If You Liked End of Watch, Watch These Next
Finished End of Watch (2012) 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 End of Watch, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Menace II Society(1993)
7.5DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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2.Bound by Honor(1993)
8.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics…
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4.Shot Caller(2017)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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5.Crown Vic(2019)
6.2CrimeDramaActionAlso crime and drama
One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged…
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7.Training Day(2001)
7.5ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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9.Boyz n the Hood(1991)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to home, their friendship, choices, and hopes for a better future are put to the ultimate test.
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10.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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11.American Gangster(2007)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
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12.Lethal Weapon 4(1998)
6.6ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.
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13.Detective Knight: Rogue(2022)
6.0ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
As Los Angeles prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound detective James Knight’s partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world…
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14.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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15.Sleepless(2017)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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16.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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17.Street Kings(2008)
6.7ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties…
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19.Assault on Precinct 13(1976)
7.3ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and crime
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
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20.Dragged Across Concrete(2019)
6.6CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead…
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