If you loved Righteous Kill, try Red Corner

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Red Corner has roughly 3.3× fewer votes than Righteous Kill — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Righteous Kill

2008 · dir. Jon Avnet

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Red Corner

1997 · dir. Jon Avnet

What they share

Both films are directed by Jon Avnet, and they sit in Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Righteous Kill, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Red Corner is

Beijing. Autumn. A ringing cell. An American businessman awakens to find a dead woman in his hotel room. Soon, he's caught in the gears of the Chinese legal system, and his only ally is a local lawyer with her own doubts. A late-90s thriller that generates more procedural than suspense.

If you loved Righteous Kill, try Red Corner

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