Movies like Violent Cop

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Violent Cop (1989)
 7.1
 13K
Violent Cop (1989)
Original name: その男、凶暴につき
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results.
Style: neo noir, bloody, detective, bleak, ironic, witty, controversial, hood, suspense thriller, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police corruption, violence, yakuza, drug dealer, police officer, mafia, vigilante, gangster, drug, hitman, criminal, vigilantism, corrupt cop, vengeance, organized crime, shootout, dirty cop, cop, asian, sex, rape, revenge, death, betrayal ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters, reboot, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Violent Cop

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and neo noir films with plots about violence, gangster, police, gang, murder, blood and police officer mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Violent Cop: Ichi the Killer (2001), Outrage (2010), Beyond Outrage (2012), Sonatine (1993), Boiling Point (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ichi the Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style: disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, violence, psychopath, organized crime, gangster, yakuza, massacre, mob boss, danger, rage, insanity, sadism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Outrage (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
Style: serious, tense, cynical, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang member, organized crime, gangster, hanging, gang war, danger, rivalry, gory, merciless, criminal's revenge, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Beyond Outrage (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, danger, elimination, japanese mafia, power struggle, police, organized crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.5
 23K
Sonatine (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
Style: bloody, neo noir, art house, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, beach, death, gang, medieval, gunfight, dark humor, asian gangster, criminal, revenge ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia, okinawa japan, okinawa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Boiling Point (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Style: bloody, art house, neo noir, crime drama, hood ...
Plot: yakuza, revenge, gangster, gang, mafia, sex crime, organized crime, ghetto, asian, car crash, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, okinawa, east asia, asia, okinawa japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.1
 24K
Brother (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.
Style: harsh, intense, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, mafia, culture clash, organized crime, gang, samurai, suicide, sibling relationship, family relations, gang war, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 2K
Contraband (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, rape and revenge, mafia, gangster, chase, law enforcement, gang, rivalry, drug dealing, tough heroes, couple relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.4
 3K
Outrage Coda (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, organized crime, survival, danger, violence, mafia, gunfight, murder, hitman, brutality, gang ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, jeju island
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Out for Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style: detective, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, martial arts, gangster, psychopath, organized crime, aikido, revenge, car chase, shootout, violence, hitman, serial killer ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Code of Silence (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, danger, gangster, murder, betrayal, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
 1K
Tiger Cage (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, heroic, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, police officer, fight club, police, gangster, betrayal, police corruption, frame up, partner, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Style: neo noir, bloody, cult classic, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heroic bloodshed, triad, gunfight, organized crime, police, yakuza, mafia, mobster, hate, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, future, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, taiwan, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.7
 33K
Fireworks (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Style: bleak, art house, lyrical, bloody, emotional ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, police, dying, samurai, loss, death, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, loss of loved one, loss of partner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.4
 4K
Renegades (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style: detective, suspense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, buddy cop, police corruption, car chase, violence, revenge, law enforcement, machismo, partners against crime, reluctant partners, undercover, working undercover ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.7
 13K
Outlaw (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, soldier, betrayal, society, police, vigilante, rivalry, dishonesty, gang, violent, ghetto, vigilantism ...
Place: england, britain, london, big ben london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style: neo noir, controversial, intense, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: chinese mafia, triad, organized crime, culture clash, racism, gangster, sexually frustrated woman, murder, violence, police detective, police corruption, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, china, vietnam, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, triad, lawyer, police officer, gay, sex crime, big city, gangster, chase, police detective, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, taipei, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.2
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Harry Brown (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style: tense, suspense, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, vigilante, murder, revenge, violence, brutality, investigation, gangster, vigilante justice, widower, urban ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, persia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.3
 77K
Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.8
 120K
Street Kings (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective, hood, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, police, corruption, gunfight, violence, police investigation, ghetto, twists and turns, gangster, cop, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Street Fighters (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, urban, rape and revenge, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.1
 18K
36th Precinct (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, violence, dirty cop, twists and turns, police investigation, police, nudity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.7
 222K
Gangster Squad (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style: rough, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, squad, power struggle, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.7
 10K
Until Death (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Van Damme plays a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Style: rough, serious, suspense, action packed, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, vengeance, life is a bitch, police, violence, brutality, heroin addict, betrayal, chase, revenge, martial artist, gory ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.1
 145K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Stone Killer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Style: retro, hood, detective, grindhouse, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, tough guy, war veteran, surveillance, showdown, vigilante, ghetto, cosa nostra, gang, brainwashing, gunfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, vietnam, asia, mojave desert ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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