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10 Best Movies Like Chinese Midnight Express

If you loved Chinese Midnight Express, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Detective 2

The Detective 2

2011★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Bumbling private detective Chan Tam is enlisted by police pal Fung Chak to help in the investigation of a serial murder case. The victims a middle-aged man killed at home, a dead w...

#2
The Stool Pigeon

The Stool Pigeon

2010★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Living in the guilt of sacrificing his informant in a previous operation, Criminal Intelligence Inspector Don Lee is wary when his superior orders him to send another informant to ...

#3
Blindfire

Blindfire

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 repe...

#4
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

#5
Inside Man

Inside Man

2023★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolu...

#6
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinese Midnight Express for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

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