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Movies that feel likePolice Story 4: First Strike (1996)

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realises that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

If you loved Police Story 4: First Strike, the closest films we have are Rumble in the Bronx (1995), The Man from Hong Kong (1975) and OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006). All three share Police Story 4: First Strike'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 I Went Down (1997).

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Laikineticepicwittyplayfulgrittycontemplative
6 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · OVID · AMC+

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Police Story (1985) · Police Story 2 (1988) · Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992) · New Police Story (2004) · Police Story: Lockdown (2013)

Rumble in the Bronx poster
Rumble in the Bronx
1995 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 81%★ 6.8crime · action · comedy

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

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The Man from Hong Kong
1975 · dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
🍅 100%★ 6.5action · crime · adventurePrime Video

The same two preoccupations: australia, and martial arts

The difference: Lighter on wit

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%★ 7crime · action · adventure

Both are built on the same subject: secret agent

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both land momentum and wit at once

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%★ 7.2action · adventure · comedy

Epic where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Played as western first

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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Yes, Madam!
1985 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Common ground: martial arts

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

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Vanguard
2020 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 29%★ 4.7action · adventure · comedy

Both are Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

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The Myth
2005 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 20%★ 6.1action · adventure · comedy

Action built on stillness, twice over

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 · dir. Sammo Hung
🍅 45%★ 6.3crime · action · comedy

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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Taxi 2
2000 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
★ 6.5action · comedy · adventure

Adventure with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Twin Dragons
1992 · dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
🍅 43%★ 6.4action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both lean on wit more than on crime

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 6.7western · comedy · adventure

Epic drama in both cases

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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