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Movies that feel likeRonin (1998)

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.

If you loved Ronin, the closest films we have are Den of Thieves (2018), The Boondock Saints (1999) and Dhoom 2 (2006). All three share Ronin's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Infernal Affairs II (2003).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Frankenheimerkinetictensegrittyplayful
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Den of Thieves
2018 · dir. Christian Gudegast
🍅 42%★ 7crime · thriller · action

Common ground in both: heist and shootout

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

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The Boondock Saints
1999 · dir. Troy Duffy
🍅 26%★ 7.6action · thriller · crimePrime VideoHulu

Both are built on the same subject: shootout

The difference: Trades the play of Ronin for an angle of its own

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

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Dhoom 2
2006 · dir. Sanjay Gadhvi
🍅 93%★ 6.6drama · action · thrillerNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: heist

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Ronin does

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

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Hard Target
1993 · dir. John Woo
🍅 63%★ 6.2action · thriller · crimePrime Video

One thread runs through both: mercenary

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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Spy Game
2001 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 64%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

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Ong-Bak
2003 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 85%★ 7.2action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Gritty action in both cases

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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Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · dir. Dominic Sena
🍅 25%★ 6.5action · crime · thriller

Playful thriller, and it commits to that

Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.

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Man on a Ledge
2012 · dir. Asger Leth
🍅 31%★ 6.6action · thriller · crime

Crime built on momentum, twice over

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

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

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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Lethal Weapon 4
1998 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 54%★ 6.6action · crime · thriller

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.

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

Crime with a pulse of momentum, 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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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 93%★ 7action · crime · thriller

A 1990s answer to the same itch

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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