If You Liked Wake of Death, Watch These Next
Finished Wake of Death (2004) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Wake of Death, most of them are action, adventure, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Al Capone(1959)
6.6ActionAdventureCrimeAlso action and adventure
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably…
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2.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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3.Until Death(2007)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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4.Foxy Brown(1974)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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5.In the Blood(2014)
5.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
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6.Dark Angel(1990)
6.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
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8.Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty…
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9.Night Train(2023)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Mother Holly McCord is driven to extremes to save the life of her young son. Even if it means hauling black market drugs in her souped-up truck, with the Feds in hot pursuit. With two bounties on her head and her son’s life on the line, Holly climbs behind the wheel of “Night Train,” ready to outrun, out gun, and…
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10.Year of the Dragon(1985)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively…
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11.Death Wish 3(1985)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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12.The Corruptor(1999)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action 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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13.Exit Wounds(2001)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally…
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14.Accident Man(2018)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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15.Out for Justice(1991)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and thriller
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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16.American Yakuza(1993)
5.8CrimeActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia lead by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the…
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17.We Die Young(2019)
6.8DramaActionCrimeAlso action and thriller
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
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20.Wanted(2008)
6.5ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's…
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