Movies like The Shadow’s Edge (2025)
- Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Country: Hong Kong, China
- Duration: 141 min
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Yadang: The Snitch (2025)Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller • South Korea • 122 min • ★ 6.5Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called “yadang” provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile …
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Protector (2025)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 91 min • ★ 5.2Nikki’s life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
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Wildcat (2025)Action, Crime, Thriller • UK • 99 min • ★ 3.9An ex-black ops team reunite to pull off a desperate heist in order to save the life of their leader’s eight-year-old daughter.
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The Killer (2024)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • South Korea, Canada, USA • 126 min • ★ 5.7An elite Asian assassin risks everything to protect a beautiful singer that he unintentionally blinded, but can only do so with the help of an LAPD detective who is trying to catch him.
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Canary Black (2024)Action, Drama • UK, Croatia, USA • 101 min • ★ 5.3Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the …
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Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)Action, Crime, Thriller • South Korea • 125 min • ★ 6.3Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
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A Day to Die (2022)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 105 min • ★ 3.5A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with …
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Xtreme (2021)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • Spain • 111 min • ★ 5.8Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
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Vanguard (2020)Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller • China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan, UK • 107 min • ★ 4.7Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world’s deadliest mercenary organization.
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The Courier (2019)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • UK • 99 min • ★ 4.8This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier …
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Point Blank (2019)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • France, USA • 86 min • ★ 5.7A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
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S.M.A.R.T. Chase (2017)Action, Crime, Thriller • China • 95 min • ★ 4.5A washed-up private security agent has to escort a valuable Chinese antique out of Shanghai but is ambushed en route.
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The Foreigner (2017)Action, Crime, Thriller • UK, China, USA, India, Switzerland • 113 min • ★ 7.0Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search …
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Shock Wave (2017)Action, Crime, Thriller • Hong Kong, China • 119 min • ★ 6.3When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
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Bleeding Steel (2017)Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller • China, Hong Kong, USA • 109 min • ★ 5.2Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
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Code of Honor (2016)Action, Crime, Thriller • USA • 106 min • ★ 4.1Colonel Robert Sikes is on a mission to rid his city of crime. As a stealthy, one-man assault team, he will take on street gangs, mobsters, and politicians with extreme prejudice until his mission is complete. His former protégé, William Porter, …
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The Asian Connection (2016)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA, Thailand • 90 min • ★ 3.2Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord’s money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang’s vengeance.
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Countdown (2016)Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller • USA • 90 min • ★ 4.7A madman captures a young boy and rigs him with explosives. Ray Fitzpatrick, still haunted by the loss of his own son, will defy orders to stop the clock and save a life
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The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 90 min • ★ 5.2WWE Superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin returns as Jake Carter where he is assigned to protect a whistleblower who wishes to expose a corrupt military defence contractor. However, the military hires a heavily armed team of mercenaries to kill …
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Police Story: Lockdown (2013)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • China, Hong Kong • 110 min • ★ 5.9Lockdown (2013) 5.9 12K Trailer Watchlist
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All Things To All Men (2013)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • UK • 84 min • ★ 4.5A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
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Vendetta (2013)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • UK • 106 min • ★ 5.8Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has …
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Assassination Games (2011)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA, Hong Kong, Romania • 101 min • ★ 6.1Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both …
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New Police Story (2004)Action, Crime, Thriller • Hong Kong, China • 123 min • ★ 6.9Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing (Jackie Chan) needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the …
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Christmas Rush (2002)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 100 min • ★ 5.1In the season of giving, the department took his badge. Criminals took his wife. Now, one cop is taking matters into his own hands
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Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 88 min • ★ 4.3Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she’s hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the …
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Back in Action (1994)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • Canada • 93 min • ★ 5.5Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
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The Defender (1994)Action, Crime, Thriller • Hong Kong • 92 min • ★ 6.4A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness.
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Maximum Force (1992)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 90 min • ★ 4.5Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
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Killpoint (1984)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller • USA • 89 min • ★ 4.4An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife’s killers.
FAQ
What are the best movies similar to The Shadow’s Edge?
The best movies similar to The Shadow’s Edge are Yadang: The Snitch (2025), Police Story: Lockdown (2013), Protector (2025), The Killer (2024) and New Police Story (2004).
What do movies similar to The Shadow’s Edge have in common?
They tend to explore treachery, caper, inquiry and law enforcement with a high-strung, suspense, crime thriller tone.
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