If You Liked Serpico, Watch These Next
Finished Serpico (1973) 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 Serpico, most of them are crime, drama, history.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Cop Land(1997)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents,…
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2.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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4.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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5.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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7.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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8.Magnum Force(1973)
7.1DramaCrimeActionAlso drama and crime
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
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9.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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10.Rebel Ridge(2024)
7.0CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime and drama
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
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11.Night Falls on Manhattan(1997)
6.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
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12.Payback(1999)
6.8ActionDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback…
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13.City of Lies(2018)
6.3CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur -- but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why.…
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14.In Too Deep(1999)
6.4DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and crime
Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of…
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15.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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16.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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17.Walking Tall(1973)
6.6ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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18.Black Mass(2015)
6.5DramaCrimeHistoryAlso drama and crime
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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