If You Liked Summer of Sam, Watch These Next
Finished Summer of Sam (1999) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Summer of Sam, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.State of Grace(1990)
6.9DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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2.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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4.Hannibal(2001)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the…
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5.A Good Woman Is Hard to Find(2019)
6.1ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden…
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7.Taxi Driver(1976)
8.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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8.Marathon Man(1976)
7.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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9.Walking Tall: Lone Justice(2007)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a…
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10.The Corruptor(1999)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
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11.Se7en(1995)
8.4CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind,…
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12.Out for Justice(1991)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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13.The Boondock Saints(1999)
7.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes…
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14.South Central(1992)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby…
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15.Sin City: A Dame to Kill For(2014)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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16.Menace II Society(1993)
7.5DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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17.The Brave One(2007)
6.6CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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18.Requiem for a Dream(2000)
8.0CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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