Movies Like Hard Days (2023)

Hard Days is a 2023 action, crime, drama, thriller film from Michihito Fujii with a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Bullet Train Explosion and Baby John.

Action Crime Drama Thriller

Bullet Train Explosion

2025

When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.

6.9

MagicScore

Baby John

2024

John's peaceful life with daughter Khushi is disrupted by a sex-trafficking gang. Revealing his past as DCP Satya, he seeks revenge for his family's murder, saving minor girls and punishing the criminals, before starting anew.

6.0

MagicScore

Gumraah

2023

A murder investigation becomes complicated after the cops discover a pair of lookalike suspects.

6.6

MagicScore

HIT: The First Case

2022

Burdened by old demons, a troubled but brilliant detective sets out to solve two confounding abduction cases — one involving his own girlfriend.

6.6

MagicScore

Vikram Vedha

2022

Vikram, an honest officer with the Lucknow police, is on a mission to find and eliminate gangster Vedha. However, when Vedha surrenders himself to the police and starts narrating stories to Vikram, it blurs the lines between good and evil. Vedha questions Vikram's righteousness while the latter believes he is fair and just. But is he?

6.6

MagicScore

Deva

2025

Dev Ambre, a ruthless cop, loses his memory in an accident just after he has finished solving a murder case and now has to reinvestigate it while keeping his memory loss a secret from everyone except DCP Farhan Khan.

6.1

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

Bloody Daddy

2023

Sumair Azad, a dirty cop and his friend, Jaggi, steal Sikandar Chowdhary's cocaine bag. As a result, Sikandar kidnaps Sumair's son, but things take a turn when he loses the cocaine bag as he faces off Gurugram’s drug lords, a crime boss, murderous narcs and straight cops on one fateful night.

5.8

MagicScore

Cuttputlli

2022

When a small town gets plunged into the nightmare of serial killings, rookie cop Arjan embarks on a chase for the truth and unravels a gruesome conspiracy.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Highest 2 Lowest

2025

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

5.6

MagicScore

#11

Drishyam

2015

A simple street-smart man tries to protect his family from a cop looking for her missing son who was accidently killed by his daughter.

7.6

MagicScore

#12

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

Memoirs of a Murderer

2017

The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.

6.7

MagicScore

#14

The Longest Yard

2005

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

6.7

MagicScore

#15

Free Country

2020

Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?

6.3

MagicScore

#16

Shehzada

2023

Bantu has grown up suffering his father Valmiki’s vitriolic tongue until he discovers that he’s actually an heir to an influential family, who was exchanged at birth. He moves into their mansion to protect them from a criminal drug lord’s attack and helps the family sort their issues.

5.6

MagicScore

#17

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2019

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

8.3

MagicScore

#18

CODA

2021

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

7.9

MagicScore

#19

Sitaare Zameen Par

2025

A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled as part of community services. Gulshan has apprehensions at first and feels out of place but soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Jersey

2022

An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol of hope or continue to live a life as a loser?

7.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Hard Days?

The top films similar to Hard Days by MovieMagicScore are Bullet Train Explosion (6.9), Baby John (6.0), Gumraah (6.6). Each shares action/crime/drama/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Hard Days worth watching?

Hard Days holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10 from 65 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Hard Days?

Hard Days (2023) is a action, crime, drama, thriller film directed by Michihito Fujii, starring Junichi Okada, Go Ayano, Ryoko Hirosue.

Where can I find more recommendations like Hard Days?

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About movies like Hard Days

This ranked list pairs Hard Days (2023), a action and crime and drama and thriller film from Michihito Fujii, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Junichi Okada 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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