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Movies that feel like In the Line of Duty 4 (1989)

If you loved In the Line of Duty 4, the closest films we have are Police Story 2 (1988), Ong-Bak (2003) and Point Break (1991). All three share In the Line of Duty 4's kinetic 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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yuen Woo-pingkineticgrittytense
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Police Story 2
1988 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 84%7.1action · crime · thriller

Both built around martial arts

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

Martial arts sits at the heart of each

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

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

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

Tense action, and it commits to that

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

Crime with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

Both trade on grit more than on being thriller

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

Tense action in both cases

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

Crime built on momentum, twice over

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

Gritty thriller in both cases

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

Tense action in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Transporter 2
2005 · dir. Louis Leterrier
6.3action · thriller · crime

Both are action through and through

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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

Crime approached the same way

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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