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Unleash Your Inner Mercenary: Top Movies and TV Shows to Explore

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of high-stakes action and adventure as we delve into the best movies and TV shows featuring mercenaries. From gritty realists to charismatic gunslingers, these characters will take you on a thrilling ride of espionage, warfare, and redemption. Discover the top picks that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Vinland Saga
Cast
Yuto Uemura Yuto Uemura
Shunsuke Takeuchi Shunsuke Takeuchi
8.5 968 votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 48
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.
Style:  intense
Plot:  swordplay, vandalism, mercenary, exploration, vikings (norsemen), revenge, travel, gore, ...
Time:  medieval
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Berserk
Cast
Nobutoshi Canna Nobutoshi Canna
Toshiyuki Morikawa Toshiyuki Morikawa
Yuko Miyamura Yuko Miyamura
Tomohiro Nishimura Tomohiro Nishimura
8.5 816 votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction
Country: Japan
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 25
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.
Plot:  sexual abuse, suffering, mercenary, male friendship, waterfall, supernatural, woods, sword fight, ...
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Cast
KENN KENN
8.5 1.9K votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Crime
Country: Japan, Poland
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.
Plot:  technology, mercenary, dystopia, anthology, conspiracy, cyberpunk, based on video game, futuristic society, ...
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Cast
Dee Bradley Baker Dee Bradley Baker
Michelle Ang Michelle Ang
8.2 1.2K votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 47
Audience: TV-PG
Story:  The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.
Plot:  clone, mercenary, stowaway, military unit, 3d animation
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Black Lagoon
Cast
Megumi Toyoguchi Megumi Toyoguchi
Daisuke Namikawa Daisuke Namikawa
Tsutomu Isobe Tsutomu Isobe
Hiroaki Hirata Hiroaki Hirata
8.0 534 votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Crime
Country: Japan
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 24
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
Plot:  bounty hunter, island, mercenary, arms dealer, smuggling (contraband), femme fatale, outlaw, revenge, ...
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Triage X
7.9 265 votes
Genre: Action, Animation
Country: Japan
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling sickness, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of disease... Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the "cancers" of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.
Style:  erotic
Plot:  mercenary, gunfight, terrorism, based on manga, ecchi, shounen, anime, nudity
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Deadpool
Cast
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds
Morena Baccarin Morena Baccarin
Ed Skrein Ed Skrein
T.J. Miller T.J. Miller
7.6 32.9K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 108 min.
Audience: R
Story:  The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Plot:  superhero, anti hero, mercenary, based on comic, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger
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The Last Samurai
Cast
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise
Ken Watanabe Ken Watanabe
Timothy Spall Timothy Spall
Tony Goldwyn Tony Goldwyn
7.6 7.6K votes
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 154 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Style:  intense
Plot:  samurai, swordplay, general, sense of guilt, war veteran, sword, war crimes, loss of loved one, ...
Time:  19th century
Place:  japan
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The Book of Boba Fett
Cast
Temuera Morrison Temuera Morrison
Ming-Na Wen Ming-Na Wen
7.5 3.0K votes
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
Audience: TV-14
Story:  Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
Plot:  clone, bounty hunter, mercenary, miniseries, space western, desert, female mercenary
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Deadpool 2
Cast
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds
Josh Brolin Josh Brolin Morena Baccarin Morena Baccarin
Julian Dennison Julian Dennison
7.5 19.4K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 120 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
Plot:  hero, superhero, mutant, mercenary, based on comic, sequel, breaking the fourth wall, aftercreditsstinger, ...
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Extraction 2
Cast
Chris Hemsworth Chris Hemsworth
Golshifteh Farahani Golshifteh Farahani
Adam Bessa Adam Bessa
Tornike Gogrichiani Tornike Gogrichiani
7.4 3.0K votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 122 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.
Style:  gritty
Plot:  explosive, mercenary, rescue mission, sequel, revenge, georgia europe, criminal underworld, based on graphic novel, ...
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Extraction
Cast
Chris Hemsworth Chris Hemsworth
Rudhraksh Jaiswal Rudhraksh Jaiswal
Randeep Hooda Randeep Hooda
Golshifteh Farahani Golshifteh Farahani
7.3 6.7K votes
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 116 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
Plot:  drug dealer, self sacrifice, mercenary, crime boss, mumbai (bombay), india, rescue mission, based on comic, ...
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Cast
John Krasinski John Krasinski
James Badge Dale James Badge Dale
Dominic Fumusa Dominic Fumusa
Max Martini Max Martini
7.3 4.0K votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 144 min.
Audience: R
Story:  An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Style:  provocative, tense
Plot:  central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, libya, assault rifle, grave, mercenary, heroism, biography, ...
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Violent Night
Cast
David Harbour David Harbour
John Leguizamo John Leguizamo
Beverly D'Angelo Beverly D'Angelo
Alex Hassell Alex Hassell
7.2 2.6K votes
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, United States of America
Duration: 112 min.
Audience: R
Story:  When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
Plot:  holiday, santa claus, mercenary, saving christmas, booby trap, questioning, duringcreditsstinger, aggressive, ...
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Big Trouble in Little China
Cast
Kurt Russell Kurt Russell
Kim Cattrall Kim Cattrall
Dennis Dun Dennis Dun
James Hong James Hong
7.2 3.4K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 100 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Style:  satirical
Plot:  martial arts, kung fu, magic, san francisco, california, kidnapping, chinatown, mercenary, ...
Time:  1980s
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The Rock
Cast
Sean Connery Sean Connery
Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage
Ed Harris Ed Harris
John Spencer John Spencer
7.2 5.2K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 137 min.
Audience: R
Story:  When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Plot:  war veteran, san francisco, california, fbi, mercenary, gas attack, alcatraz prison, prison escape, ...
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Savior
Cast
Dennis Quaid Dennis Quaid
Pascal Rollin Pascal Rollin
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Catlin Foster
Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd
7.1 187 votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 103 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Plot:  rape, civil war, mercenary, serbian, atrocity
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The Old Guard
Cast
Charlize Theron Charlize Theron
KiKi Layne KiKi Layne
Veronica Ngu00f4 Veronica Ngu00f4
Matthias Schoenaerts Matthias Schoenaerts
7.1 4.9K votes
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 125 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
Plot:  immortality, superhero, mercenary, based on comic, lgbt, gay theme
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Ronin
Cast
Robert De Niro Robert De Niro
Jean Reno Jean Reno
Natascha McElhone Natascha McElhone
Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd
7.0 2.7K votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 122 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
Plot:  paris, france, arms deal, mercenary, suitcase, heist, shootout, impostor, ...
Place:  france
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Commando
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rae Dawn Chong Rae Dawn Chong
Dan Hedaya Dan Hedaya
Vernon Wells Vernon Wells
6.7 3.2K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 90 min.
Audience: R
Story:  John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Style:  nostalgic
Plot:  daughter, fight, kidnapping, mercenary, lone wolf, rescue mission, father, us army, ...
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