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Movies that feel likeThe Fast and the Furious (2001)

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

If you loved The Fast and the Furious, the closest films we have are The Shadow's Edge (2025), Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) and Infernal Affairs II (2003). All three share The Fast and the Furious' kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Boondock Saints (1999).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Cohenkineticgrittytensewistful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) · The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) · Fast & Furious (2009) · Fast Five (2011) · Fast & Furious 6 (2013) · Furious 7 (2015)

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The Shadow's Edge
2025 · dir. Larry Yang
🍅 82%★ 7.1action · crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 91%★ 8drama · action · crime

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Fast and the Furious does

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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

One thread runs through both: undercover

The difference: Trades the wistfulness of The Fast and the Furious for an angle of its own

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: undercover

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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Commando
1985 · dir. Mark L. Lester
🍅 70%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Fast and the Furious does

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.

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The Transporter
2002 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 53%★ 6.8action · crime · thriller

Action built on grit, twice over

Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

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2002 · dir. Rob Cohen
🍅 48%★ 5.9action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

The same hand behind both of them: Rob Cohen

Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.

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Swordfish
2001 · dir. Dominic Sena
🍅 27%★ 6.5action · crime · thriller

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.

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S.W.A.T.
2003 · dir. Clark Johnson
🍅 48%★ 6.1action · thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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

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

Thriller built on grit, twice over

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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