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Movies that feel likePolice Story: Lockdown (2013)

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

If you loved Police Story: Lockdown, the closest films we have are Enforcement (2020), Chocolate (2008) and Infernal Affairs III (2003). All three share Police Story: Lockdown'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 Law of Tehran (2019).

🍅 25% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ding Shengkineticgrittycontemplative
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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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) · Police Story 4: First Strike (1996) · New Police Story (2004)

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Enforcement
2020 · dir. Anders Ølholm
🍅 82%★ 6.5action · crimeRent or buy

Kinetic and gritty in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · crime

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of Police Story: Lockdown for an angle of its own

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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

Crime built on stillness, twice over

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

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

Both lean on grit more than on drama

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

Contemplative action in both cases

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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Dhoom 3
2013 · dir. Vijay Krishna Acharya
🍅 65%★ 5.4action · crimeNetflix

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Police Story: Lockdown

To avenge his father's death, a circus entertainer trained in magic and acrobatics robs banks to take down a corrupt bank owner. Two cops from Mumbai are assigned to the case.

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

Gritty drama in both cases

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

Another one that scratches it

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

Crime in the same key

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both play action straight

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Police Story: Lockdown does

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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Parker
2013 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 42%★ 6.2action · crime

The same crime instincts

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Action of the same temperament

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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