Movies like New York Cop

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New York Cop (1993)
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New York Cop (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America and working with the New York City police. After being recommended for undercover work, Toshi decides to go after a gang lead by Hawk. Hawk and Toshi soon become friends, although Hawk's second-in-command, Tito, is suspicious of the newcomer. Will Toshi be able to bring the gang down, or will his cover be blown before he can finish the assignment?
Style: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, woman with a gun, cop, martial arts, gang, friendship, betrayal, friends, gory, undercover, vengeance, rivalry, working undercover, law enforcement, police station, fighting crime, partner, police detective, gangster, violent content, sex, police, violence, female nudity, organized crime ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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Most similar movies to New York Cop

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, gangster, working undercover, gang, undercover and dishonesty mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like New York Cop: The Tracker (2001), Cartel War (2010), The Wrecking Crew (2000), Mask of the Ninja (2008), Beyond the Trophy (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, hand to hand combat, gunfight, russian mafia, gangster, gang, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, private detective ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
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Cartel War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: working undercover, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, revenge, male female relationship, police, murder, friendship, war on drugs, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Wrecking Crew (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, partner, hip hop, gang war ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, rivalry, undercover, vengeance, police investigation, gangster, curses spells and rituals, ghost, murder, law enforcement, gory ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Beyond the Trophy (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, led by Gino (Robert Miano) and Cole (Michael Madsen), are vying for control. Danny (Michael Masini), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman in danger, love triangle, obsession, dangerous attraction, gangster, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, gang, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ambushed (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the frenetic underbelly of Los Angeles, Agent Maxwell closes in on an international cocaine smuggling operation run by criminal mastermind Vincent Camastra. When Agent Beverly Royce goes undercover with the drug dealers and finds herself deeper ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, law enforcement, rivalry, lapd, working undercover, police corruption, special agent, swat team, strip club, nypd, armed forces, die hard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.3
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Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, betrayal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.5
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Underground (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: black, buddy cop, die hard, cop, murder, chases and races, hotshot hero, hip hop, vengeance, urban ghetto life, investigation, chase ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Catch the Heat (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and ...
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, women, female fight, undercover cop, undercover, partner, police detective, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, switching roles ...
Time: 80s
Place: latin america, san francisco, argentina
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30%
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Stiletto Dance (2001)
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police detective, adultery, infidelity, gangster, fighting crime, police investigation, working undercover, partner, rivalry, master criminal, law enforcement, police corruption ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, undercover, gang, fighting crime, heist, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, working undercover ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Blue Tiger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a halloween mask, her son is accidently shot through the chest by a Japanese Gunman, trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gena notices that ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, mafia, revenge, death of son, gangster, strong female presence, martial arts, hitman, on the run, lone wolves, chases and races ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female fighter, good versus evil, female fight, woman with a gun, righting the wronged, fighting crime, chases and races, on the run, witnessing a crime, gang, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Saints and Sinners (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friends, couples, love triangle, working undercover, friendship, drug abuse, going straight, dishonesty, master criminal, love and romance, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Killers Edge (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer, vietnam veteran, fbi, counterfeiter, cop, special agent, rivalry, betrayal, confined, forgery, undercover, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Martial Law (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An undercover cop teams up with a martial-arts expert to stop a gang of drug smugglers and car thieves.
Style: perverse, retro, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, undercover, female fighter, lapd, female fight, warrior, martial artist, police, showdown, martial law, fistfight, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Last Riders (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, gang, bike, gangster, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, law enforcement, revenge, police, death of family, deadly
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Go Fast (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, law enforcement, drug dealing, rivalry, gang, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, undercover, police procedural, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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27%
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Madso's War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, betrayal, murder, violence, mafia, gunfight, bandit, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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26%
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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26%
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The Big Score (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gang, strong violent content, profanity, nudity, partner, violent content, vengeance, drug dealing, fighting crime, partners against crime, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Family (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, organized crime, mafia, rape, assassin, nurse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Fast Lane (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A high-speed accident on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings of sexy all-girl crews. Brandy Martinez, a young streetwise cop is assigned by lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) to go undercover and ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, working undercover, chases and races, car chase, danger, partner, love and romance, car, woman with a gun, car race, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.1
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Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Over the next 72 days, Detective Woo will push his skills to the limits and his team of cops to the edge as they conduct a manhunt for an elusive criminal. Woo takes the law into his own hands as the hunt becomes personal, and as his target may get ...
Style: stylized, neo noir, fast, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, kung fu, gangster, chase, police, cop, police detective, manhunt, partner, law enforcement, vengeance, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, disturbing, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, medieval, exploitation, kung fu, yakuza, karate, fight, knight, underground, vigilante, mixed martial arts, badass ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, mafia, profanity, conspiracy, sexual content, violent content, hitman, tough heroes, dishonesty, friendship, law enforcement, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal's revenge, gang, vengeance, criminal heroes, partner, frame up, heist, prison, undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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