If You Liked Harlem Nights, Watch These Next
Finished Harlem Nights (1989) 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 Harlem Nights, most of them are comedy, crime, drama.
Everything on this page has a home release and plays right here on Rotten Brains — pick one and press play. No sign-up, and a free account only adds resume and history.
20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Cotton Club(1984)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Watch now
3.Miller's Crossing(1990)
7.4DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Watch now
5.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.
Watch now
6.Rob the Mob(2014)
6.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Watch now
7.Hoodlum(1997)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Watch now
8.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?
Watch now
9.The Grissom Gang(1971)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.
Watch now
10.Rounders(1998)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes…
Watch now
11.The Gentlemen(2020)
7.7ActionComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Watch now
12.Siberian Education(2013)
6.8DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find…
Watch now
13.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.
Watch now
14.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.
Watch now
15.American Hustle(2013)
6.9DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Watch now
16.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…
Watch now
18.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…
Watch now
19.The Big Combo(1955)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Watch now
20.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…
Watch now