well with Jason Bourne movies, though this one shares more similarities with The Bourne Identity.
11 Salt (2010)
A CIA Operative Is Accused Of Being A Russian Mole
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Director Phillip Noyce Release Date July 23, 2010 Cast Angelina Jolie , Liev Schreiber , Daniel Olbrychski , August Diehl , Chiwetel Ejiofor Runtime 100 Minutes
Though it was originally envisaged as a Tom Cruise vehicle (via The Los Angeles Times), Angelina Jolie brought all of her star power to the lead role of Salt and made it her own. Like Matt Damon’s performance in the Bourne movies, she injected a relatively conventional part of a mysterious superspy figure with an unconventional level of emotion mixed in with tenacious ingenuity.
The plot follows a CIA agent accused of being a hidden Russian sleeper agent. Up against all that law enforcement and the intelligence community can throw at her, Evelyn Salt has to think on her feet as Bourne does and proves herself a worthy comparison. Just like the Jason Bourne movies, Salt is on her own against the U.S. intelligence agencies, and just like Bourne, she can stand up to entire legions of agents and win any fight. Though plans for a Salt 2 fell through, the first movie remains an underrated gem.
10 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Ethan Hunt And His Team Attempt To Stop A Nuclear Attack
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Director Christopher McQuarrie Release Date July 25, 2018 Cast Tom Cruise , Rebecca Ferguson , Henry Cavill , Vanessa Kirby Runtime 148 Minutes
The sixth installment in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise surpassed its predecessors in many areas, the most famous of which was its use of stunts to make its impossibly action-packed world seem real. Facing the remaining villains left over from the rogue international spy ring that Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team broke up in the previous movie, the “Impossible Mission Force” races to stop a doomsday plot involving stolen plutonium.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout adds Henry Cavill to the ever-expanding roster of super spies that the franchise has created and, like the Jason Bourne movies, has wowed critics alike with dazzling choreography and death-defying chases. The movies also share similarities when it comes to not trusting anyone, not even those who are working for the U.S. government. In this case, Ethan Hunt realizes that the CIA assassin sent to help him is working against his team, which was just the start of the United States turning on Hunt.
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9 Atomic Blonde (2017)
An MI6 Agent Investigates The Murder Of A Fellow Agent In Cold War Berlin
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Director David Leitch Release Date July 26, 2017 Cast Charlize Theron , Eddie Marsan , John Goodman , James Faulkner , Toby Jones , James McAvoy , Daniel Bernhardt , Sofia Boutella Runtime 115 minutes
Charlize Theron stars as an uncompromising spy in this Cold War action-thriller adapted from the graphic novel The Coldest City by director David Leitch, who was one of the creative forces behind the original John Wick movie starring Keanu Reeves. Theron’s character, Lorraine Broughton, gives Bourne a run for his money with her bare-knuckle brutality and precision, making for some of the most entertaining fight sequences of recent years.
Atomic Blonde is as stylized on the screen as its origins on the page, but the brutalist architecture of the late Soviet era evokes the more grounded feel of the Jason Bourne movies. This isn’t much like the Bourne movies regarding the story of the character’s history. Instead, fans should watch this movie if they love the down-and-dirty fight scenes in the Bourne franchise because Atomic Blonde holds nothing back, and Charlize Theron proves to be a perfect action hero.
8 Breach (2007)
The True Spy Story Of An FBI Data Breach
Reality is rarely as appealing as fiction, but a few incredible true stories from the spy world make it into thriller movies. Breach dramatizes the figures and events at the heart of the biggest and most famous data breach in US intelligence history, where FBI agent Robert Hanssen sold secrets to Russia for decades before he was caught. Though Breach shares none of the Jason Bourne movies’ focus on action, its unromantic and tangible view of the intelligence world feels similar to Bourne movies.
Leading the way is Chris Cooper’s performance in the role of Hanssen. The actor also played Treadstone’s original head, Alexander Conklin, in The Bourne Identity. Besides the shared actor from the movies, this is an excellent film for fans of espionage, mainly because there are very few people anyone can trust, even at the highest levels of the government. Jason Bourne realized the treachery went to the top of the chain, and that proves to be the case in Breach as well.
7 Body Of Lies (2008)
Leonardo DiCaprio Plays A CIA Operative Caught In A Complex Spy Game In Jordan
Body of Lies (2008)
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Director Ridley Scott Release Date October 10, 2008 Cast Leonardo DiCaprio , Russell Crowe , Mark Strong , Golshifteh Farahani , Oscar Isaac , Ali Suliman Runtime 128 minutes
Adapted from David Ignatius’s novel of the same name, Body of Lies is more of a political thriller than an action thriller like the Jason Bourne movies. Its story is mainly concerned with contemplating the United States’ relationship with the Middle East. The screenplay revolves around different approaches to stopping a terrorist as a CIA operative (Leonardo DiCaprio) is caught between his handler (Russell Crowe) and the local government intelligence in Jordan.
William Monohan’s screenplay shares similarities to the Jason Bourne franchise’s passionate critiques of modern counter-terrorist policies. At the same time, director Ridley Scott keeps short and sharp bursts of action that are gritty and grounded. While not as action packed, the two movies share a determined hero, with DiCaprio’s Roger Ferris very similar to Jason Bourne as someone who won’t stop until he discovers the truth and ends things, no matter who he finds at the top.
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6 Jack Reacher (2012)
Tom Cruise Plays The Determined Military Cop Investigating A Conspiracy
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Director Christopher McQuarrie Release Date December 21, 2012 Cast Tom Cruise , Werner Herzog , Jai Courtney , David Oyelowo , Rosamund Pike , Richard Jenkins Runtime 2h 10m
Like James Bond, Jason Bourne was a popular literary hero before becoming a movie franchise. Another similar character from the world of thriller novels to recently make the jump to film and TV is Jack Reacher. The former soldier turned drifter and unlicensed investigator shares Bourne’s military skills and devotion to living completely off the grid despite being a magnet for trouble.
The film is based on the Lee Child novelOne Shot, which sees Reacher uncover a sinister organization operating from the shadows in Pittsburgh. While lead star Tom Cruise is physically different from how Reacher is described in the novels, he captures the character’s intimidating nature. Like Bourne, Reacher is an endlessly determined hero with hard-hitting fighting skills and military savvy and can take down an entire legion of enemies with few problems. The fight scenes compare well between the two franchises.
5 The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
A Suburban Mother Regains Her Memory As A Highly-Trained Assassin
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
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Director Renny Harlin Release Date October 11, 1996 Cast Geena Davis , Samuel L. Jackson , Yvonne Zima , Craig Bierko , tom amandes Runtime 121 Minutes
Though screenwriter Shane Black makes this story about a highly-trained government killer with amnesia a lot more comedic than espionage thriller movies like The Bourne Identity, it’s still an action-packed detective story that centers around a government conspiracy. In this case, Geena Davis leads the movie as a mild-mannered school teacher who discovers that she’s really an elite CIA assassin and can trust no one.
This makes its plot almost identical to The Bourne Identity, with the deadly plot that led to her memory loss as the biggest mystery. Both Samantha and Jason washed up ashore with no memories of who they were. The one difference is that Samantha was pregnant and started a domestic life, taking longer to begin her journey to discovery. Along with similar plot details, actor Brian Cox, who appeared in the first two Bourne movies as CIA Deputy Director Ward Abbott, also has a shadowy role here.
4 The Accountant (2016)
An Accountant Who Cleans Companies’ Books Is Lured Into A Conspiracy
The Accountant
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Director Gavin O’Connor Release Date October 14, 2016 Cast Ben Affleck , Anna Kendrick , J.K. Simmons , Jon Bernthal , Jeffrey Tambor , Cynthia Addai-Robinson , John Lithgow , Jean Smart Runtime 128 Minutes
Ben Affleck has famously stepped into the role of a violent crime-fighting superhero several times in the past. However, his turn in The Accountant took this concept and played it more similar to the Jason Bourne movies. Affleck stars in the thriller as a man with high-functioning autism who masquerades as a dreary accountant while secretly getting himself involved in the illegal activities of some of the shadiest criminals on the planet.
The methodical precision of Affleck’s character in the fight scenes and his Hollywood star power make it a nice companion piece to Damon’s Bourne movies. With The Accountant 2 confirmed, the 2016 movie will soon be the first franchise entry that could rival Jason Bourne’s. Connecting Jason Bourne movies and The Accountant is that Matt Damon serves as a producer alongside his best friend, Affleck, possibly ensuring that more of the Bourne legacy will keep seeping into the new franchise.
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3 Skyfall (2012)
James Bond Faces Off With A Vengeful Former Agent
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Director Sam Mendes Release Date November 9, 2012 Cast judi dench , Ralph Fiennes , Naomie Harris , Helen McCrory , Javier Bardem , Daniel Craig , Ben Whishaw Runtime 2h 23m
To mark the 50th anniversary of Eon Productions’ run of James Bond movies, Daniel Craig’s third 007 film opted to do things a little differently. The story delves into Bond’s past as he protects M (Judi Dench) from a vengeful former agent (Javier Bardem). Both Bond and Mission: Impossible had a knee-jerk reaction to the success of the Jason Bourne movies in 2006, adopting darker tones and featuring grittier fight sequences. Without Bourne, Bond might have never grown so gritty.
However, despite keeping some of the fighting styles from the Jason Bourne influence, Skyfall comes off as a much more mature and considered film than its predecessors and states Bond’s place within the broader makeup of spy movies more confidently. This is also a movie that shows, more than almost any other Craig Bond movie, the hero when he is by himself with overwhelming odds against him. This is what Bond became, thanks to Jason Bourne’s influence.
2 Ronin (1998)
A Group Of Mercenaries Assemble To Secure A Mysterious Package
Like the Jason Bourne movies, Ronin is famed among crime thrillers for bringing a distinctly American flavor to a European thriller, not least in its massive car chase sequence, which has generally been considered to be one of the greatest of all time since its release and even being compared to The French Connection. The film follows a group of mercenaries who are in pursuit of a mysterious briefcase.
… a nuanced yet exciting approach to action thrillers Jason Bourne movies excel at.
Twists and turns in the story, with double-crosses and conflicting interests abounding, help to make the film feel epic in scale despite the stakes always being somewhat vague. It is a nuanced yet exciting approach to action thrillers Jason Bourne movies excel at. Unlike Jason Bourne, who was a black op operative for the U.S. government, betrayed by his own country, Ronin is about former special ops soldiers teaming up to steal a briefcase. However, the fight scenes and action beats match up well.
1 Patriot Games (1992)
Jack Ryan Takes On An Irish Terrorist Looking For Revenge
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The Jack Ryan franchise is one of the few that both predates Bourne and appeals to his fans. Ryan has always been one of the more convincing CIA agents on screen. He is an analyst involved in a more familiar political landscape rather than fictional plots, but the slick approach results in an interesting balance, which is very rewarding. Harrison Ford only starred as the character in two movies but has so far had the longest run in films.
His first outing as the character saw him foil a terrorist plot in London, making him a target and bringing the franchise’s sharp eye for political intrigue to many of the discussions that movies like Jason Bourne do. The big difference here is that Jack Ryan remained working for the U.S. government and is a national hero, while Bourne was betrayed and is on the run from his own government. However, Tom Clancy’s espionage novels will always play well alongside the Bourne franchise.
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