Movies Like The Legend of a Professional

If you liked The Legend of a Professional (2001), a movie directed by Billy Chan Wui-Ngai, 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
The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
2
The Killer (2023)
★ 6.6/10
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
3
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
★ 6.8/10
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…
4
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
★ 6.9/10
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
5
Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
6
The Big Combo (1955)
★ 7/10
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
7
Cry of the City (1948)
★ 6.7/10
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check…
8
Ava (2020)
★ 5.8/10
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
9
The Woman in the Window (1944)
★ 7.4/10
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
10
The Brothers Rico (1957)
★ 6.2/10
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who…
11
The Enforcer (1951)
★ 7.1/10
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
12
Conflict (1945)
★ 6.7/10
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
13
The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
14
The Black Book (2023)
★ 6.7/10
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
15
Panic (2000)
★ 6.2/10
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…
16
The Web (1947)
★ 7.1/10
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
17
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
★ 7.1/10
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
18
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
★ 7.1/10
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
19
Black Angel (1946)
★ 6.1/10
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
20
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…