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Movies that feel likeThe Shadow's Edge (2025)

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

If you loved The Shadow's Edge, the closest films we have are Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), The Fast and the Furious (2001) and Creed III (2023). All three share The Shadow's Edge's kinetic and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024).

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 91%★ 8drama · action · crime

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

The difference: Trades the tension of The Shadow's Edge for an angle of its own

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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The Fast and the Furious
2001 · dir. Rob Cohen
🍅 56%★ 6.8action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nostalgic

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

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Creed III
2023 · dir. Michael B. Jordan
🍅 89%★ 6.7drama · actionPrime VideoHulu

Both land momentum and stillness at once

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

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

The same preoccupation in both: dramatic

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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Promising Young Woman
2020 · dir. Emerald Fennell
🍅 90%★ 7.5thriller · crime · dramaPeacock

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

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Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 · dir. Danila Kozlovsky
★ 5.2drama · history · actionPrime Video

Both lean on wistfulness more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to history than The Shadow's Edge does

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

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Facing El Chapo
2026 · dir. Chava Cartas
★ 6.7crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Two Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.

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KILL
2024 · dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
🍅 90%★ 7.4action · crime · thrillerHulu

Tense thriller in both cases

When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

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Boyhood
2014 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 97%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Different title, same corner of the shelf

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 · dir. Pat Boonnitipat
🍅 98%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Wistful crime, and it commits to that

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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