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Movies that feel like Brother 2 (2000)

If you loved Brother 2, the closest films we have are Iron Monkey (1993), Infernal Affairs III (2003) and Law of Tehran (2019). All three share Brother 2's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Aleksei Balabanovkineticgrittycontemplative

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

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

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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Infernal Affairs III
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
6.8crime · drama · action

Both lean on stillness more than on action

Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.

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Law of Tehran
2019 · dir. Saeed Roustaee
🍅 95%7.8action · crime · drama

Crime built on momentum, twice over

Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · dir. Kinji Fukasaku
7.4crime · action · drama

Gritty drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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

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Police Story: Lockdown
2013 · dir. Ding Sheng
🍅 25%5.9action · crime · drama

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.

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Furioza
2021 · dir. Cyprian T. Olencki
6.3action · crime · drama

Crime with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail.

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Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
2018 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
6.5action · crime · drama

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

Following his defeat by Master Ip, Cheung Tin Chi tries to make a life with his young son in Hong Kong, waiting tables at a bar that caters to expats. But it's not long before the mix of foreigners, money, and triad leaders draw him once again to the fight.

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Little Caesar
1931 · dir. Mervyn LeRoy
🍅 96%7.2drama · crime · action

Contemplative action in both cases

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%6.9action · crime

Both working the same crime territory

The difference: None of the stillness Brother 2 is built on

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · dir. Mauro Lima
7.2crime · drama

Drama approached the same way

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

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Enforcement
2020 · dir. Frederik Louis Hviid
🍅 82%6.5action · crime

Both are action through and through

The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

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Elite Squad
2007 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 53%8drama · action · crime

Crime in the same key

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

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