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Movies that feel like Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)

If you loved Police Story 4: First Strike, the closest films we have are The Man from Hong Kong (1975), The Myth (2005) and Vanguard (2020). All three share Police Story 4: First Strike's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

πŸ… 52% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Laikineticepicwittyplayfulgrittycontemplative

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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· New Police Story (2004) Β· Police Story: Lockdown (2013)

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The Man from Hong Kong
1975 Β· dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.5action Β· crime Β· adventure

The same two preoccupations: australia, and martial arts

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

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The Myth
2005 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 20%β˜… 6.1action Β· adventure Β· comedy

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai working the same nerve twice

The difference: Without the same grit

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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Vanguard
2020 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 29%β˜… 4.7action Β· adventure Β· comedy

Both are Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Lighter on stillness

Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 Β· dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.2crime Β· action Β· comedy

Common ground: martial arts

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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Rumble in the Bronx
1995 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8crime Β· action Β· comedy

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

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Yes, Madam!
1985 Β· dir. Corey Yuen
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· crime

Both land play and grit at once

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women copsβ€”one Chinese, one Britishβ€”are on the case.

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Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
2018 Β· dir. Yuen Woo-ping
β˜… 6.5action Β· crime Β· drama

Contemplative action in both cases

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2010s show

Following his defeat by Master Ip, Cheung Tin Chi tries to make a life with his young son in Hong Kong, waiting tables at a bar that caters to expats. But it's not long before the mix of foreigners, money, and triad leaders draw him once again to the fight.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 Β· dir. Michel Hazanavicius
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7crime Β· action Β· adventure

Both are built on the same subject: secret agent

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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I Went Down
1997 Β· dir. Paddy Breathnach
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· crime

Comedy built on momentum, twice over

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Kung Fu Yoga
2017 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.2comedy Β· mystery Β· family

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as mystery first

Two professors team up to locate a lost treasure and embark on an adventure that takes them from a Tibetan ice cave to Dubai, and to a mountain temple in India.

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Twin Dragons
1992 Β· dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.4action Β· comedy Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Who Am I?
1998 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.8adventure Β· action Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: secret agent

A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.

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