If You Liked Year of the Dragon, Watch These Next
Finished Year of the Dragon (1985) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Year of the Dragon, most of them are action, crime, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Shepherd: Border Patrol(2008)
6.2ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
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2.Dark Angel(1990)
6.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
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3.Exit Wounds(2001)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally…
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4.Until Death(2007)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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5.The Corruptor(1999)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
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6.New Jack City(1991)
6.7ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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7.Close Range(2015)
6.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
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8.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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9.Kiss of the Dragon(2001)
6.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
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10.Pulp Fiction(1994)
8.5ThrillerCrimeComedyAlso thriller and crime
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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11.The Protector(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeAlso action and crime
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug…
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12.Wake of Death(2004)
6.1ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action and thriller
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
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14.Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty…
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15.Out for Justice(1991)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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16.El padrino: The Latin Godfather(2004)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he…
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17.Al Capone(1959)
6.6ActionAdventureCrimeAlso action and crime
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably…
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18.The French Connection(1971)
7.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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19.The Boondock Saints(1999)
7.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes…
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20.Night Train(2023)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Mother Holly McCord is driven to extremes to save the life of her young son. Even if it means hauling black market drugs in her souped-up truck, with the Feds in hot pursuit. With two bounties on her head and her son’s life on the line, Holly climbs behind the wheel of “Night Train,” ready to outrun, out gun, and…
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