If You Liked Red Heat, Watch These Next
Finished Red Heat (1988) 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 Red Heat, most of them are action, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.We Die Young(2019)
6.8DramaActionCrimeAlso action and crime
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
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2.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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3.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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4.Year of the Dragon(1985)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively…
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5.The Boondock Saints(1999)
7.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and crime
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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6.New Jack City(1991)
6.7ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso 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.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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8.Wake of Death(2004)
6.1ActionAdventureThrillerAlso action
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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9.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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10.Avengement(2019)
6.8CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime and action
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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11.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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12.The 51st State(2001)
6.1ThrillerActionComedyAlso action and crime
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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13.Assassination Games(2011)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Brazil 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 Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge.…
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14.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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15.Hard to Kill(1990)
6.0ActionDramaCrimeAlso action and crime
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in…
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16.Pulp Fiction(1994)
8.5ThrillerCrimeComedyAlso 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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17.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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18.The Untouchables(1987)
7.8CrimeHistoryThrillerAlso crime
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
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19.Revenge of the Ninja(1983)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
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20.The Dead Pool(1988)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.
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