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10 Best Movies Like The Refractor

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

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#1
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refractor for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#2
The Flash

The Flash

1990★ 6.5

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

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero....

#3
Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

2010★ 7.1

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

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do s...

#4
Code of Silence

Code of Silence

1985★ 5.9

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

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down....

#5
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.0

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

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in...

#6
Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3

1985★ 6.2

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

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neigh...

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