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Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express (1990)
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Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express (1990)
Original name: 省港旗兵第四集地下通道
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The final entry in Michael and Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law series, Underground Express once again tells a story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China. There's some decent action that delivers a high body count, but the rushed production and editing that was obviously and clumsily done to avoid a Category III rating regulates this to being just another average Hong Kong cops and robbers flick.
Style: suspense, heroic, crime drama, poliziottesco, banned
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, martial arts, violence, betrayal, undercover, massacre, boat, sadism, blood, propaganda, war violence, falling from height, child murder, gun fu, bloodbath, chinese army, submachine gun, shot in the chest, shot to death, gore, blood splatter, shot in the head, neck breaking, shot in the back ...
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out heroic, crime drama, realistic and serious films with plots about violence, heroic bloodshed, bloodbath, blood splatter, shot in the chest, blood and shot in the back mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express: Long Arm of the Law: Part 2 (1987), Requital (1992), The Dragon Family (1988), Bullet for Hire (1990), My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Requital (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Heroic Bloodshed movie from 1992
Style: bloody
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Duration: 91 min.
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