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Movies that feel likeThe Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing

If you loved The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the closest films we have are Crank: High Voltage (2009), The Roundup: No Way Out (2023) and Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013). All three share The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Premium Rush (2012).

🍅 37% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Justin Linkineticgrittytense
11 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Fast and the Furious (2001) · 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) · Fast & Furious (2009) · Fast Five (2011) · Fast & Furious 6 (2013) · Furious 7 (2015)

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

Both land momentum and grit at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Common ground: egotistical

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 · dir. Isaac Florentine
🍅 100%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Action built on tension, twice over

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

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The Last Stand
2013 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 61%★ 6.3action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts.

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

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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Premium Rush
2012 · dir. David Koepp
🍅 75%★ 6.5crime · action · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on action

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

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Taken 2
2012 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 22%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerMax

Kinetic crime in both cases

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

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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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 51%★ 6.4crime · thriller · action

Tense action, and it commits to that

Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

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From Paris with Love
2010 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 37%★ 6.4action · crime · thriller

Cut from the same crime cloth

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 37%★ 6.2action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

Both are thriller through and through

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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

Action approached the same way

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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