If You Liked King of New York, Watch These Next
Finished King of New York (1990) 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 King of New York, most of them are thriller, crime.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Paid in Full(2002)
6.9ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime
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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2.Carlito's Way(1993)
7.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
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3.New Jack City(1991)
6.7ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
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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4.Shot Caller(2017)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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.Light Sleeper(1992)
6.7DramaCrimeAlso crime
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly…
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6.Stand Up Guys(2012)
6.0ThrillerComedyActionAlso thriller and crime
After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a…
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7.Bound by Honor(1993)
8.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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9.Dead Man Down(2013)
6.2ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and crime
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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10.In Cold Light(2026)
5.9ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Fresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee into a nightmarish underworld where allies are scarce and enemies multiply by the minute.
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11.Pulp Fiction(1994)
8.5ThrillerCrimeComedyAlso thriller and crime
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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12.Year of the Dragon(1985)
6.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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13.Donnie Brasco(1997)
7.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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14.Righteous Kill(2008)
5.9CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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15.Sexy Beast(2001)
7.0CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
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17.Tequila Sunrise(1988)
6.1ThrillerCrimeRomanceAlso thriller and crime
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with…
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19.American Gangster(2007)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso 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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