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Movies that feel like Deep Cover (1992)

If you loved Deep Cover, the closest films we have are Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Police Story 2 (1988). All three share Deep Cover's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Starz Amazon Channel and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bill Dukekinetictensegrittyatmospheric

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 62%7.1action · crime · thriller

Both built around neo-noir

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

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Tokyo Drifter
1966 · dir. Seijun Suzuki
🍅 93%7.1thriller · crime · action

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: A 1960s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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Police Story 2
1988 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 84%7.1action · crime · thriller

Police runs into undercover in each of them

The difference: Missing the atmosphere of Deep Cover

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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To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 89%7.3crime · thriller · action

The same preoccupation in both: neo-noir

When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.

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Con Air
1997 · dir. Simon West
🍅 59%6.9action · thriller · crime

Undercover sits at the heart of each

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 “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure 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 — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

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Hard Boiled
1992 · dir. John Woo
🍅 92%7.7action · thriller · crime

Drugs is the engine of both

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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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 43%6.5action · crime · thriller

Both keep circling back to murder

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

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Point Break
1991 · dir. Kathryn Bigelow
🍅 68%7.3action · thriller · crime

Both trade on grit more than on being action

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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Lethal Weapon
1987 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 82%7.6action · thriller · crime

Both keep circling back to police

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

Kinetic thriller 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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Hard Target
1993 · dir. John Woo
🍅 63%6.2action · thriller · crime

Crime built on tension, twice over

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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The Transporter
2002 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 53%6.8action · crime · thriller

Action with a pulse of grit, 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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