If You Liked Traffic, Watch These Next
Finished Traffic (2000) 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 Traffic, most of them are thriller, drama, crime.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Year of the Dragon(1985)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime 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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2.Night Train(2023)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
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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3.El padrino: The Latin Godfather(2004)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he…
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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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6.Scarface(1983)
8.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But…
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7.Close Range(2015)
6.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
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8.New Jack City(1991)
6.7ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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9.The Shepherd: Border Patrol(2008)
6.2ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
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10.Foxy Brown(1974)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime 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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11.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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12.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime 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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13.Until Death(2007)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
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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14.We Die Young(2019)
6.8DramaActionCrimeAlso drama and crime
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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15.The Way of the Gun(2000)
6.4ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
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16.Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime 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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17.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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18.Calm with Horses(2020)
6.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
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19.Brawl in Cell Block 99(2017)
7.0ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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