Movies Like Connected (2008)

Connected is a 2008 action, adventure, crime, thriller film from Benny Chan Muk-Sing with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Fair Game and Miami Vice.

Action Adventure Crime Thriller

Fair Game

1995

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

5.1

MagicScore

Miami Vice

2006

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

6.0

MagicScore

Bholaa

2023

An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

5.9

MagicScore

Inside Man

2006

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

7.4

MagicScore

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

7.5

MagicScore

The Wash

2001

With the rent due and his car booted, Sean has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc, suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.

5.4

MagicScore

First Daughter

1999

A female Secret Service agent goes against protocol to save the U.S. president from an assassination attempt. She is reassigned to protect the president's daughter, which she considers a demotion. When the first daughter is kidnapped during a hiking trip, the agent and a river guide go to rescue her.

4.6

MagicScore

Rocky Handsome

2016

A vengeful man embarks on a murderous rampage after the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl.

6.3

MagicScore

Hostage: Missing Celebrity

2021

A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.

6.9

MagicScore

#10

The Nile Hilton Incident

2017

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.

6.6

MagicScore

#11

The Silent Hour

2024

While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witness in her apartment building.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

Brooklyn's Finest

2010

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

Eraser

1996

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

No Good Deed

2002

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

5.4

MagicScore

#15

Colt 38 Special Squad

1976

The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "Il Marsigliese" and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when "Il Marsigliese" launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.

6.9

MagicScore

#16

Sabotage

2014

John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.

5.6

MagicScore

#17

Jennifer Eight

1992

John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose—and only John knows it.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

American Gangster

2007

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 the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

7.6

MagicScore

#19

The Big Combo

1955

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Live Free or Die Hard

2007

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Connected?

The top films similar to Connected by MovieMagicScore are Fair Game (5.1), Miami Vice (6.0), Bholaa (5.9). Each shares action/adventure/crime/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Connected worth watching?

Connected holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 102 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Connected?

Connected (2008) is a action, adventure, crime, thriller film directed by Benny Chan Muk-Sing, starring Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung Ka-Fai.

Where can I find more recommendations like Connected?

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About movies like Connected

This ranked list pairs Connected (2008), a action and adventure and crime and thriller film from Benny Chan Muk-Sing, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Louis Koo take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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