If You Liked Once Upon a Time in America, Watch These Next
Finished Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 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 Once Upon a Time in America, most of them are drama, crime.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Mysterious Skin(2005)
7.7DramaAlso drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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2.New Jack City(1991)
6.7ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
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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3.Summer of Sam(1999)
6.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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4.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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5.Marathon Man(1976)
7.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
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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6.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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7.The Untouchables(1987)
7.8CrimeHistoryThrillerAlso crime
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
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8.Dead Presidents(1995)
6.7CrimeDramaActionAlso crime and drama
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
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9.Auto Focus(2002)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama…
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11.Bugsy(1991)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip…
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12.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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13.Gangster No. 1(2000)
6.4ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and crime
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
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14.The Gambler(1974)
6.7DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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15.A Clockwork Orange(1971)
8.2Science FictionCrimeAlso crime
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure…
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16.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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17.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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18.Luckiest Girl Alive(2022)
6.5DramaThrillerMysteryAlso drama
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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