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Movies that feel likeRumble in the Bronx (1995)

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.

If you loved Rumble in the Bronx, the closest films we have are Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992), Desperado (1995) and Riders of Justice (2020). All three share Rumble in the Bronx'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 Rolling Thunder (1977).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Laigrittykineticwittyplayfultenserelentless
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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 93%★ 7action · crime · thriller

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the wit than Rumble in the Bronx

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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Desperado
1995 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 71%★ 7.1thriller · action · crimePrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

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Riders of Justice
2020 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 96%★ 7.5action · comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Rumble in the Bronx does

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

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Below Zero
2021 · dir. Lluís Quílez
🍅 86%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerNetflix

The same mix in both: grit, then momentum

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

When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.

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Rolling Thunder
1977 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 82%★ 6.9drama · thriller · action

Both land tension and relentlessness at once

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.

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The Furious
2026 · dir. Kenji Tanigaki
🍅 98%★ 7.2action · crime · thrillerStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.

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The Green Hornet
2011 · dir. Michel Gondry
🍅 45%★ 5.8action · crime · comedy

Common ground: martial arts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.

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Run All Night
2015 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 6.6action · crime · thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

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Crank
2006 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 62%★ 6.9action · thriller · crime

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

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The Man from Nowhere
2010 · dir. Lee Jeong-beom
🍅 100%★ 7.7action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

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Blue Ruin
2014 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 96%★ 7.1crime · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: vigilante

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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