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Movies that feel like Cold Eyes (2013)

If you loved Cold Eyes, the closest films we have are Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Sicario (2015) and John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019). All three share Cold Eyes's gritty and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.

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Fast & Furious 6
2013 · dir. Justin Lin
🍅 71%7action · thriller · crime

Gritty and kinetic in the same breath

Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries; Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

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Sicario
2015 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 91%7.7action · crime · thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being crime

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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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 89%7.4action · thriller · crime

Action built on grit, twice over

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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The Fate of the Furious
2017 · dir. F. Gary Gray
🍅 67%6.6action · crime · thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.

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The Raid
2012 · dir. Gareth Evans
🍅 87%7.6action · thriller · crime

Tense crime in both cases

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

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Taken 2
2012 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 22%6.2action · crime · thriller

Action with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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The Raid 2
2014 · dir. Gareth Evans
🍅 82%7.9action · crime · thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

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Bad Boys for Life
2020 · dir. Bilall Fallah
🍅 76%6.5thriller · action · crime

Tense crime in both cases

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 · dir. Isaac Florentine
🍅 100%6.1action · crime · thriller

The same crime instincts

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

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Ong-Bak
2003 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 85%7.1action · crime · thriller

Cut from the same action cloth

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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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 84%8action · crime · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

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John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 94%7.6action · thriller · crime

Both are crime through and through

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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