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Movies that feel like Dhurandhar (2025)

If you loved Dhurandhar, the closest films we have are Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024), Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012) and Cold Eyes (2013). All three share Dhurandhar's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

In the early 2000s, an undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld, breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.

8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Aditya Dharkineticgrittytense
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In poster
🍅 90%6.9action · crime · thriller

Kinetic and gritty in the same breath

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 · dir. Anurag Kashyap
🍅 91%8.2action · thriller · crime

Tense action, and it commits to that

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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Cold Eyes
2013 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
7.1crime · action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on crime

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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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%6crime · action · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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The Outlaws
2017 · dir. Kang Yun-sung
🍅 92%7.2action · crime · thriller

Tense action in both cases

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

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

Crime built on momentum, twice over

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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Kill
2024 · dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
🍅 90%7.4action · crime · thriller

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Dhurandhar does

When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 75%7.2action · thriller · crime

Action built on tension, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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Kill Boksoon
2023 · dir. Byun Sung-hyun
🍅 79%6.6action · drama · thriller

The same crime instincts

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gore

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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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%7action · crime · thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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

Both are action through and through

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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