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Movies Like Bank Busters

If you liked Bank Busters (1978), a crime movie directed by Mou Tun-Fei, 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. 1PTU

    PTU (2003)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.

  2. 2The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  3. 3Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  4. 4As Tears Go By

    As Tears Go By (1988)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

  5. 5Infernal Affairs

    Infernal Affairs (2002)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime

    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…

  6. 6Blood Ties

    Blood Ties (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

  7. 7Thick as Thieves

    Thick as Thieves (1999)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing…

  8. 8Miracles: The Canton Godfather

    Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

  9. 9Find Me Guilty

    Find Me Guilty (2006)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

  10. 10Special ID

    Special ID (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    A career-long undercover Hong Kong cop is sent to Mainland China when his former protégé becomes the primary suspect in a murder.

  11. 11Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase…

  12. 12The Dead Pool

    The Dead Pool (1988)

    ★ 6.3/10Also 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…

  13. 13Infernal Affairs II

    Infernal Affairs II (2003)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime

    In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

  14. 14A Walk Among the Tombstones

    A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

  15. 15SPL: Kill Zone

    SPL: Kill Zone (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit…

  16. 16The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  17. 17The Untold Story

    The Untold Story (1993)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.

  18. 18Shade

    Shade (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…

  19. 19Hoodlum

    Hoodlum (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and…

  20. 20Yes, Madam!

    Yes, Madam! (1985)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

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