If You Liked American Gangster, Watch These Next

Finished American Gangster (2007) 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 American Gangster, most of them are drama, crime.

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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026

1.Donnie Brasco(1997)
7.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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2.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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3.Year of the Dragon(1985)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
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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4.Serpico(1973)
7.5CrimeDramaHistoryAlso crime and drama
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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5.Sleepless(2017)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnap Downs’ teenage son T. In one sleepless night, Downs will have to rescue his son, evade an…
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6.Joe(1970)
6.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
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7.Blow(2001)
7.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
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8.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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9.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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10.Havoc(2025)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and drama
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
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11.The Departed(2006)
8.2DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
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12.The Baker(2023)
6.3ActionDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind him.
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13.Capone(1975)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by…
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14.Who'll Stop the Rain(1978)
6.4CrimeActionDramaAlso crime and drama
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
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15.Dark Blue(2002)
6.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
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16.Code of Silence(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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17.The Corruptor(1999)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and drama
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.Rapid Fire(1992)
6.4ActionThrillerCrimeAlso crime and drama
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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19.End of Watch(2012)
7.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
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20.A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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