20 best movies like Outrage Beyond (2012)

List of the best movies like Outrage Beyond (2012): The Yakuza, Black Rain, Graveyard of Honor, Shinjuku Incident, Sonatine, Infernal Affairs III, Rain Fall, The Departed, Scarface, Election 2.

Tags: movies similar to Outrage Beyond (2012) - full list

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan, USA

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

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. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryJapan

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryHong Kong
Duration01:59

Steelhead is a Chinese laborer who comes to Japan hoping for a better life. Unable to find honest work and bullied into the shadows with his fellow Chinese illegal immigrants, he soon finds himself ascending as the boss of a black market mob. After providing a deadly service to a powerful Yakuza crime boss, Steelhead’s rise to mafia power spirals rapidly out of control as he’s given reign over the dangerous and lucrative Shinjuku district.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryJapan
Duration01:34

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryHong Kong, China
Duration01:58

Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events before and after the events in the original.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan, USA

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:31

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. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryHong Kong
Duration01:32

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Simon Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Louis Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan
Duration02:00

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration01:44

Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Republic of Ireland
Duration01:43

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss 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 she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:36

An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:15

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:05

ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryHong Kong, China

A financial tycoon, once a triad member, tries to eradicate the drug market while an old accomplice aims to be Hong Kong's first drug lord.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

    Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins....

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration02:08

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

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryJapan

    Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a Border Patrol Officer in the New Mexico desert with a secret past that is about to catch up with him. When his old gang leader tracks him down and forces him to smuggle drugs across the border, he must choose between the life he swore to leave behind and saving his family at any cost.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryHong Kong
    Duration01:41

    Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague.What is more Chow would rather quit the force. He feels guilty about having to betray people who have become his friends, even if they do happen to be killers, drug dealers, loan sharks and protection racketeers: "I do my job, but I betray my friends."To add to his problems, he begins to bond with Fu, a member of the gang.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:51

    The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the french police before creating this story, which in part is taken from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryJapan

    A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryChina, Hong Kong
    Duration01:47

    The taciturn police commander Zhang leads an undercover drugs team and in his continuous battle against the ubiquitous drug barons, takes up arms against his arch enemy, Timmy Choi. When he gets hold of Choi, he makes a deal with him: in exchange for his life (in China you can get the death penalty for producing only 50 grams of drugs) the young criminal will help the police infiltrate a sizeable drug network.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryJapan, Thailand, United Kingdom

    A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:27

    In the morning of April 5, 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger. The robbery itself is the main character of the story, and it is illuminated from several angles in the course of the film, from the perspective of the police, the robbers, the central cash service personnel, and ordinary people

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
    Duration01:29

    An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryThailand, France

    A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryJapan

    A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryJapan

    The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident with a bullet. The doctor, who despises the Yakuza, discovers the young man is suffering from tuberculosis, a disease symbolic of what is happening to the doctor and the community he serves. Facing his own anger and fear, the doctor aligns himself with the gangster's world.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:09

    Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:29

    Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:43

    A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.




    MoviesList