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Movies Like The Art of War

If you liked The Art of War (2000), a action and thriller movie directed by Christian Duguay, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Replacement Killers

    The Replacement Killers (1998)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and crime

    Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's…

  2. 2Dark Angel

    Dark Angel (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10Also 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…

  3. 3Wanted

    Wanted (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action and thriller

    Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a…

  4. 4The Corruptor

    The Corruptor (1999)

    ★ 6.1/10Also 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…

  5. 5Out for Justice

    Out for Justice (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also 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.

  6. 6The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  7. 7Wake of Death

    Wake of Death (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10Also 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…

  8. 8Payback

    Payback (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and crime

    With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless…

  9. 9Kiss of the Dragon

    Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also 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.

  10. 10Cop Land

    Cop Land (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller

    Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…

  11. 11Malone

    Malone (1987)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.

  12. 12The Courier

    The Courier (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    Ezekiel Mannings, a vicious crime boss, is out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after…

  13. 13American Yakuza

    American Yakuza (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and action

    When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia…

  14. 14Miller's Crossing

    Miller's Crossing (1990)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crime

    Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

  15. 15Exit Wounds

    Exit Wounds (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  16. 16The Substitute

    The Substitute (1996)

    ★ 7/10Also action and crime

    When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…

  17. 17Above the Law

    Above the Law (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and crime

    Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough…

  18. 18Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  19. 19New Jack City

    New Jack City (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10Also 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.

  20. 20Until Death

    Until Death (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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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