For fans of Benny Chan: what to watch, read & play next

An undercover cop's long infiltration of a drug empire mirrors the tension of loyalty and betrayal at the heart of Hong Kong crime thrillers.

A lone officer takes down a drug lord almost single-handedly after a kinetic chase through a Hong Kong slum.

Corruption reaching the very top of the anti-drug unit gives honest cops an impossible race against their own institution.

A patriot smuggling evidence of government betrayal against impossible odds captures the conspiratorial charge of the best action cinema.

Two rival vice commissioners locked in a power struggle while five officers are held hostage delivers crisp institutional tension.

When a fired cop slides into crime and drags his partner with him, the line between law and the underworld dissolves painfully.

An elite, surgically precise gang of robbers operates with fearless efficiency, raising the stakes of every heist they attempt.

A stolen missile guidance system and competing loyalties around a shady employer keep this comedy-action hybrid sharp and propulsive.

An ex-con navigating revenge and family reunion while playing both sides of a triad war sustains exactly the right double-life tension.

A guilt-ridden officer's return to the force after years of monastic retreat gives this crime drama an unusual emotional weight.

Centuries-old memories bleeding into a modern investigation makes for a disorienting, intriguing twist on the cop procedural.

A cop shot in the head in 1960s Hong Kong carries bullet fragments that alter how he sees the world.

A lone Interpol detective infiltrating a worldwide criminal empire captures the outsized, relentless momentum of classic Hong Kong action.

Three investigators from different backgrounds team up to crack organized-crime cases in the city, case after unusual case.

Three lifelong friends in the anti-narcotics unit are torn apart when the large-scale drug bust they trained for goes wrong.

A village officer's decade of earned trust is threatened the moment a prejudiced new boss arrives, grounding the drama in quiet institutional conflict.

A Tokyo murder spree investigated by an ex-cop turned private eye captures the same grimy procedural tension as the best Hong Kong crime films.

Directly inspired by Hong Kong cinema, this gravity-defying action game channels the kinetic martial arts fantasy of the genre.

A direct continuation of *Hard Boiled*, with cinematic gunfights and relentless environmental destruction.

Street-level brawling through a post-apocalyptic city gives this iconic beat-em-up the same raw momentum as a Hong Kong action sequence.

Racing against shadowy villains to prevent global catastrophe packs the compressed, high-stakes energy of a blockbuster action plot.

Fighting back against a corporation that has seized control of a country channels the scrappy underdog energy of street-level action cinema.

Leading a counter-terrorism squad through global covert operations mirrors the tactical, high-pressure scenarios of Hong Kong thriller cinema.

A city overrun with demons and the inescapable weight of a violent past creates a dark, relentless atmosphere fans of crime-action will feel immediately.

A private eye chasing an evasive client whose story doesn't add up delivers the same slow-burn distrust central to the best undercover thrillers.

Two illusionists running cons inside a gangster's nightclub live the double life — performance and survival — that defines the underworld thriller.

A young man confronting a suddenly reappeared criminal father must wrestle with feelings of betrayal and barely-contained anger.

An LAPD detective's case trails a Hong Kong triad across two cities, putting the same criminal networks at the center of the action.

Armed teenagers targeting mob witnesses in a witness protection program delivers a darkly comic, pulpy thriller premise with real momentum.

A CIA operative hunted by Chinese agents in Hong Kong puts the city's layered loyalties and lethal espionage front and center.

A friend's terrible secret and a teenager's desperate protectiveness create the high-stakes, morally compromised urgency of a crime thriller.

A missing-persons investigation connecting a Montana funeral and an LA abduction builds the sprawling, conspiratorial dread of the best action-thrillers.