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Movies that feel like New Police Story (2004)

If you loved New Police Story, the closest films we have are A Better Tomorrow (1986), Naked Weapon (2002) and Game of Death (1978). All three share New Police Story's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 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.

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

πŸ… 63% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Benny Chankinetictensegrittycontemplativerelentless

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Police Story (1985) Β· Police Story 2 (1988) Β· Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992) Β· Police Story 4: First Strike (1996) Β· Police Story: Lockdown (2013)

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A Better Tomorrow
1986 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· drama

The same city underneath both: Hong Kong

The difference: Reviewed even better

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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Naked Weapon
2002 Β· dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung
β˜… 5.5action Β· drama Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: martial arts and revenge

The difference: Missing the grit of New Police Story

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.

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Game of Death
1978 Β· dir. Robert Clouse
πŸ… 38%β˜… 5.9drama Β· action Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: action hero

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

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

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The Protector
2005 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 53%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· drama

Common ground: fighter

A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.

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The Square
2008 Β· dir. Nash Edgerton
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.7crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

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A Bittersweet Life
2005 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5action Β· drama Β· crime

Both land momentum and grit at once

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

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Rolling Thunder
1977 Β· dir. John Flynn
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.9drama Β· thriller Β· action

Tense where it counts, contemplative underneath

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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The Killer
1989 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

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Below Zero
2021 Β· dir. LluΓ­s QuΓ­lez
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on relentlessness more than on action

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

One thread runs through both: gangster

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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Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: martial arts

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

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The Furious
2026 Β· dir. Kenji Tanigaki
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.

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