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Movies that feel likePusher 3 (2005)

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

If you loved Pusher 3, the closest films we have are Infernal Affairs II (2003), The Yards (2000) and A Simple Plan (1998). All three share Pusher 3's tense and gritty 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).

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nicolas Winding Refnkinetictensegrittywarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Pusher (1996) Β· Pusher II (2004)

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crimeMax

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Pusher 3

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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The Yards
2000 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4crime Β· drama Β· thrillerParamount+

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

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A Simple Plan
1998 Β· dir. Sam Raimi
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· thrillerParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Pusher 3 does

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.

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The Man from Nowhere
2010 Β· dir. Lee Jeong-beom
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7action Β· thriller Β· crimePrime VideoPeacock

One thread runs through both: drugs

A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.

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Cold Eyes
2013 Β· dir. Kim Byung-seo
β˜… 7.1crime Β· action Β· thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.

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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 Β· dir. Anurag Kashyap
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

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Dogville
2003 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 70%β˜… 8crime Β· drama Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Pusher 3 does

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.2action Β· crime Β· thrillerPrime Video

Crime built on tension, twice over

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 Outlaws
2017 Β· dir. Kang Yun-sung
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2action Β· crime Β· thrillerPrime Video

Gritty action, and it commits to that

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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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 Β· dir. Yuen Woo-ping
β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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Bleeder
1999 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
β˜… 6.8drama Β· crime

Nicolas Winding Refn working the same nerve twice

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

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Dead Presidents
1995 Β· dir. Albert Hughes
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.9crime Β· drama Β· actionStarz

Warm crime in both cases

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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