If You Liked Hoodlum, Watch These Next
Finished Hoodlum (1997) 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 Hoodlum, most of them are crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.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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2.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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4.Al Capone(1959)
6.6ActionAdventureCrimeAlso crime and drama
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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5.The Grissom Gang(1971)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.
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6.Absolution(2024)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done…
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7.The Cotton Club(1984)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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8.10th & Wolf(2006)
5.9ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
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9.Public Enemies(2009)
6.7CrimeHistoryDramaAlso crime and drama
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent,…
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10.Blood Ties(2013)
6.1ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
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11.Mob Town(2019)
6.3DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell…
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13.The Alto Knights(2025)
6.2CrimeDramaHistoryAlso crime and drama
Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.
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14.Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman(2021)
6.6ThrillerCrimeAlso crime
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
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16.Juice(1992)
7.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for…
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17.Across 110th Street(1972)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
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18.The Protector(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeAlso crime
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug…
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19.Welcome to the Punch(2013)
5.9ActionAdventureCrimeAlso crime
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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20.The Most Hated Woman in America(2017)
6.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
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