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Movies that feel like Branded to Kill (1967)

If you loved Branded to Kill, the closest films we have are Tokyo Drifter (1966), Lethal Weapon (1987) and Police Story 2 (1988). All three share Branded to Kill's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Seijun Suzukitensegrittykinetic

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If Branded to Kill hit the spot, these will too

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Tokyo Drifter
1966 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· crime Β· action

Seijun Suzuki working the same nerve twice

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

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Lethal Weapon
1987 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.6action Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense and gritty in the same breath

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.

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

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

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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Point Break
1991 Β· dir. Kathryn Bigelow
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 Β· dir. Chad Stahelski
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6action Β· thriller Β· crime

Hitman runs into organized crime in each of them

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

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

Organized crime sits at the heart of each

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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Hard Boiled
1992 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.7action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both trade on grit more than on being action

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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The Transporter
2002 Β· dir. Corey Yuen
πŸ… 53%β˜… 6.8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Kinetic thriller in both cases

Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 Β· dir. Chad Stahelski
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

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

Action built on grit, twice over

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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Sicario
2015 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both built around assassin

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Ong-Bak
2003 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

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