swap_horiz Infernal Affairs III Alternatives

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Pixote

Pixote is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama by Hector Babenco about street children in Sao Paulo, noted for its harsh realist...

Crime Drama 1980S Street Brazilian

8.2 Great

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity is Kinji Fukasaku's 1973 Japanese yakuza film, the first of a five-part series based...

Classic Japanese Yakuza Gangster

8.1 Great

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Carlos

Carlos is a 2010 crime thriller by Olivier Assayas about Venezuelan militant Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the...

French True Crime Biographical 2010S

8.0 Great

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Election 2

Election 2 is Johnnie To's 2006 Hong Kong triad film, a sequel also released as Triad Election and selected for the Cann...

Gangster 2000S Sequel Hong Kong

7.9 Good

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Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin is Jeremy Saulnier's 2013 American revenge thriller, a Kickstarter-backed independent film that won a FIPRESCI...

INDIE Crime Drama Revenge Thriller

7.8 Good

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Infernal Affairs II

Infernal Affairs II is a 2003 Hong Kong crime drama by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, a prequel tracing the moles before Infer...

2000S Prequel Hong Kong Undercover

7.7 Good

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Drug War

Drug War is Johnnie To's 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong crime thriller, following a police captain's bargain with a meth-ring op...

Police Hong Kong 2010S Drug Trafficking

7.5 Good

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a 2008 French crime biopic by Jean-Francois Richet about Jacques Mesrine's rise as a violent...

French True Crime Gangster 2000S

7.5 Good

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Exiled

Exiled is Johnnie To's 2006 Hong Kong action crime film set in 1998 Macau, where hitmen confront loyalty before the hand...

Gangster 2000S Hong Kong Hitman

7.4 Good

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A Dirty Carnival

A Dirty Carnival is a 2006 South Korean crime drama by Yoo Ha about a low-ranking gangster trying to climb Seoul's under...

Korean Organized Crime Crime Drama Gangster

7.4 Good

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Running Out of Time

Running Out of Time is Johnnie To's 1999 Hong Kong thriller, a 72-hour duel between a dying criminal and a police negoti...

Police 1990S Hong Kong Heist

7.3 Good

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Romanzo Criminale

Romanzo Criminale is Michele Placido's 2005 Italian crime drama, based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's novel inspired by the B...

Italian Organized Crime Gangster 2000S

7.3 Good

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PTU

PTU is Johnnie To's 2003 Hong Kong neo-noir crime film, set over one night as police search for a sergeant's missing rev...

Police Gangster 2000S Hong Kong

7.1 Good

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SPL: Kill Zone

SPL: Kill Zone is Wilson Yip's 2005 Hong Kong action crime film, starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Wu Jing...

Action Police 2000S Hong Kong

7.0 Good

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The Roundup: No Way Out

The Roundup: No Way Out is Lee Sang-yong's 2023 South Korean action crime sequel, following Ma Seok-do into a cross-bord...

Korean Police Gangster Sequel

6.9 Fair

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The French Connection II

French Connection II is John Frankenheimer's 1975 sequel, sending Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle to Marseille to pursue Ala...

Police 1970S Sequel Marseille

6.7 Fair

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The Roundup: Punishment

The Roundup: Punishment is a 2024 South Korean action crime film by Heo Myung-haeng, the fourth Crime City entry, tied t...

Korean Police Gangster Sequel

6.7 Fair

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Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's 2012 Japanese yakuza film, the second Outrage entry and a Venice Film Festival compet...

Japanese Yakuza Gangster Sequel

6.7 Fair

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Believer

Believer is Lee Hae-young's 2018 South Korean action crime film, a remake of Johnnie To's Drug War and Kim Joo-hyuk's fi...

Korean Crime Thriller Undercover 2010S

6.5 Fair

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Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda is Takeshi Kitano's 2017 Japanese yakuza film, the third Outrage entry and an out-of-competition Venice pre...

Japanese Yakuza Gangster Sequel

6.4 Fair