If You Liked American Me, Watch These Next
Finished American Me (1992) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like American Me, most of them are crime, drama.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Bound by Honor(1993)
8.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics…
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3.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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4.Boyz n the Hood(1991)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to home, their friendship, choices, and hopes for a better future are put to the ultimate test.
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5.Belly(1998)
6.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
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6.Bad Boys(1983)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
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7.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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9.American History X(1998)
8.3DramaAlso drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his…
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10.Shot Caller(2017)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
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.
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11.Get Rich or Die Tryin'(2005)
6.8DramaCrimeMusicAlso drama and crime
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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12.Paid in Full(2002)
6.9ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the…
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13.White Heat(1949)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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14.GoodFellas(1990)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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15.Truth or Consequences, N.M.(1997)
6.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million…
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16.Get the Gringo(2012)
6.6ActionThrillerCrimeAlso crime and drama
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
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17.Siberian Education(2013)
6.8DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find…
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18.The Valachi Papers(1972)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
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19.The Mustang(2019)
6.9DramaAlso drama
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
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