Movies like ICAC: Steak Fee (1978)
The best movies like ICAC: Steak Fee (1978) are The Goldfinger (2023), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) and Project A - Part II (1987). If ICAC: Steak Fee hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
ICAC: Steak Fee
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- Highest ratedDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)8.0/10 from 251 votes
- NewestThe Luckiest Man in America (2025)Released 2025
The Goldfinger (2023)
In 1970s Hong Kong, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was formed to bring down the corruption syndicate led by British government officials. One of its top investigators is Senior Investigator Lau Kai-Yuen, who brought down countless corrupted officials. Just as he thought stability and prosperity are within reach, a new era of greed and riches takes him into a new battlefield of corruption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisProject A - Part II (1987)
Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Luckiest Man in America (2025)
1984; Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak is threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisF.I.S.T. (1978)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMade in Hong Kong (1997)
After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon drops out of high school and becomes a debt collector for the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping, a daughter of one of the Triads' clients. She is suffering from a fatal kidney disease, and to pay for her medical expenses, Autumn Moon takes an assassination contract, but as he slips deeper into the criminal underworld, he's haunted by a figure from his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMan of Tai Chi (2013)
In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHardball (2001)
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Falls on Manhattan (1997)
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHarley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerpico (1973)
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlicka (2006)
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Apprentice (2024)
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mob (1951)
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBullets or Ballots (1936)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSnake Eyes (1998)
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn the Waterfront (1954)
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmerican Hustle (2013)
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like ICAC: Steak Fee?
The closest matches to ICAC: Steak Fee are The Goldfinger (2023), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) and Project A - Part II (1987). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after ICAC: Steak Fee?
Start with The Goldfinger (2023), the closest match to ICAC: Steak Fee.
What is the highest-rated movie like ICAC: Steak Fee?
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010), rated 8.0/10 by 251 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like ICAC: Steak Fee?
The Luckiest Man in America (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to ICAC: Steak Fee chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside ICAC: Steak Fee, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.