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Movies that feel likeTraining Day (2001)

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

If you loved Training Day, the closest films we have are Elite Squad (2007), Brother 2 (2000) and Infernal Affairs III (2003). All three share Training Day'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 Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquakineticgrittycontemplative
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Elite Squad
2007 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 53%★ 8drama · action · crime

A moral rookie gets thrown into brutal, compromised drug-war policing

The difference: Brazilian favela raids replace one dirty detective's single bad day

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

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Brother 2
2000 · dir. Aleksei Balabanov
★ 7.6action · crime · drama

A grim, morally murky descent into a criminal underworld far from home

The difference: A revenge road trip, no rookie cop or single corrupting day

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

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Infernal Affairs III
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
★ 6.8crime · drama · actionMax

A cop's double life threatens to collapse under its own corruption

The difference: An undercover-identity thriller, not a single day's education in rot

Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.

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Iron Monkey
1993 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 91%★ 7.5action · crime · drama

Corrupt officials get outmaneuvered by someone playing by their own rules

The difference: Wire-fu period spectacle, nothing like Training Day's street-level grit

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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Law of Tehran
2019 · dir. Saeed Roustaee
🍅 95%★ 7.7action · crime · dramaRent or buy

A weary narcotics officer chases a drug lord through a corrupt system

The difference: Tehran's prison-and-cartel manhunt trades LA grit for its own brutality

Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...

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Southpaw
2015 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 59%★ 7.3action · dramaStarz

Same director stages another life spiraling out under pressure and violence

The difference: A boxer's fall and comeback, no corrupt mentor or drug-world stakes

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

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Magnum Force
1973 · dir. Ted Post
🍅 69%★ 7.2drama · crime · action

A lone cop uncovers just how far fellow officers will bend the law

The difference: Vigilante cops picking off criminals, not one detective's private racket

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

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Police Story: Lockdown
2013 · dir. Ding Sheng
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · crime · dramaPrime Video

A police officer's day turns into a trap he never saw coming

The difference: A hostage siege thriller, not a slow-burn tour of institutional rot

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.

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Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
2018 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
★ 6.5action · crime · dramaPrime VideoHulu

Both land momentum and grit at once

Following his defeat by Master Ip, Cheung Tin Chi tries to make a life with his young son in Hong Kong, waiting tables at a bar that caters to expats. But it's not long before the mix of foreigners, money, and triad leaders draw him once again to the fight.

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Furioza
2021 · dir. Cyprian T. Olencki
★ 6.3action · crime · dramaNetflix

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · dir. Kinji Fukasaku
★ 7.4crime · action · drama

Crime built on momentum, twice over

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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Blow
2001 · dir. Ted Demme
🍅 56%★ 7.5crime · drama

A rise-and-fall trip through the drug trade's real human wreckage

The difference: Decades-spanning biography, not a single day gone catastrophically wrong

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

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