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Movies that feel like Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

If you loved Battles Without Honor and Humanity, the closest films we have are Iron Monkey (1993), Training Day (2001) and Lady Snowblood (1973). All three share Battles Without Honor and Humanity's gritty and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kinji Fukasakugrittykineticcontemplative

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Iron Monkey
1993 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 91%7.5action · crime · drama

Gritty where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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Training Day
2001 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 74%7.8action · crime · drama

Crime built on stillness, twice over

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

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Lady Snowblood
1973 · dir. Toshiya Fujita
🍅 100%7.6action · crime · drama

Gritty action in both cases

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

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A Colt Is My Passport
1967 · dir. Takashi Nomura
7.4action · crime · drama

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

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A Better Tomorrow
1986 · dir. John Woo
🍅 95%7.4action · crime · drama

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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Bob le Flambeur
1956 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 97%7.6drama · action · crime

Both trade on grit more than on being action

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

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The Street Fighter
1974 · dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
6.9action · crime · thriller

Both keep circling back to yakuza

The difference: Leans further into thriller

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

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Across 110th Street
1972 · dir. Barry Shear
🍅 85%7action · crime · drama

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

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The Man from Hong Kong
1975 · dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
🍅 100%6.5action · crime · adventure

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

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Gone in 60 Seconds
1974 · dir. H.B. Halicki
🍅 43%6.3action · crime · thriller

Crime approached the same way

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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The Killer
1989 · dir. John Woo
🍅 96%7.7action · crime · drama

Both are action through and through

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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Scarface
1983 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 77%8.3action · crime · drama

The same drama instincts

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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