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Movies that feel likeTraining Day (2001)

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

If you loved Training Day, the closest films we have are Elite Squad (2007), The Equalizer 3 (2023) and Brother 2 (2000). All three share Training Day'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 Enforcement (2020).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquakineticgrittycontemplative
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Elite Squad
2007 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 53%★ 8drama · action · crime

A moral rookie gets thrown into brutal, compromised drug-war policing

The difference: Brazilian favela raids replace one dirty detective's single bad day

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

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The Equalizer 3
2023 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 76%★ 6.8action · thriller · crimeMaxHulu

Antoine Fuqua working the same nerve twice

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Training Day does

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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

A grim, morally murky descent into a criminal underworld far from home

The difference: A revenge road trip, no rookie cop or single corrupting day

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

The difference: Trades the stillness of Training Day 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

A cop's double life threatens to collapse under its own corruption

The difference: An undercover-identity thriller, not a single day's education in rot

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

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

Corrupt officials get outmaneuvered by someone playing by their own rules

The difference: Wire-fu period spectacle, nothing like Training Day's street-level grit

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

Kinetic action in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Tombstone
1993 · dir. George P. Cosmatos
🍅 76%★ 7.8western · action

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into western than Training Day does

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

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

A weary narcotics officer chases a drug lord through a corrupt system

The difference: Tehran's prison-and-cartel manhunt trades LA grit for its own brutality

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

Both lean on momentum more than on drama

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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Magnum Force
1973 · dir. Ted Post
🍅 69%★ 7.2drama · crime · action

A lone cop uncovers just how far fellow officers will bend the law

The difference: Vigilante cops picking off criminals, not one detective's private racket

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

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The Boondock Saints
1999 · dir. Troy Duffy
🍅 26%★ 7.6action · thriller · crimePrime VideoHulu

Action built on grit, twice over

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

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