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Movies that feel likeCrank: High Voltage (2009)

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.

If you loved Crank: High Voltage, the closest films we have are RocknRolla (2008), Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012) and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019). All three share Crank: High Voltage's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013).

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark Neveldinekinetictensegritty
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Paramount Plus Premium

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gang

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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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 · dir. Anurag Kashyap
🍅 91%★ 8.2action · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: gang

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%★ 7action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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

Gritty action in both cases

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

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

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

Crime built on tension, twice over

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 Mechanic
2011 · dir. Simon West
🍅 54%★ 6.5action · thriller · crimeParamount+

One thread runs through both: prostitute

Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.

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

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Safe
2012 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 59%★ 6.5action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on crime

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

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

Action built on grit, twice over

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

The same preoccupation in both: flashback

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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