Movies Like Bullets Over Summer (1999)

Bullets Over Summer is a 1999 crime, drama film from Wilson Yip with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with School on Fire and Too Many Ways to Be No. 1.

Crime Drama

School on Fire

1988

A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart, Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.

7.3

MagicScore

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

1997

A small-time triad must make a fateful decision to discover who he is. With that decision, his life can diverge in two paths, each leading to an ultimate fate.

6.6

MagicScore

Extraordinary Mission

2017

An undercover police officer attempts to take down a drug trafficking syndicate from the inside.

6.4

MagicScore

Shinjuku Triad Society

1995

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

6.3

MagicScore

My Wife Is a Gangster 3

2006

When Aryong, the daughter of a triad boss from Hong Kong is accused of killing the boss of a competing triad, she goes into hiding in Korea. Upon arriving, she is guided by a nimble but loyal Gi-chul and his motley crew, who are assigned to protect her until her return.

5.8

MagicScore

The Departed

2006

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

8.2

MagicScore

Serpico

1973

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

7.5

MagicScore

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

7.5

MagicScore

New World

2013

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

Plainclothes

2025

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

7.3

MagicScore

#11

Shot Caller

2017

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

7.0

MagicScore

#12

Rush

1991

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

6.6

MagicScore

#13

Street Kings

2008

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

The King of the Kickboxers

1990

Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.

6.6

MagicScore

#15

Line Walker

2016

The details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Rapid Fire

1992

College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

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

#18

Beyond the Law

1993

Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?

6.2

MagicScore

#19

The Cop in Blue Jeans

1976

A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.

6.1

MagicScore

#20

Hard to Kill

1990

Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Bullets Over Summer?

The top films similar to Bullets Over Summer by MovieMagicScore are School on Fire (7.3), Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (6.6), Extraordinary Mission (6.4). Each shares crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Bullets Over Summer worth watching?

Bullets Over Summer holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 35 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Bullets Over Summer?

Bullets Over Summer (1999) is a crime, drama film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Francis Ng Chun-Yu, Louis Koo, Michelle Saram.

Where can I find more recommendations like Bullets Over Summer?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Bullets Over Summer

This ranked list pairs Bullets Over Summer (1999), a crime and drama film from Wilson Yip, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Francis Ng Chun-Yu 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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