If You Liked A History of Violence, Watch These Next
Finished A History of Violence (2005) 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 A History of Violence, most of them are drama, thriller, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Boondock Saints(1999)
7.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes…
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2.Death Wish(2018)
6.2ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
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3.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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4.Avengement(2019)
6.8CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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5.The Dead Pool(1988)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.
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6.Out for Justice(1991)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
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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7.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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8.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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9.Kill the Irishman(2011)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
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10.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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11.Reservoir Dogs(1992)
8.1CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
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12.Gangster No. 1(2000)
6.4ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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 Untouchables(1987)
7.8CrimeHistoryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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15.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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16.Sin City: A Dame to Kill For(2014)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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17.No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers(1990)
6.7ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.
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18.The Salton Sea(2002)
6.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and…
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19.Small Engine Repair(2021)
6.1CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young yuppie.
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20.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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