Movies like Hell Dogs
If Hell Dogs's mix of police, secret mission and yakuza stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Hell Dogs's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Black Rain
1989 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 125 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: police, yakuza, organized crime · Also drama and action
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan.
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Brother
2000 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, criminal underworld · Also a Japanese crime film
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
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Beyond Outrage
2012 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 112 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, criminal underworld · Also a Japanese action film
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
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Outrage
2010 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 109 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza, criminal underworld · Also a Japanese action film
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
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Demon City
2025 · Directed by Seiji Tanaka · 106 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Mai Kiryu · Shares: organized crime · Also a Japanese action film · From the same decade (2020s)
Framed for his family's murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked "demons" who have taken over his city.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: police, organized crime · Also drama and thriller
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise.
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The Batman
2022 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 177 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: police, organized crime · Also crime and mystery · From the same decade (2020s)
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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The Yakuza
1974 · Directed by Sydney Pollack · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: yakuza · Also crime and drama
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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Payback
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime · Also action and drama
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.
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Havoc
2025 · Directed by Gareth Evans · 107 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: criminal underworld · Also action and crime · From the same decade (2020s)
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
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Protector
2026 · Directed by Adrian Grünberg · 90 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso action and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.