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Shock Wave 2 (2020)
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Shock Wave 2 (2020)
Original name: 拆彈專家2
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, bomb disposal officer Poon Shing-Fung got caught in the blast and lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to post-traumatic amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization's schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, could possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: amnesia, bomb, police officer killed, police shootout, memory loss, undercover, escapades, danger, false accusation, undercover cop, war, swat team, judiciary, die hard, drone, terrorist attack, airplane, terrorist, police officer, train, cat, police, medicine, hostage, hotel ...
Place: china, hong kong, nepal
Keyword: salute

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and serious films with plots about police, police officer, danger, rivalry, police officer killed, law enforcement and gangster mostly in Crime, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shock Wave 2: Eye in the Sky (2007), The White Storm (2013), The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019), Big Bullet (1996), Firestorm (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Shock Wave (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: bomb, swat team, revenge, police officer, secret police, mercenary, hostage, gunfight, murder, police officer taken hostage, police shootout, asian ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
41%
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: police officer, swat team, criminal's revenge, gang leader, gang war, crime boss, gang, manhunt, murderer, gang member, criminal gang, bandit ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, swat team, heist, police, violent content, law enforcement, workplace, chases and races, danger, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong, united kingdom, china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
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Firestorm (2013)
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 ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, master criminal, undercover, gain trust, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, gunfight, organized crime, gang, triad, armed forces ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Chasing the Dragon (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: organized crime, triad, martial arts, police officer, police shootout, police corruption, police officer killed, escapades, murder, rivalry, danger, drug dealing ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: hong kong, china, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Running Out of Time (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Style: suspense, neo noir, dramatic, sexy, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terminal illness, thief, heist, revenge, cross dressing, race against time, chase, swat team, heroic bloodshed, buddy cop, gunfight, die hard ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Leakers (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police, conspiracy, police officer, sleuth, criminal, investigation, fighting crime, evil plot, police investigation, epidemic, hacker, crime investigation ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Blind Detective (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blind character, police investigation, partner, twists and turns, dark humor, disability, blindness, danger, blind man, gambling, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hijacked (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, save the day, danger, secret agent, hijacking, confined, rivalry, air disaster, police officer, murder, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
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Three (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Realising that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to buy time ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, heroic
Plot: police officer, husband wife relationship, police detective, robbery, policewoman, gangster, police, police shootout, triad, gunfight, woman with a gun, heroic bloodshed ...
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.1
 3K
Overheard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story revolves around three members of a police surveillance squad conducting an investigation into a financial investment group involved in criminal fraud. The focus of the plot, however, is actually on the three officers themselves who stumble ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: police investigation, partner, corporate crime, undercover, dishonesty, secretly observing, business, danger, rivalry, espionage, hustler, stock market ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mole, police, triad, organized crime, gangster, undercover, betrayal, mob boss, mafia, double life, cop, corruption ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, year 2004, future, 2000s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Sniper (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Project Gutenberg (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
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Story: The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" (Chow Yun-fat). The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: counterfeit money, gang, police, painting, undercover agent, heist, investigation, gang leader, rivalry, danger, escapades, organized crime ...
Place: hong kong, china, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this suspenseful crime thriller, Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by six unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. The story is based on the 2004 real-life celebrity kidnapping case in China.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: ransom demand, manhunt, race against time, police, investigation, businessman, abduction, blackmail, danger, kidnapping, mafia, impersonating a police officer ...
Place: china, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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 ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Myanmar
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A car crash sparks a war between local police and an international terrorist organization.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: police, corruption, police corruption, corrupt cop, police officer, terrorist plot, police investigation, war on terror, police station, investigation, counter terrorism
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Full Alert (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. Jockey Club
Style: heroic, neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting ...
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Plot: heroic bloodshed, car chase, cop, triad, heist, battles, chases and races, gang, law enforcement, danger, confined, on the run ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Last Three Days (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After getting mixed up with a dangerous crime syndicate, an undercover cop wakes up to discover he is missing his partner, his wife, and three days of his life.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: undercover, undercover agent, organized crime, fighting crime, danger, spy, working undercover, dishonesty, amnesia, life & death, mysterious disappearance, espionage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Last Blood (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tam is Lui Tai, an Interpol agent assigned to protect a famous religious leader, the Daka Lama, who's targeted for death by the militant Japanese terrorist group, the Red Army. Lui Tai hooks up with the Daka Lama in Singapore, but a Red Army ...
Style: heroic, bloody, fast, realistic, serious ...
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Time: 90s
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
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Singam (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The story, set in the backdrop of Nallore, a small town in Thoothukudi District, revolves around Sub-Inspector Durai Singam (Surya), a brave and just policeman who serves in his hometown primarily to fulfill his father’s (Radha Ravi) wish. Durai ...
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Plot: chase, police investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, fall in love, danger, police officer, crime boss, police, murder, abduction, exploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Hong Kong cop named Kit busts a major gangster only to find his cover blown and his main witness gone. The gangster, in retaliation, has him kidnapped and put in a Thai jail with a false criminal identity. A lowly prison guard Chai with ...
Style: crime drama, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, drug addict, medieval, police officer, police officer killed, murder, torture, prison escape, fight, bandit, crime boss, gang ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china, hong kong, bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
 6.2
 710
Purple Storm (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total amnesiac, Todd wakes from a coma to find he's been ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, cambodia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Final Option (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A look at the SDU in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force - how members are selected, how they are trained, their lives, what they think, the relationships between SDU members and their friends and the pressures they face.
Plot: swat team, swat, army life, impersonating a police officer, police shootout, police officer, police officer killed, police, police officer shot in the back, police uniform stolen, police officer shot in the chest, killed in police car ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fulltime Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's ...
Style: tense, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, gunfight, dark hero, police detective, assassin, danger, rivalry, heroic bloodshed, fall in love, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, hong kong, china, asia, malaysia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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