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Movies that feel likeSPL: Kill Zone (2005)

Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.

If you loved SPL: Kill Zone, the closest films we have are New World (2013), Deep Cover (1992) and One False Move (1992). All three share SPL: Kill Zone's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Aura (2005).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Flash Point (2007)

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New World
2013 · dir. Park Hoon-jung
🍅 63%★ 7.5thriller · crime · drama

One thread runs through both: neo-noir

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

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Deep Cover
1992 · dir. Bill Duke
🍅 87%★ 7action · thriller · crime

Common ground: neo-noir

The difference: Easier on the stillness than SPL: Kill Zone

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%★ 7.1crime · drama · thriller

Both land grit and stillness at once

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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The Long Good Friday
1980 · dir. John Mackenzie
🍅 97%★ 7.5crime · thriller · dramaMax

Tense and atmospheric in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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Night Moves
1975 · dir. Arthur Penn
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · crime · drama

Crime built on grit, twice over

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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Pusher II
2004 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 100%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

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Sexy Beast
2001 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 87%★ 7.3crime · thriller · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeMax

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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High Sierra
1941 · dir. Raoul Walsh
🍅 92%★ 7.5crime · drama · action

Kinetic action in both cases

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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The Aura
2005 · dir. Fabián Bielinsky
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of atmosphere, in both cases

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

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Animal Kingdom
2010 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 94%★ 7.2crime · drama

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 62%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerStarz

Kinetic thriller in both cases

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

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