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10 Best Movies Like The French Connection

If you loved The French Connection, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Kiss of the Dragon

Kiss of the Dragon

2001★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and...

#2
French Connection II

French Connection II

1975★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York....

#3
Killing Zoe

Killing Zoe

1993★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastill...

#4
Paid in Full

Paid in Full

2002★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants po...

#5
Year of the Dragon

Year of the Dragon

1985★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Action & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthles...

#6
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The French Connection for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from...

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