Cross-media picks for Antoine Fuqua fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a preoccupation with people defined by a code — soldier, operative, cop, criminal — and the pressure that tests whether they'll hold to it. Expect morally complicated protagonists, systems that betray the people inside them, and action that carries real stakes. The pleasure is watching someone who knows exactly what they are decide what they're willing to do.
Film
Mercenary for Justice
A mercenary battles a coup in Southern Africa as loyalties in his own crew fracture under fire.
Film
Dead Drop
An elite undercover cop devoted to justice finds someone willing to cross lines even he wouldn't.
Film
Desperate Measures
A cop strikes a dangerous bargain with a convicted killer to find a bone-marrow donor for his son.
Film
Cash Out
A criminal's biggest score collapses when his lover reveals she's an undercover Interpol agent.
Film
15 Minutes
Two criminals film their crimes and exploit American media circus, forcing a detective to adapt.
Film
Shanghai 13
A patriot uncovers government collusion with a foreign power and must smuggle the proof out alive.
Film
Taken 3
A falsely accused operative uses his particular skills to track the real killer while evading police.
Film
Mayhem!
A boxer released from prison finds his past catching up with him just as he's built a new life.
Series
The Equalizer
A former secret-agency operative runs a private service for victims the system has already failed.
Series
The Capture
A soldier whose conviction was overturned becomes a fugitive when new CCTV footage surfaces.
Series
Wounded Man
A Japanese journalist in Brazil reporting on the gold rush stumbles into dangerous hidden violence.
Series
Dies Irae
As Berlin falls in 1945, Nazi officers conduct a dark ritual — fanaticism at its most absolute.
Series
Taken
Personal tragedy shapes a young Green Beret into a CIA operative who can't walk away from a mission.
Series
White War
Three friends who joined the police together find their bond destroyed by a drug-ring investigation.
Series
MosGaz. Delo N4: Shakal
A Soviet detective probes a robbery case that pulls back the curtain on a corrupt system.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Two young terrorists detonate a bomb in Tokyo; police must decode cryptic video clues to stop them.
Game
Made Man
A Vietnam veteran rises through organized crime ranks across decades of violence and ambition.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana rebuilds his empire from nothing after Sosa takes everything he had.
Game
Blues and Bullets
Eliot Ness, drawn back to a corrupt city, uses his principles as the only weapon that matters.
Game
Mission: Impossible (1990)
A specialist must stop a kidnapped scientist's reprogrammed defense system from destroying the world.
Game
Bohemian Killing
In steampunk Paris, class and racism collide in a courtroom murder trial demanding an honest verdict.
Game
Get Even
A mercenary with no memory is guided through a reckoning with his own past crimes.
Game
Beyond: Two Souls
An interactive story tracing a young woman weaponized by a government entity from childhood.
Game
Quarantine (1994)
A driver navigates a corporate-controlled, decayed city where violence is built into every street.
Book
Iron cast
Two hemopathic illusionists run cons for a gangster in 1919 Boston until the law closes in.
Book
The exile
A mute woman and her rookie-cop brother must outrun a hit man and a government conspiracy.
Book
The Destroyer #11
A top-secret government agency must dismantle itself before a scandal over a botched plot unravels.
Book
Beach Road
A small-town lawyer takes a high-profile East Hampton triple-murder case with no experience to match it.
Book
U-571
American sailors disguised as U-boat crew board a crippled German submarine to seize Enigma codes.
Book
Deliver us from evil
A British operative tracks and takes down a dangerous individual across international borders.
Book
The Eyewitness
An identification specialist in post-Yugoslavia delivers death notices to families of ethnic-cleansing victims.
Book
Acting Up
Frank and Joe investigate sabotage on an Indian film set, navigating an unfamiliar culture and real danger.
Start with The Equalizer for a methodical lone-guardian story, or The Capture for a taut thriller about a soldier whose cleared name is suddenly back in doubt. Both centre on protagonists navigating institutions that have turned against them.
Yes — The Exile pairs a mute woman and her rookie-cop brother against an assassin and a government conspiracy. Beach Road drops an inexperienced small-town lawyer into a high-stakes murder case, and Deliver Us from Evil follows a British operative hunting a dangerous target across borders.
Get Even puts you in the skin of a mercenary with no memory forced to confront his own past crimes — the moral weight and slow-burn tension make it a strong match. Blues and Bullets casts Eliot Ness as a reluctant hero dragged back into corruption he thought he'd escaped.