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Movies that feel like Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

If you loved Assault on Precinct 13, the closest films we have are Caliber 9 (1972), Dirty Harry (1971) and Bullitt (1968). All three share Assault on Precinct 13's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Carpentertensekineticgritty
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Caliber 9
1972 Β· dir. Fernando Di Leo
β˜… 7.4crime Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: police and gunfight

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Assault on Precinct 13

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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Dirty Harry
1971 Β· dir. Don Siegel
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both are working the same pair: ambush, psychopath

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.

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Bullitt
1968 Β· dir. Peter Yates
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: police

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

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Police Story 2
1988 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both land tension and momentum at once

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Con Air
1997 Β· dir. Simon West
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.9action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: shootout

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the β€œworst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as β€œpure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind β€” genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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Gone in 60 Seconds
1974 Β· dir. H.B. Halicki
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.3action Β· crime Β· thriller

Tense action in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Assault on Precinct 13 does

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.

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Branded to Kill
1967 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· crime Β· action

Crime built on momentum, twice over

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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The Killer
1989 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· drama

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

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Hard Target
1993 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

One thread runs through both: psychopath

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 Β· dir. Yuen Woo-ping
β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Crime with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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