Movies like The Shadow's Edge (2025)

Name: The Shadow's Edge
Released: 2025

9 films to watch after The Shadow's Edge, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

1

Out for Justice (1991)

Fit 69%

Shares Action, Crime, Drama and Thriller with The Shadow's Edge.

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
2

Code of Silence (1985)

Fit 67%

Shares Action, Crime, Drama and Thriller with The Shadow's Edge.

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.
3

Havoc (2025)

Fit 57%

Shares Action, Crime, Thriller and Drama with The Shadow's Edge.

When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
4

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Fit 54%

Shares Drama, Thriller and Crime with The Shadow's Edge.

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
5

The Contractor (2022)

Fit 52%

Shares Action and Thriller with The Shadow's Edge.

After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert mission, Harper must evade those trying to kill him while making his way back home.
6

Strange Days (1995)

Fit 51%

Shares Crime and Thriller with The Shadow's Edge.

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
7

True Romance (1993)

Fit 45%

Shares Action and Crime with The Shadow's Edge.

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
8

Run Lola Run (1998)

Fit 44%

Shares Action, Drama and Thriller with The Shadow's Edge.

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
9

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Fit 44%

Shares Drama and Crime with The Shadow's Edge.

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.