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Firestorm (2013)
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Firestorm (2013)
Original name: 風暴
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam, armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This puts the police force to shame and humiliation. A hardboiled senior police inspector Lui, hot on the trails of Nam and his tight crew, determines to put an end to this madness that causes the lives of innocent people. But he soon comes face to face with the cruel reality that the usual police tactics are too futile to send these armed thieves behind bars. Extreme crime requires extreme justice, even if it means crossing his moral line. Tou, an ex-con desperate to leave his criminal past behind, volunteers to be Lui’s snitch in exchange for a fresh start with her girlfriend Bing. But little does he know what hellish situation he’s getting himself into.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, hood, crime drama, realistic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, undercover, master criminal, chase, rivalry, law enforcement, gain trust, swat team, ghetto, gang, gunfight, organized crime, triad, asian, armed forces, gangster, con artists, robbery, twists and turns, chases and races, honest law enforcer, violent content, police officer, security guard, traffic policeman ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: china
Keyword: gangsters, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and exciting films with plots about law enforcement, rivalry, gangster, chases and races, police officer, police and police investigation mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Firestorm: Moving Targets (2004), The Sniper (2009), Eye in the Sky (2007), Century of the Dragon (1999), Special ID (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moving Targets (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kit comes from a very fortunate family, with an outstanding police officer father When the family starts to break up, Man impulsively shot Kit's mother. After Kit's parents divorced, Kit viewed Man his father as an enemy. As an adult, he ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, partner, gangster, betrayal, partners against crime, fall in love, undercover, police corruption, working undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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The Sniper (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who is exacting revenge on the police force.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: sniper, vengeance, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, disagreement, moral dilemma, chase, murder, police, hostage situation, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
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Eye in the Sky (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master criminal, undercover, fighting crime, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, heist, rivalry, working undercover, agent, murder, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Century of the Dragon (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rookie policeman Shing (Louis Koo) grapples with right and wrong in this action-packed story about Hong Kong gangsters. Assigned to go undercover, Shing is so successful in playing the part of a gang member that he becomes right-hand man to gang ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, spy, organized crime, fight club, undercover agent, undercover police officer, criminal heroes, rivalry, law enforcement, hidden identity, unlikely partners ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Special ID (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cop and his team of comrades go undercover in one of China's most ruthless underworld organizations to stop a gang leader, only to put themselves in great danger after being exposed one by one.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police investigation, law enforcement, undercover, gang, rivalry, sniper, fight, kung fu, hardcore, triad, shaolin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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The White Storm (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An operation against the notorious druglord in Thailand changed the destiny of a HK narcotic team- the workaholic captain lost his men and bright career; the loyal officer was abandoned and went missing; the undercover cop who was salvaged chose to ...
Style: crime drama, suspense, rough, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: gunfight, undercover cop, drug, police officer, police shootout, police officer killed, police, swat team, heroic bloodshed, survival, fight, undercover agent ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
Style: rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot: police investigation, tough law enforcer, danger, law enforcement, chase, gangster, police procedural, organized crime, nordic, swedish, criminal, urban ...
Time: 21st century
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Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, triad, police, mob boss, spy, gang war, working undercover, twists and turns, mole, police detective, police investigation, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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Long Arm of the Law: Part 2 (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This sequel to the critically-acclaimed box-office winner Long Arm of the Law maintains the same stark realism of the original. In Saga Two, the Royal Hong Kong Police put into operation a new plan to counteract the problem of increasing violent ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Switch (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In search of an ancient Chinese scroll, a Chinese agent battles against Japanese Yakuzas and British mercenaries.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Sleepless Night (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Vincent is a crooked cop whose drug heist goes wrong when he is stabbed and the criminals he is robbing discover his identity. Vincent escapes with a huge bag of cocaine, but discovers his loot belongs to a powerful mob boss who kidnaps ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, nightclub, kidnapping, law enforcement, crime gone awry, family in danger, cop as target, chase, rivalry, drug dealing, corrupt law enforcer, police corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
China Strike Force (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Chinese Security Officer, Darren, is called for Team 808, which fights against the smuggling of drugs and corruption. Noriko, a Japanese Interpol officer, collaborates with Darren for the destruction of a large international drug cartel. At ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, revenge, murder, police investigation, partner, partners against crime, gang, gangster, secret agent, race against time, undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia, new york, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Black Ransom (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo (Fala Chen) decides to recruit the help of Mann (Simon Yam), a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Heroic Duo (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he's going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police officer, doesn't even remember committing. He seeks out Jack Lai (Lai), a former ...
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Running Out of Time (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
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Style: suspense, neo noir, dramatic, sexy, exciting ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Turning Point (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Laughing (MICHAEL TSE) is formally a police undercover. However due to a drug trafficking case, Inspector Pan (FELIX WONG) is hot on his trails. Before Laughing becomes a police undercover, he works under triad leader Yi (ANTHONY WONG). Yi treats ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
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Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two tactical unit leaders are forced to put aside their differences to help catch a group of robbers.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: rivalry, on the run, partner, law enforcement, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, gang, chases and races, stolen money, partners against crime, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Big Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hotheaded cop Bill Zhu (Lau Ching-wan) gets relegated to the Emergency Unit after a dustup with his inept boss. When the mob kills Zhu's pal and ex-colleague (Francis Ng) during a turf-war hit, he rounds up his motley department cohorts and ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, bloody, neo noir, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong, united kingdom, china, east asia
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51%
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Crossfire (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, small town, chase, police corruption, fighting crime, danger, teamwork, gang, rivalry, cop, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Invisible Target (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Three cops team up to bring down a criminal gang of seven, who have their own hidden agenda.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, chase, gang, car chase, vigilantism, partners against crime, hostage, master criminal, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, fighting crime, law enforcement ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Double Tap (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leslie Cheung plays Rick Pang, an IPSC champion who is also a gun expert who modifies his pistols to perfect his technique known as 'double tap', placing two shots in the same exact spot. In the 1996 IPSC Hong Kong shooting competition, ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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49%
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Drug War (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The taciturn police commander Zhang leads an undercover drugs team and in his continuous battle against the ubiquitous drug barons, takes up arms against his arch enemy, Timmy Choi. When he gets hold of Choi, he makes a deal with him: in exchange ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war on drugs, drug cartel, whistleblower, mole, criminal, recruit, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, triad, gang, shooting ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Billa (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, twists and turns, danger, disorder, hidden identity, criminal heroes, master criminal, chases and races, gangster, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Breaking News (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. While on a separate investigation in a run-down ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: media, police, hostage, chase, on the run, police investigation, shootout, siege, journalism, gang, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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City on Fire (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, action thriller, crime drama, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, heroic bloodshed, heist, gangster, robbery, triad, male bonding, police, police officer, undercover, undercover cop, yakuza ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Lookout (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A major police operation to take down a notorious gang of bank robbers goes horribly wrong when a rooftop sniper opens fire, killing several police officers and causing an explosive distraction in which the robbers make their getaway. Commissioner ...
Style: serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police detective, rivalry, chase, sniper, escapades, violent, nypd, violent content, law enforcement, violence spree, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gangster, secret agent, gang, law enforcement, undercover, secret identity, danger, dishonesty, friends, undercover agent, speed, automobile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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