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Movies that feel like The Boondock Saints (1999)

If you loved The Boondock Saints, the closest films we have are In the Line of Duty 4 (1989), RocknRolla (2008) and Con Air (1997). All three share The Boondock Saints' kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

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.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Troy Duffykinetictensegritty
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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
7.1action · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: detective

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.

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RocknRolla
2008 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 60%7.2action · crime · thriller

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

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

Both are built on the same subject: shootout

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

Action with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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The Outlaws
2017 · dir. Kang Yun-sung
🍅 92%7.2action · crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: detective

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 · dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
🍅 75%7.2action · thriller · crime

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

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

Both lean on tension more than on crime

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

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

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

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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Crank: High Voltage
2009 · dir. Mark Neveldine
🍅 64%6.1action · thriller · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: shootout

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

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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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Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 94%7.3thriller · action · crime

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

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